Ultima Underworld II: Labyrinth of Worlds

Ultima
Ultima II: The Revenge of the Enchantress	1982
Ultima III: Exodus	1983
Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar	1985
Ultima I: The First Age of Darkness	1987
Ultima V: Warriors of Destiny	1988
Ultima VI: The False Prophet	1990
Worlds of Ultima: The Savage Empire	1990
Ultima Worlds of Adventure 2: Martian Dreams	1991
Ultima VII: The Black Gate	1992
Ultima Underworld: The Stygian Abyss	1992
Ultima Underworld II: Labyrinth of Worlds	1993
Ultima VII Part Two: Serpent Isle	1993
Ultima VIII: Pagan	1994
Ultima Online	1997
Akalabeth: World of Doom	1998
Ultima IX: Ascension	1999

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions for game series

GOG.com Support Page

1 Availability
2 Essential improvements
- 2.1 Patches
- 2.2 Run in DOSBox (retail)
3 Game data
- 3.1 Save game data location
- 3.2 Save game cloud syncing
4 Video settings
5 Input settings
6 Audio settings
- 6.1 Localizations
7 Issues fixed
- 7.1 Piano footstep sounds (GOG.com)
8 Other information
- 8.1 API
- 8.2 Middleware
9 System requirements
10 Notes
11 References

Availability[edit]

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail		Floppies or CD-ROM; see run in DOSBox (retail).
GOG.com		Pre-packaged with DOSBox.^[3] Includes Ultima Underworld: The Stygian Abyss.
Origin		Not available in some regions.

Essential improvements[edit]

Patches[edit]

The Ultima Underworld 2 Patch is needed for floppy disk versions. The CD-ROM and GOG.com versions are already fully patched. An unofficial General MIDI patch is available here.

Run in DOSBox (retail)[edit]

To run correctly in DOSBox change cycles=auto to cycles=max.

Game data[edit]

Save game data location[edit]

System	Location
DOS	<path-to-game>\SAVE*\
Windows	<path-to-game>\SAVE*\^{[Note 1]}
macOS (OS X)	~/Library/Application Support/Boxer/Gamebox States/com.gog.ultima-underworld-1+2/Current.boxerstate/C Ultima Underworld 1 and 2.harddisk/UNDEROM2

The SAVE1, SAVE2, SAVE3 and SAVE4 folders are save slots I-IV. SAVE0 is temporary storage, not a save.

In-game settings are stored in each save rather than shared.

Save game cloud syncing[edit]

System	Native	Notes
GOG Galaxy
Origin

Video settings[edit]

General settings.

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution		320x200 only.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed		Set in Graphic Mode Setup (GOG.com) or toggle with `Alt`+`↵ Enter`.
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)		For DOSBox use an unofficial build (see the glossary page for other workarounds).
60 FPS
120+ FPS

An alternate shades.dat is available here which will increase the overall brightness of the game without destroying it's atmosphere. Use it if you feel the game is too dark.

Input settings[edit]

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping		For DOSBox use the DOSBox Mapper (see the glossary page for other workarounds).
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity		To avoid mouse lag, set "sensitivity=200"
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support		For DOSBox use the DOSBox Mapper (see the glossary page for other workarounds).

Audio settings[edit]

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls		On/off only.
Surround sound
Subtitles		Everything is text-only after the opening cutscene.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost

Localizations

French, German, Korean and Polish retail versions only have the manuals translated; the game itself is still in English.

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English

Issues fixed[edit]

Piano footstep sounds (GOG.com)[edit]

The GOG.com version's sound is incorrectly configured by default, resulting in misplaced effects such as piano sounds for footsteps.^[4]

Fix piano footsteps (Windows)^[4]

Go to DATA in the installation folder.
Edit UW.CFG
Replace 5 -1 -1 -1 sound with 2 7 220 1 sound
Save your changes.

Fix piano footsteps (OS X)^{[citation needed]}

Go to Finder, Applications, Ultima Underworld 1+2.
Right click Ultima Underworld 2 and choose Show Package Contents.
Open Contents
Open Resources
Right click Ultima Underworld 2.boxer and choose Show Package Contents.
Open C Ultima Underworld 1 and 2.harddisk
Open UNDEROM2
Open DATA
Edit UW.CFG with TextEdit (right click, Open With)
Replace 5 -1 -1 -1 sound with 2 7 220 1 sound
Save your changes.

Other information[edit]

API[edit]

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
DOS video modes

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
macOS (OS X)

Middleware[edit]

	Middleware	Notes
Audio	Audio Interface Library

System requirements[edit]

DOS
	Minimum
Operating system (OS)	DOS 3.3 or higher
Processor (CPU)	IBM or 100% compatible 386SX, 386 or 486
System memory (RAM)	2 MB with Expanded Memory (EMS)
Hard disk drive (HDD)	11 MB
Video card (GPU)	256-color VGA graphics

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	XP, Vista
Processor (CPU)	1.8 GHz
System memory (RAM)	512 MB	1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	48 MB
Video card (GPU)	DirectX 7 compatible	DirectX 9 compatible

macOS (OS X)
	Minimum
Operating system (OS)	10.6.8 (Snow Leopard) or later
Processor (CPU)	Intel Core Duo 2 GHz+
System memory (RAM)	1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	45 MB
Video card (GPU)	64 MB of VRAM

Notes

↑ When running this game without Administrator elevation, activity in %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMFILES(X86)%, and %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore\ (more details).

References

[gamedir-4] When running this game without Administrator elevation, activity in %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMFILES(X86)%, and %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore\ (more details).

[1] New Release: Ultima Underworld 1+2 - GOG.com

[2] GOG.com goes Mac - GOG.com

[3] List of GOG games using DOSBox, page 1 - Forum - GOG.com

[sound_problems-5] 4.0 ^4.1 Problems with sound (quality, sound playing music etc.), page 1 - Forum - GOG.com

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Developers

	Looking Glass Technologies
Publishers
	Origin Systems
Engines
	Underworld engine
Release dates
DOS	January 1993
Windows (DOSBox)	June 2, 2011^[1]
macOS (OS X) (DOSBox)	October 18, 2012^[2]