General information
- GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
- GOG.com Support Page
Availability[edit]
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.
Package made for owners of the GOG version of Ultima Underworld 1 and 2, it has an easy to use launcher and incorporates community made mods
- Easy to use launcher.
- Comes with DOSBox Staging, a modernized version of the original DOSBox, so the emulation is much better than the DOSBox version that the GOG release offers.
- Roland MT-32 support incorporated by default, which means high quality music when compared to Sound Blaster and sound effects that plays properly.
- Provides community made mods like the mouselook patch from Ultima Hacks, a portuguese translation and a modified shades.dat, all in one package.
- Has an extraction tool that installs the game if the required GOG file is found on the same directory of the extractor.
- Requires Windows, does not work on Mac nor Linux. Config files and mod components can still be used.
- This is not a native application, it still relies on emulation.
- Only the game.gog file is required, just copy it on the same to the same directory where the extraction tool is located that both Ultima Underworld 1 and 2 will be installed.
- The files from the CD-ROM release can be used, but it will be needed to extract them manually in the required directory, since the extractor cannot extract the CD iso.
Game data[edit]
Save game data location[edit]
- 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.
- 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.
| Audio feature |
State |
Notes |
| Separate volume controls |
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On/off only. |
| Surround sound |
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| Subtitles |
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Everything is text-only after the opening cutscene. |
| Closed captions |
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| Mute on focus lost |
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For DOSBox change the priority background value in the DOSBox configuration file. |
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 |
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| Spanish |
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Fan translation, download. |
Issues fixed[edit]
The GOG.com version's sound is incorrectly configured by default, resulting in misplaced effects such as piano sounds for footsteps.[4]
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Run Game DOS Settings[5]
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- Choose
Game DOS Settings at the menu when starting the game.
- Press C to confirm the hard drive to use.
- Use the keyboard arrow keys to go down to
Sound Blaster Pro, then press ↵ Enter.
- Press ↵ Enter four times to confirm the other default sound settings (these do not need to be changed).
- Press Y to confirm your changes.
- Press any key twice to finish saving your changes.
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Other information[edit]
| Technical specs |
Supported |
Notes |
| DOS video modes |
VGA |
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Middleware[edit]
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Middleware |
Notes |
| Audio |
Audio Interface Library |
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System requirements[edit]
| DOS |
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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 |
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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
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 File/folder structure within the installation folder reflects the path(s) listed for DOS game data. For the GOG.com release, file changes in DOSBox are redirected to
<path-to-game>/cloud_saves/ even if GOG Galaxy is not used (this folder contains all redirected files, so some files in the cloud_saves folder might be temporary files or other files that do not contain saves or settings).
References
