Wizardry Gold

For the original DOS game, see Wizardry: Crusaders of the Dark Savant.

Wizardry Gold

Developers
	Sir-Tech
Windows	Media Interactive Studios
Mac OS (Classic)	Media Interactive Studios
Publishers
Retail	Sir-Tech
Digital	Drecom Co.
Digital	Nightdive Studios
Release dates
Windows	1996
Mac OS (Classic)	1996
macOS (OS X)	November 15, 2013
Taxonomy
Series	Wizardry

Key points

Remake of Wizardry: Crusaders of the Dark Savant with updated visuals and narrator voice acting.

Characters can be imported from Wizardry: Bane of the Cosmic Forge (see Import characters).

At least the original retail version of Wizardry Gold is infamous for introducing several, even game-breaking bugs which did not exist on the original DOS version. Most famously, the Diplomacy skill doesn't work at all.

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions for game series

GOG.com Support Page

Steam Community Discussions

PostCount.Net Wizardry Series forum

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail
GOG.com		Includes Wizardry: Bane of the Cosmic Forge and Wizardry: Crusaders of the Dark Savant.
Steam		Includes Wizardry: Crusaders of the Dark Savant.

Essential improvements

Import characters

Characters can be imported from Wizardry: Bane of the Cosmic Forge saves.

The game offers several possible beginnings for imported parties. If player imports his/her party before completing Bane, the default beginning is given (the same as with new parties). The rest of the beginnings are reserved for each of the possible endings in Bane.

Bane of the Cosmic Forge uses different file extensions for regular saves and completed games (*.DBS or *.BCF).

Import saves[citation needed]
Choose Import (BANE) at the main menu. Change the file type from Wizardry Savegame to All Files (otherwise the saves will not be listed). Choose the save file and wait for importing to complete.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\CDDATA.INI
Mac OS (Classic)
macOS (OS X)
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/245430/pfx/

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	.SGM
Mac OS (Classic)
macOS (OS X)
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/245430/pfx/

Save files (*.SGM) can be saved anywhere.

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video

General settings.

Graphics feature	State	WSGF	Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed		Always runs windowed.
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)		Native Windows Vsync.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS

Input

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support

Audio

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls		On/off only.
Surround sound
Subtitles		All voiced dialogue is subtitled.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
Korean				In a local retail version for Wizardry Gold only.

Issues fixed

Game window is too small

The game always runs at windowboxed 640x400 so will be very small on high-resolution monitors.

Setting the game to run in 640x480 compatibility mode will make it fit the screen better but makes task-switching very difficult.

Set 640x480 compatibility mode[citation needed]
Go to the installation folder. Right-click WIZARD.EXE and choose Properties. On the Compatibility tab enable the 640x480 option and click OK.

Other information

API

Executable	PPC	16-bit	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Mac OS (Classic)

System requirements

Windows

Mac OS (Classic)

macOS (OS X)

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	XP, Vista, 7, 8
Processor (CPU)	1.8 GHz
System memory (RAM)	512 MB	1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	2 GB
Video card (GPU)	DirectX 9.0c compatible

These requirements are for the GOG.com version.