!!!WARNING!!! Spoilers in the information below.

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Additional Notes:
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- For additional support information and tips on improving game performance please visit our website at http://www.ultima9.com.

- For tips on improving game performance please refer to the PERFORM.TXT included with this patch.

- If you find you get stuck after casting a spell, hit the ESC key. The spell has probably not found a target and is waiting in spell targeting mode.

- If you pressed Alt-Tab while in the game it could crash on some systems. Alt-Tab has been locked out. However, on occasion it will still cause a crash. We recommend that you do not run any other programs while running Ultima IX.

- If you have Norton Utilities and uninstall Ultima IX: Ascension, make sure you right click on your Recycle Bin and select Empty Norton Protected Files to free up the space on your hard drive as Norton makes a backup of any deleted files.

- If you find that your video card is not selectable during installation, try changing your desktop color depth to 16-bit. To do this, right click on an empty space on your desktop and select Properties. This will bring up the Display Properties dialog box. Click on the Settings tab. In the section that says Colors select High Color (16 bit). Click on OK. Try running Setup again.

- If you find some music is not stopping (i.e. Hail Britannia) we have added a new key command to the game to flush the music system. This key is located in KEYMAP.NEW (search for flush_music) and should be copied into your DEFAULT.KMP file. (You can also simply copy the new file on top of DEFAULT.KMP to
completely replace/update keymaps.) In a place where Hail Britannia is playing and you are not near Lord British's castle press CTRL+ALT+M and the music will stop. Music will then cue up normally.

- We added a key command to cancel all Avatar spells. This will allow you to cancel all spells at once or "stuck" spells that are not cancelling when recast. This key is located in KEYMAP.NEW (search for flush_spells) and should be copied into your DEFAULT.KMP file. (You can also simply copy the new file on top of DEFAULT.KMP to completely replace/update keymaps.) Press CTRL+ALT+S and the spells will be canceled.

- We added the ability to use the keyboard to control mimic mouse control. These keys need to be added to your DEFAULT.KMP file. The patch installs a new keymap file for you, called KEYMAP.NEW. If you have not modified key mappings yourself, simply delete DEFAULT.KMP and rename KEYMAP.NEW to DEFAULT.KMP. If you have altered your DEFAULT.KMP for your own preference, follow these steps to add the keys. Edit your DEFAULT.KMP file located in the directory you installed Ultima IX (default is c:\Program Files\Origin Systems\Ultima IX). Find the section
labeled [General] and add the appropriate lines (for example):

ctrl+alt+m = flush_music
ctrl+alt+s = flush_spells

; Keyboard shortcuts to movement
Up = forward
Down = backward
Left = sidestep_left
Right = sidestep_right
Delete = mouse_left
End = mouse_right
PageUp = mouse_up
PageDown = mouse_down

; Numeric Keypad movement keys (Audball's preferences)
; Double-defines for NumLock being on or off.
KeyPad+ = mouse_button2
KeyPad0 = mouse_button1
KeyPadInsert = mouse_button1
KeyPad4 = mouse_left
KeyPadLeft = mouse_left
KeyPad6 = mouse_right
KeyPadRight = mouse_right
KeyPad8 = mouse_up
KeyPadUp = mouse_up
KeyPad2 = mouse_down
KeyPadDown = mouse_down
KeyPad7 = sidestep_left
KeyPadHome = sidestep_left
KeyPad9 = sidestep_right
KeyPadPageUp = sidestep_right

Save the file and exit. The next time you run Ascension the keys will be enabled.

NOTE: PageUp and PageDown are already mapped to functions that turn journal/book pages left and right in the original keymap file. Mapping them to mouse_up and mouse_down will cause the journal functions to no longer work. Either remap the page flipping commands, or do not copy the new mappings into your original keymap.

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What is Fixed in the Patch (1.18f):
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- Fixed a crash in Valoria, involving a creeper plant.

- Fixed a plot-stopper involving the demons in Valoria.

- Fixed a plot-stopper involving Shamino's conversation.

- Fixed a crash in Wrong, involving an NPC who was attempting to go to an invalid location.

- Fixed a lockup in Wrong involving getting your backpack returned.

- Fixed a crash involving invalid music playing after a game is loaded.

- Fixed a crash involving the Jade Bracelet for sale in Paws.

- Fixed an audio problem involving the Avatar's sounds not playing in Windows 95. NOTE: If you modified your 'Options.ini' file to attempt to get these sounds playing, please revert/undo your changes. After this patch is installed, please set UseNotify=0 and Rolloff=1.0.

- Fixed a crash in the near-endgame scene involving Lord British and Blackthorn.

- Fixed a bug involving creature generators that was creating problems with collision.

- Fixed a problem on startup where the EAX environmental settings were either being set incorrectly, or preventing startup altogether.

- Made additional D3D improvements. D3D is now native to DirectX 7. Supports bilinear filtering of alpha textures
in 16-bit via multipass rendering of the same texture, if
that feature is supported on the given D3D hardware.

- Compressed textures are now properly supported on all platforms except nVidia's; this is a driver issue. The Savage4 card is one of the top performers as a result.

- GeForce is now supported properly.

- Screen shots in Voodoo2 SLI mode now work properly.

- Fixed numerous moderate memory leaks.

- Fixed a severe memory leak that would manifest if you open a book, then Alt-Tab away from the game.

- Lifts received a code overhaul, and now function more reliably. If the Avatar moves while on a lift, the lift halts its movement until the Avatar stands still.

- Fixed a problem with the Moonglow boat lift where you would sometimes fall through it.

- Fixed a vertical lift in Hythloth that was unreliable.

- Fixed a vertical lift in Yew; added a button at ground-level to summon it.

- Fixed several inventory gold overflow crashes.

- Sometimes, starting a new game in version 1.06 (Patch #2) would not work properly; this is now fixed.

- Fixed several problems in the Spirit summoning rituals.

- Numerous bugs in the installer have been fixed. If you re-install the game with the fixed installer (available on the remastered CD), the game installs more reliably and runs more smoothly.

- The new install handles installation of DXMedia, which is required for movies to work properly.

- Suppressed humming and whistling of the Avatar, and any NPC who is in the process of dying.

- Added an LODScale value to OPTIONS.INI; scales the distance at which LODs change.

- Avatar coughing & whistling is eliminated.

- You can no longer charm the Guardian.

- If you put more than 2047 objects into a single room-sized area, the game now issues a fatal error and exits (before it would just crash).