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John373
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Joined: 04 Jul 2002
Posts: 117
Location: Retardid Los Angeles, CA |
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Can anyone give me some information on where I can get system requirements for Wizardry 7 and, if playable, where I can buy it?
I'm having a difficult time getting this info down myself  , especially the requirements. Although I'm sure my computer surpasses it, I need to know if it can still work. Daggerfall, for example (if anyone still remembers that game) crashes repeatedly on my current computer but not the old one that's stashed in my closet (Pentium 133Mhz, WIN 95, etc). Probably driver issues. Oh well.
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Fri Oct 10, 2003 8:17 pm |
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dteowner
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Joined: 21 Mar 2002
Posts: 7570
Location: Third Hero of Erathia |
The original Wiz7 does not run in Windows. It's a DOS only game. If you get the Gold version, it will run, although I believe you have to use a slow-down utility like mo-slo to get it to behave properly.
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Fri Oct 10, 2003 9:49 pm |
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John373
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Joined: 04 Jul 2002
Posts: 117
Location: Retardid Los Angeles, CA |
Ah. I see. Thanks, dteowner. 
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Fri Oct 10, 2003 10:14 pm |
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dteowner
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Joined: 21 Mar 2002
Posts: 7570
Location: Third Hero of Erathia |
I've never tried to play Wiz7, so perhaps someone can give you more detailed instructions for making Wiz7Gold work properly. Oh, the Wizardry Archives (pretty sure that's the name for the package that has Wiz1 thru Wiz7) includes the Gold version.
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Fri Oct 10, 2003 10:51 pm |
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John373
Keeper of the Gates
Joined: 04 Jul 2002
Posts: 117
Location: Retardid Los Angeles, CA |
Thanks again.
Until I get a new computer, I might as well play around with the old stuff I've never played.
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Sat Oct 11, 2003 10:10 am |
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Bilbo
High Emperor
Joined: 12 Mar 2002
Posts: 1620
Location: New York |
The Ultimate Wizardry Archives does not specify system requirements. It comes with 2 versions of Wiz7 - the original Crusaders of the Dark Savant and Wizardry Gold. Crusaders was meant to run in DOS (not DOS underlying Windows), while Gold can be run directly from Windows (while a DOS program, it has a skeletal Windows interface).
I have not run any of the series in anything later than Windows 98. Some notes:
Wiz 1 - 5 are truly DOS based, but launch right from Windows without a problem. I suspect they will continue to work in the later versions of Windows.
Wiz 6 (Bane of the Cosmic Forge) WILL NOT RUN PROPERLY IN WINDOWS. While it will launch, the timing is so messed up that you can't play it (ex: taking a minute between frames in the opening animation sequence going into the castle). You need to boot your computer in DOS Mode; just make sure your sound and CD drivers are installed in the boot. (Your boot disk does not need to have these files on it; they can be read off the hard drive for installation. That's the way I did it.)
Wiz 7 see notes in first paragraph
Wiz 8 works under all versions of Windows.
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Sun Oct 12, 2003 4:56 pm |
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John373
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Joined: 04 Jul 2002
Posts: 117
Location: Retardid Los Angeles, CA |
Thanks, Bilbo
And I know what you mean about timing. I once installed Lords of the Realm II on my Windows 98 computer and everything was moving faster. It was funny at first but it wasn't playable.
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Sun Oct 12, 2003 5:57 pm |
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RUR
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Joined: 04 Mar 2004
Posts: 4
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Hi there,
quote:
Originally posted by Bilbo
I have not run any of the series in anything later than Windows 98. Some notes:
Wiz 1 - 5 are truly DOS based, but launch right from Windows without a problem. I suspect they will continue to work in the later versions of Windows.
Wiz 6 (Bane of the Cosmic Forge) WILL NOT RUN PROPERLY IN WINDOWS. While it will launch, the timing is so messed up that you can't play it (ex: taking a minute between frames in the opening animation sequence going into the castle). You need to boot your computer in DOS Mode; just make sure your sound and CD drivers are installed in the boot. (Your boot disk does not need to have these files on it; they can be read off the hard drive for installation. That's the way I did it.)
Wiz 7 see notes in first paragraph
Wiz 8 works under all versions of Windows.
I did try Wiz 7 (Crusaders of DS) on Win XP and it worked. Well, it worked 50%. I could make it run on my desktop (Win XP Pro, SP1), but it did not work on my laptop (same OS). Even compatibility wizard didn't help.
Does anyone have experience with earlier versions running under Win XP? I wish to get at least Wiz 6 to work. I gather that there are no free downloads available since they sell the whole collection 
R.U.R. |
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Thu Mar 04, 2004 11:10 pm |
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Danicek
The Old One
Joined: 15 Dec 2001
Posts: 5922
Location: Czech Republic |
Wizardry 7 have problems with newest OS, mainly with XP. It is possible to run them, but you can not be sure that it will.
It is because DOS is not really integral part of XP (but is integral part of 9 . |
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Fri Mar 05, 2004 9:46 am |
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Sir Markus
Counselor of the King
Joined: 11 Jan 2002
Posts: 369
Location: Columbus, Ohio USA |
Wizardry Gold runs on the newer machines, but not all that well. Even with a slowdown utility, my recollection is that the text still moves too fast to read. If you want to play these older games, you'd be better off tracking down an old 486 computer and putting DOS on it. Plus, as far as Wiz 7 is concerned, I've heard that the original version is better to begin with. |
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Fri Mar 05, 2004 11:12 pm |
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RUR
Village Dweller
Joined: 04 Mar 2004
Posts: 4
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Hiya,
btw, does anyone have Wiz 6 to download? *wink* I do not want the whole series, but the Dark Savant (wiz 6,7,. I am not even sure I can run all wiz archive on Win XP anyway. 
Cheers, RUR |
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Sat Mar 13, 2004 6:20 am |
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Val
Risen From Ashes
Joined: 18 Feb 2002
Posts: 14724
Location: Utah, USA |
No. Unless it's become abandonware any other download is piracy. And we do not support piracy here.
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Sat Mar 13, 2004 9:32 pm |
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DBear
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Joined: 29 Apr 2004
Posts: 18
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| Wiz 7/Gold and modern PCs |
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First of all, you will need to download a patch to get it running on Pentium-based systems.
Go here to download patches.
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Sun May 02, 2004 1:55 am |
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GothicGothicness
Keeper of the Gates
Joined: 04 Oct 2003
Posts: 110
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Gold version runs fine on my pentium 3 computer with windows ME, here's something important!!!!!
There's a option in the game for text speed :O, just turn that to slow and it'll work. There's a few bugs in it though, the funniest one is if you press the left arrow in character creation your charecter will get 439824 in the attribute selected and 0 in all the others......
Anyway it's horrible to create a party in that game I remmember spending several hours rolling stats for my chars to complete the game on hard. |
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Mon May 24, 2004 10:58 pm |
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mron
Village Dweller
Joined: 23 Apr 2003
Posts: 3
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Try Dosbox to run DarkSavant. It works perfectly for me, with perfect sound effect and "timing" even on a mordern computer. You can easily adjust "emulated cpu cycles" option to meet the correct animation-/game-timing. And it's...free, wow.
http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/ |
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