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Age of Wonders
Age of Wonders	1999
Age of Wonders II: The Wizard's Throne	2002
Age of Wonders: Shadow Magic	2003
Age of Wonders III	2014
Age of Wonders: Planetfall	2019
Age of Wonders 4	2023

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions for game series

GOG.com Support Page

Steam Community Discussions

Steam Users' Forums for game series

Age of Wonders Heaven fansite

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail
GOG.com		Soundtrack and HD wallpaper included.
Steam		Also available in Age of Wonders Trilogy with soundtrack.
GamersGate		Also available in Age of Wonders Trilogy with soundtrack.

The demo is available at FilePlanet.

Essential improvements

The latest official patch is v1.36. It can be found in the Age of Wonders Heaven fansite (only needed for retail versions).

Mods

Most mods are found in the AoW Heaven fansite.

DevEdit, the tool for customizing the game, is available also at the AoW Heaven fansite, and also make sure to read the beginner's guide if you want to start modding.

Warlock's Rule-Set

The most popular rule-set in Age of Wonders which is a basis to many other rule-sets.

For 64-bit systems: download this mod fix if you want it to work on your configurations (works with GOG.com, doesn't work with Steam).

Skip intro videos

Instructions

Instructions

Game data

In-game menu can be found by clicking the dragon icon in the lower-left corner.

Configuration file(s) location

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System	Location
Steam Play (Linux)	<SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/61500/pfx/^{[Note 1]}

Save game data location

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System	Location
Steam Play (Linux)	<SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/61500/pfx/^{[Note 1]}

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video settings

General settings.

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Unscalable UI. Small icons at higher resolutions.

Instructions

Input settings

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Audio settings

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Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English

Network

Multiplayer types

Type	Native	Notes
LAN play		Direct TCP protocol.
Online play		Direct TCP protocol.
Asynchronous multiplayer		Play-by-Mail; see Asynchronous multiplayer.

Asynchronous multiplayer

Play-by-Email is an another form of online play which basically works by e-mailing the turns. The advantage to it is that you can post turns at any time while the disadvantage is the slowness of the games.

Age of Wonders Email Wrapper is almost a required way to play the game by E-mail. It automates the sending and receiving process to eliminate mistakes made by manual e-mail sending.

If you don't want to play through the wrapper, be sure to check this guide on AoW Heaven forums.

Connection types

Type	Native	Notes
Matchmaking
Peer-to-peer
Dedicated
Self-hosting
Direct IP

Issues fixed

If you haven't found an issue, even if you haven't downloaded from GOG.com, read GOG.com Support Page for more information.

Enabling cheats

Instructions

Game crashing/mapview error/error during draw

Instructions

Instructions

Garbled text

Instructions

Retail doesn't work on Windows 7

Instructions

Maps

The game also supports external singleplayer and multiplayer maps. Map editor is included in the game.

Archive: AoW Heaven Downloads Central

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	XP or newer
Processor (CPU)	1 GHz	1.4 GHz
System memory (RAM)	256 MB	512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	350 MB
Video card (GPU)	DirectX 7 compatible	DirectX 9 compatible

Notes

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1
Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:
- File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data.
- Use Wine's registry editor to access any Windows registry paths.
- The app ID (61500) may differ in some cases.
- Treat backslashes as forward slashes.
- See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.

References

[Proton_path_note-1] 1.0 ^1.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:
File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data.
Use Wine's registry editor to access any Windows registry paths.
The app ID (61500) may differ in some cases.
Treat backslashes as forward slashes.
See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.

[2] File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data.

[3] Use Wine's registry editor to access any Windows registry paths.

[4] The app ID (61500) may differ in some cases.

[5] Treat backslashes as forward slashes.

[6] See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.

[Note 1]

@@ Line 97: / Line 97: @@
 |ultrawidescreen            = true
 |ultrawidescreen notes      =
-|4k ultra hd                = unknown
+|4k ultra hd                = true
 |4k ultra hd notes          =
-|fov                        =
+|fov                        = n/a
 |fov notes                  =
 |windowed                   = true
@@ Line 112: / Line 112: @@
 |vsync notes                =
 |high frame rate            = false
-|high frame rate notes      =
+|high frame rate notes      = Locked at 30FPS
 |color blind                = false
 |color blind notes          =
 }}
-The widescreen support is sort of incomplete because the game doesn't scale neither images nor text to fit the resolution, so it's pretty much unplayable at 1920x1080, everything is microscopic. It was designed to be played at 800x600 or something like that, and there's no 16:9 widescreen resolutions that are similarly low.
+{{--}} Unscalable UI. Small icons at higher resolutions.
+{{Fixbox|1=
-What worked for me (assuming NVidia cards, AMD's should have similar settings):
+{{Fixbox/fix|Scale UI with Nvidia's drivers|}}
+# Go to Nvidia's control panel.
-. Go to NVidia control panel, "Display -> Change resolution -> Customize" add a custom resolution like 960x540 (1920x1080 halved in each dimension, pretty close to 800x600) with 16-bit bpp (bits per pixel) color depth.
+# Go to '''Display''' -> '''Change resolution''' -> '''Customize'''.
+# Add a resolution which is half of your monitor's native (960x540 for 1920x1080 monitors) with 16-bit color depth.
-. Same, "Adjust desktop size and position -> Perform scaling on -> GPU". Enabling GPU scaling is critical.
+# Goto '''Adjust desktop size and position''' -> '''Performing scaling on''' -> '''GPU'''.
+# Run the game and select fullscreen and the resolution you added.
-. Run the game, select fullscreen and the resolution you added (it must be 16-bpp to show up in the list), enjoy widescreen experience with nice scaling.
+}}
-Why the second step is absolutely critical: apparently, LCD displays have a fixed set of resolutions they support, when you just create a 960x540 resolution, with GPU scaling disabled, the display first finds a resolution in that fixed set that allows it to accommodate your custom resolution (so it would be 1280x1024 probably), then rescales the image to fit that resolution, then rescales the resulting image to fit the native resolution of the LCD pixel grid. The result of those two rescalings looks like shit and usually even has black bars. If you enable GPU scaling then your GPU upscales the image to fit the native resolution and renders it directly to the native resolution of the display, yay.
-(on a side note, maybe someone more proficient with Wiki than I am could move this trick to its own page and link it here?)
 ==Input settings==

Developers

	Triumph Studios
	Epic Games
Publishers
North America	Gathering of Developers
Europe	Take-Two Interactive
Release dates
Windows	October 31, 1999