Age of Wonders II: The Wizard's Throne

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

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Availability

SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see above for affected versions).

Settings^{[citation needed]}
Open the Age of Wonders II: The Wizard's Throne Launcher. Uncheck the box labelled "Show Intro". Press OK.

v1.1 Patch updates the game to the latest version.

System	Location
Windows
Steam Play (Linux)	<SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/61510/pfx/^{[Note 2]}

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\Save\^{[Note 3]}
Steam Play (Linux)	<SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/61510/pfx/^{[Note 2]}

System	Native	Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

General settings.

Graphics feature	WSGF	Notes
Widescreen resolution		HUD stretches from 4:3.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)	See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)	See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)	See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS

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

Controller types

Type	Players	Notes
Local play	8	Hot seat
LAN play	8
Online play	8	The official multiplayer service has been shut down.
Asynchronous multiplayer	Play by Email.

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

Windows
	Minimum
Operating system (OS)	98, ME, 2000, XP
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium II 300 MHz
System memory (RAM)	64 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	560 MB
Video card (GPU)	4 MB of VRAM DirectX 7 compatible

↑ SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows 10^[1] or Windows 11 and is disabled by default on Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1 when the KB3086255 update is installed.^[2]
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1
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 (61510) may differ in some cases.
- Treat backslashes as forward slashes.
- See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.
↑ When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMDATA%, or %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).

Developers

	Triumph Studios
Publishers
Retail	Take-Two Interactive
Digital	Triumph Studios
Release dates
Windows	June 12, 2002
Reception
Metacritic	86
Taxonomy
Monetization	One-time game purchase
Modes	Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing	Turn-based
Perspectives	Bird's-eye view, Isometric
Controls	Multiple select, Point and select
Genres	4X, Strategy, TBS
Themes	Fantasy
Series	Age of Wonders