Anonymous edits have been disabled on the wiki. If you want to contribute please login or create an account.

Warning for game developers: PCGamingWiki staff members will only ever reach out to you using the official press@pcgamingwiki.com mail address.
Be aware of scammers claiming to be representatives or affiliates of PCGamingWiki who promise a PCGW page for a game key.

Rage of Mages

From PCGamingWiki, the wiki about fixing PC games
Rage of Mages
Rage of Mages cover
Developers
Nival Interactive
Publishers
Buka Entertainment
Monolith Productions
Nival Interactive
Release dates
Windows April 10, 1998
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Microtransactions None
Modes Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Bird's-eye view
Controls Point and select
Genres RTS, RPG
Themes Fantasy
Series Rage of Mages
Icon overlay.png
Rage of Mages on HowLongToBeat
Rage of Mages on IGDB
Rage of Mages on MobyGames
Rage of Mages on Wikipedia
Icon overlay.png
Rage of Mages
Rage of Mages 1998
Rage of Mages 2: Necromancer 1999
Evil Islands: Curse of the Lost Soul 2001
Allods Online 2009

Rage of Mages is a singleplayer and multiplayer bird's-eye view RTS and RPG game in the Rage of Mages series.

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
GOG.com Support Page

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
Windows

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy

Video

General settings.
General settings.

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (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
Controller types

Audio

Sound settings.
Sound settings.

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Polish
Local retail version only.
Russian

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
LAN play
16
Online play
16

Issues unresolved

Wrong colors and aspect ratio

The game's color palette is wrong and is squashed to half the size on the horizontal axis
Retail version only - GOG.com version is not affected
DxWnd
  1. Use DxWnd 2.04.32 with the included profile

Game hangs during intro movie

The game hangs while playing the intro movie on Windows 10
Retail version only - GOG.com version is not affected
Replace Smacker library
  1. Replace SMACKW32.DLL in the game folder with a different version. This file comes with many games from around 1997-98. Verified to work:
  2. If you are using DxWnd with the default profile, then unset the 'No movies' flag.
DxWnd - No movies
  1. Use DxWnd with the included profile
  2. Make sure the 'No movies' flag is set - this will disable all in-game cutscenes!

Map scrolling with mouse too fast

Using the mouse to scroll the game map will scroll to fast
Retail version only - GOG.com version is not affected

Other information

API

Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 95
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium 100 MHz Intel Pentium 166 MHz
System memory (RAM) 16 MB 32 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 85 MB
Video card (GPU) 1 MB of VRAM


Notes

  1. ↑ 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).

References