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Revision as of 05:27, 6 May 2015

Ultima V: Warriors of Destiny
Ultima V: Warriors of Destiny cover
Developers
Origin Systems
Publishers
Electronic Arts
Release dates
DOS October 5, 1988
Windows September 8, 2011[1]
macOS (OS X) October 18, 2012[2]
Ultima V: Warriors of Destiny on Wikipedia
⤏ Go to series page
Ultima II: The Revenge of the Enchantress 1982
Ultima III: Exodus 1983
Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar 1985
Ultima I: The First Age of Darkness 1987
Ultima V: Warriors of Destiny 1988
Ultima VI: The False Prophet 1990
Worlds of Ultima: The Savage Empire 1990
Ultima Worlds of Adventure 2: Martian Dreams 1991
Ultima VII: The Black Gate 1992
Ultima Underworld: The Stygian Abyss 1992
Ultima Underworld II: Labyrinth of Worlds 1993
Ultima VII Part Two: Serpent Isle 1993
Ultima VIII: Pagan 1994
Ultima Online 1997
Akalabeth: World of Doom 1998
Ultima IX: Ascension 1999

Key points

Last game in the Ultima series developed originally for Apple II. PC was adopted as the new primary platform for series during the development of Ultima VI: The False Prophet.
Characters can be imported from Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar (see Import characters).
The PC version has improved graphics over the Apple II and C64 versions.
The Apple II and C64 versions pushed their respective platforms to their limits (while still having all the features) and especially the C64 version suffers from large amount of disk access. On the other hand, the PC version has the advantage of hard drive and more powerful hardware for smoother gameplay.
The unpatched PC version works without issues on the faster systems.
The original Apple II version has full soundtrack, which requires 128 kilobytes of RAM and a sound card or Passport Designs' MIDI expansion. The Commodore 64 version also has this soundtrack, although it is only available when running the game in the native mode of Commodore 128. The soundtrack is missing from the PC version, which does not support any soundcards.
The U5 Upgrade adds the original soundtrack in MIDI format, supporting various sound cards and General MIDI. It also adds a theme from the Amiga version, when importing or creating a character.

General information

The Codex of Ultima Wisdom - A huge wiki for the series
GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
GOG.com Support Page

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
DRM details are not known
Error: key type '{{{5}}}' not recognised
Error: OS parameter cannot be empty
GOG.com
DRM-free
 DOS version in DOSBox. Includes Ultima IV and Ultima VI. Pre-packaged with DOSBox.[3]
Error: key type '{{{5}}}' not recognised
Error: OS parameter cannot be empty
Origin
Origin
 Not available in some regions. Pre-packaged with DOSBox.
Error: key type '{{{5}}}' not recognised
Error: OS parameter cannot be empty

Essential improvements

Import characters

Characters can be transferred from Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar using a (virtual) floppy drive.
Instructions

U5 Upgrade

The U5 Upgrade adds MIDI music. Install with Ultima Patcher or manually following the readme.

Game data

Save game data location

Template:Game data/rowTemplate:Game data/rowTemplate:Game data/row
System Location

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Origin

Video settings

300px
Graphics settings (GOG.com version)

Template:Video settings

Input settings

Template:Input settings

Audio settings

Template:Audio settings

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English

Issues fixed

Black screen when transferring characters

Instructions

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP, Vista
Processor (CPU) 1.8 GHz
System memory (RAM) 512 MB 1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)
Video card (GPU) DirectX 7 compatible DirectX 9 compatible
macOS (OS X)
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 10.6.8
Processor (CPU) Intel Core Duo 2GHz+
System memory (RAM) 1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)
Video card (GPU) 64 MB of VRAM

References