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Revision as of 04:47, 27 November 2015

Ultima VIII: Pagan
Ultima VIII: Pagan cover
Developers
Origin Systems
Publishers
Electronic Arts
Release dates
DOS March 15, 1994
Windows April 19, 2012[1]
macOS (OS X) April 23, 2013[2]
Ultima VIII: Pagan on Wikipedia
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⤏ 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

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
 Floppies or CD-ROM.
DOS
GOG.com
DRM-free
 Gold Edition. Includes the Speech Pack add-on. Pre-packaged with DOSBox.[3]
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Origin
Origin
 Not available in some regions. Pre-packaged with DOSBox.
Windows

Version differences

The Gold Edition is a complete edition which includes the Speech Pack add-on.

DLC and expansion packs

Name Notes
Speech Pack Included in all Gold Edition releases (both retail and digital).
DOS

Essential improvements

Patches

The v2.12 Patch fixes various issues with the English, German and French floppy versions of the game. CD-ROM and digital versions are already patched.

Pentagram

Pentagram allows running the game at higher resolutions and has other enhancements.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

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System Location
U8.INI contains installation settings; in-game settings are stored in each save rather than shared.
Pentagram settings are in pentagram.ini, located in %APPDATA%\Pentagram\ on Windows,~/Library/Application Support/Pentagram/ on OS X or ~/.pentagram/ on Linux.

Save game data location

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System Location
SGHEADER.DAT contains save game names.
Pentagram saves are in %APPDATA%\Pentagram\u8-save\ on Windows, ~/Library/Application Support/Pentagram/u8-save/ on OS X or ~/.pentagram/u8-save/ on Linux.

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Origin

Video settings

In-game options menu.
In-game options menu.
300px
Graphics settings (GOG.com version)

Template:Video settings

Widescreen resolution

Instructions

Input settings

Template:Input settings

Audio settings

Template:Audio settings

Localizations

The Italian, Chinese, Korean and Polish retail versions only have the manuals translated, not the game itself.[4][5][6][7]
Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
German
French
Spanish
Spanish retail only. Not available digitally.
Japanese
Japanese retail only. Speech is in English.[8]

System requirements

DOS
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 5 6.2
Processor (CPU) Intel 486 33 MHz Intel Pentium
System memory (RAM) 4 MB 8 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 35 MB
Video card (GPU) VGA graphics card
Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP, Vista
Processor (CPU) 1.8 GHz
System memory (RAM) 512 MB 1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 45 MB
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