Wizardry: Bane of the Cosmic Forge

Wizardry: Bane of the Cosmic Forge

Developers   Sir-Tech

Release dates DOS 1990 Mac OS 1990 Windows May 23, 2013 OS X September 11, 2013 Linux September 11, 2013

Wizardry

Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord	1984
Wizardry: Knight of Diamonds - The Second Scenario	1986
Wizardry: Legacy of Llylgamyn - The Third Scenario	1987
Wizardry: The Return of Werdna - The Fourth Scenario	1988
Wizardry V: Heart of the Maelstrom	1988
Wizardry: Bane of the Cosmic Forge	1990
Wizardry: Crusaders of the Dark Savant	1992
Wizardry Gold	1996
Wizardry: Llylgamyn Saga	1997
Wizardry: New Age of Llylgamyn	2000
Wizardry 8	2001
Wizardry Online	2013

Key points

Characters cannot be imported from earlier games, unlike most games in the series.

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions for game series

GOG.com Support Page

Steam Community Discussions

PostCount.Net Wizardry Series forum

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys
GOG.com		Includes Wizardry: Crusaders of the Dark Savant and Wizardry Gold.
Steam
Retail		Manual lookup copy protection (removed for digital versions).

Digital versions have copy protection bypassed; simply press ↵ Enter when prompted.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

	Location
DOS	<path-to-game>\SCENARIO.HDR
Windows	<path-to-game>\SCENARIO.HDR
Mac OS
OS X
Linux

Save game data location

	Location
DOS	<path-to-game>\*.DBS
Windows	<path-to-game>\*.DBS
Mac OS
OS X
Linux

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
Steam Cloud

Video settings

General settings.

Graphics option	Option	Notes
Widescreen resolution		Upscaled 320x200 only.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed		Set in Graphic Mode Setup (GOG.com) or toggle with Alt+↵ Enter.
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Vertical sync (Vsync)
High frame rate

Input settings

Keyboard and mouse	Native	Notes
Remapping		Use DOSBox Mapper; also see No keyboard input indicator in menus.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support		See No keyboard input indicator in menus.
Full controller support
Controller remapping
Controller Y-axis inversion

Audio settings

Audio options	Native	Notes
Separate volume controls		Full/Soft/Off only.
Surround sound
Subtitles		All speech is text-only.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	CC	Notes
English
German

Issues fixed

No keyboard input indicator in menus

The keyboard input indicator is not shown when in mouse mode; these steps switch to keyboard mode, allowing the indicator to be displayed.

Full keyboard input is also useful if you are wanting to play with a controller (use the DOSBox Mapper to change key assignments).

Change input mode At the main menu go to Game Configuration. Change Input to Keyboard. Choose Exit to save your changes. Repeat to switch back to mouse mode.

System requirements

DOS
	Minimum
Operating system (OS)	DOS
Processor (CPU)	IBM/Tandy and 100% compatibles
System memory (RAM)	640K
Hard disk drive (HDD)	Required
Video card (GPU)	VGA, EGA, MCGA, CGA & Hercules

Mac OS
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	Mac Plus
Processor (CPU)
System memory (RAM)	One Meg B/W	Two Meg Color
Hard disk drive (HDD)	Optional

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	XP, Vista, 7, 8
Processor (CPU)	1.8 GHz
System memory (RAM)	512 MB	1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	2 GB
Video card (GPU)	DirectX 9.0c compatible

OS X
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	Leopard 10.5	Mountain Lion 10.8
Processor (CPU)	1.0 GHz	1.5 GHz
System memory (RAM)	512 MB	1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	128 MB
Video card (GPU)	3D graphics card or onboard graphics compatible with OpenGL

Linux
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	Ubuntu 12.04 LTS	Ubuntu 13.04
Processor (CPU)	1.0 GHz	1.5 GHz
System memory (RAM)	512 MB	1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	128 MB
Video card (GPU)	100% OpenGL accelerated card or onboard graphics

Additional libsound1.2 and libnet1.2 packages may be required on Linux.