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Lords of Magic

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Lords of Magic
Lords of Magic cover
Developers
Impressions Games
Publishers
Retail Sierra On-Line
Digital Rebellion Developments
Release dates
Windows November 19, 1997
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase, Expansion pack
Modes Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing Real-time, Turn-based
Perspectives Bird's-eye view, Isometric
Controls Point and select
Genres Strategy
Themes Fantasy
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Lords of Magic is a singleplayer and multiplayer bird's-eye view and isometric strategy game.

The game was expanded with the Legends of Urak expansion in 1998, with the Special Edition containing both.

General information

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

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
Special Edition has a disc check.
Windows
GamersGate
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Special Edition.
Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
Special Edition.
Windows
Green Man Gaming
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Special Edition.
Windows
Steam
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Special Edition.
Windows
ZOOM Platform
DRM-free
Special Edition. Pre-packaged with DDrawCompat.
Windows
A free demo version is available from Archive.org and SierraHelp.

Version differences

The Special Edition release includes the base game, the Legends of Urak expansion, new units, buildings, campaigns and the lord editor.

Monetization

DLC and expansion packs

Name Notes
Legends of Urak
Windows

Essential improvements

Official patches

The last official for Lords of Magic is 3.01 for the Special Edition and 2.0a for the non-SE release. Both may be found here.
The Steam and GOG versions come with the 3.01 patch already installed.
The last patch for SE has a bug that causes some low level dungeons and marauder parties to spawn with Pegasus Riders, a high level unit.

Unofficial patch

Only works with the SE release patched to version 3.01
Fixes the Pegasus Rider bug mentioned above.
Install the unofficial patch
  1. Download the latest build from here or here.
  2. Extract the contents of the archive downloaded into the <path-to-game> folder.

Skip intro videos

Delete/rename/move video files
  1. Open the <path-to-game>\smk folder.
  2. Delete, rename or move Intro.smk and IMPTITLE.smk.
  3. Do the same for Credits.smk to skip the credits video shown when exiting the game.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\settings.cfg[Note 1]
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/404040/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\savegame[Note 1]
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/404040/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video

Windowed

Install dgVoodoo 2
  1. Follow the installation instructions for installing for a DX2-8 game.
  2. Copy the files dgVoodoo.conf and dgVoodooCpl.exe from the archive into <path-to-game>, then run dgVoodooCpl.exe.
  3. Under the General tab, change the Appearance setting to Windowed. Also tick the Centre app window box.
  4. Under the DirectX tab, untick Application controlled fullscreen/windowed state, Disable Alt-Enter to toggle screen state and dgVoodoo watermark.
  5. Click on Ok.

Input

Audio

Sound settings
Sound settings

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Music, sound effects, speech, ambience
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
Retail and GOG.com only.
German
Retail only; download for digital versions.

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
LAN play
4
Online play
4 The official WON multiplayer service has been shut down.

Connection types

Other information

API

Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
Middleware Notes
Cutscenes Smacker Video
Multiplayer WON


System requirements

Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 95
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium 75 MHz
System memory (RAM) 16 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 135 MB
Video card (GPU) SVGA


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 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).
  2. 2.0 2.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/404040/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (404040) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References