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Revision as of 18:42, 22 November 2022
Developers | |
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Legend Entertainment | |
Publishers | |
Retail | GT Interactive |
Digital | Nightdive Studios |
Engines | |
Unreal Engine 1 | |
Release dates | |
Windows | November 15, 1999 |
Taxonomy | |
Monetization | One-time game purchase |
Microtransactions | None |
Modes | Singleplayer, Multiplayer |
Pacing | Real-time |
Perspectives | First-person |
Controls | Direct control |
Genres | Action, FPS |
Themes | Fantasy |
Warnings
Key points
- Although game is playable without wrappers like DgVoodoo2 (through Direct3D), on some machines this might cause some graphics to flicker and see through clothing (See use nGlide or DirectX 11 Renderer to fix).
- Very small but active community.
- Modification of the engine's advanced options in D3D rendering mode can cause the game to crash. (See this workaround for an alternative method to change them).
General information
Availability
- SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see above for affected versions).
- A free demo version is available from Archive.org.
Essential improvements
Patches
The latest patch (v333b) for the German, US, and International releases is available here.
Peixoto's patch
- Fixes FMV playback
- Gets Direct3D mode working correctly
- Forced resolution allows high resolution without shrinking the menus and HUD
- Fixes the non-working brightness control
- Windows display scaling must be set to 100% (right-click on desktop → display settings), any higher value will break the game when using Peixoto's patch.
Use nGlide
Use nGlide[citation needed] |
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Missing Media Files In The Game's Directory
Move Media Files from Disc to Hard Drive.[citation needed] |
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Skip intro movies
Rename movie files. |
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Unreal Engine DirectX 11 Renderer
- A fork of Kentie's Direct3D 10 renderer that adds more graphical features.
- Run games at HD resolution.
- Improved lighting.
- Adds ambient occlusion, screen-space reflections and higher quality HDR post-processing.
- Places a temporary watermark in the bottom right, and copies the developers PayPal link to your clipboard. Follow these instructions to disable the watermark and remove the PayPal link from being inserted into your clipboard.
Disable DirectX 11 renderer's PayPal watermark and disable the link from being copied into the clipboard |
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Installing Wheel of Time DirectX 11 ESRGAN Upscale pack |
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Game data
Configuration file(s) location
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>\System\WoT.ini[Note 2] |
Save game data location
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>\Save[Note 2] |
Save game cloud syncing
System | Native | Notes |
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GOG Galaxy |
Video
Graphics feature | State | WSGF | Notes |
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Widescreen resolution | See the WSGF entry. Alternatively, use the DirectX 11 renderer and use the WSGF entry to change resolution (don't worry about DgVoodoo2 or FOV). The game can run at 2560x1440 [4] with this method and it could go higher. GOG version supports modern resolutions with Direct3D, though image is Vert- and FOV will need to be increased to compensate. | ||
Multi-monitor | |||
Ultra-widescreen | See the WSGF entry. GOG version supports modern resolutions with Direct3D, though image is Vert- and FOV will need to be increased to compensate. | ||
4K Ultra HD | Using the WSGF entry, The resolution width can only go up to 1920, anything higher will force the game to windowed or fall back to 1920. Windowed mode's width can only go up to 2048 before the game starts crashing. Try DirectX 11 renderer. GOG version supports modern resolutions with Direct3D, though image is Vert- and FOV will need to be increased to compensate. | ||
Field of view (FOV) | See the WSGF entry. | ||
Windowed | Can be toggled from in-game settings or Alt+↵ Enter | ||
Borderless fullscreen windowed | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
Anisotropic filtering (AF) | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
Anti-aliasing (AA) | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
Vertical sync (Vsync) | |||
60 FPS and 120+ FPS | https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2048525175 (only changing 0AD7A33B to 00000000 needed). |
Change video renderer |
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To change the video renderer settings, execute the |
Input
Keyboard and mouse | State | Notes |
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Remapping | Function keys (F1 to F12) which are used for game menus, quicksave etc. cannot be remapped. | |
Mouse acceleration | ||
Mouse sensitivity | ||
Mouse input in menus | ||
Mouse Y-axis inversion | ||
Controller | ||
Controller support |
Controller types |
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- Press F2 to switch spells while pausing the game.
Audio
Audio feature | State | Notes |
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Separate volume controls | ||
Surround sound | Located under advanced options → audio . Change UseSurround from false to true. |
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Subtitles | Open <path-to-game>\system\User.ini with a text editor and change bSubtitles from False to True. |
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Closed captions | ||
Mute on focus lost | ||
EAX support | Go to advanced options → audio and set Use3dHardware and UseDirectSound to true.
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Royalty free audio |
Localizations
Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
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English | ||||
German | Retail only. Download for GOG.com release. | |||
Spanish | Retail only. |
Network
Multiplayer types
Type | Native | Notes | |
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LAN play | Versus |
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Online play | Versus GameSpy services have been shut down;[5] see GameSpy for workarounds. |
VR support
3D modes | State | Notes | |
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vorpX | G3D, Z3D User created game profile, see vorpx forum profile introduction. |
Issues unresolved
Level editor is not starting
- This does not interfere with the main game at all.
The ability to make custom maps is currently not possible on modern systems due to the editor being unable to start.
A partially working fix can be found here (WoTedFix3.zip at the bottom), but the editor still starts and immediately crashes.[6]
Issues fixed
Technical Issues
- Run the game in 3DFX mode after installing nGlide if D3D mode is giving error messages.
Cutscene Fix
- Without this fix cutscenes do not play, or play but stutter to the point of where they are unwatchable.
Cutscene Fix[7] |
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Crash After Changing Advanced Settings
- All those settings can also be accessed by opening
<path-to-game>\system\WoT.ini
with a text editor.
Brightness Can't Be Adjusted/Game Is Too Dark
Turn off Multitexture[citation needed] |
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Unable To Move After Starting The Game
Run in Windows 7 Compatibility[citation needed] |
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Laggy/jittery mouse input
Use MarkC's Mouse Acceleration Fix |
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Lag when using DirectX 11 renderer
Edit Advanced Options. |
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Other information
API
Technical specs | Supported | Notes |
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Direct3D | 7 | |
Software renderer |
Executable | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
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Windows | Game executable is <path-to-game>\System\WoT.exe . WoTEd.exe is the level editor. |
Middleware
Middleware | Notes | |
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Cutscenes | QuickTime | |
Multiplayer | GameSpy |
Utilities
- T.H.U.M.B: Provides a very easy way to reorganize/modify the slots of Ter'angreal and bind commands to the keyboard and mouse.
- ServCon: Allows server creation without needing disc 2 inserted.
System requirements
Windows | ||
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Minimum | Recommended | |
Operating system (OS) | 95 | 98, ME |
Processor (CPU) | Intel Pentium 200 MHz | Intel Pentium 2 233 MHz |
System memory (RAM) | 32 MB | 64 MB |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 500 MB | 500 MB |
Video card (GPU) | Standard PCi Video Card | 3DFx certified card |
Notes
- ↑ SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows 10[1] or Windows 11 and is disabled by default on Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1 when the KB3086255 update is installed.[2]
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 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
- ↑ Not Loading in Windows 10; this will break thousands of - Microsoft Community - last accessed on 2017-01-16
- ↑ Microsoft - MS15-097: Description of the security update for the graphics component in Windows: September 8, 2015 - last accessed on 2018-02-16
- ↑ redump.org • The Wheel of Time • Disc 1
- ↑ Verified by User:scottvordem on 2021-12-01
- Verified using a 1440p monitor, unable to test higher than 2560x1440
- ↑ Pricing | GameSpy Technology
- ↑ Verified by User:scottvordem on 2021-02-16
- Tried different compatibility settings and none of them worked.
- ↑ Wheel of Time - Choppy QuickTime Video Problem Fix • VOGONS