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Revision as of 22:11, 29 December 2019
Developers | |
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New World Computing | |
Publishers | |
3DO | |
Ubisoft | |
Engines | |
Outdoor environments | Horizon |
Indoor environments | Labyrinth |
Release dates | |
Windows | March 7, 2000 |
General information
- GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
- GOG.com Support Page
- TELP subforum
- Extensive guide
- Celestial Heavens' subforum
Availability
Source | DRM | Notes | Keys | OS |
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Retail | Requires the disc; see Play without the CD for a workaround. | |||
GOG.com | ||||
Ubisoft Store | Included with Ubisoft+. |
Essential improvements
GrayFace MM8 Patch
The GrayFace MM8 Patch fixes many gameplay bugs, while adding optional new features.
Skip intro videos
Enable NoIntro setting[citation needed] |
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Play without the CD
Enable NoCD setting[citation needed] |
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Game data
Configuration file(s) location
System | Location |
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Windows | HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\New World Computing\Might and Magic Day of the Destroyer\1.0\[Note 1] |
- GrayFace configuration settings are stored in
<path-to-game>\mm8.ini
Save game data location
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>\Saves\[Note 2] |
Save game cloud syncing
System | Native | Notes |
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GOG Galaxy | ||
Ubisoft Connect |
Video settings
Input settings
Audio settings
Localizations
Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
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English | ||||
French | Available in the GOG.com version or use French translation. | |||
German | Available in the GOG.com version or use Might & Magic 8 (GOG) - Deutscher Sprachpatch. | |||
Polish | Retail only. | |||
Russian | Retail only. | |||
Simplified Chinese | Retail only. | |||
Traditional Chinese | Retail only. |
Issues fixed
No music (GrayFace MM8 Patch)
- Using the GrayFace MM8 Patch with the
NoCD
option stops music playing so you will need to use MP3s instead.
Enable MP3 playback (digital distribution versions)[citation needed] |
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Rip the CD tracks (retail)[citation needed] |
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Other information
OpenMM8
- OpenMM8 is an open source reimplementation using the Unity engine. This project is incomplete.
API
Executable | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
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Windows |
System requirements
Windows | ||
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Minimum | Recommended | |
Operating system (OS) | 95, 98, NT 4.0 SP4 | |
Processor (CPU) | Intel Pentium 166 | Intel Pentium 200 |
System memory (RAM) | 32 MB | |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 375 MB | |
Video card (GPU) | SVGA DirectX-compatible 1 MB of VRAM | PCI or 4 MB AGP video card 8 MB of VRAM |
Notes
- ↑ Applications writing to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE
will be redirected to other locations based on various criterias, see the glossary page for more details. - ↑ 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).