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Ultima IX: Ascension

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Ultima IX: Ascension
Ultima IX: Ascension cover
Developers
Origin Systems
Publishers
Electronic Arts
Release dates
Windows November 24, 1999
Ultima IX: Ascension on Wikipedia
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

Key points

Change the renderer if you get a black screen when starting the game.

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
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
SafeDisc DRM[Note 1]. Install Patch v1.18f to remove.
Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
Windows
Origin
Origin
Not available in some regions.
Windows
SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see above for affected versions).

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

The intro video is automatically skipped once start.dat is generated.
Delete/rename column.dat[citation needed]
  1. Go to <path-to-game>\Movies\
  2. Delete or rename column.dat.

Patches

The version 1.18F patch fixes many crucial bugs and is required to finish the game.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\Options.ini[Note 2]
Key mappings are stored in <path-to-game>\Default.kmp.

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\savegame\[Note 2]
start.dat determines the default starting save but saves can still be loaded without it (after completing enough of the tutorial to unlock save/load functions).

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Origin

Video settings

In-game settings.
In-game settings.
Setup tool settings.
Setup tool settings.

Template:Video settings

Input settings

Template:Input settings

Audio settings

Audio settings.
Audio settings.

Template:Audio settings

Localizations

Thai, Russian, Polish, Italian, Dutch/Greek, Spanish and Portuguese retail only have the manuals translated.[3]
Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
German
German retail only; not available digitally.
French
French retail only; not available digitally.
Japanese
Japanese retail only; not available digitally.
Spanish
Fan translation, download.

Issues fixed

Black screen

Change Game Rasterizer in Options.ini[4]
  1. Go to the installation folder.
  2. Edit Options.ini.
  3. Change Game Rasterizer=3 to Game Rasterizer=2
  4. Change GameScreenWidth= and GameScreenHeight= to your resolution.
  5. Change GameScreenDepth=16 to GameScreenDepth=32
  6. Save your changes.

Error when launching setup tool

The setup tool may open with an error: "The device you have selected does not appear to support all the functions required for Ultima IX: Ascension."
Change Game Rasterizer in Options.ini[4]

See Black screen.

FMV cutscenes are blank

Uninstall codec packs[5]

Uninstall any codec packs (e.g. K-Lite).

Other information

API

Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP, Vista
Processor (CPU) 1.8 GHz
System memory (RAM) 512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 2 GB
Video card (GPU) DirectX 7 compatible
These requirements are for the GOG.com release.

Notes

  1. 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. 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