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Ultima V: Warriors of Destiny

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Ultima V: Warriors of Destiny
Ultima V: Warriors of Destiny cover
Developers
Origin Systems
Publishers
Electronic Arts
Release dates
DOS October 5, 1988
Windows September 8, 2011[1]
macOS (OS X) October 18, 2012[2]
Ultima V: Warriors of Destiny guide on StrategyWiki
Ultima V: Warriors of Destiny 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

Characters can be imported from Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar.
The PC version has improved graphics and performance over the Apple II and C64 versions.
Soundtrack is missing from the PC version. The U5 Upgrade adds the original soundtrack in MIDI format, supporting various sound cards and General MIDI. It also adds a theme from the Amiga version, when importing or creating a character.

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
DRM details are not known
DOS
GOG.com
DRM-free
DOS version in DOSBox. Includes Ultima IV and Ultima VI. Pre-packaged with DOSBox.[3]
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Origin
Origin
Not available in some regions. Pre-packaged with DOSBox.
Windows

Essential improvements

Import characters

Characters can be transferred from Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar using a (virtual) floppy drive.
Copy PARTY.SAV[citation needed]
  1. Copy PARTY.SAV from the Ultima IV installation folder.
  2. Paste it into the Ultima V installation folder.
  3. Run the game, choose transfer (or press T) and follow the prompts.

U5 Upgrade

The U5 Upgrade adds MIDI music. Install with Ultima Patcher or manually following the readme.

Game data

Save game data location

System Location
DOS <path-to-game>\SAVED.GAM
Windows <path-to-game>\SAVED.GAM[Note 1]
macOS (OS X)

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Origin

Video settings

300px
Graphics settings (GOG.com version)

Template:Video settings

Input settings

Template:Input settings

Audio settings

Template:Audio settings

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English

Issues fixed

Black screen when transferring characters

Mount Ultima IV folder[citation needed]

See Import characters.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
DOS video modes
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP, Vista
Processor (CPU) 1.8 GHz
System memory (RAM) 512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)
Video card (GPU) DirectX 7 compatible
macOS (OS X)
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 10.6.8
Processor (CPU) Intel Core Duo 2 GHz+
System memory (RAM) 1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)
Video card (GPU) 64 MB of VRAM

Notes

  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