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Wizardry: Crusaders of the Dark Savant

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Wizardry: Crusaders of the Dark Savant
Wizardry: Crusaders of the Dark Savant cover
Developers
Sir-Tech
Release dates
DOS 1992
Windows May 23, 2013[1]
macOS (OS X) September 11, 2013[2]
Linux September 11, 2013[2]
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This page is for the original DOS game. For the enhanced remake, see Wizardry Gold.

Key points

Characters can be imported from Wizardry: Bane of the Cosmic Forge (see Import characters).
Later remade as Wizardry Gold.

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions
PostCount.Net Wizardry Series forum

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Prompts for answers from manual, code wheel, etc.
Manual lookup copy protection.
DOS
GOG.com
DRM-free
Pre-packaged with DOSBox.[3] Includes Wizardry: Bane of the Cosmic Forge and Wizardry Gold.
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Steam
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Includes Wizardry Gold.
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux
GOG.com has the English DOS version in the bonus content while the German DOS version is part of the main installer.
English digital versions have copy protection bypassed; simply press Enter when prompted.
German digital versions have copy protection intact; refer to Keywords.txt for the answers.

Essential improvements

Import characters

Characters can be imported from Wizardry: Bane of the Cosmic Forge saves.
The game offers several possible beginnings for imported parties. If player imports his/her party before completing Bane, the default beginning is given (the same as with new parties). The rest of the beginnings are reserved for each of the possible endings in Bane.
Bane of the Cosmic Forge uses different file extensions for regular saves and completed games (*.DBS or *.BCF).
Import saves[citation needed]
  1. Copy your save file into the installation folder (usually DSAVANT).
  2. Choose Import (BANE) at the main menu.
  3. Change SAVEGAME.BCF to the name of your save.
  4. Click Load and the game will start using your imported party.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
DOS <path-to-game>\SCENARIO.HDR
Windows <path-to-game>\SCENARIO.HDR[Note 1]
macOS (OS X)
Linux
It's unknown whether this game follows the XDG Base Directory Specification on Linux. Please fill in this information.

Save game data location

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

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video settings

General settings.
General settings.

Template:Video settings

Input settings

Template:Input settings

Audio settings

Template:Audio settings

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
German
Russian
Fan translation for floppy version

Issues fixed

No keyboard input in menus

Most keyboard input is disabled in mouse mode; these steps switch to keyboard mode, allowing the game to be fully controlled with a keyboard.
Full keyboard input is also useful if you are wanting to play with a controller (use the DOSBox Mapper to change key assignments).
Change input device[citation needed]
  1. At the main menu go to Configuration.
  2. Change Input Device to Keyboard.
  3. Choose Save to save your changes. Repeat to return to mouse mode.

Audio popping in PC speaker mode

The Steam version already includes this fix.[4]
Use Custom DosBox[5]
  1. Download Custom DosBox.
  2. Extract to the game installation folder, replacing the existing DOSBOX folder and its files when prompted.
  3. Edit the DOSBox configuration file.
  4. Find the line pcspeaker=true
  5. Add the line wizpopfix=7
  6. Save your changes and close the file.

Other information

API

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

System requirements

DOS
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) DOS 3.x
Processor (CPU) 10 MHz
System memory (RAM) 640k
Hard disk drive (HDD)
Video card (GPU) 256-color VGA/MCGA or EGA
Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP, Vista, 7, 8
Processor (CPU) 1.8 GHz
System memory (RAM) 512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 2 GB
Video card (GPU) DirectX 9.0c compatible
macOS (OS X)
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) Leopard 10.5
Processor (CPU) 1.0 GHz
System memory (RAM) 512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 128 MB
Video card (GPU) 3D graphics card or onboard graphics compatible with OpenGL
Linux
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
Processor (CPU) 1.0 GHz
System memory (RAM) 512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 128 MB
Video card (GPU) OpenGL accelerated card or onboard graphics
Additional libsound1.2 and libnet1.2 packages may be required on Linux.

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).

References