Anonymous edits have been disabled on the wiki. If you want to contribute please login or create an account.

Hexx: Heresy of the Wizard

From PCGamingWiki, the wiki about fixing PC games
Hexx: Heresy of the Wizard
Hexx: Heresy of the Wizard cover
Developers
TAG
Publishers
Psygnosis
Release dates
DOS 1994
Hexx: Heresy of the Wizard on Wikipedia

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Prompts for answers from manual, code wheel, etc.
Prompts for symbols in the manual.
DOS
A demo is available.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
DOS <path-to-game>\HEXX.CFG
In-game settings are stored in save.

Save game data location

System Location
DOS <path-to-game>\HEXX*.SAV
Saves are HEXX1.SAV to HEXX5.SAV.

Video

General settings.
General settings.

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
320x200 only.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
For DOSBox toggle with Alt+ Enter (see the glossary page for other workarounds).
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)
For DOSBox use an unofficial build (see the glossary page for other workarounds).
60 FPS
120+ FPS

Input

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
For DOSBox use the DOSBox Mapper (see the glossary page for other workarounds).
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
For DOSBox use the DOSBox Mapper (see the glossary page for other workarounds).
Controller types

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
On/off only.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Everything is text-based.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
For DOSBox change the priority background value in the DOSBox configuration file.
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English

Issues fixed

Crash/freeze in DOSBox

Official builds of DOSBox will freeze at a black screen or crash with a CPU error ("Exit to error: CPU: GRP5: illegalCall7") when certain cutscenes are played during gameplay.[1]
Use a DOSBox SVN build[2]

Use a DOSBox SVN build.

Use hexxfix[3]

Extract WIZ.COM into the Hexx installation folder.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
DOS video modes

System requirements

DOS
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 3.3
Processor (CPU) 386 20 MHz
System memory (RAM) 800 KB EMS
Hard disk drive (HDD) 3 MB
Video card (GPU) 256 Color VGA/MCGA


References

  1. VOGONS • View topic - Hexx: Heresy of the Wizard is BROKEN (Dosbox) - last accessed on 9 June 2023
  2. Verified by User:Garrett on September 24, 2017
    Tested with the latest EmuCR and DOSBox-X builds (both play the cutscene correctly).
  3. VOGONS • View topic - Hexx: Heresy of the Wizard is BROKEN (Dosbox) - last accessed on 9 June 2023