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MageSlayer

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MageSlayer
MageSlayer cover
Developers
Raven Software
Publishers
GT Interactive
Engines
Vampire
Release dates
Windows September 24, 1997
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Top-down view
Controls Direct control
Genres Action
Themes Fantasy
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MageSlayer is a singleplayer and multiplayer top-down view action game.

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
DRM details are not known
Windows

Essential improvements

Patches

1.01

Peixoto's patch

  • Gets the installer working on 64-bit systems
  • Gets hardware mode working and in high resolution. SSAA is also possible
  • Better support for Xinput gamepads
  • Better CD audio emulation

Unsupported screen mode on launch

You may find the default video mode on launch is not supported by your monitor
Tested under Windows 98 SE
Configure resolution
  1. Create a file called userdef.cfg into <path-to-game>\Mage.
  2. Add the following line vid_setmodebydesc "D3D 800x600x16" (adjust resolution/color depth as needed)
  3. Save the file and launch the game

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\Mage\[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows

Video

Input

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Red Book CD audio
On Windows, CD music might not play correctly; see the troubleshooting guide for solutions.
General MIDI audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English

Network

Multiplayer types

Connection types

Other information

API

Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 95
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium 75 MHz
System memory (RAM) 16 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)
Video card (GPU) 1 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