General information
- GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
- GOG.com Support Page
Availability
Monetization
Essential improvements
Patches
- The Ultima Underworld 2 Patch (readme) is needed for floppy disk versions. The CD-ROM and digital versions are already fully patched. An unofficial General MIDI patch is available here.
Run in DOSBox (retail)
- To run correctly in DOSBox, change
cycles=auto to cycles=max.
Package made for owners of the GOG version of Ultima Underworld 1 and 2, it has an easy to use launcher and incorporates community made mods
- Easy to use launcher. Comes with DOSBox Staging, resulting in improved emulation.
- Roland MT-32 support incorporated by default, which means high quality music when compared to Sound Blaster and sound effects that plays properly.
- Provides community made mods like the mouselook patch from Ultima Hacks, a Portuguese translation, a modified
shades.dat, an extraction tool that installs the game if the required GOG file is found on the same directory of the extractor.
- Requires Windows. Does not work on Mac nor Linux. Config files and mod components can still be used.
- Only the
game.gog file is required - just copy it on the same to the same directory where the extraction tool is located that both Ultima Underworld 1 and 2 will be installed.
- The files from the CD-ROM release can be used, but are required to be extracted manually in the required directory, since the extractor cannot do this on its own.
Game data
Save game data location
- The
SAVE1, SAVE2, SAVE3 and SAVE4 folders are save slots I-IV. SAVE0 is temporary storage, not a save.
- In-game settings are stored in each save rather than shared.
Video
- An alternate shades.dat is available here which will increase the overall brightness of the game without destroying it's atmosphere. Use it if you feel the game is too dark.
Input
Audio
| Audio feature |
State |
Notes |
| Separate volume controls |
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On/off only. |
| Surround sound |
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| Subtitles |
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Everything is text-only after the opening cutscene. |
| Closed captions |
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| Mute on focus lost |
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For DOSBox change the priority background value in the DOSBox configuration file. |
| Royalty free audio |
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Localizations
- French, German, Korean and Polish retail versions only have the manuals translated; the game itself is still in English.
| Language |
UI |
Audio |
Sub |
Notes |
| English |
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| Spanish |
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Fan translation by Clan Dlan (authors: L@Zar0, Txibi), download. |
Issues fixed
The GOG.com version's sound is incorrectly configured by default, resulting in misplaced effects such as piano sounds for footsteps.[4]
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Run Game DOS Settings[5]
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- Choose
Game DOS Settings at the menu when starting the game.
- Press C to confirm the hard drive to use.
- Use the keyboard arrow keys to go down to
Sound Blaster Pro, then press ↵ Enter.
- Press ↵ Enter four times to confirm the other default sound settings (these do not need to be changed).
- Press Y to confirm your changes.
- Press any key twice to finish saving the changes.
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Other information
API
| Technical specs |
Supported |
Notes |
| DOS video modes |
VGA |
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Middleware
System requirements
| DOS |
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Minimum |
| Operating system (OS) |
3.3 |
| Processor (CPU) |
IBM or 100% compatible 386SX, 386 or 486 |
| System memory (RAM) |
2 MB with Expanded Memory (EMS) |
| Hard disk drive (HDD) |
11 MB |
| Video card (GPU) |
256-color VGA graphics |
| Windows |
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Minimum |
Recommended |
| Operating system (OS) |
XP, Vista | |
| Processor (CPU) |
1.8 GHz | |
| System memory (RAM) |
512 MB |
1 GB |
| Hard disk drive (HDD) |
48 MB | |
| Video card (GPU) |
DirectX 7 compatible
| DirectX 9 compatible |
| macOS (OS X) |
|
Minimum |
| Operating system (OS) |
10.6.8 (Snow Leopard) or later |
| Processor (CPU) |
Intel Core Duo 2 GHz+ |
| System memory (RAM) |
1 GB |
| Hard disk drive (HDD) |
45 MB |
| Video card (GPU) |
64 MB of VRAM |
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 File/folder structure within the installation folder reflects the path(s) listed for DOS game data. For the GOG.com release, file changes in DOSBox are redirected to
<path-to-game>/cloud_saves/ even if GOG Galaxy is not used (this folder contains all redirected files, so some files in the cloud_saves folder might be temporary files or other files that do not contain saves or settings).
References
