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Wizardry: Bane of the Cosmic Forge

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Wizardry: Bane of the Cosmic Forge
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Developers
Sir-Tech
Publishers
Retail Sir-Tech
Digital (2013-2022) Gamepot
Digital (2013-present) Nightdive Studios
Digital (2022-present) Drecom Co.
Release dates
DOS 1990
Mac OS (Classic) 1990
Windows (DOSBox) May 23, 2013[1]
macOS (OS X) (DOSBox) September 11, 2013[2]
Linux (DOSBox) September 11, 2013[2]
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Turn-based
Perspectives First-person
Controls Direct control
Genres RPG
Themes Fantasy, Sci-fi
Series Wizardry
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Wizardry: Bane of the Cosmic Forge is a singleplayer first-person RPG game in the Wizardry series.

General information

Otherwise known as Wizardry VI.
Characters cannot be imported from earlier games, unlike most games in the series.
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 (removed for digital versions).
DOS
Mac OS
GOG.com
DRM-free
Pre-packaged with DOSBox.[3] Includes Wizardry: Crusaders of the Dark Savant and Wizardry Gold.
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Steam
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Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux
Digital versions have copy protection bypassed; simply press Enter when prompted.

Essential improvements

Remove audio popping (Windows)

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=6
  6. Save the changes and close the file.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
DOS <path-to-game>\SCENARIO.HDR
Windows <path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)[Note 1]
Mac OS (Classic)
macOS (OS X) <path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)[Note 1]
Linux <path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)[Note 1]
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>\*.DBS
Windows <path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)[Note 1]
Mac OS (Classic)
macOS (OS X) <path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)[Note 1]
Linux <path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

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 and 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
For DOSBox set in the DOSBox configuration file.
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
Full/Soft/Off only.
Surround sound
Subtitles
All speech is text-only.
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
German
Japanese
This translation is done using the Cosmic Forge Editor, which has a feature which dumps the game text into a file that can be machine translated into Japanese (Steps on how to do this).

Issues fixed

No keyboard input indicator in menus

The keyboard input indicator is not shown when in mouse mode; these steps switch to keyboard mode, allowing the indicator to be displayed.
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 mode[citation needed]
  1. At the main menu go to Game Configuration.
  2. Change Input to Keyboard.
  3. Choose Exit to save the changes. Repeat to switch back to mouse mode.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
DOS video modes

Modifications

Cosmic Forge editor for Wizardry 6, 7 and 8 can be used to apply a selection of bug fixes and enhancements.

System requirements

DOS
Minimum
Operating system (OS) DOS
Processor (CPU) IBM/Tandy and 100% compatibles
System memory (RAM) 640K
Hard disk drive (HDD) Required
Video card (GPU) VGA, EGA, MCGA, CGA & Hercules
Mac OS
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) Mac Plus
Processor (CPU)
System memory (RAM) One Meg B/W
Hard disk drive (HDD) Optional
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) 100% OpenGL accelerated card or onboard graphics
Additional libsound1.2 and libnet1.2 packages may be required on Linux.


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 File/folder structure within the installation folder reflects the path(s) listed for DOS game data.

References