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Wizardry Gold

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For the original DOS game, see Wizardry: Crusaders of the Dark Savant.

Wizardry Gold
Wizardry Gold cover
Developers
Sir-Tech
Windows Media Interactive Studios
Mac OS (Classic) Media Interactive Studios
Publishers
Retail Sir-Tech
Digital (2013-2022) Gamepot
Digital (2013-present) Nightdive Studios
Digital (2022-present) Drecom Co.
Release dates
Windows May 28, 1996
Mac OS (Classic) 1996
macOS (OS X) November 15, 2013
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Turn-based
Perspectives First-person
Genres RPG
Themes Fantasy, Sci-fi
Series Wizardry
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Wizardry Gold is a Windows-native remake of the 1992 role-playing game Wizardry: Crusaders of the Dark Savant with updated visuals and narrator voice acting. Some bugs unique to this release were discovered, such as the Diplomacy skill not working.

General information

Characters can be imported from Wizardry: Bane of the Cosmic Forge (see Import characters).
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GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions
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Availability

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 the player imports the 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. Choose Import (BANE) at the main menu.
  2. Change the file type from "Wizardry Savegame" to "All Files" (otherwise the saves will not be listed).
  3. Choose the save file and wait for importing to complete.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\CDDATA.INI[Note 1]
Mac OS (Classic)
macOS (OS X)
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/245430/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\*.SGM[Note 1]
Mac OS (Classic)
macOS (OS X)
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/245430/pfx/[Note 2]
Save files (*.SGM) can be saved anywhere.

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video

General settings.
General settings.

Input

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Controller types

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
On/off only.
Surround sound
Subtitles
All voiced dialogue is subtitled.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Korean
Retail only.[1]

Issues fixed

Game window is too small

The game always runs at a windowed 640x400.
Setting the game to run in 640x480 compatibility mode will make it fit the screen better but makes task-switching very difficult.
Run WIZARD.EXE in 640x480 mode.[citation needed]

Other information

API

ExecutablePPC16-bit 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Mac OS (Classic)

System requirements

Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 95
Processor (CPU) Intel i486 SX
System memory (RAM) 8 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 10 MB (minimum retail installation)
538 MB (digital distribution)
Video card (GPU) 1 MB of VRAM


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).
  2. 2.0 2.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/245430/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (245430) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References

  1. hardcoregaming101.net - last accessed on 28 May 2023