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Subject: Re: Getting Wizardry 8 graohics to work
Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2025 15:03:26 -0600
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Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Mar 2024 19:38:03 -0500, Lane Larson
> <lnlarson@stoat.inhoin.edu> wrote:
> 
>> Maybe you are familiar with the intricacies of getting [the graphics of]
>> Wizardry 8 to work.  I'm looking for anyone who has encountered this
>> problem.  It works on one computer but not the other...  Maybe it's
>> something in the Setup.  I suppose I could see if I can try all the
>> options.  Please tell me if you are familiar with making it work.  I
>> have a long ways to go before I need this, but I would like to set it
>> up.  I want to enjoy the entire W6-8 trilogy.
> 
> This Steam forum post has a variety of suggestions:
> https://steamcommunity.com/app/245450/discussions/0/4300445879340794145/
> 
> 
> including removing the glide2x.dll file found in the game directory
> (and then choosing Dx7 as the renderer), and installing the v1.28 fan
> patch
> 
> Of course, these are specifically hints for the Steam version and may
> not work with the original retail version that came on CD-ROM (then
> again, they might).
> 
> Still, it's a starting point.
> 
> There's a whole era of games - mostly from '95 to 2005 - that are
> becoming increasingly difficult to run on modern systems - partly
> because of underlying hardware changes, or because of significant
> changes in what the OS allows applications to do, or because of how
> invasive old-school copy-protection was - and "Wizardry 8" slots right
> into that era of gaming. Sadly, it's too often left up to the fans to
> get the games running on modern systems, even though the publishers
> are still selling those titles.
> 
> 
> 
What it seems to be is to set all the value to the defaults and it 
worked but now I'm having an issue with the cutscenes (they've always 
been fragile).  If I can just get two seconds into it I can escape 
through it.  However, it's crashing right when I import my game.   But 
anyways, those earlier barriers to launch were because of a mismatch in 
the settings that's usually resolved by reinstalling or also by the 
reset to defaults option there.   My suggestion is not to try to make 
much sense of the settings because they are from 1997.