Getting Wizardry 8 graohics to work

[Lane Larson]

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.

[Spalls Hurgenson]

On Wed, 13 Mar 2024 19:38:03 -0500, Lane Larson

Post by Lane Larson
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.

[Tahitian pearl]

Post by Spalls Hurgenson
On Wed, 13 Mar 2024 19:38:03 -0500, Lane Larson

Post by Lane Larson
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.

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.