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Posted April 26, 2020
Hello,

I've recently attempted to use the Wiz8_fix provided by GOG in order to make my game work, but for whatever reason it's been giving me an error message about how Wizardry 8 isn't installed on my machine.

Is there a particular directory that Wizardry 8 has to be installed to to make the program work, or is there a way to make the program recognize that Wizardry 8 really is installed?
Posted May 08, 2020
I've got the same issue, game just wont launch no matter what, the fix program just says its not installed, am running it on admin mode.
Posted May 10, 2020
Same here. This is incredibly frustrating.

Edit: I got it to "work". It didn't do anything.
Post edited May 10, 2020 by OneMagpie
Posted May 10, 2020
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OneMagpie: Same here. This is incredibly frustrating.

Edit: I got it to "work". It didn't do anything.
Oh, you did? How did you get it to work? It may or may not do anything, but it might be useful to reference for anyone else looking to solve this problem.
Posted May 10, 2020
Yeah, sorry about that. There's this post here:
gog.com/forum/wizardry_series/wizardry_8_predefined_characters/post3

with a download link to that poster's saves, copy that into your directory and run the fix exe and it'll run properly.

For some reason the GOG version is missing the "Saves" folder, so the wiz8_fix.exe never detects it as being installed. You'd think they'd catch that...

In any case I'm so frustrated I'm in the middle of setting up a virtual machine to try to get it to work.
Posted May 11, 2020
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OneMagpie: Yeah, sorry about that. There's this post here:
gog.com/forum/wizardry_series/wizardry_8_predefined_characters/post3

with a download link to that poster's saves, copy that into your directory and run the fix exe and it'll run properly.

For some reason the GOG version is missing the "Saves" folder, so the wiz8_fix.exe never detects it as being installed. You'd think they'd catch that...

In any case I'm so frustrated I'm in the middle of setting up a virtual machine to try to get it to work.
Thanks for the tip; unfortunately, the Wiz8_fix still didn't recognize my copy of Wizardry 8, even after I put in the extra files into the game folder.

It's the most frustrating thing. I actually installed a copy of of the game via Steam earlier today, and it actually worked for a good hour or two. Once I quit out of it, it just stopped working and I can't start it again. So I know that my computer can run the game just fine, it's just a matter of some glitch in the code somewhere.
Posted May 11, 2020
I managed to get my virtual machine running last night and it plays it like a dream. There's some very small micro-stuttering but it's honestly not that big of a deal, so I'll outline the steps here in case anyone wants to give it a go and they didn't know how to get one running.

This isn't really a fix, this is the biggest workaround ever, but it works.

GOG won't let me post links yet so you'll need to copypaste them into your browser. Sorry!

1: Get VMWare player here:
vmware.com/products/workstation-player/workstation-player-evaluation.html

2: Get a Windows XP bootable iso file. I got one at the link below, but if you don't trust it I think there's one on internetarchive.org, and a few other websites too.
softsfreak.com/download-windows-xp-sp3-bootable-iso.html

3: Make a new virtual machine in VMware Player. Set it to Windows XP Professional and select the iso as the boot disk.
You should leave the specs alone (CPUs, RAM, etc.) until later as I've found messing with them here can break it sometimes.

4: Start the VM and install windows.

5: Once you have your shiny new (or old) Windows XP machine running, go to the top left of the window, and go to Player > Manage > Install VMWare Tools. After that, restart the VM. If you want to change the specs of your VM, now's a good time, just turn it off, edit them, and turn it back on.

6: Go to GOG on your normal pc, go to Wizardry 8, Downloads/Extras or whatever it's called, and download the backup setup.exe. Once that's finished it'll be in the !Downloads folder in you Wizardry 8 directory. Drag that onto the desktop of your VM and it'll copy it over.


7: Install the game, and play.
Post edited May 11, 2020 by OneMagpie
Posted May 11, 2020
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OneMagpie: I managed to get my virtual machine running last night and it plays it like a dream. There's some very small micro-stuttering but it's honestly not that big of a deal, so I'll outline the steps here in case anyone wants to give it a go and they didn't know how to get one running.

This isn't really a fix, this is the biggest workaround ever, but it works.

GOG won't let me post links yet so you'll need to copypaste them into your browser. Sorry!

1: Get VMWare player here:
vmware.com/products/workstation-player/workstation-player-evaluation.html

2: Get a Windows XP bootable iso file. I got one at the link below, but if you don't trust it I think there's one on internetarchive.org, and a few other websites too.
softsfreak.com/download-windows-xp-sp3-bootable-iso.html

3: Make a new virtual machine in VMware Player. Set it to Windows XP Professional and select the iso as the boot disk.
You should leave the specs alone (CPUs, RAM, etc.) until later as I've found messing with them here can break it sometimes.

4: Start the VM and install windows.

5: Once you have your shiny new (or old) Windows XP machine running, go to the top left of the window, and go to Player > Manage > Install VMWare Tools. After that, restart the VM. If you want to change the specs of your VM, now's a good time, just turn it off, edit them, and turn it back on.

6: Go to GOG on your normal pc, go to Wizardry 8, Downloads/Extras or whatever it's called, and download the backup setup.exe. Once that's finished it'll be in the !Downloads folder in you Wizardry 8 directory. Drag that onto the desktop of your VM and it'll copy it over.

7: Install the game, and play.
Wow, thanks for posting this. I'm going to try and see if I can somehow rig Wizardry 8 into running some other way, but I'll be sure to keep this in mind if all else fails.
Posted May 11, 2020
No problem, best of luck!
Posted May 11, 2020
It is definitely an OS issue, the game just runs fine on previous windows versions without the gog fix,
or e.g. on a machine running win 10 if it has not been forced into a state that cant handle the game via redmonts updates.

"... I put in the extra files into the game folder ...."
Just in case, the files go into wiz8Installdir\saves\characters,
if true the crucial thing will be the presence of the folders, not the character files
Posted May 11, 2020
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townltu: It is definitely an OS issue, the game just runs fine on previous windows versions without the gog fix,
or e.g. on a machine running win 10 if it has not been forced into a state that cant handle the game via redmonts updates.

"... I put in the extra files into the game folder ...."
Just in case, the files go into wiz8Installdir\saves\characters,
if true the crucial thing will be the presence of the folders, not the character files
I installed the Saves folder into my main Wizardry 8 directory, yes; the fix should, so far as I can tell, recognize my game and patch it, but so far it still can't seem to recognize it. I'm not sure if I'm missing something, but everything looks normal.
Posted May 12, 2020
Hey hey people, I found an easier fix than going through the trouble of using a VM to run Wizardry8, this is just what worked for me on windows 10 and took the least amount of setup to actually play the game after I spent well over 3 hours trying to actually run the game.

Go to your where you've installed GoG launcher and find your games folder and open Wizardry8 folder and in there follow this:

1. run your 3DSetup file, use OpenGL and 800x600 with Miles Fast 2D Positional Audio, and click apply.

2. Open your 3DVideo file with note pad and make sure it says the following below this, *NOTE* if you have higher resolution than me then put in your computer's default native resolution instead of 1920x1080 such as

OpenGL
1920
1080
32
Miles Fast 2D Positional Audio

Save the file and close it.

3. Run nglide_config, in here I leave everything to default except Screen resolution which I set to my native resolution and I turn off 3Dfx logo splash screen, it's just the ad they put in that shows at the beginning for the long-gone Vodoo graphics card. Apply and close it.

4. Right-click on the Wiz8.exe and go to properties, go to compatibility, then tick Run this program in compatibility mode for:
select the drop-down box and use Windows XP (Service Pack 3).
select Apply and close it.

Launch the game and enjoy hopefully. Hope this helps!
Post edited May 12, 2020 by slyeel
Posted May 12, 2020
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slyeel: Hey hey people, I found an easier fix than going through the trouble of using a VM to run Wizardry8, this is just what worked for me on windows 10 and took the least amount of setup to actually play the game after I spent well over 3 hours trying to actually run the game.

Go to your where you've installed GoG launcher and find your games folder and open Wizardry8 folder and in there follow this:

1. run your 3DSetup file, use OpenGL and 800x600 with Miles Fast 2D Positional Audio, and click apply.

2. Open your 3DVideo file with note pad and make sure it says the following below this, *NOTE* if you have higher resolution than me then put in your computer's default native resolution instead of 1920x1080 such as

OpenGL
1920
1080
32
Miles Fast 2D Positional Audio

Save the file and close it.

3. Run nglide_config, in here I leave everything to default except Screen resolution which I set to my native resolution and I turn off 3Dfx logo splash screen, it's just the ad they put in that shows at the beginning for the long-gone Vodoo graphics card. Apply and close it.

4. Right-click on the Wiz8.exe and go to properties, go to compatibility, then tick Run this program in compatibility mode for:
select the drop-down box and use Windows XP (Service Pack 3).
select Apply and close it.

Launch the game and enjoy hopefully. Hope this helps!
I tried it, but it didn't work. Much appreciate the help, though.
Posted May 12, 2020
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slyeel: Hey hey people, I found an easier fix than going through the trouble of using a VM to run Wizardry8, this is just what worked for me on windows 10 and took the least amount of setup to actually play the game after I spent well over 3 hours trying to actually run the game.

Go to your where you've installed GoG launcher and find your games folder and open Wizardry8 folder and in there follow this:

1. run your 3DSetup file, use OpenGL and 800x600 with Miles Fast 2D Positional Audio, and click apply.

2. Open your 3DVideo file with note pad and make sure it says the following below this, *NOTE* if you have higher resolution than me then put in your computer's default native resolution instead of 1920x1080 such as

OpenGL
1920
1080
32
Miles Fast 2D Positional Audio

Save the file and close it.

3. Run nglide_config, in here I leave everything to default except Screen resolution which I set to my native resolution and I turn off 3Dfx logo splash screen, it's just the ad they put in that shows at the beginning for the long-gone Vodoo graphics card. Apply and close it.

4. Right-click on the Wiz8.exe and go to properties, go to compatibility, then tick Run this program in compatibility mode for:
select the drop-down box and use Windows XP (Service Pack 3).
select Apply and close it.

Launch the game and enjoy hopefully. Hope this helps!
Yeah I tried pretty much everything and this was one of the first things I tried. Using a VM really was the last resort. Hopefully this post helps people though!
Posted June 17, 2020
The installation issue with the fix seems to be caused by GOG's change in registry naming convention since it's release. This can be worked around by using REGEDIT to copy the values from

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\GOG.com\Games\1207659230

to

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\GOG.com\GOGWIZARDRY8

This will let it complete the fixing process successfully. That said, I haven't seen it doing much more than poking around in the registry, but hey, at the very least it now claims to be doing something.
Post edited June 17, 2020 by soosgjr
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