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Posted December 28, 2012
Hi,

I just bought the complete Ultima series during the Christmas sales (I've heard nothing but good things on this series). And so far, I have completed Ultima I. But the Ultima Patcher (that I used for all the games) is giving me problems for some reasons.

- Ultima 2: The Upgrade patch doesn't seems to work. I still get the same old 4-colors graphics (that wouldn't be too bad normally, but I wonder if the other game-breaking bugs got fixed too). The toggle button doesn't seems to work and neither does the shortcuts.
- Ultima 3: Crashes to the desktop as soon as Dosbox starts
- Ultima 5: The patch seems not to install at all. The music is still silent and even the patcher shows "not installed".

My computer is running Windows 7 32-bits and all of my GOG games are installed on a different partition (so there's no problems with Program Files).

Thanks in advance.
This question / problem has been solved by DCTimage
Posted December 28, 2012
yeah with the new installers GOG changed the way they do their DOSbox configs where as before they had 1 config file now they have two one for the usual settings and a second one with the launch commands and such and PIX seems to not have updated the patcher to work with this change.

Off the top of my head for Ultima's 2,3, 4 and 5 you need to load a different excutable then the one the games normally use/the one gog uses

so when you install the patch you must now go and open in notepad the files marked dosbox<game name>_Single.conf (so for ultima 2 you must open DosboxULTIMA2_Single.conf) and then change the name of the executable it's told to load

Now when you open the file it should look something like this:
[autoexec]
# Lines in this section will be run at startup.


mount C "..\Ultima2"
C:
cls
UltimaII.exe -this is the line that needs to be changed
exit

So for
Ultima 2 - change UltimaII.EXE to Ultima2.com
Ultima 3 - change from Ultima.com to Ultima3.com
Ultima 4- no change needed
Ultima 5 - change from Ultima.exe to Ultima5.com Now if this doesn't work(you don't hear any music) then you may have to run setm and select a diffrent sound card and/or run u5cfg and check to see if you have music enabled. Both are found within your Ultima 5 folder(pending you installed the patch, note that Pix's patcher currently will not register it as installed) from within windows to get it to work though
Post edited December 29, 2012 by DCT
Posted December 29, 2012
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DCT: yeah with the new installers GOG changed the way they do their DOSbox configs where as before they had 1 config file now they have two one for the usual settings and a second one with the launch commands and such and PIX seems to not have updated the patcher to work with this change.

Off the top of my head for Ultima's 2,3, 4 and 5 you need to load a different excutable then the one the games normally use/the one gog uses

so when you install the patch you must now go and open in notepad the files marked dosbox<game name>_Single.conf (so for ultima 2 you must open DosboxULTIMA2_Single.conf) and then change the name of the executable it's told to load

Now when you open the file it should look something like this:
[autoexec]
# Lines in this section will be run at startup.


mount C "..\Ultima2"
C:
cls
UltimaII.exe -this is the line that needs to be changed
exit

So for
Ultima 2 - change UltimaII.EXE to Ultima2.com
Ultima 3 - change from Ultima.com to Ultima3.com
Ultima 4- no change needed
Ultima 5 - change from Ultima.exe to Ultima5.com Now if this doesn't work(you don't hear any music) then you may have to run setm and select a diffrent sound card and/or run u5cfg and check to see if you have music enabled. Both are found within your Ultima 5 folder(pending you installed the patch, note that Pix's patcher currently will not register it as installed) from within windows to get it to work though
Thanks. It worked.

I wonder if I should contact Pix on this (if that little problem could be fixed in his patcher (look for a GOG conf file and modify it while installing the patch)).
Posted December 29, 2012
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POLE7645: Thanks. It worked.

I wonder if I should contact Pix on this (if that little problem could be fixed in his patcher (look for a GOG conf file and modify it while installing the patch)).
I'd say yes, contact him. He's fairly good about fixing things like this. Just don't start spamming him now though.... :)
Post edited December 29, 2012 by VisElEchNon
Posted January 03, 2013
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POLE7645: Thanks. It worked.

I wonder if I should contact Pix on this (if that little problem could be fixed in his patcher (look for a GOG conf file and modify it while installing the patch)).
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VisElEchNon: I'd say yes, contact him. He's fairly good about fixing things like this. Just don't start spamming him now though.... :)
Someone else had already beat you to it but I've been away for the last week and didn't get chance to look at fixing it until today. I've not quite got the new version ready but I've gone through every game now except Ultima 9 so it's almost there. I'll get it finished off tomorrow evening.
Posted January 04, 2013
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VisElEchNon: I'd say yes, contact him. He's fairly good about fixing things like this. Just don't start spamming him now though.... :)
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Pix: Someone else had already beat you to it but I've been away for the last week and didn't get chance to look at fixing it until today. I've not quite got the new version ready but I've gone through every game now except Ultima 9 so it's almost there. I'll get it finished off tomorrow evening.
You da man Pix! :)
Posted January 04, 2013
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Pix: Someone else had already beat you to it but I've been away for the last week and didn't get chance to look at fixing it until today. I've not quite got the new version ready but I've gone through every game now except Ultima 9 so it's almost there. I'll get it finished off tomorrow evening.
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Shelldrake: You da man Pix! :)
I agree
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