Ultima IX Ascension

[GZFant]

Well, after so many years I pulled the box back out to load it up and give it one last try.

When I first bought the game I was computer illiterate and had no idea the game would run so poorly on hardware that didn't support "glide." After becoming aware so many years later, I was curious if anyone knew of a patch or something that might make this game run smoothly without an old vid card that supported glide?

Thanks!!

 

[Engraver]

Check out something like this:

http://www.smiff.clara.net/utilities/wrappers/index.htm

 

[QuantumPion]

When I first bought the game I had a geforce 2 ultra, which was state of the art at the time. The game was totally unplayable. A few months later, Origin mailed me a replacement install CD (I guess there were so many patches and bug fixes they had to entirely repress the thing). Not much help. A year or two later I figured I'd give it another shot, using I think a geforce 5900 ultra, it ran basically just as poor as before. Even if you had SLI 8800 gtx's it would run like crap, the whole thing was a travesty.

 

[Bateluer]

Ultima 9 was a custerfvck. Their publisher ripped the game from the womb, shut down the support sites and declared the game 'finished'. There's a restoration project in work to recreate U9 using the Morrowind engine, they go by the name Ultima 9 Redemption. Somewhere, there's a joke site about the adventures of the amazing barrel head. The avatar's head would get stuck in a barrel and players would take screen shots of him in various places.