Ultima V Lazarus on Steam version

[lilbuddyotis]

Okay, so during the recent Summer Sale, I noticed the Dungeon Siege series was on sale. Since one of the reasons I'm getting seriously back into gaming was to play childhood favorite Ulima V via the new Lazarus mod for DS1. However, I cannot for the life of me figure out how to get it to work nor can I make heads or tails out of the half-dozen or so "how to's" I found online. Most seem be a few years old and nothing suggested seems to have any viability on Windows 10.

Once I run the install and click on either the desktop shortcut or the start menu shortcut, I get an error message that says the DungeonSiege.exe has been changed or moved and the shortcut won't work properly. It also asks if I want to delete the shortcut.

What am I missing? Any help would be most appreciated and thanks in advance.

[captxunderpants]

You need to modify the shortcut created by the Ultima V Lazarus install to point to the proper path of your Dungeon Siege exe. The shortcut created defaults to C:\DungeonSiege.exe which probably is not correct. I am running it in Windows 8 with no problems, not sure of 10. If you need more specific help, let me know

[lilbuddyotis]

More specific help would be most appreciated. So what I have to change is made by the Lazarus installer or in the original Dungeon Siege install, or vice versa? Thanks.

[captxunderpants]

You're just changing the path in the shortcut that is created when you install the Lazarus Ultima V.

To find the path where the Dungeon Siege program is installed, go to your Library in Steam, right-click the Dungeon Siege entry and pick Properties
in the Properties dialogue, click the Local Files tab
Click Browse Local Files button.
It should open a Windows explorer where the DungeonSiege.exe file is located.
You want to copy that path.

Mine for example is: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Dungeon Siege 1\DungeonSiege.exe.

Now find the "Ultima V- Lazarus v1.20" shortcut that the Lazarus install created, right click it and pick Properties.
Open the Shortcut tab, and look at the text in the Target box.

It probably has something like:
"C:\Dungeon Siege 1\DungeonSiege.exe" map_paths=!"c:\Lazarus\resources" res_paths="c:\Lazarus\resources"

With my example path above, I change the short cut to this:
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\Dungeon Siege 1\DungeonSiege.exe" map_paths=!"c:\Lazarus\resources" res_paths="c:\Lazarus\resources"

The quotes are important becuase the paths have spaces in them.

[lilbuddyotis]

Hey, just wanted to let you know that it worked. Frustration and some personal issues made me give up on making this work way back when. However, I fiddled with it last night and made it work. So, thank you kindly.

[SeriousCCIE]

does anyone know of a modernized ultima 3 or ultima 4? Modernized can mean anything that appears to run more smoothly on something besides floppy diskettes.

[lilbuddyotis]

Good Old Games - gog.com - has Ultimas 1-9 for sale (plus both Underworlds and Worlds of Adventure games), all for less than six bucks. One-Two-Three are bundled and I want to say they're the original Apple versions. Four is free on several places on the net, including official Ultima sites (different folks own different aspects of the game, from Origin to EA to Richard Garriot). There's a free-to-play, donate-to-finish version of Ultima III, which includes a graphical upgrade that swaps out the original stick figures with the more Japanese stylesed versions from the NES version. However, I can't for the life of me figure out where it is and I've deleted my copy.

[GandGolf]

Will the steam version allow Lazarus to be run in a window at resolutions higher than 800 X 600?

[FireDrakeZ]

Originally posted by captxunderpants:

You're just changing the path in the shortcut that is created when you install the Lazarus Ultima V.

To find the path where the Dungeon Siege program is installed, go to your Library in Steam, right-click the Dungeon Siege entry and pick Properties
in the Properties dialogue, click the Local Files tab
Click Browse Local Files button.
It should open a Windows explorer where the DungeonSiege.exe file is located.
You want to copy that path.

Mine for example is: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Dungeon Siege 1\DungeonSiege.exe.

Now find the "Ultima V- Lazarus v1.20" shortcut that the Lazarus install created, right click it and pick Properties.
Open the Shortcut tab, and look at the text in the Target box.

It probably has something like:
"C:\Dungeon Siege 1\DungeonSiege.exe" map_paths=!"c:\Lazarus\resources" res_paths="c:\Lazarus\resources"

With my example path above, I change the short cut to this:
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\Dungeon Siege 1\DungeonSiege.exe" map_paths=!"c:\Lazarus\resources" res_paths="c:\Lazarus\resources"

The quotes are important becuase the paths have spaces in them.

I am currently playing Dungeon Siege and found out you can also play the Ultima V and VI remakes using the DS engine. Thanks to your instructions I can hopefully make this work.

[sircharleythecat]

Can't do the pathing. It reads "C:/Program Files" as "C/:Program" which it can't find. I fear that changing Program Files to Program would mess up the pathing for everything else. Is there a way to go around this and path it properly?

[Genesis]

Or you can use drag-and-drop archives I made to remove the hassle of editing paths or troubleshooting resources conflicting with each other.

https://github.com/GenesisFR/DS1TroubleshootingGuide#install-mageworld-the-lands-of-hyperborea-and-the-ultima-56-remakes-on-the-steam-version

[sircharleythecat]

I must have done something wrong. Couldn't download any patch since the only availiable DS was DS3, so no patches for DS1. And I reinstalled Lazarus (instructions told me to remove it, and then to install it.I only had the old installer) and the result was the same. The shortcut is sterile, so I can't run the mod.

But thanks for your time. It was appreciated.

[Genesis]

Originally posted by sircharleythecat:

I must have done something wrong. Couldn't download any patch since the only availiable DS was DS3, so no patches for DS1. And I reinstalled Lazarus (instructions told me to remove it, and then to install it.I only had the old installer) and the result was the same. The shortcut is sterile, so I can't run the mod.

But thanks for your time. It was appreciated.

No clue what you just wrote. What patch? The shortcut created by the mod installer may be broken.

[sircharleythecat]

Yes, it's broken.

[Genesis]

Originally posted by sircharleythecat:

Yes, it's broken.

Well, if you had read the info in the link I posted 2 weeks ago, not only will you have fixed the problem already but the game would have been running out of the box.

[sircharleythecat]

I probably did it wrong then. Still broken.