Ultima IV Upgrade Patch

The Ultima IV Upgrade Patch upgrades Ultima IV to 256 color graphics with MIDI support. The patch replaces the tileset, font, game, and cutscene graphics, as well as correcting several conversation bugs within the original .TLK files. Adds command keys to Reload the last saved game and Exit to the OS.

Current Version is 1.3, dated March 9th, 2001.

The patch can be downloaded from Auric's Ultima Moongates.

DOSBox is one way to get the DOS sound drivers working properly.

One serious bug is, that the creator of the patch had been too lazy to make sure, that it can be installed in a DOS-environment, parts of the installer have Windows-code that doesn't work in XP! Thankfull, this can be fixed. Downloading the patched avpatch.exe here and replacing the old one with it, fixes the problem.

Also under DosBox, the game seems to die every time after the character creation... This is another bug. The patch can only work if there is an actual avatar.exe to patch. Fixing this is simple: create an character and save, before patching the game. Now everything should work fine.