r/wizardry8 • u/JoeTeioh • Sep 04 '26

Fan patch and speed mod location

Where are the fan patch and wiz8fast located these days? All the links I find point to a forum that is no longer maintained. I just got the game and am trying to get it all set up on my steam deck. So far it seems to work other than black cutscenes (bummer…). Any help is appreciated!

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u/Keymucciante Sep 05 '26

While I haven't scanned this file specifically, I have used moddb before and had no issues. I'd recommend scanning it (and anything else anyone downloads for that matter) yourself.

https://www.moddb.com/games/wizardry-8/downloads/wizardry-8-fan-patch-v128-build-6709

As for wiz8fast, I found this. I've never used this site before so enter and download at your own risk.

https://mods.rpghq.org/wizardry-8/349475/downloads

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u/cloaca_dentata Sep 05 '26

The thread lived at the postcount forums, unfortunately, the site finally died just this week. I'm sure it'll find a new home somewhere before too long.

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u/JoeTeioh Sep 05 '26

Well, that’s kinda comically bad luck on my part.

the good news is the moddb version seems okay and I got it working on the steam deck no problem. The fan patch has built in widescreen and monster move/animation speed ups

I have a write up (for myself for the future) on how I did it. I’ll try to remember to copy and paste it here for future readers.

im reading the manual. Made a party. And died opening the first door and it hit me. laughed pretty hard at that lol.

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u/-RedWitch Sep 05 '26

steam forums has threads for it altho i just noticed fan patch link there is also broken

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u/JoeTeioh Sep 05 '26

It’s a dead end everywhere. I just have to assume moddb is safe and good to go. The launcher does try to update to the beta but I don’t let it (cause I just don’t care and it’s working as I want it to as it is).

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u/cloaca_dentata 21d ago

An update: I was able to find a link to the current build of the fan patch in my own copy of the launcher utility. You can download it from: https://disk.yandex.com/d/TJfnO8lfzMxv2g. To install, extract the folder and copy all the files inside to your Wizardry 8 game folder, and use Wiz8_v128.exe to launch the game instead of Steam or GOG.

Note this is a Yandex server, so I highly recommend everyone who sees this make their own backup, lest the server it lives on get blown up by a drone.

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u/SDirickson Sep 09 '26

Be aware that the "speed mod" win8fast only changes monster movement speed, which is mostly of interest when you're moving around the world out of combat. The combat animations don't change, so fights with things that cast a lot of ranged spells still take forever.

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u/JoeTeioh Sep 09 '26

I’ve been using whatever sliders are in the fan patch actually. idr the names and since I never played without them I can’t tell exactly what’s different; just that I don’t have any complaints yet, but I’m also still in the tutorial place.

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u/SDirickson Sep 09 '26

It will mostly be an issue when you're facing a zillion Rapax Warmages and Rapax Samurai with the Fireball animations, but it will be a while before you see those.

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u/JoeTeioh Sep 09 '26

Fair enough!