2011-01-18 New U9BB.EXE provides a fogless experience!

by Iceblade · Published January 17, 2011 · Updated October 19, 2024

Finally, after many many hours of intensive research for more than one year, I can present Beautiful Britannia in a new, completely fogless experience, on any system up to Windows 7!

I found out, how to modify the EXE file to use a particular “blue ambient mode”, which is used for Map.40 (Ambrosia) by default, now for map.9 (Britannia overworld). While Ambrosia now has the standard “black dungeon theme”, Britannia gets maybe the most important improvement possible!

#12: Britain – View from LB’s balcony (2010)

The latest “Awesome screen” (#12) really shows the effect, when playing “Beautiful Britannia 2011 R1” using the following “Super HQ” settings for options.ini:

[Performance]
FarClippingPlaneDistance=14000
MiddleClippingPlaneDistance=10000
Use16BitTextures=1
MaxObjCullSize=4
CullStartDist=3000
UseCompressedTextures=0
HiResSky=1
DeadPoolLifeTime=6000
DeadPoolSize=3200
MaxMeshesPerFrame=1000
MeshCacheDeadTime=1500
MeshCacheMemorySize=256000000
MaxInstancesPerFrame=2000
UseTerrainDetailLevels=0
[Lighting]
LightQuality=3
[Game]
LODScale=8.0

My system (Intel Core i5 3,33 Ghz, ATI Raedon HD 5670, Windows 7 Pro) can render this scenery in 25+ FPS, even with 4xSSAA and 8xAF activated (which both are recommended, if your Hareware supports them)!

The package containing the modified EXE file (named U9BB.EXE) is available for download on the Beautiful Britannia project site on Ultima:Aiera. (2024: Ultima Codex now)

Simply unzip the package into your Ultima IX install directory so that U9BB.EXE is located within the same directory as U9.EXE then. After that start U9BB.EXE…

…and believe!

The new EXE works with any savegame of every version of Ultima IX or Beautiful Britannia.

Regardless of whether you playing Beautiful Britannia or original Ultima IX, get this dowload now, it’s simply MUST HAVE!