Difference between revisions of "Arcanum: Of Steamworks & Magick Obscura"

Revision as of 07:09, 12 September 2016

Arcanum: Of Steamworks & Magick Obscura
Developers

	Troika Games
Publishers
	Sierra Entertainment
	Activision
Release dates
Windows	August 21, 2001

Contents 1 Availability 2 Essential improvements 2.1 Patches 2.1.1 Official patch 2.1.2 Unofficial patch 2.1.3 High Resolution Patch 3 Game data 3.1 Configuration file(s) location 3.2 Save game data location 3.3 Save game cloud syncing 4 Video settings 4.1 Windowed 5 Input settings 6 Audio settings 7 Issues fixed 7.1 Files not installed properly 7.2 Loading screen freezing 7.3 Graphical issues 8 System requirements 9 Notes 10 References

Key points

Greatly improved experience on newer systems thanks to unofficial mods.

General information

Terra Arcanum Forum - a large fansite

GOG.com Community Discussions

GOG.com Support Page

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail		Disc check.
Amazon.com
GOG.com		Patched to official patch v1.0.7.4.
Steam

Essential improvements

Patches

Official patch

1.0.7.4. Not needed for the GOG.com release

Unofficial patch

Highly improved townmaps and soundtracks (from the vanilla 128kbit/sec to 320 kbit/sec) can be found alongside this patch

Not compatible with older savegames

091225 by Drog Black Tooth. Highly recommended bug fixes.

High Resolution Patch

If you are unable to pan the camera past the edge of the screen with the high resolution patch enabled, add -scrolldist:0 -scrollfps:70 to the target line in the shortcut of the game.

1.1a by Drog Black Tooth. Allows any user-set resolution, UI tweaks, larger fonts.

Game data

Game options

Configuration file(s) location

Template:Game data/row

System	Location
Steam Play (Linux)	<SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/500810/pfx/^{[Note 1]}

Save game data location

Template:Game data/row

System	Location
Steam Play (Linux)	<SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/500810/pfx/^{[Note 1]}

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video settings

Video options

Template:Video settings

Windowed

Instructions

Instructions

Input settings

Template:Input settings

Audio settings

Sound options

Template:Audio settings

Issues fixed

Files not installed properly

Recommended to avoid default installation folder, as this can lead to issues where certain files are not properly installed.

Instructions

Loading screen freezing

Freezing known to happen on systems with multi-core CPUs.^{[citation needed]}

Instructions

Graphical issues

Instructions

Instructions

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum
Operating system (OS)	95
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium II
System memory (RAM)	64 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	1.2 GB
Video card (GPU)	VGA capable Card 8 MB of VRAM

Notes

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1
Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:
- File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data.
- Use Wine's registry editor to access any Windows registry paths.
- The app ID (500810) may differ in some cases.
- Treat backslashes as forward slashes.
- See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.

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 When running the installer, be sure to right-click on the .exe, and select "Run as Administrator".
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-{{Fixbox/fix|Set target field}}
+{{Fixbox/fix|Set target field|ref={{cn|date=September 2016}}}}
 Adding <code>-no3d -doublebuffer</code> to the end of your Arcanum shortcut's "Target" field.
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-{{Fixbox/fix|Rename or delete ddraw.dll}}
+{{Fixbox/fix|Rename or delete ddraw.dll|ref={{cn|date=September 2016}}}}
 Delete or rename <code>ddraw.dll</code>.
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