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== Input settings ==
 
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Arcanum: Of Steamworks & Magick Obscura
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Developers
Troika Games
Publishers
Sierra Entertainment
Activision
Release dates
Windows August 21, 2001
Arcanum: Of Steamworks & Magick Obscura on Wikipedia

General information

Terra Arcanum Forum - a large fansite
GOG.com Community Discussions
GOG.com Support Page
Wine AppDB Page

Availability

Template:Availability Table

Improvements

Patches

Most patches were hosted on fansite Terra Arcanum, but due to unreliability, have been mirrored on to this PCGamingWiki Forum thread.

Official Patch v1.0.7.4

Not required for GOG.com release.

Unofficial Patch v091225 by Drog Black Tooth

Highly recommended bug fixes and restored content.

High Resolution Patch v1.1a by Drog Black Tooth

Allows any user-set resolution, UI tweaks, larger fonts.

High quality townmaps

Adds high quality townmaps to the game, along with numerous bug fixes for the map system.

High quality music

Replaces the 128kbit/s music with a 320kbit/s version from a prerelease demo disc.

Game data

Template:Game Location Table

Save game cloud syncing

Template:Save Game Cloud Syncing

Video settings

Template:Video settings

Windowed

Instructions

Input settings

Template:Input settings

Audio settings

Template:Audio settings

Issues fixed

Files not installed properly

Recommended to avoid default installation directory, 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.
Instructions

Graphical issues

Instructions
Instructions

System requirements

Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 95
Processor (CPU)
System memory (RAM)
Hard disk drive (HDD) 1.2 GB
Video card (GPU) VGA Card w/ 8 MB RAM