Sanity: Aiken's Artifact
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Developers | |
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Monolith Productions | |
Publishers | |
Fox Interactive | |
Engines | |
LithTech 2.0 | |
Release dates | |
Windows | September 26, 2000 |
Warnings
Availability
Essential improvements
Peixoto's patch
- Gets the game running properly on windows 10. Forced resolution allows high resolution without shrinking the HUD\Menus, super sampling anti aliasing is also possible
- Gets the installer running on 64 bit windows
Game data
Configuration file(s) location
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>\LITHTECH\autoexec.cfg[Note 2] |
Save game data location
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>\save\[Note 2] |
Video
Graphics feature | State | Notes | |
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Widescreen resolution | |||
Multi-monitor | |||
Ultra-widescreen | |||
4K Ultra HD | |||
Field of view (FOV) | |||
Windowed | Use dgVoodoo 2. | ||
Borderless fullscreen windowed | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
Anisotropic filtering (AF) | |||
Anti-aliasing (AA) | Can be forced with dgVoodoo 2. | ||
Vertical sync (Vsync) | Can be forced off with graphics control panel. | ||
60 FPS | |||
120+ FPS |
Input
Keyboard and mouse | State | Notes |
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Remapping | ||
Mouse acceleration | ||
Mouse sensitivity | ||
Mouse input in menus | ||
Mouse Y-axis inversion | ||
Controller | ||
Controller support |
Controller types |
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Audio
Audio feature | State | Notes |
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Separate volume controls | ||
Surround sound | ||
Subtitles | ||
Closed captions | ||
Mute on focus lost |
Localizations
Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
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English |
Issues fixed
Installing on 64-bit systems
- This game comes with a 16-bit InstallShield installer, which won't work on modern systems.
Use 32-bit installer[citation needed] |
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Other information
API
Technical specs | Supported | Notes |
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Direct3D | 7 | |
OpenGL |
Executable | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
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Windows |
System requirements
Windows | ||
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Minimum | Recommended | |
Operating system (OS) | 95 | 98, ME, 2000 |
Processor (CPU) | Intel Pentium II 300 MHz | Intel Pentium II 450 MHz |
System memory (RAM) | 64 MB | 96 MB |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 400 MB | 650 MB |
Video card (GPU) | 8 MB of VRAM OpenGL 1.0 compatible DirectX 7.0a compatible | 16 MB of VRAM |
Notes
- ↑ SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows 10[1] or Windows 11 and is disabled by default on Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1 when the KB3086255 update is installed.[2]
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below
%PROGRAMFILES%
,%PROGRAMDATA%
, or%WINDIR%
might be redirected to%LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore
on Windows Vista and later (more details).
References
- ↑ Not Loading in Windows 10; this will break thousands of - Microsoft Community - last accessed on 2017-01-16
- ↑ Microsoft - MS15-097: Description of the security update for the graphics component in Windows: September 8, 2015 - last accessed on 2018-02-16