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Sacred
Sacred cover
Developers
Ascaron Entertainment
Publishers
Physical (Europe) Take-Two Interactive
Physical (Spain, Italy) FX Interactive
Physical (North America) Encore
Digital Strategy First
Linux Linux Game Publishing
Release dates
Windows February 27, 2004
Linux April 9, 2009
Reception
Metacritic 74
Taxonomy
Monetization Expansion pack
Modes Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Bird's-eye view, Isometric
Controls Point and select
Genres ARPG
Themes Fantasy
Series Sacred
Sacred on HowLongToBeat
Sacred on IGDB
Sacred on MobyGames
Sacred on Wikipedia
Sacred
Sacred 2004
Sacred 2: Fallen Angel 2008
Sacred Citadel 2013
Sacred 3 2014
Sacred
Sacred 2004
Sacred 2: Fallen Angel 2008
Sacred Citadel 2013
Sacred 3 2014

Key points

Online multiplayer master servers have been shut down.

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions
SacredWiki: elaborate wiki about Sacred, Sacred Underworld and Sacred 2: Fallen Angel.
Sacred Ancaria Connection: a tool which allows multiplayer connections without using VPN usage after the TinCat service shutdown.

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
CD key
VOB for English release. ProtectCD for German and Italian releases. StarForce 3 DRM[Note 1] for French release.
Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
Sacred Gold. Serial keys for multiplayer available by request to GOG support team.[5]
Windows
Green Man Gaming
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Sacred Gold
Windows
Humble Store
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Sacred Gold
Windows
Steam
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Sacred Gold
Windows
StarForce DRM for this game does not work on modern versions of Windows (see above for affected versions).

Version differences

  • Sacred - the original game, released in February 2004
  • Sacred Plus - Free expansion pack released in October 2004 as part of the 1.7 and 1.8 patches for the base game. It adds 2 regions, monsters, quests, items.
  • Sacred Underworld - Expansion pack released in April 2005. It adds 2 player characters (Daemon and Dwarf), 6 regions, 2 acts, new monsters and items.
  • Sacred Gold - Released in August 2005, includes the base game and both expansions.

DLC and expansion packs

Name Notes
Sacred Plus Distributed in 1.7 and 1.8 official patches for the base game for free.
Windows
Linux
Sacred Underworld Files released as free download for Italian and Spanish releases by FX Interactive in 2006, requiring an SMS message request for a serial key.[6] [7]
Windows
Linux

Essential improvements

Sacred Gold running in standard 1024x768 resolution.
Sacred Gold running in standard 1024x768 resolution.
Sacred Gold running in 1920x1080 resolution via dgVoodoo.
Sacred Gold running in 1920x1080 resolution via dgVoodoo.

Patches

Sacred

The latest patch is 1.8.26 (Dec 2004) - which upgrades it to Sacred Plus.

Sacred Underworld / Gold

The latest patch is 2.28 (2006) - included in digital releases of Sacred Gold.

Skip intro videos

Delete/rename video files[citation needed]
  1. Go to <path-to-game>\movie\
  2. Delete or rename ascaron.wmv and oem.wmv.

High-resolution rendering

Download and apply dgVoodoo
This fix may introduce graphical artifacts.
Will stretch gfx horizontally altering original aspect ratio.
  1. Download the latest version (password given)
  2. Copy the three .dll files from the MS folder and the dgVoodoo executable into <path-to-game>
  3. Open the dgVoodoo executable from the game folder and click the .\ button
  4. In the DirectX tab of dgVoodoo, set Resolution to your monitor's native one and untick 'dgVoodoo Watermark'
  5. Click Apply and close dgVoodoo as it needn't run along with the game
Use Sacred NL or PureHD
Fixes all artifacts caused by playing at widescreen resolutions and interface scales correctly.
Adds QoL improvements like extended zoom and new hotkeys.

Improve performance

Force Vsync off
This fix may introduce graphical artifacts.
  1. Go to <path-to-game>
  2. Open Settings.cfg
  3. Add the line WAITRETRACE : 0 at the end of the file
  4. Save the changes and close the file

Multiplayer connectivity without VPNs

Sacred Ancaria Connection
The project is open source, with a GitHub repository here.
  1. Download the latest version of the Sacred Ancaria Connection client.
  2. Execute it before launching Sacred.
  3. In the game options, select "Modem/ISDN" as the network speed setting.
  4. Go to the LAN menu and you should be seeing several servers.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\SETTINGS.CFG[Note 2]
Linux
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/12320/pfx/[Note 3]
It's unknown whether this game follows the XDG Base Directory Specification on Linux. Please fill in this information.

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\save[Note 2]
Linux
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/12320/pfx/[Note 3]
Saved games are GAME**.PAK; saved heroes are hero**.pax.

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video settings

General settings.
General settings.

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Input settings

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Audio settings

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Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
Czech
English
US English release has censored blood effects, unlike European and Oceanian English-language releases
French
German
Italian
Retail only.
Polish
Local retail only. For digital releases use this guide
Russian
Retail and GOG.
Spanish
Retail version, download.

Network

Online features require a product key; for the GOG.com version the key is available by submitting a multiplayer key request.

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
LAN play
16
Online play
16 Master servers have been shut down. See Multiplayer connectivity without VPNs for a workaround.

Connection types

Type Native Notes
Matchmaking
Peer-to-peer
Dedicated
Self-hosting
Use GameServer.exe in the installation folder.
Direct IP

Other information

API

Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
Linux
Sacred Gold had a Linux release in 2009 (by Linux Game Publishing).

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Cutscenes Windows Media Video 9
Multiplayer TinCat

Mods

ReBorn HD

The biggest and most elaborate balance mod-patch for Sacred.
Requires Sacred Gold.
Changes in the overall balance, bosses, heroes, items, their drop, game mechanics and makes small, but significant changes in the games world to make Sacred more enjoyable and less frustrating.
It's constantly updated and mod authors are opened for help.
Doesn't affects the original executable, provides own widescreen support and it's compatible with most languages.

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 2000, XP
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium III 800 MHz
System memory (RAM) 256 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 2 GB
Video card (GPU) 16 MB of VRAM
DirectX 8 compatible
Sound (audio device) DirectX compatible
Linux
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 2.2.x or better Linux kernel with glibc-2.1 or later and X-Windows (XFree86 3.3.x or later)
Processor (CPU) 1.0 GHz x86
System memory (RAM) 256 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 3.7 GB
Video card (GPU) Hardware Accelerated 3D Graphics card
32 MB of VRAM

Notes

  1. This version of StarForce DRM does not work on Windows Vista or later.[1][2][3][4] For supported versions of Windows the StarForce driver may need to be updated manually using SFUPDATE.
  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).
  3. 3.0 3.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/12320/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (12320) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References