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Revision as of 18:00, 16 October 2021

Sanity: Aiken's Artifact
Sanity: Aiken's Artifact cover
Developers
Monolith Productions
Publishers
Fox Interactive
Engines
LithTech 2.0
Release dates
Windows September 26, 2000
Sanity: Aiken's Artifact on MobyGames
Sanity: Aiken's Artifact on Wikipedia

Warnings

GameSpy online services have been shut down (see Network for solutions).

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
SafeDisc DRM[Note 1]
Windows
SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see above for affected versions).

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
Windows <path-to-game>\LITHTECH\autoexec.cfg[Note 2]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\save\[Note 2]

Video

Video settings.
Video settings.

Graphics feature State Notes
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)
Enabled by default. Can be forced off with graphics control panel.
60 FPS
120+ FPS

Input

Audio

Audio settings.
Audio settings.

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
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]
  1. Download 32-bit version of the installer executable from here.
  2. Copy the CD contents to any folder on your HDD.
  3. Put the installer from Is3Engine.zip archive in the same folder.
  4. Run the new installer from your HDD.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 7
OpenGL
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 95
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium II 300 MHz
System memory (RAM) 64 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 400 MB
Video card (GPU) 8 MB of VRAM
OpenGL 1.0 compatible
DirectX 7.0a compatible


Notes

  1. 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. 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