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Revision as of 16:38, 24 December 2023

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
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Bird's-eye view
Controls Direct control
Genres Action, Puzzle, Shooter
Art styles Realistic
Themes Sci-fi
Sanity: Aiken's Artifact on HowLongToBeat
Sanity: Aiken's Artifact on IGDB
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).
A demo is available here.
The game is not available digitally.

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 Windows 64-bit.

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
Vert-.
Multi-monitor
Vert-.
Ultra-widescreen
Vert-.
4K Ultra HD
Vert-.
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
High-fidelity upscaling
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS
120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)

Input

Audio

Audio settings.
Audio settings.

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Sound, Dialogue and Music.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
EAX support
EAX 2.
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Notes
LAN play
Online play
GameSpy services have been shut down;[3] see GameSpy for workarounds.

Connection types

Type Native Notes
Dedicated
Self-hosting
Direct IP

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.
Use winevdm[citation needed]

Other information

API

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

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Audio Miles Sound System 3.0.0
Multiplayer World Opponent Network

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