Arcanum Ultima: One Year Anniversay

So yeah, its been one year since I released it...so heres the new readme: Arcanum: Of Steamworks & Magick Obscura Ulitma Edition --------------------------------------- Contents: --------- 1. About Ultima Edition 2. How to START Arcanum 3. The Bonus Material 4. The Dedication 5. Want more? 1. About Ultima Edition --------------- 2008 Ultima Edition of Arcanum was created in the spring break of 2008 when my Girlfriend wanted a copy of Arcanum. This edition has the No-CD Crack installed and has Extra material that you may want such as extra Modules and The Character Editor. Also Included in this edition is a small guide the Manual for the game and Module Editor. There was a few idiotic moments when making this....One was the Bordum the other was the fact that I wasn't going to make it public...But Hey what can I say, I download alot so I decided to give in return. 2009 A year later and Drog has been working up a storm, so in this edition alot of his features have been added for your pleasure. A lot of the portraits have been remove because the fact that they need to be organized, but if you still have last years edition you can still recover all those portraits. Also note this editon your old save games wont work, and any updates you install from drog will break them to. 2. How to START ARCANUM ----------------------- Arcanium Ultima2 is now a setup only game, and after install please use the Icon on the Desktop or the Icon on the Start menu for the fact is the New Arcanum has a bigger resoltution, and can be changed with the Menu. 3. The Bonus Material ----------------------- *Offical Trokia Modules *Max level 126 *Map *HQ Music intergrated *Character Editor *Custom DVD Cover Image *Manual to Game *Manual to World Editor *Patched with Drogs current release 081229 *High Res Town Pack *The Lost Module now included with install *The offical OST *Removed alot of the Portraits and added a fwe 4. The Dedication ------------------------ Note: A lot of problems where easily fixed using these instructions after the install Delete the Arcanum.cfg And make sure under Vista or Windows 7 please give the setup and the game Admin rights 5. Want more? ------------------------- Offically I may be done with Arcanum Ultima, unless Drog continues all his updates, then you may expect a new one, Especially if he keeps adding more content then yes of course. And I want to say personally thank you Drog, for all your efforts and work, if it wasn't for that, this game would probably fade into the dust.

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tzimisce (2009-06-02)

Thank you for this! (downloading now)

victor_98294 (2009-08-03)

This song is dedicated to you.
Did you ever know that you're my hero,
and everything I would like to be?
I can fly higher than an eagle,
for you are the wind beneath my wings.
Thank you.

subversion (2009-09-03)

Very cool.

Panzerfaust1974 (2009-09-20)

Thank you very much, Rusty!
:)

sweet_yougart (2009-12-07)

this is just perfect :D. cheers a lot to you and Drog :)

sweet_yougart (2009-12-07)

that's just perfect :D. cheers a lot to you and Drog :)

AnTi90d (2010-01-07)

Dude this works great.. and it is much easier to install than it would normally be. Thanks.

ffreak3 (2010-02-19)

Trying to run this under WINE on Ubuntu . . . and this is the closest I've got to getting Arcanum to work.
(I tried a windows virtual machine, but the mouse is way too sensitive in the game, (but the VM is fine), to even navigate the game menu).
Trying to run arcanum under WINE normally just crashes, but when I try using the menu you provide, I get as far as the loading screen before it crashes. Which is a known issue on ubuntu where others have got it working, solution: -no3d and -doublebuffer.
But Arcanum doesn't start if I don't use menu.exe (and yes, I am running arcanum.exe), and I don't see a way to get menu to run arcanum with those options?
Help with either issue, (over-sensitive mouse in virtual windows or failure to run in ubuntu), would be great.
Thanks for your work, (and Drog's), btw, Arcanum is a bit of an uber-awesome game.

ffreak3 (2010-02-19)

And not more than a minute afterwards, I must take back that 'known solution' ubuntu part.
A helpful hint on the ubuntu forum allowed me to run arcanum.exe correctly, (and with the options), but it still crashed at the menu, (with no error from wine? odd)
Ignoring the ubuntu part, my other choice is then to fix the mouse sensitivity in my virtual machine. What could be causing that issue?

rusty2226 (2010-03-05)

@ffreak3
I really don't know much about the wine Ubuntu problem. When I was using Ubuntu and Wine, a lot of these tools and Updates were available. So I can't really answer, but your best bet would be to Use your V.M. and slow down the mouse.

Dailes (2010-05-03)

Please excuse me for the inconvenience, but I have a problem : I have installed and all, and it works fine for a moment (say, 20 minutes), then, the games says that my save file is corrupt, and when I try to run it, there is nothing after the loading screen (I get back to my desktop). I have deleted the cfg. file but it didn't got better. Is there a problem with my computer (Windows XP familial) ? How can I solve it ?

rusty2226 (2010-06-01)

@Dailes
I would actually a quick reinstall, Hopefully I made the uninstaller work right ;)
Actually uninstall and if need be run in compatibility mode windows 98

Naturalloco (2010-09-17)

please excuse my newbness as this is the first time ever using a torrent to dl - im not that good..
but yeah i have an error message:
This application has failed to start because binkw32.dl was not round. Re-installing the app may fix this problem.
I tried re-installing but yeah no luck any help would be appreciated!

Naturalloco (2010-09-17)

please excuse my newbness as this is the first time ever using a torrent to dl - im not that good..
but yeah i have an error message:
This application has failed to start because binkw32.dl was not round. Re-installing the app may fix this problem.
I tried re-installing but yeah no luck any help would be appreciated!

Coondron (2010-09-27)

Hey guys, can you seed please? I promise to keep seeding afterwards, one of my alltime favourite games and keen to revisit it with these interesting additions, conveniently in the one torrent!

scrotch77 (2011-01-15)

Crisp, clean, easy, and stable! +1 and seed from me! Fantastic job!

Jariah (2011-01-16)

1. This game is indeed THE greatest RPG of its and possibly even our time.
2. AMAZING DL speed, 1005Kbs Average!
3. Lots of great help from the users and the uploader.
All in all a near perfect torrent.

crispyman01 (2011-03-10)

Didn't quite know what to expect, downloaded on an impulse. pleasantly surprised. kinda a fallout 2 vibe with a smaller focus on guns. loved all the extras that came with it, too. thank you very much, reseeding

rusty2226 (2011-05-10)

I'm actually mildly amused this still is being seeded :) good thing too since my copy was lost in a recent HD crash.
I want to thank you all that still support this edition and the continuation of seeding this project that has long been dead it seems....

brandonkr (2011-07-16)

I'm having trouble getting mine to work. :( I've followed instructions, deleted the .cfg file, ran as administrator both in setup and when I try to play, and also tried in compatibility mode.
When I try to start the game, I get maybe 1/8th of a second of the Sierra screen, then it minimizes the game. If I click back in, it shows the Trolkia screen and then quits the game.
I am running on Vista 64.

rusty2226 (2011-07-27)

Hmmm interesting, Let me install under my Windows 7 64bit and see if I can reproduce the results and if so that's okay. I think I'm gonna get a clean Arcanum and redo a lot of the work. I believe that maybe necessary if that's the case. (Also cause I got new toys for doing my "Work" :) ) Not going to promise anything But I believe it may be time to Start again on my old tricks :P

rusty2226 (2011-07-27)

Hmm... maybe it's also time to write a WINE version for Linux users.... Just a thought? Give me a yay or nay in the Comments TY :)

rusty2226 (2011-07-27)

@brandonkr
Strangely I couldn't reproduce your problem :'(. But I believe my next version I will see and try to fix everything about the next install.

Grienson (2011-08-14)

I'm having exactly the same problem as brandonkr (only Vista 32bit), but it's not the problem with this specific build. I own the original of the game and no matter what I tried I got the same result, so I tried this one and it's again the same.
The best I got so far was when I tried to run the game in windowed mode. It played all the intros as it should, even loaded the main menu, but when I try to run new game and create new character the graphics get all weird and don't display unless I move the mouse cursor over.
I tried to look for a solution of some sort but without luck, with that said I give up on Arcanum until I get back my Windows 7 notebook from repair...

rusty2226 (2011-08-17)

@Grienson some graphical errors are caused by Windows explorer in Windows 7. I know this cause to play Starcraft I would usually shutdown the Explorer.exe in the Process list. Best bet would be to turn off your explorer and start Arcanum that way.

claiho (2012-02-14)

DON'T DOWNLOAD!
There's Trojan.Packed!5MyyqyrnApQ in:
*autorun.exe
*menu.exe

Sick3r (2012-03-22)

This shit doesn't work.....
Mounted with newest daemon tools, trying to install but just after 5 seconds I get a fatal error and the install shuts down..... =((

ministry86 (2012-04-20)

Wonderful torrent, saved me a lot of trouble downloading this file instead of installing all the patches and what not. Much appreciated.

Stormy66 (2012-07-28)

Hey! This torrent is amazing. Been using it for a while. By far one of the best ways to play Arcanum. If you ever plan on updating it, Drog has a later patch version out.

tflagger997 (2012-11-25)

Character Editor 1.8 will not work for secondary characters with this version - jic someone out there wants to edit Virgil to not be such a waste (if playing as Tech).
Also beware that Arcanum.exe*32 will constantly try to contact Microsoft @ 65.55.162.27:443 via TCP so make sure it is blocked. Arcanum calls Rundll*32, but there is no reason M$ needs to call home with this, so play paranoid. Just hit L23 without issue.
Thanks!

chadice (2012-12-01)

To rusty2226 :
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claiho at 2012-02-14 13:27 CET:
DON'T DOWNLOAD!
There's Trojan.Packed!5MyyqyrnApQ in:
*autorun.exe
*menu.exe
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1imid at 2011-12-27 14:56 CET:
HI. great game. :-) found a trojan virus in the auto start of the game.
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You seed 2 game and both with Trojean :-( What that mean ? this guy must be working for microsoft they like to do this kind of thingon torrent side...

rusty2226 (2012-12-17)

@chadice, @tflagger997
Strange, never had any of my virus scanners go of, and what are you using that makes them go off. If it's McAffee or Norton, they are false positives that have known to go off on everything. If you feel that there is a virus on these files, I actually I use this torrent still to play my Arcanum :3. But Under production right now is a new Arcanum Ultima with new menu designs and such that are less likely to cause false positives from such software, and also more linux friendly.