This page contains Cheats for Arcanum: Of Steamworks And Magick Obscura organized by sections for PC. This game has 'Role-Playing PC-style RPG' as genre, made by Troika Games. If you can't find a hint or secret in our list, then please check this page periodically for the latest updates.
Arcanum Quest Guide, with a low-spoiler checklist of all quests and subplots in the game. Arcanum Characters, with overviews of all possible party NPCs. Arcanum Solutions, with spoilers and alternate endings for confusing and poorly resolved quests. Arcanum Cheat Codes, with instructions and codes for how to cheat in this game.
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When you get to Tarant talk to Madam Lil. Get the necklace from the Mooreland residence. The next quest is to get money from Roland.
Arcanum is a slowly seductive game, a deep and demanding affair with a steep learning curve and a voracious appetite for your spare time. It’s all the more impressive that the more time you devote to the game, the more time you will be willing to surrender.
Arcanum: Of Steamworks & Magick Obscura
Developers
Publishers
Release dates
Windows
August 21, 2001
Reception
Metacritic
81
Taxonomy
Modes
Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing
Real-time, Turn-based
Perspectives
Bird's-eye view, Isometric
Controls
Multiple select, Point and select
Genres
RPG
Themes
Fantasy, Industrial Age, Steampunk
2Essential improvements
2.1Patches
3Game data
4Video
6Audio
7Issues fixed
9Other information
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Key points
Greatly improved experience on newer systems thanks to unofficial mods.
General information
Terra Arcanum Forum - a large fansite
GOG.com Community Discussions
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions
Availability[edit]
Source
DRM
Notes
Keys
OS
Retail
SecuROM 4 DRM disc check.
GOG.com
Patched to official patch v1.0.7.4.
Steam
Essential improvements[edit]
Patches[edit]
Official patch[edit]
Arcanum Pc Game Cheats
1.0.7.4. Not needed for the GOG.com release.
Multiverse Edition[edit]
Complete overhaul with all the patches listed in this article, as well as others, bundled together in one installer that offers a lot of options.
For a widescreen monitor, it is recommended to use a 1366x768 resolution. Higher values can make the UI and dialogue difficult to see.
Arcanum Multiverse Edition [ENG] by the Multiverse Team.
Unofficial patch[edit]
Highly improved townmaps and soundtracks (from the vanilla 128kbit/sec to 320 kbit/sec) can be found alongside this patch.
Not compatible with older savegames.
200611 (2.0.2) by Drog Black Tooth. Highly recommended bug fixes.
High Resolution Patch[edit]
If you are unable to pan the camera past the edge of the screen with the high resolution patch enabled, add -scrolldist:0 -scrollfps:70 to the target line in the shortcut of the game.
The High Resolution Patch is already included in the Unofficial Arcanum Patch. For a separate installer check out 1.5 by Drog Black Tooth. Allows any user-set resolution, UI tweaks, larger fonts.
Add -Window in the target line of your Arcanum shortcut
If the game stops responding with windowed mode[citation needed]
Go to the installation folder and find ddraw.dll and rename it to draw.dll.old or something like that.
Launch the game and this should solve the problem with the game not responding.
Input[edit]
Keyboard and mouse
State
Notes
Remapping
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Mouse acceleration
No option. Follows Windows default behavior.
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Audio[edit]
Sound options
Audio feature
State
Notes
Separate volume controls
Effects, voice and music
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Arcanum Of Steamworks And Magick Obscura Cheats
Localizations
Language
UI
Audio
Sub
Notes
English
German
Polish
Local retail version only.
Spanish
Fan translation, download.
Russian
Grand Fix Download and Readme
Arcanum Cheat
Issues fixed[edit]
Files not installed properly[edit]
Recommended to avoid default installation folder, as this can lead to issues where certain files are not properly installed.
Run installed as administrator[citation needed]
When running the installer, be sure to right-click on the .exe, and select 'Run as Administrator'.
Loading screen freezing[edit]
Freezing known to happen on systems with multi-core CPUs.[citation needed]
Arcanum Cheat Console
Set CPU affinity[citation needed]
Setting CPU affinity should solve this problem. Create a shortcut, and in the shortcut's 'Target' field, insert %WINDIR%System32cmd.exe /C start 'ARCANUM' /D 'C:ARCANUM' /high /affinity 1 'C:ARCANUMarcanum.exe'Be sure to replace C:ARCANUM with your actual Arcanum installation folder. If needed, you can add additional command-line parameters to the end.
Graphical issues[edit]
Set target field[citation needed]
Adding -no3d -doublebuffer to the end of your Arcanum shortcut's 'Target' field.
Delete or rename ddraw.dll[citation needed]
Delete or rename ddraw.dll.
Performance issues[edit]
Modify the SierraLauncher.ini file[citation needed]
Go to the installation folder
Open SierraLauncher.ini
Find Game1Cmd= and replace line with Game1Cmd= -no3d -doublebuffer -scrolldist:0 -scrollfps:70
Use Aqrit's DDrawFix for Infinity Engine games[1]
Download ie-ddrawfix.zip
Open the archive and navigate to wined3d
Extract the contents of the folder to <path-to-game>/Arcanum
If prompted, click yes to replace ddraw.dll
VR support[edit]
3D modes
Native
Notes
vorpX
2D Game is 2D only. Play 2D with DGVoodoo2 and vorpx default DGVoodoo2 profile.
Other information[edit]
API[edit]
Executable
32-bit
64-bit
Notes
Windows
System requirements[edit]
Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS)
95
Processor (CPU)
Intel Pentium II
System memory (RAM)
64 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)
1.2 GB
Video card (GPU)
VGA capable Card 8 MB of VRAM
Notes
↑ 1.01.1When 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).
↑ 2.02.1File/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>/500810/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (500810) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.
