Vista, W7, 64bit, and the somehow confusing nature of it.

HepcatMerkin · Untrained Joined: 02 Nov 2009 Posts: 3

Thanks for the tips, Charonte

I've disabled UAC and unblocked Arcanum.exe from the DEP list of things to block, but it doesn't seem to be working, still. Just eating up my CPU% and not actually running anything; I'm going to try to reinstall now that UAC is off and see if that helps.

Fun fact: it's CPU usage is going from about 70-90%, but the actual memory it uses seems to be going down--it started at about 2000K, but now it's down to 868K.

Another option: I ripped the images from my original CD's and installed from those; would that have anything to do with this? If so, I may just have to wait til I'm back in Texas where the original CDs actually are. Lame.

Charonte · Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2009 9:19 pm Post subject:

Shouldn't do unless you weren't using a NoCD crack, which now that I think of it is a pretty common cause of symptoms like yours.

Arcanum being Archaic as it is, I wouldn't have thought it would matter but you never know.

HepcatMerkin · Untrained Joined: 02 Nov 2009 Posts: 3

Gotcha; I'll correct for that and get back to y'all. Thanks again for the help!

Burress · Untrained Joined: 08 Nov 2009 Posts: 1

I am using Vista 64 bit and the video sequences and gameworld are not displaying. So after character creation I can hear the intro video playing but can only see a black screen. After I click through it, then I see the interface frame with a black center where the gameworld should be, though virgil and my character's text displays on it. All of the previous advice in this thread has not been successful. Any ideas on how to get the game displaying properly?

thewhiteboy · Untrained Joined: 25 Nov 2009 Posts: 3

I just installed this on a win 7 64x machine with an nvidia 9600gt card. Loading the game >character creation > videos work fine but when I first get into the game the text is overlapping. My choose text is about 80% on top of the guys text when first starting. I have installed the official patch and dark tooth's patch as well. Any help is appreciated. Here is a screenshot:

Aurdal · Gone out Joined: 31 May 2003 Posts: 4862 Location: Norway

Move your mouse cursor to the end of the screen.
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The_Bob · Posted: Thu Nov 26, 2009 7:33 am Post subject:

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Aurdal · Gone out Joined: 31 May 2003 Posts: 4862 Location: Norway

Aah yes, I never play without those parameters, because the game won't run in Linux without them.

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Laxe · Untrained Joined: 21 Jul 2010 Posts: 3

anyone knows any comand to fix mouse pointer in game?

it moves slowly like on ice, if i turn it to max posible speeed its still sliding like on ice only in acanum

Drog Alt · Expert Joined: 30 Jun 2010 Posts: 93 Location: PRC, SH

Add -no3d to your Arcanum link. Like so:
C:\Games\Arcanum\Arcanum.exe -no3d
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Is Dragon Age better than Arcanum? Good god, are you joking, of course, it is!

Laxe · Untrained Joined: 21 Jul 2010 Posts: 3

i have, Arcanum.exe -no3d -doublebuffer and it worked great like 5 months ago

edit: hmm could be logitech mouse driver foult since i swiched to G7 some time ago, but isnt there some other command that allows software pointer acceleration?

tekhedd · Untrained Joined: 13 Jul 2010 Posts: 2

I am running W7-64 (ultimate upgrade from Vista) with the good-old-games version and the unofficial patch, using -no3d and -doublebuffer. This is a laptop with a 9800m. This works for me with or without the highres patch. (1366x768) Note: installed to d:\games\arcanum, not in program files!

-no3d fixes the cursor
-doublebuffer does indeed fix performance

Thanks to the suggestions here. Just want to report success in case somebody is interested.