Can anyone help me? I've played the game 5 times and was never able to finish it. 1 time cos I misplaced the book needed to find the dark elves, the other 4 times cos the game starts slowing down so much that I can't do nething. Is there a way to fix that bug?
Happens to me too on occation. Don't know if there's anything that'll fix it - never bothered looking for anything. I just save often and leave it at that. Of course, I usually get those slowdowns after like two hours of playing, so it's not that much of a problem anyway. Do you get yours more frequently?
I have had this happen on several games. It usually means that you need to fix your computer settings, you don’t have enough RAM, or it could actually be the game. In most cases you can change the settings by right clicking on the desktop, and selecting Properties. You can also select “My Computer”, go to "Control Panel, then select display. */\/\/* Once you are there you select the "settings" tab. The settings I have are “color”-“True color (32 bit)”, “Screen Area”-“800 by 600 pixels”. If that doesn’t help (or you just don’t like it) you could try running a scandisk (standard, no surface scan.) then defrag your computer. But this does take a couple hours. I don’t know whether this will help or not.
Arcanum sometimes slows down for me too, but not to the extend that he described. Usually the cursor just stops, and the HD starts accessing like crazy. At that point, I just hit escape and wait until it pops into the menu so I know that it's done with whatever it was doing. I have trouble believing it's a memory problem. It's a 2001 game, and I have a P4 2.53GHz with 256 megs of RAM...
256? You need to buy more memory. I'm running at 1.21ghz (AMD) with 384megs. I have had Arcanum slow down on occasion, once to the extent that you have named, and I simply saved, exited, booted it up again, and it ran fine. I don't think this will make a big difference with game speed, but you could try defragmenting like it was above suggested. Given the amount of time it takes to do that, you may as well run ScanDisk and SpyBot while you're at it.
