If the game refuses to launch after having re-installed the high resolution patch, re-apply the ddraw wrapper (step 6) and make sure you're using arcanum.exe and not the launcher.Increasing DialogFont to 2 might make text a bit more readable for you.You can set Logos and Intro to 0 to skip them each time you start the game.This negates the need to add it to the launcher. ScrollDist to 0 allows for infinite scrolling.There are a few things you can configure here that I did not mention in the guide: Each time you make a change to config.ini in the high res folder, you have to run uninstall.bat, make your changes to config.ini and run install.bat again.Videos will still be low-resolution and so will the GUI.You can no longer launch the game through Steam, only through the shortcut you created in step 7.The ddwrapper included with the high resolution patch does not work for me.Various miscellaneous mods and additions. Various things restored from pre-release versions of Arcanum. You can choose them in Options -> Game -> Module. Improves Windows 10 compatibility.Īdds 7 additional mini-campaigns. This patch might make my guide obsolete as it includes the following:Īll the bug fixes plus Extra Animations, Extended Ambient Tracks, HQ Townmaps and HQ Music.Īllows the game to be played at any resolution. Grog has released a new unofficial patch (1.5.1 as of this writing) that you can obtain from his website.

This guide is largely based on the one written by Drog with a few adjustments that worked for me and weren't mentioned there.

The existing guides did not entirely cover all my problems and I ran into some situations that were ambigious.

A step-by-step guide to getting the Steam version (GOG might work as well) to work under Windows 10, 64-bit with better graphics, higher quality music, higher level-cap (optional) and no slow-downs.

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