I've been having trouble attempting to run Arcanum lately. It seems to be a bug, as it just cropped up from out of nowhere.

When I try to play Arcanum and launch the program, it seems to start up normally and then immediately minimizes to the start bar. I bring it back up, it minimizes, I bring it up again, it minimizes again, and we keep going through this little routine until it finally just crashes. I'm not sure what caused it, when I installed Arcanum, patched it, and ran it the first few times, it ran just fine, and then this happened.

Has it happened to anyone else? Any solutions?

I Have the same problem I discovered that Arcanum didn't like running at the same time as Firefox... closing Firefox solved my problems, no idea why

I am moving the conversation here because I have noticed that the changes made to Gilbert Bates & Chukka the follower (but not Chukka before he gains follower status) by UAP have placed them outside of the glitch and am now under the impression that a change could be wrought that could eliminate the glitch (but on the other hand may be too time consuming to do so). The only NPCs that I have been able to work the glitch on are the NPCs affected by the buying of Bates mansion & the quartet outside of Pit of Fire (but that doesn't mean that there aren't others that I may have missed).

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F10 toggles the hud on & off.

Drog, what changed the setting on this? Before I downloaded the patch, I never had to hit the F10 key. But then when I downloaded the patch, I also changed a few settings but those settings don't seem to be the one that keep turning it back on. I like the hud's informativeness and (while I understand the desire to minimize it) don't like having to turn it back on.


Also a observation that of strangeness in vanilla & post-patch:
In Blackroot's General Store, behind the clerk there are two barrels, in one of them is a Oak Axe Handle that looks like the ingrediant for the L4 Smithy Schematic, but lacks the weapon's stats & can't be used for it.

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Yes, that bug was found because of Chukka. I'm not sure that "fixing" other NPCs is worth it, as you would have to mind control them to trigger the bug, an average player would have no reason to do that.


Just don't use the shortcut labeled "Arcanum Fullscreen". All it does is enable Compact UI, it has nothing to do with running the game in full screen. Many people use this shortcut thinking it's "better" and then complain about the GUI. Oh, and the Compact UI mode was added in the official patch, not the UAP.

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I discovered the glitch using Create Undead. The corpses remain after the script deletes the living and when you raise them as undead followers, their bodies disappear but leave their follower icons, allowing you to convert all of the corpses (except Bates and follower-Chukka) in Bates Mansion into permanent followers. If script could be used to delete the corpses as well, then only the ones converted to followers before the delete while be able to be converted into permanent followers.

Also when you use this glitch on the leader of the quartet outside the Pit of Fires, you gain access to the version of the Blade of Xerxes that the leader is carrying.




So that's what I have been doing different. With UAP's removal of the CD check, the shortcut showed up on the START menu's recently used programs list after I clicked the program from the hard drive instead from the CD drive. For some reason the Start Menu's shortcut list had the fullscreen option attached, even though I had initially clicked the Arcanum.exe program & not a shortcut. (... Is the default fullscreen?)

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where can i find the changelog? the link to http://drog.terra-arcanum.com/uap.html returns 404 error

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I'm on Windows 7 and every time I try to install the unofficial patch I get the error "Error opening file for writing: C:\Program Files (x86)\GOG.com\Arcanum\Arcanum.exe". This is also happens with a ton of other files the patch deals with. Any idea how to get around this? I've tried re installing the game several times.

it's possible that you don't have the permission to write to that folder, I think the program files folder and all subfolders work this way by default in windows 7...


either edit the permissions, or install somewhere else like C:\Arcanum\

?not sure this is right, it's hard to say off so little information

Are you an administrator on the computer?

If the answer is no, then have an administrator run the patch for you. I wouldn't recommend changing the install directory.

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