ArcaniA: Gold Edition
Original ArcaniA + Fall of Setarrif
Release Date: October 25, 2011
Genres/Tags: RPG, Open world, Third-person, 3D
Developer: Spellbound Entertainment
Publisher: JoWooD
Platform: PC [Repack]
Engine: in-house
Steam User Rating (ArcaniA): 47% of user reviews are positive (based on 890 reviews)
Steam User Rating (FoS): 29% of user reviews are positive (based on 182 reviews)
Interface Language (ArcaniA): English, German, Spanish, Italian, French, Russian, Polish, Czech, Hungarian
Audio Language (ArcaniA): English, German, Spanish, Italian, French, Russian, Polish
Interface Language (FoS): English, German, Spanish, Italian, French, Russian, Polish
Audio Language (FoS): English, German, Spanish, Italian, French, Russian
Crack: built-in (PROPHET/RELOADED)
Minimum requirements:
Operating System: Windows® XP / Vista / Windows 7
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo - 2.8 GHz / AMD Athlon II x2 - 2.8 GHz
RAM: 2 GB
Video Card: GeForce 8800 GTX, GeForce 8800 GT, GeForce 9600
DirectX: 9.0c
HDD Space: 10 GB
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KAT Screenshots:
Description (ArcaniA):
War covers the southern islands until it finally reaches the idyllic isle of Feshyr. You take on the role as the new nameless hero after your village has been pillaged and destroyed by paladins of the king. Seeking revenge, you soon realize that this cowardly attack did not just happen on a reckless mercenary`s whim. A mysterious evil power lies in waiting and fortunately you’re not alone to unravel the ancient secrets: your fate is linked to a beautiful lady wearing a powerful artifact from the long-forgotten past...
ArcaniA Features
- COMBAT SYSTEM: An intuitive system that offers a gradual learning curve, special moves and three different basic attack types.
- STORYLINE: A deep, strong story embedded in the successful Gothic universe franchise accompanied by highly diversified side quests. And most can be solved in different ways.
- ACCESSIBILITY: The amenable story, an Intuitive interface and controls, lock on targets and a sophisticated hint system.
- CONTINUOUS ACTION: Pace is kept up along the main plot through regular surprises, cliffhangers and vigorous cut scenes.
- HERO DEVELOPMENT: Gain experience points and level up to upgrade your attributes, skills and crafting abilities.
- A COMPLETELY OPEN WORLD: Enjoy the complete freedom & the almost unlimited options known from the Gothic series.
Description (Fall of Setarrif):
Face the last challenge - determine destiny!
A new threat casts its shadow over the Southern Isles. A mysterious demon, consumed by hatred, terrifies the population and pools his force against the coastal city of Setarrif. The dramatic situation exacerbates after a volcanic eruption in the mountains nearby. Thereupon the nameless hero joins forces with his strongest allies and courageously faces the new menace.
Even after king Rhobar III was freed from the demons control, the struggle apparently is not over. The king already ordered his armies to conquer Setarrif, but so far no word from his troops, or the frantic population for that matter, has gotten through.
Experience an all new adventure amidst demonic powers, political intrigue and inscrutable incidents – what’s really going on in Setarrif?
Fall of Setarrif Features
- Experience a new, compelling part of the chronicles of Argaan
- Play parts of the story from your famous allies’ perspective
- All new enemies as well as new armors and weapons to further expand and hone your combat skills
- Meet new, lively characters when exploring the (yet) unknown regions & dungeons
- Stand-alone expansion
- Playing time: 4 – 8 hours
- Import your character from the main game (with a character that killed the endboss of ArcaniA main game)
- New locations and settings (lava/beach/dungeon)
Repack Features
- Based on the following releases: ArcaniA.MULTi9-PROPHET (ppt-aam9.iso, 10,084,349,952 bytes), ArcaniA_Fall_of_Setarrif_DC_05052016_SteamRiP-CS (4.6 GB), ArcaniA_Fall_of_Setarrif_Russian_Language_Pack_DC_12.05.2016 (364 MB), ArcaniA_Fall_of_Setarrif_Polish_Language_Pack_DC_12.05.2016 (710 MB) and Arcania-FoS_Full_Russian_Voiceovers_ND (621 MB)
- Shaders Fix for ArcaniA can be installed at your choice
- ArcaniA is 100% Lossless & MD5 Perfect: all files are identical to originals after installation (if Shaders Fix not applied)
- Fall of Setarrif is NOT 100% Lossless & MD5 Perfect for some files: read notes below
- NOTHING ripped, NOTHING re-encoded
- Selective download feature - you can skip downloading and installing of languages you don't need
- Significantly smaller archive size (compressed from cumulative 15.7 to 3.2~3.3 GB for any single language)
- Installation takes 20-40 minutes (depending on your system)
- After-install integrity check so you could make sure that everything installed properly
- HDD space after installation: 10 GB
- Repack by FitGirl
Additional repack notes
- ArcaniA.MULTi9-PROPHET is based on Steam re-release, which doesn't have SecuROM protection anymore, but has some nasty shader bugs (like shadows on NPC faces). While installing my repack you may select an option to fix it, at a cost of no-MD5-perfectness.
- In basic Fall of Setarrif release all European speech files are packed inside one big archive. For the purpose of selective download voice files were extracted and installed only for selected language. Game engine read those files just fine. Extracted files left intact, of course. And all other files of FoS are MD5-perfect.
- Fall of Setarrif movies for Russian version were re-encoded from original movies by developers, and quality dropped. I fixed this issue by taking the video streams of original movies and muxing it with audio tracks from Russian version. The quality of both video and audio is left intact, no re-encoding.
Selective Download
You can skip downloading of language files or you don't need.
Pay attention to archives, needed for several languages, don't skip them. Here is the list of selective files:
- setup-fitgirl-selective-eng-pol-cze-hun-1.bin
- setup-fitgirl-selective-eng-pol-cze-hun-2.bin
- setup-fitgirl-selective-eng-spa-ger-fre-ita-cze-hun.bin
- setup-fitgirl-selective-french.bin
- setup-fitgirl-selective-german.bin
- setup-fitgirl-selective-italian.bin
- setup-fitgirl-selective-polish.bin
- setup-fitgirl-selective-russian.bin
- setup-fitgirl-selective-spanish.bin
In example, if you want to launch the game with Russian UI/Subtitles/Voiceovers - skip all "selective" files,
but download
setup-fitgirl-selective-russian.bin & all main files (01-11).
Problems during installation?
If you experience errors (Xdelta or Unarc ones) during installation, try the following things:
- Make sure your Windows username doesn't contain non-latin symbols. Use only latin characters & numbers
- Re-hash torrent (in Utorrent point to the game entry, stop download/upload, then click right mouse button, then click "Force Re-check")
- Disable antivirus (INCLUDING Windows Defender), it can delete installation files or cracks on-the-fly
- Set UAC to a minimum level, otherwise some parts of the installer won't run due to restricted rights
- Make sure you have at least as two times more virtual memory, than actual, physical RAM
- Make sure you have enough space on target drive & on C: drive (or whatever system drive you have)
- Try install the game NOT to C: (system) drive OR specifically to C: drive (Windows rights system is a tricky thing)
- Check your Windows folder (and below) for unarc.dll - if this file exists, delete it
- Reboot in Safe Mode and install the game
- Run setup with proper rights, as shown on this image:
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