Arx Fatalis - v1.18 Patch Released

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Worthplaying has a 1.18 patch for Arx Fatalis, as expected from the recent Anniversary Edition news. Here's the fix list:
  • Fixed D3D texture creation that triggered white textured objects / Characters on recent hardware configurations.
  • Fixed a crash on TNL Bump Mapping management.
  • Fixed several memory leaks.
  • Fixed the text font not being displayed on recent hardware configurations.
  • Fixed a specific crash on spells use.
  • Tweaked the Fireball spell damage rule, to make it less powerful & more balanced.
  • Fixed a bug where the game would quit if the ESC key was pressed during the New Game fade to black.
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With the release of the anniversary edition and this patch I am wondering if they are gearing up to go back to making Arx Fatalis 2 like they were originally going to do before DMofM&M put them off track.
 
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I did a quick test of this. For some reason, my cherished legacy gaming rig -- the same one I originally played Arx on -- now exhibits the invisible font problem with 1.17. I've never seen that before. The 1.18 patch does not fix that. I may try a couple different drivers I know work with that card tomorrow, when I'm awake. This is the same Nvidia 4200 Ti I used with Arx way back when, so I'm surprised to see this problem now -- I've avoided updating the drivers precisely because of the age of the system.

However, the 1.18 patch does fix the missing texture problem I was seeing on my new Core 2 Duo + Nvidia 7900GS. But some of the start-up images may be missing -- when I start the app, it sits at a black screen for several seconds with a heart-beat sound effect before it finally shows some of the familiar load screen. So after a quick test drive, it looks like it's running fine on that system.

One observation with the patch: It loses track of where the game folder is, and you get an error message about not being able to locate the data files if you click on an existing shortcut. I fixed this by editing the shortcut's "Start In" folder to be path to the Arx folder ("F:\Arx" on my system).
 
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I actually have been playing this game lately on my computer which is a high end computer with Vista on it and don't have any problems.
 
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Yeah, black font color on dark blue background. Is there any special argument for this? As far as I can see there is no spoiler inside the changelog.
 
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With the release of the anniversary edition and this patch I am wondering if they are gearing up to go back to making Arx Fatalis 2 like they were originally going to do before DMofM&M put them off track.

Let's pray and have hope :please::please::please:
 
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Does anyone know if the fireball balance was done well? After I got that spell the game was pretty much auto-win, so I'd be interested in playing it again if it is balanced out.
 
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I've never seen that before.
Could be from a DirectX upgrade as well as drivers.

Avantenor
Yeah, black font color on dark blue background.
It's a forum bug, iirc.

CutLunch
I never played this one. Is it a bit of a gem?
Yes, very good, it's a remake of Ultima Underworld, iirc.
It was Arkine's first game on a engine they made, it's like a very good B move, some cheesy videos, voice and very fun. :)
 
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With the release of the anniversary edition and this patch I am wondering if they are gearing up to go back to making Arx Fatalis 2 like they were originally going to do before DMofM&M put them off track.
While I would love such a thing to be true, I actually see this in the opposite light. If they were planning an Arx Fatalis 2 I'd guess, although I'm no marketing guru, that it would make sense to do something like this as a promotional item nearer the date of release. That they are skipping such an opportunity seems like it may bode poorly for Arx Fatalis 2.
 
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Hope you are wrong Guhndahb. I loved Arx and have reinstalled it a few times for some additional runs. Arx2 would be on my buy list from the get go.
 
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Hope you are wrong Guhndahb. I loved Arx and have reinstalled it a few times for some additional runs. Arx2 would be on my buy list from the get go.
I hope I'm wrong too! Hopefully it's just my over-developed pessimism that makes me think so and not any form of prognostication. :D

I'd buy Arx 2 without hesitation as well even if it suffered the likely modern maladies of cross-platformitis and action-centricillus. ;)
 
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