Hi, i just installed Arcanum on my nw i7 with Windows 7, the unnoficial patch works fine (i just needed to change fucking stupid administrator windows 7 problems, but now it works) the HD works fine too.

But the videos i cant see, i tried to install the game without the patch or the HD patch, and it´s still the same, so probably is something related with windows 7.

Any idea? THanks!!!

Hmmm... I have Win7 and the videos play fine for me. I also have the unofficial patch. Are you using the widescreen patch or any other modifications for the game?

Also, did you install the game itself with administrator permission (I don't know if that matters, but it might - sometimes Windows is super picky, though I feel like it did get a lot better between Vista and 7).

Ummm the game still not show the videos even if im not using the High Res mod, anyway im new on windows 7 i disconnected all the f... administrator rules and so on as long as i know, but, how i know if i installed the game as administrator?

Thanks!

I would suggest maybe trying the High Resolution mod and seeing if that does anything.

It happens the same, i tried download last bink video codec, but still the same.

The funny thing is i can see the video perfectly from the game folder, i mean from windows, not from the game itself.

That is weird.

Reinstalling is a pain, but you might want to try that (and delete all the files associated with the game too just to make it as clean as possible). But after that I'm out of ideas. :/

I will try tomorrow, i will tell you if it works :) thanks!

Thanks dude!! finally I solved thanks to you

:)

It's now Aug. 2015, and I've just encountered this problem. I'm running an i5-4690K that has integrated graphics with a Nvidia GTX 970 card, and unfortunately there is no such drop down in the driver control panel for the game. I don't know if modern drivers removed the option, or if my 970 just doesn't allow it.

Hmmm, I wonder if there is an issue with the 970 perhaps? I wonder if anyone else with one can try Arcanum to see if they have issues. I have a GTX 550ti and have never had any problems with Arcanum on my win7-64bit, just for informaiton.

It's very possible that the new architecture has problems with old video coding. I can't get NOX to run properly at all, just shows a black screen with what looks like 3 1x2 inch boxes in the upper left corner that seem to be the same image of repeating garbled lines when it doesn't outright crash my system.

I remember these issues being pretty common 10 years ago, but then DOSBox solved most of them.

Edit 4/19/2016: I finally got Nox to work, I had to download the installer from GoG.com, install the game, and then enable compatibility mode for Win 98/ME. For some reason the game version that Galaxy installed just would not work.
In addiition, Galaxy no longer works for me at all, so I've downloaded all my games again with the GoG downloader and reinstalled them.

I've just discovered that the integrated graphics are not enabled by my desktops mobo, so whatever the problem is it isn't the game being confused by which adapter to use. I'll try enabling it in the next few days to see if I can make the game work that way.

Edit: So, on a hunch after getting Nox to work, I went ahead and tried to run Arcanum having reinstalled it the other day with the GoG Downloader install files, and voila, it runs fine, the videos work without issues. Clearly, GoG Galaxy was causing the problem with it's installation of the game.


Now, I must begin modding the game!