Arcanum is actually pretty stable for a Troika game, but as anybody who's played it knows, there's tons of minor bugs, unbalanced items and quite a bit of unused content which simply never got patched or enabled.

Fans to the rescue. Thanks to a modder named Drog, we not only have a fully working widescreen patch, but a huge fan patch that fixes tons of issues. And the great thing is, it adds nothing that wasn't already in the game, just re-enables some things that seem to have been accidentally left out, like extra dialogue options, voice clips, and items.

WARNING: While I and many others have played through the game with these patches, they are technically unofficial, and the modder in question has said he is finished with Arcanum modding, so expect no support. Also, you MUST apply them before you start a new game, to avoid issues with incompatible saves.

Apply these in order from top to bottom:

The latest version (12/28/2009) of the fan patch. Essential. Must have. Get it here.
http://www.terra-arcanum.com/downloads/arcanum/fixes/UAP091225.exe

High-quality townmaps (Better looking in-game maps, also fixes some potential missing map errors):
http://www.terra-arcanum.com/downloads/arcanum/fixes/HQ_Townmaps.exe

And the High Resolution Patch. Weidu-based, so follow the directions to set it up for your system. Will allow you to run Arcanum at pretty much ANY resolution, provides an optional "compact" UI and optional high-res fonts:
http://www.terra-arcanum.com/downloads/arcanum/highres/HighRes1.1a.exe

Version: 1.5.1 (October 4, 2019): http://terra-arcanum.com/drog/uap.html#download

And that should set you up real nice. If you want more info on Arcanum, or any of the other Troika games, head to http://www.terra-arcanum.com and have a look around. Note that they also have some other mods and things for Arcanum, but most of them significantly alter the core game, or are incompatible with the UAP bugfixes. You might want to give the high-quality music patch a spin, but the original music sounds excellent and I wager you won't be able to tell much of a difference. For the purest and most hassle-free experience I recommend you stick with these patches for your first playthrough.

EDIT: If you have any problems with not being able to download, try refreshing the download page, or try the alternate links at this forum post (thanks sanpats), or for the 91225 update and High-res patches try these alternate links, courtesy of Petrell: UAP91225 update and High-res patch.

EDIT 2: Removed old patch version, as apparently version 91225 is stand-alone. Vagabond says it is anyway. Blame him if it breaks.

EDIT 3: Removing contributed torrent link due to torrent site jumping the shark.

Look here: terra-arcanum . com/drog/dest/#downloads
Mirrors on computergames . ro are still valid.

Sorry for spaces in URLs, as far as I understand newbies are forbidden to post hyperlinks :)

Thanks very much!

All of the games i get off of gog, including arcanum are all in a really low res that doesnt even fit my screen, i have about two inch borders on each side of my screen, when i change the res in game it doesnt seem to do anything!! can someone help? any easy fixes here? its a good game and ill play it with this tiny screen if i have too but i really dont want to

The link for the HQ town maps seems to be the most elusive, and all that terra-arcanum stuff just leads to poker advertisements and broken sites.

This one seems to work, at least for the moment: http://games.softpedia.com/progDownload/Arcanum-Of-Steamworks-and-Magick-Obscura-High-Quality-Townmaps-Patch-Download-95001.html

If all that stuff weren't that big, I'd already be putting up a mirror, but with the limited bandwith that I've got it's probably not of much use…

EDIT: Given that I now spent the better part of this evening chasing patches and stuff (the sheer size of this thread is no big help for that ^^), here's kind of a last-resort mirror for the patches mentioned in the first post of this thread: http://mirror.aleturo.com/Games/Arcanum/ The bandwidth is poor, but if everythiing else fails, it's still better than nothing.

A new mirror is up here as well on PCGamingWiki: [url=http://pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Arcanum:_Of_Steamworks_%26_Magick_Obscura]http://pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Arcanum:_Of_Steamworks_%26_Magick_Obscura[/url]

Seems like terra-arcanum is down. anyone got his hands on the windowed-mode patch ? Can't find it anywhere...

Thanks

I got a question about the High Resolution patch, when I installed it my interface at the bottom and top is still in the orginial resolution and not stretched. But the actual game is in fulllscreen.

I had a similiar issue in Fallout with that HighRes patch, although I fixed it. So I wonder if this is supposed to be like that or can this be fixed?

How exactly do install the Hi-res town maps? I've unzipped the file, and I see a modules directory with an Arcanum.PATCH9 file in it. Do I just copy it into a directory in my Arcanum installation? If so, which one? I see a couple of possibilities.

[Edit] For some reason it ran properly as an exe when I tried the downloaded file again. I had extracted it because it wasn't running and I didn't bother to check the extension.

Guess it was just a glitch.

Edit: removed on request
Enjoy :)

The download link in that thread opens some fake webiste that only allows me to download ilividdownloader.exe or some such spyware crap.

anyone have this mod link? much appreciated.

I got the file from that link, and it did work, but this was in April 2012. :|
I've removed the link to it (in my post) if its now malicious. Can you do the same with my post that got quoted please.
I'll look for it in my game directory later (6am now, work time).

thx for the reply atkes. i tried again to make sure its just not one of those shady free download sites where the actual download buttin is extra small and hidden, but i had no luck finding it.

I edited my post to prevent others from downloading this ilivid.exe or whatever its called.

Would be awesome if you still had the mod :)

These file host sites often do have some mysterious path to get to the file, that cannot be found by us mortals. The free software jdownloader can often find the file, where I cannot. Worth a try in cases like this.

http://www.gamefront.com/files/23097372/arcanum_disableSpellNoise_zip
Found it. Installation instructions (as I remembered it) included in the .txt file inside.
Its just one small .dat file.

Uploaded to gamefront.com which requires a download every 60 days or they will delete it.
If someone else can find a permanent home that'd be appreciated

thx again, i've taken a few minutes to upload it to several download services.

https://hotfile.com/dl/199116203/12d7988/arcanum_disableSpellNoise.zip.html
http://depositfiles.com/files/stf17t2jr