Arx Fatalis News

Arkane Studios is a developer responsible for some of the biggest names in PC gaming. Dishonored, Prey, and Deathloop all come from the veteran studio, but there are a few games among its roster that have been all but forgotten. Arx Fatalis is where it all started back in 2002 and despite reviewing well, it wasn't a huge hit. Some fans have never given up on it, however, with a planned remaster and overhaul mod in the works for the game. Unfortunately it's all hit a bump in the road, with the mod being indefinitely delayed.

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Free games: Dishonored devs give away their very first title for a limited time

These days, you probably know Arkane Studios as the developer behind Prey and the Dishonored series. But the studio was building immersive sims from its inception over 20 years ago, and in celebration of its latest birthday, you can now get that first game, Arx Fatalis, for free.

It's part of the Arkane 20 promotion, which also includes the launch of the Arkane Outsiders community - which, in more realistic terms, is an email newsletter. Sign up for that newsletter via the official site by May 31 at 7:00 PDT / 10:00 EDT / 15:00 BST, and you'll get a free copy of Arx Fatalis, delivered through the Bethesda.net launcher.

Arx Fatalis is an open-ended first-person action role-playing game - which, more succinctly, means it sits in the same vein as System Shock, Thief, and Deus Ex. Arkane's history of interest in immersive sims certainly doesn't start with Dishonored - in fact, the studio followed up its first effort with Dark Messiah of Might and Magic, which evolved out of an effort to make Arx Fatalis 2.

• Updated to run on Windows 10
  
• Stability improvements
  
• Various bug fixes
  

• Improved overall game stability under Microsoft© Windows Vista© & Windows 7©.
  
• Fixed blinking effect that may happen when starting a new game.
  
• Fixed HUD scaling when display resolution is higher than 1024x960.
  
• Fixed EAX option: value is now saved when leaving the option menu.
  
• Fixed an issue with the game locking-up when opening player inventory.
  
• Fixed length of cinemascope bars displayed during cinematics.
  
• Fixed some performance issues with a few Nvidia GPU (see Notes).
  

• If you experience in game framerate drops or stuttering, please give a try to the "Enable Rendering Fix" option in the Video settings.
  
• This patch will remain the very last Arx Fatalis update released by Arkane Studios. However, the whole source code of the game is now available for download, which means that numerous fan made updates/mods may be found around the Internet. Arkane Studios won't provide any kind of answer or support regarding community developed content.
  

• Cleaned/refactored game code before sources public release.
  

• Fixed resolution management on cinemascope bar.
  
• New flare's occlusion system and optimization on Flare's management.
  
• Fixed the "done" button on charactersheet which was not working on some resolutions.
  
• Fixed the text size on the credits.
  
• Interface isn't scaled.
  
• Add version string in the menu.
  
• Drawtext optimization.
  
• Fixed light rendering on cinematic.
  
• New resolution enable.
  
• New timer system for a better interpolation on animation/camera/movement. (see notes for AMD).
  
• Fixed flare on lights.
  
• Remove zbuffer lock/unlock (fps win 14%).
  
• Fixed bug on raycast.
  
• Collision enhanced.
  
• Add flare management on cinemascope.
  
• Add FSAA and AA on font.
  

• If you have some framerate issue on AMD, please intall the fix available on this web address:
  http://support.microsoft.com/kb/895980/en-us