Getting the game data
Full Game
Installing from a CD
Just install the game normally using either Windows or Wine and then apply the 1.21 patch.
Because there is no extractor for the patch setup file, we cannot provide an automated install script yet.
Buying a new copy on-line
The windows version of Arx Fatalis is available at various download-only stores:
Just like with the cd install, do a normal windows (or wine) install and then copy the data (or run directly in the install directory). However, the download-only versions should already include the latest patch.
Required files
The GOG.com install comes with the following files (find *.pak graph/ misc/ -type f | sort | xargs md5sum):
f7e0ce700bf963429ac535ca86f8a7b4 data2.pak a91a0b39a046233debbb10b4850e13eb data.pak afff1099c01ffeb03b9a351f7b5966b6 graph/interface/misc/arkane.bmp 41445d3792a1f8818d950aca47254488 graph/interface/misc/quit1.bmp 8419274acbff7346c3661b18d6aad6dc graph/obj3d/textures/fixinter_barrel.jpg 5743b9047c9ad65540c318dfcc98123a graph/obj3d/textures/fixinter_bell.bmp f246eff6b19c9c710313b4a4dce96a69 graph/obj3d/textures/fixinter_metal_door.jpg f81394abbb9006ce0950843b7909db33 graph/obj3d/textures/fixinter_public_notice.bmp 544448f8eedc912aa231a6a04fffb7c5 graph/obj3d/textures/item_bread.bmp 7e26c4199ddaca494c8b369294306b0b graph/obj3d/textures/item_club.jpg 3a6196fe9b7666c7d80d82be06f6de86 graph/obj3d/textures/item_long_sword.jpg 18492c25ebac02f83e2f0ebda61ecb00 graph/obj3d/textures/item_mauld_sabre.jpg 503a5c2f23668040c675aefdde6dbbe5 graph/obj3d/textures/item_mauldsword.jpg c0a22b4f7a7a6461da68206e94928637 graph/obj3d/textures/item_mirror.jpg 348f9add709bacee08556d1f8cf10f3f graph/obj3d/textures/item_ring_casting.bmp ff05de281c8b380ee98f6e123d3d51cb graph/obj3d/textures/item_rope.bmp 024ccbb520020f92fba5a5a4f0270cea graph/obj3d/textures/item_spell_sheet.jpg 027951899b4829599ca611010ea3484f graph/obj3d/textures/item_torch2.jpg 9ada166f23ddcb775ac20836e752187e graph/obj3d/textures/item_torch.jpg cd206a4027f86c6e57b7710c94049efa graph/obj3d/textures/item_zohark.bmp 79ccc81adb7c37b98f40b478ef1fccd4 graph/obj3d/textures/l7_dwarf_[wood]_board08.jpg 691611087b13d38ef02bb9dfd6a2518e graph/obj3d/textures/l7_dwarf_[wood]_board80.jpg 116bd374c14ae8c387a4da1899e1dca7 graph/obj3d/textures/npc_dog.bmp b7a4d0d3d230b2d1470176909004e38b graph/obj3d/textures/npc_pig.bmp 76034d8d74056c8a982479d36321c228 graph/obj3d/textures/npc_pig_dirty.bmp 00c585ec9ebe8006d7ca72993de7b51b graph/obj3d/textures/npc_rat_base.bmp cae38facbf77db742180b9e58d0eb42f graph/obj3d/textures/npc_rat_base_cm.bmp 0b220bffaedc89fa663f08d12630c342 graph/obj3d/textures/npc_worm_body_part1.jpg 20797cb78f6393a0fb5405969ba9f805 graph/obj3d/textures/npc_worm_body_part2.bmp 00d0b018e995e7d013d6e52e92126901 graph/obj3d/textures/[wood]_light_door.jpg a47b192493afb5794e2161a62d35b69f loc.pak 9a95ff96795c034524ba1c2e94ea12c7 misc/arx_default.ttf 921561e83786efcd25f92147b60a13db misc/arx_russian.ttf da59198061cef0761c6b2fca113f76f6 misc/arx_taiwanese.ttf 9a95ff96795c034524ba1c2e94ea12c7 misc/arx.ttf 63ed31a4eb3d226c23e58cfaa974d484 misc/logo.avi afff1099c01ffeb03b9a351f7b5966b6 misc/logo.bmp 2efc9a74c517fd1ee9919900cf4091d2 sfx.pak 4e8f962d8204bcfd79ce6f3226d6d6de speech.pak
Some of these files are are not strictly needed, but a properly patched full game install should have at least the same .pak files (non-english versions might have a different loc.pak
file)
You can verify this by saving the above list as md5sum.txt
and the running `md5sum --check md5sum.txt`
Demo
Download arx_demo_english.zip or arxdemoenglish.zip (md5sum: 3c59a5799e1237b1b181c96e8c09155a
)
The following sites work without a login and don't wrap the .zip file in an annoying .exe at the time of this writing.
- http://www.cnet.com.au/apps/arx-fatalis-updated-demo-10229017/
- http://www.fileplanet.com/85489/80000/fileinfo/Arx-Fatalis-Demo-%5BEnglish---Updated%5D
- http://games.softpedia.com/get/Games-Demo/Arx-Fatalis.shtml
- http://www.atomicgamer.com/files/38003/arx-fatalis-demo
- http://www.shacknews.com/file/1145/arx-fatalis-demo-v113
- http://www.gamershell.com/download_137.shtml
You can either install the demo using windows or wine or use cabextract to extract the data files.
There is a helper script in the scripts
directory of the Arx Libertatis source code:
scripts/install-demo <zipfile> bin/
Manually extracting the data
This is more of interest to package maintainers, for most people the install-demo
script should be enough.
First, extract the .zip file: mkdir demo && cd demo && unzip ../arx_demo_english.zip
Now extract the three .capfiles
cd demo cabextract Setup1.cab cabextract Setup2.cab cabextract Setup3.cab
This should extract the files
If data
is your destination directory, create a data/misc
directory and copy the following files:
demo/bin/Arx.ttf
todata/misc/arx.ttf
demo/bin/data2.pak
todata/data2.pak
demo/bin/LOC.pak
todata/loc.pak
demo/bin/Logo.bmp
todata/misc/logo.bmp
demo/data.pak
todata/data.pak
demo/SFX.pak
todata/sfx.pak
demo/SPEECH.pak
todata/speech.pak
Note: Manually renaming the files to lowercase is not strictly necessary as the game will try to do so on the first run.
You should end up with the following files / md5 checksums (cd data && find * -type f | sort | xargs md5sum
):
958b78f8f370b06d769843137138c461 data2.pak 5d7ba6e6c79ebf7fbb232eaced9e8ad9 data.pak 2ae16d3925c597dca70f960f175def3a loc.pak 9a95ff96795c034524ba1c2e94ea12c7 misc/arx.ttf aa3dfbd4bc9c863d10a0c5345ae5a4c9 misc/logo.bmp ea1b3e6d6f4906905d4a34f07e9a59ac sfx.pak 62ca7b1751c0615ee131a94f0856b389 speech.pak
You can verify this by saving the above list as md5sum.txt
and the running `md5sum --check md5sum.txt`