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Arabian Nights

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Arabian Nights
Arabian Nights cover
Developers
Silmarils
Publishers
Retail (Europe) Visiware
Retail (Europe) Wanadoo
Retail (North America) DreamCatcher Interactive
Digital Piko Interactive[citation needed]
Release dates
Windows June 21, 2001
Reception
Metacritic 50
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Third-person
Controls Direct control
Genres Action
Themes Middle East
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Arabian Nights is a singleplayer third-person action game.

General information

Prince of Persia community forum (contains some information related to a game)
GOG.com Community Discussions
GOG.com Support Page

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
 SecuROM 4 DRM
Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
Windows

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Replace intro file with empty one[1]
  1. Download empty intro file and extract it.
  2. Move it to the installation folder, overwriting the existing one.

Notes

Not required for the GOG.com release.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\opt.def[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\sultan.sa*[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy

Video

Game launcher.
Game launcher.
Graphics settings.
Graphics settings.

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
See Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS
120+ FPS

Windowed

Use DxWnd[1]
  1. Download and run DxWnd as administrator.
  2. Click on Edit, then Add.
  3. Set name to Arabian Nights.
  4. Set path to <path-to-game>\_START.exe.
  5. Tick Do not notify on task switch to prevent crashes when loosing focus on the game window.
  6. Click on Mouse tab, set Mouse Clipper to On.
  7. Click OK, then File and Save.
  8. Run the game directly from DxWnd.

Notes

Inputs are recognized even when loosing focus on the game window.

Input

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Controller types

Audio

Audio settings.
Audio settings.

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
If the music volume slider is set to the lowest value, music will be played at 100% volume. If, on the other hand, the dialogue volume slider is set to the lowest value, all dialogue lines will immediately be skipped.[1]
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German
Italian
Polish
Retail only
Portuguese
Portuguese audio only available in the retail release[2]
Russian
Spanish
It's possible that there is audio for current listed languages and more translations.

Issues fixed

Black screen after the game's start

Delete the intro movie. See Skip intro videos.[1]

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 7
Glide 3 Not present in the GOG release
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 95, 98
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium 200 MHz Intel Pentium III 500 MHz
System memory (RAM) 32 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 390 MB


Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMDATA%, or %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).

References