Sacred 2: Gold Edition – v2.65.2 Build 1837 + Elite Textures + Essential Mods + Bonus Content-HohohoGames

Original Size: 33.1 GB

Repack Size: from 9.3 GB

Languages: RUS/ENG/MULTI8

Companies: Studio II, THQ Nordic

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Game Description

Game Features

Experience the world of Ancaria in its full glory with Sacred 2: Gold Edition. Containing Sacred 2 Fallen Angel and the awesome add-on Ice and Blood. Defeat countless dangerous enemies; capture powerful weapons and valuable treasures. Prepare yourself for the ultimate battle and become a legend.
Sacred 2 Fallen Angel:
Poised on the brink of destruction and threatened by overwhelming chaos, a mysterious energy source is spreading across the world of Ancaria. Leaving mutation and terror in its wake, this living energy has become the razors edge on which all else is balanced. The powers of Light and Shadow are destined to collide in an ill fated battle that could tear apart the fabric of life itself.
Sacred 2 Ice & Blood:
Expanding the world of Ancaria, Ice & Blood features two new regions, a new playable character and tons of new items, enemy’s, weapons and missions.
Game Features
An immense, seamless fantasy world with gorgeous and detailed dungeons
The light and shadow campaign allows you do be a hero or a destroyer
Configure and develop one of seven characters
Collect thousands of weapons and pieces of armour
Call your carrier imp whenever you want and let him carry your treasures
Charge into battle on your mount
More than 500 Quests are waiting for you
Included Mods
Elite Textures (Trimmed)
Technically, this is not a mod, but an official add-on, but can be installed as a mod with JSGME. Don’t forget to enable the last quality setting in graphics option.
Back when original Sacred 2 Fallen Angel was released, a set of high-resolution textures was separately sold, dubbed “Elite Textures”. It added extra detail to many items, NPCs, monsters, landscapes, architecture and misc. objects in the game. It also added, sometimes unbearable, lags in crowded places, like cities.
The mechanics of said lags is as follows: when “Default” texture option is on, the RAM cache assigned to the game is 210MB by default, when “Elite” texture option is on the RAM cache assigned is 420MB maximum. Yet every large town contains enough units, using hi-res textures from the package, that actual RAM usage shoot up to 465MB. The game’s memory manager start returning it to the limit value, it overflows again, the memory manager optimizes it again, ad infinitum. All this causes constant heavy HDD I/O load, causing incessant lags.
An attempt has been made to remedy that situation – hi-res normal maps(the true reason behind the problem) have been selectively cut out. Judging by the feedback, the outcome was positive.
Community Patch v1.60
The Community Patch is the attempt of the Sacred fandom to correct as many bugs as possible that were left after Ascaron stopped development of Sacred 2. The mod also restores a large amount of unfinished/unimplemented content (enemies, items, quests, spell fx) and furthermore attempts to optimize the game code to allow for fewer crashes and freezes, and generally better performance.
The Patch has been ongoing for 10 years so the full change log is massive:
COMPREHENSIVE LIST OF ALL CHANGES:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_2UcD-_lE-D2-yokJ6_3Ywfm7375yXNB/view
CP is a REQUIREMENT for Enhanced Edition v3.1, and must be enabled PRIOR the EE in JSGME.
Sacred 2 Enhanced Edition v3.1 by Flix
Sacred 2 Enhanced Edition (S2EE) is the continuation of my work on older mods such as the Community Patch, of which S2EE is meant to be the successor. It is built on top of the Community Patch 1.60 so it requires that to be installed first.
S2EE contains hundreds of bugfixes, as well as numerous gameplay enhancements such as redesigned balance, quality-of-life improvements, and cosmetic changes. Enemies are more challenging, quests are more rewarding, and items are more varied, unique, and useful.
This mod also features AI-Upscaled Textures that will work if the Elite Textures are installed. These all-new HD textures will be used for the DLC and expansion content which never received any official elite textures.
Purist Fixpack v1.2
The Purist Fixpack (PFP) is designed to be the most comprehensive bugfix patch for Sacred 2, as well as being the most strict project in terms of not making subjective changes or adding any fan-made content.
Unlike CP this one is tested only with English installation, support for other languages is not guaranteed.
Also, it CAN’T be used with CP and/or EE mods. But it will work with Elite Textures.

Based on Steam v2.65.2 build with 5 basic languages depots: 25.2 GB
Missing Russian, Polish and Czech localizations (3 GB) added
Crack by Christsnatcher applied over
Elite Textures (Trimmed version, 3.3 GB) added
Essential Mods added and installed, but not activated by default: Community Patch v1.60 (531 MB), Enhanced Edition v3.1 (793 MB), Purist Fixpack v1.2 (291 MB)
Generic Mode Enabler v2.6.0.157 added for flexlible mods manipulation
Selective Download feature: you can skip downloading and installing of optional components: voiceover packs (English VO + support for ENG/RUS/CZE UI languages is included by default), bonus content (OST, Artbook, etc.), Elite Textures pack and “Black Guardian Concert” video from game “Extra” menu
100% Lossless & MD5 Perfect: all files are identical to originals after installation
NOTHING ripped, NOTHING re-encoded
Significantly smaller archive size (compressed from cumulative 33.1 to 9.3~17.8 GB, depending on selected components)
Installation takes 15-30 minutes (depending on your system and selected components)
After-install integrity check so you could make sure that everything installed properly
HDD space after installation: up to 19.4 GB, depending on selected components
Repack uses XTool library by Razor12911
At least 2 GB of free RAM (inc. virtual) required for installing this repack
Make sure to install PhysX driver, coming with repack. If after installing it the game throws PhysX error, copy all DLLs from “C:\Program Files (x86)\NVIDIA Corporation\PhysX\Common” folder to game’s “system” folder

Download Mirrors

It is recommended to always use Magnet for downloads, and we suggest the following open-source clients: Gopeed

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discussion && update

https://cs.rin.ru/forum/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=64246

Website links

http://ru.akella.com/Game.aspx?id=2269

Precautions and recommended settings

Always recommend using magnet links to download games for faster and more stable speeds. Recommend pure, open-source, ad-free download software (such as Gopeed or BitComet).
Before running the game, evaluate the game’s system hardware requirements. If your computer only has 2G of RAM, you basically cannot expect to run large next-gen games smoothly.
Extracting high-compression packages consumes a lot of memory. You must enable virtual memory and manually set it to 1 to 1.5 times the physical memory.
Example: If the computer has 8G RAM, suggest increasing to 12GB – 16GB; if 16G RAM, set to 24GB (both initial and maximum values fill in 24576 MB).
When extracting the game, the hard drive needs 2-3 times the free space of the game installation package. For example, if the package is 10G, the target drive needs at least 20-30G of free space.
The hard disk partition format must be NTFS. The outdated FAT32 format cannot write single files larger than 4GB, which will cause the extraction to freeze.
During game installation, temporarily disable Windows Defender or third-party antivirus software, or add the “game download directory” and “target installation directory” to the antivirus exclusion list.
If the computer has less than 4G RAM, or high-end computers frequently report extraction errors, be sure to check “Limit installer to 2 GB of RAM usage” on the first interface during installation. This slightly limits extraction speed but greatly improves stability and solves 90% of memory overflow errors.
When running setup.exe, always right-click the icon and select “Run as administrator” to ensure the installer has full system read/write permissions.
The absolute path of the game installation cannot contain any Chinese characters, special symbols, or extra spaces.
Correct example: “D:\Games\Steam”
Wrong example: “D:\游戏\赛博朋克 2077”
During the extraction process, the CPU and memory are pushed to the limit. At this time, strictly prohibit playing other large games, background rendering, or opening many browser tabs, otherwise it can easily cause resource contention leading to instant errors (such as Unarc.dll) or even a blue screen.
At the checkbox interface at the end of installation, be sure to check the installation of DirectX and Visual C++ Redistributable (runtime library suite). Many players successfully extract but cannot open the game (popping up 0xc000007b or missing various .dll files) because of missing these basic runtimes.
If the installation completes smoothly but double-clicking the game icon has no response, 99% of the time it is because Windows Defender silently quarantined or deleted the “crack patch” (such as steam_api64.dll) in the game directory right after extraction. Go to the “Protection history” in Windows Security and select “Restore and allow” for that file.
After encountering an Unarc.dll error, never download this DLL file alone from the internet and place it in the system drive. The game compression mechanism uses highly customized dedicated libraries; generic DLLs downloaded online are useless and can easily infect the system.
If you have strictly followed all the above configurations and requirements and still stubbornly get an Unarc.dll error during installation, you basically can only consider reinstalling a pure version of the system.
If it still does not work, then consider installing on another machine.