Arx Fatalis v1.18 Patch Released

In anticipation of the upcoming Arx Fatalis Collector’s Edition, Arkane Studios has released an official v1.18 patch for the Ultima Underworld-inspired RPG. The fixes:

– Fixed D3D texture creation that triggered white textured objects / Characters on recent hardware configurations.
– Fixed a crash on TNL Bump Mapping management.
– Fixed several memory leaks.
– Fixed the text font not being displayed on recent hardware configurations.
– Fixed a specific crash on spells use.
– Tweaked the Fireball spell damage rule, to make it less powerful & more balanced.
– Fixed a bug where the game would quit if the ESC key was pressed during the New Game fade to black.

One would assume this applies to the dirt cheap Steam version, as well.