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  1. For the sake of completeness, I can confirm and say a word or two about the following rumours: #11: Refers to the witch from 'Bah Spider!' (Pfui Spinne) and her real pet. If you go south-west from where you first meet her by the menhir, you'll find a giant spider boss in a very small ruin, usually safe to kill from a distance. #12: There are in fact some caves containing gargoyles and other strange (for the people of Ancaria) monsters in that area. #23: The rumour about the succubus was told by publicans in Plus already, at least in the German version. It only comes full circle together with the smith's quest in UW. The story that the succubus tells after you've completed Jacquaire's quest is a reference to, or, if you like, a re-telling of the Sacred demo: You could level up and do things but if you left Silver Creek to the west, Jacquaire showed up and killed your character. Likewise, characters from the demo couldn't be used in the actual game.
  2. There's a legitimate and easy way to install and run Sacred Plus and / or UW under Vista without having to disable UAC or running as an admin or even resorting to things like cracking; I have one set of licenses (Plus+UW) running under Vista 32 (laptop), and there's no problem running either one. The icons / links to both installations aren't set to 'run as administrator', either. Here's how: - Firstly, get rid of the idea to install Sacred (or any other game) into its default directory. Get it out of your head, use a blowtorch if necessary. - Install Sacred Plus into something like c:\Sacred, and update to 1.8.26 using the full retail patch - run once, to get the update mechanism going. (requires Sacred Plus CD 2 in the drive, like in the old days) - Install UW into another directory, like c:\Sacred Underworld, choose separate installation - update to v 2.28 - run and enjoy Multiplayer caveat: - Start Sacred or UW - Go to Options: set transfer speed to Modem/ISDN - Get your character into the MP game - Once in the game, go to Options again and change back to DSL before doing anything else. Reasons for doing the installation my way: Vista needs all the protection it can get, and UAC/not running things as admin are important mechanisms. UAC prevents changes to the default paths like c:\user in order to try to prevent BAD things from happening. Turning off UAC if you want to / have to run Vista isn't a very good idea, try to avoid it. Simply using a different directory, on a path outside the Windows defaults, will amend most of your gaming ailments under Vista.
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