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Sacred Gold GOG v.2.0.0.4
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    genre    rpg / action / fantasy
    download size    1.8 GB
    release date    October 22, 2004
    compatible with    Windows (XP, Vista, 7, 8)
    languages    English
    developer / publisher   ASCARON Entertainment / Strategy First
    game modes    single-player, multi-player, co-op

    Bonus content included for FREE with purchase:
    original soundtrack
    Underworld soundtrack
    manual (21 pages)
    map of Ancaria
    quickstart
    6 HD wallpapers
    7 avatars

What's cool about it:

    Includes Sacred Plus and Sacred Underworld
    Many different and very interesting classes and characters to choose from
    An engaging storyline viewed from many different perspectives

Overview:

A shadow of evil has fallen on the kingdom of Ancaria. Now is the time for champions. Orcish hordes and Undead legions, Demonic beasts and mythical Dragons. This is the world of Sacred. A time of legends. Your world. Your time. A new adventure begins...

Choose from 8 heroic characters: Dwarf, Daemon, Gladiator, Seraphim, Battlemage, Wood Elf, Dark Elf, Vampiress. Discover the vast Kingdom of Ancaria, but be on your guard. Equip yourself with magic spells, close-combat and ranged weapons, fighting on foot and on horseback.

Collect hundreds of items, forge unique and powerful weapons and armor. Learn Combat Arts, develop new skills and perform devastating combo attacks, made from your own special skills and spells. Battle your way through the massive main storyline and solve hundreds of side and dynamic quests as you cleanse the lands of Ancaria.

Battle with friends and rivals in Sacred's free multiplayer modes (online & LAN). Featuring the entire campaign played cooperatively (1-4 players), pure Hack'n'Slash with friends (1-16 players), or battling against others in Player vs Player (1-16 players).

Multiplayer notice: Sacred's multiplayer servers (Internet) are no longer functioning, therefore multiplayer is only possible over a local area network (physical or emulated).

Age requirements: ESRB Rating: TEEN with Blood, Fantasy Violence, Mild Language. PEGI Rating: 12+ with Violence.

Minimum system requirements: Windows XP or Windows Vista, 1 GHz Processor (1.4 GHz recommended), 512MB RAM (1 GB recommended), 3D graphics card compatible with DirectX 7 (compatible with DirectX 9 recommended), Mouse, Keyboard. 

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Comments

I was able to run the game from the beginning (maybe I tried using Windows XP SP3 compatibility mode, not sure) but I had these strange graphics particles all over the screen (they could be especially seen when starting the game with Seraphim). Changing settings in game helped a bit but did not solve the issue.

How I solved it: I opened the nVidia control panel, clicked Configure 3D settings (I have different language so it may be slightly different than how I describe it) and in there I clicked "Program settings" tab, in the drop-down menu nr. 1 I chose Sacred (sacred.exe), then in nr. 2 (under the drop-down menu) I chose "High-power NVIDIA processor" and in nr. 3 (located under nr. 2) I turned off "Anisotropic filtering", Set the "Texture filtering" on "Performance" (not the "Highest Performance").

Then I clicked Apply and run the game in full screen mode - everything worked even when I enabled higest textures in game, blood, etc...

The resolution was stuck on 4:3 screens version but I can get over that.

If this didn´t help, try to play around with those settings in nVidia Control Panel because that´s where I was able to solve my issues.
EDIT: This is all you need to do if your game textures are broken, no need to tinker with those settings that I mentioned:

How I solved it: I opened the nVidia control panel, clicked Configure 3D settings (I have different language so it may be slightly different than how I describe it) and in there I clicked "Program settings" tab, in the drop-down menu nr. 1 I chose Sacred (sacred.exe), then in nr. 2 (under the drop-down menu) I chose "High-power NVIDIA processor".
Thank you !
Many thanks! Sacred is awesome, one of my favorite Diablo-like RPGs.