Arokhs Lair – A Drakan fan site

Ucyborg has released a new version of his AiO patch for Drakan. Here are the new features and bug fixes:-

• Implemented per-user settings; config, saves and other data will be saved to user’s Documents folder, in “My Games\Drakan”.
• Added option to turn on/off redirection of user data to user’s Documents folder.
• Screenshots will go to Screenshots subfolder and the old screenshots won’t be overwritten.
• Added option to disable the usage of performance counter for timing.
• Game will no longer force-create registry key with A3D settings for old Aureal sound cards.
• Reverted change from previous update that caused “No Servers Listed” message in server browser remain on screen permanently.
• Deleting last user defined server from server browser will now delete servers.txt file from disk, previously the file remained on disk with 1 server entry, which showed up on the list again after refreshing server list.
• Replaced PeekMessage call with GetMessage in a message loop for Riot Engine Options dialog, taking care of excessive CPU utilization.
• Changed main loop to process all pending window messages before running a frame instead of just one per frame.
• Increased default limit of concurrent playing sounds from 20 to 64 (no more sound cutoffs without a DirectSound wrapper).
• Added missing trigger that turns off EAX Cave sound effect when leaving the cave in Ruined Village where 2 Scavengers attack an Orc.
• Game will now use the audio device selected in Riot Engine Options dialog instead of always using default device.
• It’s now possible to select which monitor to use for fullscreen mode in Riot Engine Options dialog.
• Added FPS limiter.
• Restored compatibility with Windows 9x family of operating systems.
• Removed now redundant compatibility database from the archive, you may remove “Drakan SDB” entry from programs list or using Compatibility Administrator if you’ve installed it.
• Empty DebugLog.txt will no longer be created when opening 3D view in Level Editor.
• Sounds played in Level Editor 3D view will no longer be muted when window loses focus.

As you may have noticed I’ve changed the site colours on the front pages so they are more in line with the forum theme colours. It really needs to be redesigned for better readability on mobile devices but that will come in time. I’ve also noticed since the latest Android update the forum menu bar is hidden by the address bar in the chrome browser. I suggest changing your forum style if you view the site on mobile devices a lot. This can be found under preferences in your user account settings.

We now have our forum member YanGez93 who will be posting articles on this page; he’s making a remake of Drakan in the unity engine and it’s looking pretty neat. Watch this space.

I’ve decided to delete the events calendar as no-one used it and it was just taking up room on the server. I never liked it anyway 😉 It’s error log file had grown to over 10Gb in size due to logging spamming attempts. However we now have a Steam group which I assume most would prefer. I’ve updated the events link to point to this new page if you want to check it out.

We now have an Arokh’s Lair steam group which you can join to chat with other fans and find former Drakan players who play games you may already own. It seems most former Drakan players play FPS games but me personally prefer RPG games. It’s worth a look at the group and it’s members to see if any of us have any games in common.

The link is here http://steamcommunity.com/groups/arokhslair

I put a forum post up about seeing if any ex drakan players play ESO and if they would be interested in joining a guild / group so we could adventure together in the world of Tamriel. The post is here  if you want to take a look at the details. I play on the EU server but seem as characters are not transferable between the EU and NA servers two guilds may have to be set up. We will see. For now more information is in the forum post.

Another update for the Drakan All in One patch is in the works – this will be of use to you level editors out there who became stuck due to the game engine’s incapability of working on later versions of direct X without crashes, bugs etc making it nearly if not impossible to create levels.

The link to the entire thread is here https://www.arokhslair.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=3765

OK so there hasn’t been anything regarding Drakan to post recently and there’s been no new levels, fan art and fanfics submitted for years but I have something from Skyrim that is worth posting. I have been playing this game as an Argonian who you can find on earlier posts as they are a cool race to play as and Skyrim is remotely similar to and much more modern than Drakan.

Anyway there is a great fanfiction centered around an Argonian character which I found and it is a well written emotional story with professional writing. It follows the main story of the game plus a little prequel about the main character’s backstory. It’s currently not finished but there are currently 2 arcs which come to around 300 pages; about the size of an average book. This will be massive epic story when it’s done.

It’s called Dragon of the East and can be found on the below links:-

Inkit fanfiction entry Inkit fanfiction entry

Arcs 1 and 2 complete on fanfiction.net

And finally where all new chapters will be added