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Blade Runner

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Revision as of 14:54, 7 August 2017 by Osprey (talk | contribs) (Added patches, a few fixed issues and a number of other edits)
Blade Runner
Blade Runner cover
Developers
Westwood Studios
Publishers
Virgin Interactive
Release dates
Windows November 1997
Blade Runner on Wikipedia
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Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
DRM details are not known
 CD-ROM & DVD-ROM
Windows
The DVD-ROM version has the same content as the CD-ROM version.

Essential improvements

Alternate installer

Use Blade Runner Installer 2012 to install the game from CD/DVD on 64-bit Windows. Also download HDFRAMES.DAT from there and copy it to your game folder.

This automatically installs both the official patch and the "CPU patch".

Official patch

Download the patch for the CD-ROM version or the DVD-ROM version.

CPU patch

Download the CPU patch to fix timing issues with the shooting range and "rat in the tunnel" portions of the game.

After extracting it to the game folder, see Mouse isn't smooth below to edit its config file for smoother mouse movement.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

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System Location

Save game data location

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System Location

Video settings

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Input settings

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Audio settings

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Issues fixed

Shooting range and rat/tunnel issues

On modern CPUs, shooting range targets never appear or take minutes to. A similar issue occurs with the "rat in the tunnel" portion of the game.

Instructions

Mouse isn't smooth

Instructions

Save games not working

Instructions

Objects missing in Acts 2 through 4

The installer (even the alternate installer) doesn't copy certain files from Discs 2 through 4, so they're missing when the game looks for them.

Instructions

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
DirectDraw 5.0 640x480
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 95
Processor (CPU) Pentium 90
System memory (RAM) 16 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 150 MB
Video card (GPU) 2 MB of VRAM
DirectX 5 compatible

References