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Blair Witch Volume 3: The Elly Kedward Tale

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Blair Witch Volume 3: The Elly Kedward Tale
Blair Witch Volume 3: The Elly Kedward Tale cover
Developers
Ritual Entertainment
Publishers
Gathering of Developers
Engines
Nocturne
Release dates
Windows November 21, 2000
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General information

MobyGames page

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
DRM details are not known
Windows
This game is not available digitally.

Essential improvements

dgVoodoo 2

Can be used to force higher resolutions, anti-aliasing and anisotropic filtering.
Bilinear blit stretch can be used to make the pre-rendered backgrounds less pixelated on higher resolutions.
Instructions[1]
  1. Download the latest version of dgVoodoo 2 and unpack it (verified working on version 2.54).
  2. Copy all the files from the MS folder.
  3. Paste the files into the game installation folder.
  4. Run dgVoodooCpl.exe and configure the settings to you liking.
  • Game uses DirectX in hardware mode, so the above mentioned improvements should be activated in the DirectX tab.

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

Template:Audio settings

Issues fixed

System RAM and swap disk space warning

When launching the game two warning messages are displayed about 0.0MB of system RAM and 0.0MB of free swap disk space. These can be ignored or the game can be run in Windows 98 compatibility mode to avoid these messages from appearing.
Instructions[1]
  1. Right click the game shortcut or nocturne.exe.
  2. Click Properties, then open the Compatibility tab.
  3. Under Compatibility mode check Run this program in compatibility mode for and select Windows 98/Windows ME.
  4. Click Apply and OK.

Notes

This will disable any enhancements set in dgVoodoo 2.

Issues unresolved

Crackling music in main menu

The music in the main menu is crackling, while it plays correctly in sub-menus (for example, when configuring keys).

Missing legs on NPCs

Female characters with long skirts have no legs.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 7
Software renderer
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 98, NT 4.0, 2000
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium 2, Celeron Intel Pentium 3 or AMD Athlon
System memory (RAM) 64 MB (96 MB for hardware acceleration)
Hard disk drive (HDD) 850 MB
Video card (GPU) Matrox G200/G400, ATI Rage 128, or TnT/TnT2
DirectX 7 compatible
Information taken from game readme file.

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Verified by User:Antrad on February 3, 2018