Blade of Darkness

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Blade of Darkness

Developers
	Rebel Act Studios
Publishers
	Codemasters
Engines
	Blade
Release dates
Windows	February 21, 2001

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions

GOG.com Support Page

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail

No longer available digitally due to issues with distribution rights.

Game data

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Issues fixed

Crash upon launch

Often this is due to video codec issues such as installed third party codec packs,^{[citation needed]} and the error for this is often MEM_RESIZE_FAILED.

Instructions

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Crash after introduction video

The game doesn't properly handle failure states for when DirectPlay is not installed. Not having DirectPlay also significantly slows the down the opening of the initial game launcher as well.

Instructions

Blank screen when using rOpenGL for video output

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Mouse behaves erratically

This generally happens using Direct3D or rOpenGL for video output.

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Game runs too fast

This typically happens in videos modes other than 3dfx and is due to the game not handling multiple processors properly.

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Cursor is missing/Black text

Generally caused by using Direct3D for output with modern graphics hardware.

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System requirements

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	95	98, ME, 2000
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium II 400 MHz	Intel Pentium III 500 MHz
System memory (RAM)	64 MB	128 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	750 MB
Video card (GPU)	8 MB of VRAM	32 MB of VRAM