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Blade & Soul

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Blade & Soul
Blade & Soul cover
Developers
Team Bloodlust
Publishers
NCSOFT
Engines
Unreal Engine 3
Release dates
Windows June 30, 2012
Blade & Soul on Wikipedia

Warnings

This game requires a constant internet connection for all game modes.

Key points

This game uses the nProtect Game Guard anti-cheating system, which may cause problems.

General information

Official webite

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Official website
Always online (requires a constant internet connection to play)
Windows
All versions require an NC account and a constant internet connection for all game modes.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Documents\BnS\NCWest\

Video settings

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Input settings

Keybinding and controller remapping are not allowed prior to logging into a character

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Audio settings

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Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
German
French
Brazilian Portuguese

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Notes
Local play
LAN play
Online play

Connection types

VR support

3D modes State Notes
Native 3D
Stereoscopic.
Nvidia 3D Vision
See Helix Mod: Blade & Soul.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 9
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

No middleware information; you can edit this page to add it.

SLI Support

Nvidia Profile Inspector can used to force SLI-based Supersampling AA.
Modify game profile[citation needed]
  1. Open the Blade & Soul game profile via Nvidia Profile Inspector.
  2. Make sure to add the application to the profile, at C:\Program Files (x86)\NCSOFT\BnS\bin select client.exe and change the dropdown from Application Client Exe to Application Client Absolute Path.
  3. Change SLI compatibility bits to 0x03402405
  4. Change Antialiasing Compability to 0x000010C1
  5. Change Antialiasing - SLI AA to AA_MODE_SELECTOR_SLIAA_ENABLED
  6. Change Nvidia Predefined SLI Mode to SLI_PREDEFINED_MODE_FORCE_SINGLE
  7. Change Antialiasing - Mode to Override any application setting
  8. Change Antialiasing - Setting to 2x Multi Sampling
  9. Change Antialiasing - Transparency Multisampling to Enabled
  10. Change Antialiasing - Transparency Supersampling to 2x Sparse Grid Supersampling
  11. Apply changes.

Notes

It is not recommended for SLI 970 users to set higher than x2 as it can harm performance, especially in crowded areas.

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP SP3
Processor (CPU) Intel Dual Core
AMD Athlon 64X2
System memory (RAM) XP: 2 GB
Vista, 7: 3 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 22 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce 8600GT
AMD Radeon HD4600
DirectX 9.0c compatible

References