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Revision as of 06:21, 12 October 2019

Blade Runner
Blade Runner cover
Developers
Westwood Studios
Publishers
Virgin Interactive
Engines
Alternate ScummVM
Release dates
Windows November 1997
Blade Runner on Wikipedia
Blade Runner
Blade Runner 1997
Blade Runner 2049: Memory Lab 2017
Blade Runner 9732 (unofficial) 2018
Blade Runner: Enhanced Edition 2022
Blade Runner 2033: Labyrinth TBA

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

ScummVM

As of 16 June 2019, the ScummVM engine supports Blade Runner. For more information, see https://www.scummvm.org/news/20190616/.

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

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\BLADE.INI[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\SAVE\*.SAV[Note 1]

Video settings

Template:Video settings

Input settings

Template:Input settings

Audio settings

Template:Audio settings

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Transcription by the ScummVM team
French
Transcription by the ScummVM team
German
Italian
Spanish

Issues fixed

Game wont start

Game will crash on start if computer does not have an optical drive mounted.

In Windows 10, opening the ISO will create a drive automatically.
Mount a virtual optical drive
  1. Install Daemon Tools Lite
  2. Mount a virtual optical drive.
  3. Launch game.

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.

Apply the CPU patch[1]

Mouse isn't smooth

This pertains to using the CPU patch.
Edit config[citation needed]
  1. Open aqrit.cfg.
  2. Set ForceBltNoTearing to 0. Make sure that you set ForceBltNoTearing, not BltNoTearing.
  3. Set NoVideoMemory to 0.

Save games not working

Create a SAVE folder under <path-to-game>[citation needed]

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.

Add HDFRAMES.DAT[citation needed]
  1. Download HDFRAMES.DAT.
  2. Copy it to the installation folder, overwriting the one there.

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) Intel Pentium 90
System memory (RAM) 16 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 150 MB
Video card (GPU) 2 MB of VRAM
DirectX 5 compatible

Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMDATA%, or %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).

References