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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
Blair Witch Volume 3: The Elly Kedward Tale on MobyGames
Blair Witch Volume 3: The Elly Kedward Tale on Wikipedia
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Key points

Nocturne Editor is available for download here. This game uses a newer version of the engine, so not all features work.

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 makes 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.
Increasing HUD and subtitle size[1]
  1. Run dgVoodooCpl.exe and in DirectX tab select your desired resolution.
  2. In game video settings select a resolution that is lower than the one set in dgVoodoo 2. The lower the resolution selected in game, the bigger the HUD and subtitles will be rendered on screen. Don't select a resolution lower than 640x480, because that will reduce the quality of pre-rendered backgrounds.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\SYSTEM\[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\save\[Note 1]

Video settings

Graphic options menu.
Graphic options menu.

Template:Video settings

Input settings

Control options menu.
Control options menu.
Key configuration menu.
Key configuration menu.

Template:Input settings

Audio settings

Sound options menu.
Sound options menu.

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.
Turning on Windows 98 compatibility mode[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 menus

The music in most menus is crackling, while it plays correctly in some 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[2]
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 98, NT 4.0, 2000
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium 2, Celeron
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

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

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Verified by User:Antrad on February 3, 2018
  2. Information taken from game Readme file.