Nocturne
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Developers | |
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Terminal Reality | |
Publishers | |
North America | Gathering of Developers |
Europe | Take-Two Interactive |
Engines | |
Nocturne | |
Release dates | |
Windows | October 31, 1999 |
Warnings
- SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see Availability for affected versions).
Nocturne | |
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Nocturne | 1999 |
Blair Witch Volume 1: Rustin Parr | 2000 |
Blair Witch Volume 2: The Legend of Coffin Rock | 2000 |
Blair Witch Volume 3: The Elly Kedward Tale | 2000 |
Key points
- Nocturne Editor is available for download here.
- Blair Witch Volume 1: Rustin Parr is a sequel to Nocturne, set before the events in the final episode Epilogue.
General information
Availability
- SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see above for affected versions).
- This game is not available digitally.
Demo
- Several demos are available here.
Essential improvements
Patches
- Latest patch is Nocturne Patch 2 (Build 1.00.52).
Peixoto's patch
Peixoto's patch forced resolution allows high resolution without shrinking the HUD\menus. Super sampling anti aliasing is also possible
dgVoodoo 2
- On modern systems this game may crash on startup, dgVoodoo 2 fixes this issue and can also 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[3] |
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Increasing HUD and subtitle size[3] |
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Skip intro videos
Instructions[3] |
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Game data
Configuration file(s) location
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>\SYSTEM\[Note 2] |
Save game data location
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>\save\[Note 2] |
Video settings
Input settings
Audio settings
Issues unresolved
- Some transitions between menu screens are very slow and sometimes it can take several seconds for the menus to respond to input.[4]
Issues fixed
Game crashes on launch
Use dgVoodoo 2[3] |
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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[3] |
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Notes
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Game crashes after loading a level
- After loading a level the game crashes with a DirectX 6 3D driver error: D3DERR_ELIFINO: An unknown D3D error occured.
Install the latest patch[3] |
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Intro video not being rendered
- When starting the game the intro video plays, but only sound can be heard, the video itself is not rendered. This happens because of the Indeo codec which is not included in the newest versions of Windows.
Install the missing Indeo codec[3] |
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Other information
API
Technical specs | Supported | Notes |
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Direct3D | 5, 6, 7 | |
Software renderer |
Executable | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
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Windows |
System requirements
Windows[5] | ||
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Minimum | Recommended | |
Operating system (OS) | 95, 98 | NT 4.0, 2000 |
Processor (CPU) | Intel Pentium MMX 233 MHz AMD K6 233 MHz |
Intel Pentium II 400 MHz or Higher Intel Celeron, Pentium III AMD Athlon 500 Mhz or Higher |
System memory (RAM) | 64 MB (96 MB for 3D hardware acceleration) | 128 MB |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 500 MB | 1 GB |
Video card (GPU) | 8 MB of VRAM DirectX 5 compatible | Matrox G200/G400 ATI Rage 128 Savage3D nVIDIA TnT/TnT2 AGP Video Port required DirectX 6 compatible |
Notes
- ↑ SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows 10[1] or Windows 11 and is disabled by default on Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1 when the KB3086255 update is installed.[2]
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 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
- ↑ Not Loading in Windows 10; this will break thousands of - Microsoft Community - last accessed on 2017-01-16
- ↑ Microsoft - MS15-097: Description of the security update for the graphics component in Windows: September 8, 2015 - last accessed on 2018-02-16
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 Verified by User:Antrad on November 6, 2017
- ↑ Cite error: Invalid
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- ↑ Information taken from the game manual.