Nocturne

Nocturne

Developers
	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
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

MobyGames page

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail		SafeDisc v1 DRM

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
Download the latest version of dgVoodoo 2 and unpack it. Copy all the files from the MS folder. Paste the files into the game installation folder. Optional: 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
Run dgVoodooCpl.exe and in DirectX tab select your desired resolution. 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.

Skip intro videos

Instructions
Go to <path-to-game>\videos\. Delete or rename opening.avi.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\SYSTEM\

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\save\

Video settings

Graphic options menu.

Input settings

Control options menu.

Key configuration menu.

Audio settings

Sound options menu.

Issues unresolved

Slow and unresponsive menus

Some transitions between menu screens are very slow and sometimes it can take several seconds for the menus to respond to input.

Issues fixed

Game crashes on launch

Use dgVoodoo 2

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
Right click the game shortcut or nocturne.exe. Click Properties, then open the Compatibility tab. Under Compatibility mode check Run this program in compatibility mode for and select Windows 98/Windows ME. Click Apply and OK. Notes This will disable any enhancements set in dgVoodoo 2.

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

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

Download an old freeware version of the Ligos Indeo codec from here. Run the setup file you just downloaded and follow the instructions. The installer might hang a while when searching for Netscape-based browsers on your computer, just give it time - it can take 5-15 minutes depending on your hardware or you can select Custom setup and uncheck the last case (Indeo Video 5 Web Browser Plugin), this will install the codec faster) On Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1 and Windows 10, the Indeo video codec is integrated in the system but not registered. Open a command prompt ("Start" -> "Run..." -> type "cmd" or "command", click "OK") and execute the following commands : First change directory (64 bit Windows only): cd C:\Windows\SysWOW64 Register the .dll with this command : regsvr32 ir50_32.dll Now the Indeo video codec is activated and videos based on this codec will be played back. Note : Using dgVoodoo 2 (DDraw.dll) (to fix crashes and get higher resolutions) will not render the intro video, that's because Nocturne uses GDI for the intro video instead of DirectX. Note 2 : Use this DDraw.dll file, it will render the intro video and you can select higher resolutions in the video options.

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	5, 6, 7
Software renderer

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
	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