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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince cover
Developers
EA Bright Light
macOS (OS X) TransGaming Inc.[1]
Publishers
Electronic Arts
Russia 1C-SoftClub
Engines
Bright Light Halogen
Release dates
Windows June 30, 2009
macOS (OS X) (Cider) June 30, 2009
Reception
Metacritic 64
IGDB 66
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Microtransactions None
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Third-person
Controls Direct control
Genres Action, Adventure
Art styles Realistic
Series Harry Potter
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince on HowLongToBeat
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince on IGDB
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince guide on StrategyWiki
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince on MobyGames
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince on Wikipedia
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Warnings

The macOS (OS X) version of this game does not work on macOS Catalina (version 10.15) or later due to the removal of support for 32-bit-only apps.

Key points

Multiplayer from the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 versions has been removed.

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
CD key
SecuROM 7.38.0015 DRM
Windows
macOS (OS X)
This game is not available digitally.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Electronic Arts\Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince\
macOS (OS X)

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %LOCALAPPDATA%\Electronic Arts\Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince\HPHBP0\
macOS (OS X)

Video

Video Settings
Video Settings
General Settings
General Settings

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Highest natively supported resolution is 1920x1080. For other resolutions see below, or Use dgVoodoo 2.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
See below.
4K Ultra HD
See below or Use dgVoodoo 2.
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Use dgVoodoo 2 and choose between 2x-16x under "Texture Filtering".
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Use dgVoodoo 2 and choose between 2x-8x MSAA.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
Enabled by default. No in-game option.
60 FPS
Capped at 30 FPS. See Frame rate (FPS) for 60 FPS.
120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)
See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

4K Ultra HD

3840x2160 (4K)
  1. Open the hp6.exe with a hex-editor.
  2. Search for the hex value of 8080020000C7 and replace the following:
8002000F 
E0017008

3. Save the file and start the game.

If you cannot save the edited file, try unchecking read-only or move the file to a different folder.

For detailed instructions and other resolutions see this video.

The method above causes graphical glitches (ghosting around objects) in some situations. As an alternative try this method:-

  1. Download resolution.zip here.
  2. Unzip the file and place it in the PC sub folder within the games installation folder (same folder as hp6.exe).
  3. Start the game.

Ultra-widescreen

21:9 and 32:9 ratio
  1. Open the hp6.exe with a hex-editor.
  2. Search for the following hex value: 398EE33F
 For 21:9 replace 398EE33F with 26B41740
 For 32:9 replace 398EE33F with 398E6340

3. Then search for the following hex value: 8035FA8E3C

 For 21:9 replace 35FA8E3C with 0752AD3C
 For 32:9 replace 35FA8E3C with A3E4EB3C

4. Save the file and start the game.

If you cannot save the edited file, try unchecking read-only or move the file to a different folder.

For detailed instructions see this video.

Frame rate (FPS)

60 FPS
  1. Open the hp6.exe with a hex-editor.
  2. Search for the following hex value: 001D9573
 Replace 95BA0002 with 95BA0001

3. Save the file and start the game.

If you cannot save the edited file, try unchecking read-only or move the file to a different folder.

For detailed instructions see this video.

Input

Audio

Language Options
Language Options

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Czech
Danish
Dutch
Finnish
French
German
Hungarian
Italian
Norwegian
Polish
Portuguese
[2]
Brazilian Portuguese
Russian
Spanish
Swedish

VR support

3D modes State Notes
vorpX
G3D
User created game profile, see vorpx forum profile introduction.

Issues fixed

1080p or higher resolution not available in video settings

Use Harry Potter HBP Resolution Fix
Requires ThirteenAG's Ultimate ASI Loader.
Also requires Razorn7's Harry Potter HBP Resolution Fix.
  1. Download Harry Potter HBP Resolution Fix 0.05.
  2. Extract harry.mod.ini, harry.mod.asi and dinput8.dll to the same folder where the hp6.exe executable is located.
  3. Open harry.mod.ini and set the desired resolution.
  4. Save and close the file.

Crashing at launch

Use DxWnd
Instead of opening DxWnd everytime you want to play, you can set-up a proxy.
  1. Right-click the game in DxWnd.
  2. Hover on "Proxy".
  3. Select "d3d9" and click "Yes".

Crash on the Bridge Zone

There is a crash on modern systems at the bridge area to selecting a resolution of 1920x1080,lowering the resolution of the game to 1600x900 solves the problem

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 9.0c
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)
This 32-bit-only macOS game does not work on macOS Catalina (10.15) or later.

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP SP2
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium 4 1.8 GHz
System memory (RAM) 256 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 5 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce 2 MX400
ATI Radeon 7500
64 MB of VRAM
DirectX 9.0c compatible
macOS (OS X)
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 10.5.6
Processor (CPU)
System memory (RAM) 256 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)


References