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Nocturne

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Nocturne
Nocturne cover
Developers
Terminal Reality
Publishers
North America Gathering of Developers
Europe Take-Two Interactive
Engines
Nocturne
Release dates
Windows October 31, 1999
Nocturne on Wikipedia

Warnings

SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see Availability for affected versions).

Key points

Nocturne Editor is available for download here.

General information

MobyGames page

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
 SafeDisc v1 DRM[Note 1]
Windows
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).

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 can be used to make the pre-rendered backgrounds less pixelated on higher resolutions.
Instructions[3]
  1. Download the latest version of dgVoodoo 2 and unpack it.
  2. Copy all the files from the MS folder.
  3. Paste the files into the game installation folder.
  4. 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.

Skip intro videos

Instructions[3]
  1. Go to <path-to-game>\videos\.
  2. Delete or rename opening.avi.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

Template:Game data/row
System Location

Save game data location

Template:Game data/row
System Location

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 unresolved

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.[4]
The video file opening.avi is located at <path-to-game>\video\ and can be viewed using a media player program.

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.[4]

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.
Instructions[3]
  1. Right click the game shortcut or nocturne.exe.
  2. Click Properties.
  3. Click the Compatibility tab.
  4. Under Compatibility mode check Run this program in compatibility mode for and select Windows 98/Windows ME.
  5. 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[3]

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) 98, NT 4.0, 2000
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium 2, Celeron, Pentium 3 or AMD Athlon 400 MHz or higher
System memory (RAM) 64 MB (96 MB for hardware acceleration) 128 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 500 MB 1 GB
Video card (GPU) Matrox G200/G400, ATI Rage 128, or TnT/TnT2
DirectX 5 compatible
Information taken from the game manual.

Notes

  1. ↑ 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]

References