Nocturne
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 |
Taxonomy | |
Series | Nocturne |
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 |
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.
- 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
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
Graphics feature | State | Notes | |
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Widescreen resolution | In software mode resolutions up to 640x480 are available, in hardware mode up to 1280x1024. Menus remain 640x480. See dgVoodoo 2 for higher resolutions. In widescreen resolutions the game is stretched. | ||
Multi-monitor | |||
Ultra-widescreen | |||
4K Ultra HD | |||
Field of view (FOV) | |||
Windowed | Use dgVoodoo 2. In DirectX tab under Behavior disable Application controlled windows/fullscreen state and Disable Alt-Enter to toggle screen state, then in game press Alt+↵ Enter. | ||
Borderless fullscreen windowed | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
Anisotropic filtering (AF) | Force using dgVoodoo 2. | ||
Anti-aliasing (AA) | Use dgVoodoo 2 to force MSAA. | ||
Vertical sync (Vsync) | Enabled by default in hardware mode, but only during gameplay. Force using dgVoodoo 2 to enable it in the menus too. | ||
60 FPS | |||
120+ FPS | Framerate is uncapped in software mode, but causes clothes physics to speed up. |
Input
Keyboard and mouse | State | Notes |
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Remapping | ||
Mouse acceleration | ||
Mouse sensitivity | ||
Mouse input in menus | Only some secondary menus accept mouse input. | |
Mouse Y-axis inversion | ||
Controller | ||
Controller support | ||
Full controller support | ||
Controller remapping | ||
Controller sensitivity | ||
Controller Y-axis inversion |
Additional information | ||
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Button prompts | ||
Controller hotplugging | ||
Haptic feedback | ||
Digital movement supported | ||
Simultaneous controller+KB/M |
Audio
Audio feature | State | Notes |
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Separate volume controls | Sound effects, dialogue and music. | |
Surround sound | Up to 7.0 with Creative ALchemy | |
Subtitles | ||
Closed captions | ||
Mute on focus lost | ||
EAX support | EAX1 |
Localizations
Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
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English | ||||
French | ||||
German | ||||
Italian | ||||
Japanese | ||||
Polish | Local retail only, download. | |||
Spanish |
Issues unresolved
- Some transitions between menu screens are very slow and sometimes it can take several seconds for the menus to respond to input.[citation needed]
Set affinity to 1 CPU core |
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Issues fixed
Game crashes on launch
Use dgVoodoo 2[4] |
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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[5] |
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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[6] |
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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[7] |
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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 :
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High frame rate issues
- The physics are linked to 60 FPS, so playing at high fps can cause problems.
Limit the Framerate to 60FPS[citation needed] |
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Vsync (Enabled by default) |
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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[8] | ||
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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
- ↑ Verified by User:Antrad on 2017-11-06
- ↑ Verified by User:Antrad on 2017-11-06
- ↑ Verified by User:Antrad on 2017-11-06
- ↑ Verified by User:Antrad on 2017-11-06
- ↑ Verified by User:Antrad on 2017-11-06
- ↑ Information taken from the game manual.