Blade: The Edge of Darkness

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Blade: The Edge of Darkness

Developers
	Rebel Act Studios
Publishers
	Codemasters
Engines
	Blade
Release dates
Windows	February 21, 2001

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions

GOG.com Support Page

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail

No longer available digitally due to issues with distribution rights.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

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

Save game data location

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

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
GOG Galaxy

Video settings

Graphics feature	State	WSGF	Notes
Widescreen resolution			Stretched
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD			2048x1536 is the highest supported resolution
Field of view (FOV)		Camera can be zoomed in/out in 3 presets
Windowed		Available only for some renderers
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)		Must be forced through Nvidia/AMD control panel
Anti-aliasing (AA)		Must be forced through Nvidia/AMD control panel
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS

Input settings

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping		Up to 3 possible binds per action
Mouse acceleration		No mouse acceleration present
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.

Audio settings

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls		Music and sound effects
Surround sound		Up to 7.0 with Creative ALchemy.
Subtitles		Can not be disabled
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
EAX support		A3D 1.0 and EAX 2

Issues fixed

Crash upon launch

Often this is due to video codec issues such as installed third party codec packs,^{[citation needed]} and the error for this is often MEM_RESIZE_FAILED.

Rename the "video" directory contained in the "Data" directory[citation needed]

Convert the .mpg videos in the "video" directory and subdirectories to raw .avi while retaining the name to retain playback capability[citation needed]

Crash after introduction video

The game doesn't properly handle failure states for when DirectPlay is not installed. Not having DirectPlay also significantly slows down the opening of the initial game launcher as well.

Install DirectPlay[citation needed]

Blank screen when using rOpenGL for video output

Alt-Tab out of the application then go back to it[citation needed]

Mouse behaves erratically

This generally happens using Direct3D or rOpenGL for video output.

Force VSync through the GPU control panel[citation needed]

Camera/view moves choppily and unpredictably

The mouse-camera control granularity is linked somehow to the framerate. Higher framerates lead to smoother and slower mouse-camera control. Lower framerates lead to choppy control that is "quantized", too fast and jumpy. I've encountered such problems on both old and new hardware. Besides framerate, part of the problem seems to be related to the audio renderer, of all things.

The game is most controllable when framerate is as consistent as possible. Improve framerate by disabling fancy driver-forced settings, such as anti-aliasing. Cap framerate by forcing v-sync[citation needed]

Game runs too fast

This typically happens in videos modes other than 3dfx and is due to the game not handling multiple processors properly.

Lock the game to a single processor[citation needed] A popular way to automate this process is to create a .bat file, go to the game app's directory (using the cd command), then use either StartAffinity Blade.exe 0 or psexec -a 0 Blade.exe

Cursor is missing/Black text

Generally caused by using Direct3D for output with modern graphics hardware.

Use rOpenGL or 3dfx for video output[citation needed]

Other information

API

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	95	98, ME, 2000
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium II 400 MHz	Intel Pentium III 500 MHz
System memory (RAM)	64 MB	128 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	750 MB
Video card (GPU)	8 MB of VRAM	32 MB of VRAM