Hey guys,

I just purchased the game and installed it.
I use the following settings:
rOpenGL with 1280*1024 resolution and Miles Fast 2D Positional Audio.
Well, everything seems to look quite well, except of the fact that I get to many frames per second.
The game is just too quick.

Can you tell me, wether there ist any frame limiter, I can use?

My system is a Core2Duo, 5gb of ram and a Geforce 9400m.
I saw Youtube videos of users with much better computers, who did not have such a problem.

Perhabs I use the wrong setting?

I would be glad, if someone could help me.

Hi,

First of all, do not install this game in %:\Program Files% and run as administrator if you haven't done so already.
Secondly you could try a different renderer, 3Dfx Glide with a glidewrapper for example.

If you need to limit frames try looking for a v-sync option and turn it on, this could also be done by making a profile in the videodrivers.
If that still doesn't solve anything, there is MSI Afterburner you can download, this has a very powerful tool with which you can preset the amount of fps per game.

Ok, I am trying MSI Afterburner right now. How can I apply the frame limiter?

You need to start MSI On-Screen Display Server, click on the large + sign and navigate where you have installed BOD and click on the .exe with with you play BOD.
Then make sure it is selected and click on the tool icon, now you can fill in an amount for Framerate Limit, I say try 60 or so, now start the game but have MSI On-Screen active too.

Well, thank you guys.

But nothing helped. I solved the problem by installing it on my desktop PC.

Using the AMD HD4890 I could not find any issues :).

I'm having this problem too, it's like there's no speed throttling. The game runs unplayably fast. Do I have to make it run at a lower framerate to play? I wanted to get the smoothness of 60Hz refresh rate, and I've got vsync globally enabled.

Have you tried the 3dfx / glide mode?
If that still doesn't help contact tech support.

I tried using 3dfx, still too fast. I didn't actually see a glide mode, just the r3Dfx Voodoo 1-2 mode. I also tried a number of the other renderers with the same results.

edit: trying to play on a 2009ish macbook pro in bootcamp with winxp

Hi, have you tried the following:

1. set your engery-saving option to "high performance"

2. Go to start->type in "msconfig". Now select the "start" tab->advanced options->select a processor count of 1->apply&ok

3. restart your computer( it now uses only one core of our cpu.)

4. play game

5. Reset everything in case you need normal cpu power (Go to start->type in "msconfig". ->select normal systemstart->apply&ok->restart your computer)

This should solve your problem (at least it worked for me)

Have fun playing the game

That is a lot of work to do every time you want to play Blade of Darkness... Too bad, there is no fix out there for this.

just got new hard drive, installed system, drivers and _copied_ game from old drive
didn't change a bit (except drive of course, which has no effect to game whatsoever)
and have same problem
nothing helps - different renderers, turning on/off v-sync in graphics settings - same problem

my configuration is proc: Intel core2 (T2080 @ 1.73GHz), 1MiB RAM, graphics: intel 945G with newest drivers (in both cases)

configuration of computer in both cases is the same but so different outcome

I'm annoyed and don't know what to do with it now...

I found a solution!!!

I tried what mutzkaese proposed with msconfig: start system in single processor mode
it turned out msconfig actually changes boot.ini putting /numproc=1 in option line, so I made two start options in boot.ini with single processor looking like this:

1)
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="win XP sp2 /numproc=1" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect /noguiboot /numproc=1

obviously /numproc=1 is most important, rest is decoration

after some brainstorming I come to another solution:
it looks like game cannot cope with multiple processors so the way to solve it will be
to change affinity in procexp for single processor just for blade.exe
and again it worked, but because changing it requires alt+tab switching which blows out my blade for some reason I found even better way to do it - I found programs that change affinity in command line and made up .bat file that start blade.exe with single processor affinity
these programs are: startaffinity: http://www.adsciengineering.com/StartAffinity/ and psexec: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/sysinternals/bb897553.aspx
so now:
2)
-- cut blade1.bat
@echo off
cd Bin
StartAffinity Blade.exe 0
-- EOF blade1.bat

-- cut blade2.bat
@echo off
cd Bin
psexec -a 0 Blade.exe
-- EOF blade2.bat

hope it will be useful for everyone who experience this problem

I changed "Swap interval" in /MISC/ tab at rOpenGL (i;ve set higher res though, but i guess it doesn't matter).
Try setting 5 or 10. 5 wasn't enough for me, but 10 seems perfect. Oh, and the arrow-buttons are reversed, so no panic :)
regards