Posted November 16, 2017
high rated
I was having trouble making this old game work on my Windows 7 (64 bit) PC. Any mention on the Internet of this game running on "modern" operating systems would always link to or just copy the text from this old outdated GOG thread:
https://www.gog.com/forum/general_archive/windows_7_and_nocturne/page1
That thread is archived and I can't bump it up, so I am creating this new thread, so maybe search engines will show it instead of that old outdated thread to people that search for a fix.
The game wouldn't even want to launch on my PC and the solution is very simple; use dgVoodoo 2.
Then the game would crash after loading a level with a DirectX error and the solution was again very simple; install the latest patch.
I have created a page on PC Gaming Wiki with all the links and instructions:
https://pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Nocturne
Only "issue" left is that the intro video isn't being rendered, but you can simply skip it and watch it using VLC media player or something else. The memory warnings can also be skipped, or use Windows 98 compatibility mode if you wish.
You can also use dgVoodoo to enable antialiasing and anisotropic filtering. You can also enable bilinear filtering which makes the pre-rendered backgrounds less pixelated. Another thing that could be useful for some people is using dgVoodoo to increase color saturation, since the game is very gray-ish and often lacks color.
Alone In The Dark The New Nightmare and the Blair Witch games use the same engine as this game, so if you are having trouble with those or you want to enable some of the mentioned improvements you can try it out.
Also it would be useful if someone would confirm this working on Windows 10, since I don't use it. Even if you don't have the game, you can simply try running the demo (links are in the PC Gaming Wiki page).
https://www.gog.com/forum/general_archive/windows_7_and_nocturne/page1
That thread is archived and I can't bump it up, so I am creating this new thread, so maybe search engines will show it instead of that old outdated thread to people that search for a fix.
The game wouldn't even want to launch on my PC and the solution is very simple; use dgVoodoo 2.
Then the game would crash after loading a level with a DirectX error and the solution was again very simple; install the latest patch.
I have created a page on PC Gaming Wiki with all the links and instructions:
https://pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Nocturne
Only "issue" left is that the intro video isn't being rendered, but you can simply skip it and watch it using VLC media player or something else. The memory warnings can also be skipped, or use Windows 98 compatibility mode if you wish.
You can also use dgVoodoo to enable antialiasing and anisotropic filtering. You can also enable bilinear filtering which makes the pre-rendered backgrounds less pixelated. Another thing that could be useful for some people is using dgVoodoo to increase color saturation, since the game is very gray-ish and often lacks color.
Alone In The Dark The New Nightmare and the Blair Witch games use the same engine as this game, so if you are having trouble with those or you want to enable some of the mentioned improvements you can try it out.
Also it would be useful if someone would confirm this working on Windows 10, since I don't use it. Even if you don't have the game, you can simply try running the demo (links are in the PC Gaming Wiki page).
