UPDATE 12/17/2019: Out of nowhere, GOG.com (Good Old Games) has released a version compatible with modern OSes (Win 7, 8, 10, MacOS, Linux!) and DRM-free for only a Hamilton (that's $10 USD) in case you want to not muck around with the OG discs. Now you can play the 1997 game of the movie set in 2019 in 2019 and beyond. (Spoiler: Reality ain't nothing like the movie. No Off-World colonies. No hot sexmurderbots. On the plus sign, the ecology is fine and we have plenty of sunshine.)
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This post is to help people trying to play the classic Westwood adventure game Blade Runner. I never played it that far along despite having bought it a decade ago because at the time it required a whopping TWO MB of video memory and my computer only had 1MB of VRAM. By the time I'd gotten a better computer, I'd gotten into first-person shooters and I wasn't able to get my head around gameplay.
I searched all over and all I could find was the same lists of Vista-compatibility copied-and-pasted and they all said it worked. Uh-huh, yeah, right. Well, it turns out it DOES work, but it requires this one step a commenter posted to a blog:
you may have to press the windows keyboard button during bladerunner mid game if the screen is a mess when starting up, then clicking on the game shown on taskbarBAM!!! It worked and doesn't even require any of the compatibility mode settings to be toggled on. Start the game; if it's scrambled, press the Windows key; click on the Blade Runner taskbar icon which will switch you back into the game and it should be working; PROFIT!
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Thanks so muck for posting this! I've always been a fan of adventure, and my interest in Blade Runner was renewed by the recent Final Cut release. I just got this game from ebay and I was stumped as to how to get it to work. This might work with a few other old gaes I was having similar problems with!
You're welcome! You're exactly the type of gamer I was hoping to assist with the post.
Alas, I only got to the 2nd crime scene before being distracted by other things. Someday, I'll finish this thing!
Your windows key worked great! But unfortunately I have no sound. Got any fixes for that?
Sorry, no. I didn't have any problems with audio. Good luck.
thank you very much for this post.I`d just found this game in a drawer,where it must have been for a decade,and it ran but with scrambled graphics.I was just about to un-install it when i googled the problem and clicked on your post.I will now try and get past the first disc!!
I have another problem: the fact is that i just cannot install BR on my Vista-32...The autorun launches when i introduce CD1, but when I click on "install", the "autorun window" just desappear, and nothing else happens...Any advice to solve this?
Thanks a lot ;)
Have you tried running the setup from the CD directory instead of the Autorun window that pops up?
I have another problem, I can't see any images on the esper machine, it's just black. Anybody else had this problem?
I can confirm that this also works on Windows 7, like a charm!!
thanks man it works here i havent's playd it fore ages but found again on the net en had the same problem now it works again thank it bring back good memmories
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
Winkey trick works fine here, too =)
Have a very nice day indeed =)
Regards,
Anton Lebedev, Russia
Thankyou so much, i was having a scrambled screen too, but your trick worked perfect. Thanks again...
I will add my thanks to the already significant pile of them. I was pulling my hair out over this problem and, being a player of very old games, have seen more complicated fixes that don't work as well as this one.
Just adding my thanks as well. My husband found his old copy of this game in a box in the garage and I am really looking forward to playing it thanks to your fix. Best movie ever. :)
how do you install it on windows 7? it wont even let me install it.
re: Win7 installation - I don't know. I haven't tried it on my Win7 rig. Are you trying to install as Administrator?
nno.
Supertrick! The intro-images are back to normal. Still having trouble with the rendered images.
Gameplay is still impossible this way, anyone got a trick for this? I already tried a CPU-speed adjuster for my quadcore. It slowed everything down, but did not do much with the characters...
You've made my day!!!
Thx for this advice... but my problem is slightly bigger... I try to run it on Vista (DVD version btw) and the install went fine. But with startup it only shows the menu for less than a sec with glitchess, but than crashes instant without giving me the chance topress the windows button...?
I also tryed the compressed full version on Tpb, but that 1 won't even start-up the install-menu...
Plz help, I wanna play this game so bad...
Make sure your computer's video drivers are up-to-date and try right-clicking the game's shortcut and running as Administrator.
The problem with new OSes and old games is that even "compatibility mode" doesn't always work. I wanted to revisit the original Soldier of Fortune on my new Win7 system and simply couldn't get it to work. Bother.
If you have problems with this game, make sure to have the desktop to 256 colors mode.
As for Soldier of Fortune, go to the folder where the actual installation file is and run it from there.
I did try that with no success. Oh well. Windows 8 is even worse for compatibility. I ran the upgrade checker and a slew of games like Fallout 3 are incompatible. Not gonna upgrade then.
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