So, now you all know, Severance - Blade of Darkness works with Windows 7 Professional.When it originally launched in 2001, Severance: Blade of Darkness was known as the game in which you could beat enemies to death with their own limbs.
My sound card is a Creative X-Fi Series - X-Fi XtremeGamer. I have an ATI HD4870 graphics card and I have not adjusted anything in the CCC – Wizard application. I am just thankful that this gem of a game works ok.
Again, I welcome anyone’s thoughts on how to put this right. During game play, I have seen in very dark caves, the graphics is very grey and black, in tunnels, is sometimes very dark orange and red. I would be interested in anyone’s feedback on this. In here, there are all sorts of play around options/ graphic plig-ins etc. Next, hit the ‘ configure ‘ button, select ‘Full Screen’, ‘ 32 bpp ‘, ‘ 1024 x 768 60 Hz ‘. Next, run the program and in the ‘ Setup ‘ option, Video is set to ‘ rOpenGL ’, Audio is set to ‘ DirectSound 3D Software Emulation ‘. Place a tick in the ‘ Run this program in compatibility mode for: ‘ Windows NT 4.0 (Service Pack 5) ‘. Right click the Severance shortcut on your desktop and select ‘ Properties ‘. I found this bit tricky to get the game working. Follow the instructions ‘ after ‘ installing the full-game and patch. You need a program such as WinRAR to unzip the program and a Readme file.
Be sure to use the right patch either for Europe or America. I am thinking that the version on Codemasters website has more bug fixes added to the game since its original release!! Your call!!! Next, on Codemasters website, select the ‘ Download ‘ tab, Select : Severance: Blade of Darkness, on PC platform, and type patch/ upgrade.
Game is 679mb in size and paid £ 4.99 for game with optional £ 1.95 download insurance (your game also saved on a server for 18 months, in case you loose the game somehow).
Select : Severance: Blade of Darkness - The Full Game (Released ). Select: Severance: Blade Of Darkness Bestsellers, for PC platform. You can deviate from the following if you’re a real computer geek!!! OK folks, the following is what I did thanks to a combination of visiting the Codemaster ‘ Official ‘ Website, and the very hard effort of you fans out there. Alternatively hit the return key, but this method automatically skips the next bit you ‘ really ‘ want to see, such as reading a rune tablet. Either hit the ‘ windows ‘ key to get back to the desktop, then click back on the Severance minimised window to re-enter the running game and should clear the fault. Game works fine, only thing I have picked up so far with the game is some event triggers, such as reading rune tablets and unlocking platforms gets stuck. I am tired out after three solid hours of hacking the enemies to pieces. If you want the Professional version, currently costs around £169.00. Please note I have bought the ‘ Professional ‘ version of Windows 7, which has the added capabilities of running many XP productivity applications in the special Windows XP Mode2. I am very pleased to announce that the Hack and Slay/ Slash game ‘ Severance – Blade Of Darkness ‘ works fine on Microsoft Windows 7 Professional.