Discworld is a game released for PC (subsequently Mac, Sega Saturn, and PlayStation) by Teeny Weeny / Perfect 10 studios in 1995. The game was released both on floppy disk and CD-Rom, the latter featured voice acting by many notable actors. Enter Sir Terry Pratchett’s Discworld. We have been supplying official, licenced Discworld merchandise featuring the artwork of Paul Kidby for over twenty years. Within these pages you will meet all your favourite characters from witches, wizards, watchmen and dragons, to trolls, the Nac Mac. Plus, their profiles give the game a real appeal to the wider public, rather than just the hardcore games fans' Indisputably the premium license of 1995, Discworld brings best selling fantasy humorist Terry Pratchett's amazing creations to the PC. Having sold well over 7 million books in eighteen languages world wide Terry Pratchett has been.
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Discworld Noir is the third and last PC game based on Terry Pratchett's popular fantasy universe. It is also my most favorite, even though Rincewind (the hero from the other two games) is nowhere to be found, and light-hearted humor has been replaced by forboding atmosphere and shady characters.
The one thing that Discworld Noir has in common with its predecessors, though, is the sharp British wit.. and droning dialogues that seem to take forever. Discworld Noir is set in the most depraved city in the Discworld, Ankh-Morpork, where the sun never shines (because it is always night). You play Lewton, a downtrodden P.I. who was once a member of the Watch (i.e. Discworld police) until he was fired for accepting a bribe. The beautiful and mysterious Carlotta just hired you to find Mundy, her ex-lover. As you start looking into Mundy's disappearance more missing persons cases present themselves to you. Missing persons start turning up dead with yours truly as the prime suspect. Throw in a missing artifact, some shady underworld characters, and the ex-girlfriend who broke you heart, and you have all the elements of classic Raymond Chandler noir novels.
In a refreshing break from the recent trend of 3D adventures, Discworld Noir is a traditional third-person adventure with a few novel twists. In addition to the standard point-and-click interface, you have a notebook that contains a list of suspects and clues. You can use the clues and suspects' names just like any other inventory item: by clicking on its name, then clicking on something else in the environment that you think relates to it. If the two things are related, you will gain new insights that often lead to new clue(s) appearing in the notebook. This way of simulating the deductive process is highly effective, and fool-proof-- since there are dozens of names and locations, it is nearly impossible to deduce new leads by simple trial-and-error.
There are also many other pleasant surprises that keep gameplay fresh and fun, such as a special ability that you also use via the inventory screen, and many unexpected plot twists. Since you are a P.I., it only makes sense that you will spend a lot of time talking to suspects. Unfortunately, this is one of the game's few weaknesses. While most of the conversation is witty, they are also excessively long-- not unlike the previous two Discworld games. The same criticism also applies to most of the cut-scenes, which end up being mere showcases of the game's 3D effects rather than integral to the plot. The voice acting is also overdone, although it is somewhat appropriate for the game's tongue-in-cheek noir style.
Despite all my nitpickings about the weak use of multimedia, though, Discworld Noir is an excellent adventure that's well worth the money. Its interesting plot and characters, great interface, and challenging puzzles really brings Lewton's world to life, and make the game's weaknesses seem trivial. Similar to Adventuresoft's Feeble Files, all 3 CDs of the game are packed with a lot of solid gameplay and great plot development. Although this underdog was never released in the US, it is still widely available from stores in Europe-based on-line stores at bargain prices. A must-have!
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cleveland Womble2020-02-20-1 point
Been trying to run this game on my Dell inspiron since I bought the damn thing back when windows 7 came out. it almost worked using Wine on Linux, but this time I just installed the original game (full install) in a Windows 10 partition and replaced the original tin3_dxd.exe with this one. Works like a charm and it's the only app I use on Windows10. Yes, the mouse cursor sometimes takes a second to find, but that might have happened in w98; I can't remember that far back.
Note. My Avira antivirus wasn't happy about the new .exe file. I'm happy that the programme works but I can't guarantee that it's 100% safe. You'll have to make your own choice..
ARK72020-02-150 point
Hi Hunter, this is just false positive. I have several harmless patches for old games detected as such and also some utilities like dgVoodoo. Some antivirus programs are just too sensitive. Plus if I remember correctly, this tin3_DXD.exe is not even needed to run the game, just dn.exe.
Hunter62472020-02-100 point
Hi All,
The fix from loma works very fine (only thing i needed to do additionally was to reduce the colors to 65k in the compatibility-mode) I even can confirm that the fix works for non-English-Versions, as i used it to fix my german-version. Bur i have an issue with the tin3_DXD.exe , as my virus scanner (Avira) blocks the file due to identified Virus. I don't know if thats due to a false-positiv of the scanner or if the file is really corrupted. but if loma is still around, may he refresh his dropbox-download to make sure to get a clean copy ? best, hunta
Ark72019-12-180 point
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PsycMonkey, you can find the patch in the game extras in the download section of this page.
PsycMonkey2019-09-300 point
Hi, Loma could you possibly reupload you fix, it was taken down from dropbox. I've desperately been looking for a fix for this game for years now.
ARK72019-01-16-1 point
Another problem I found with patch by LOMA: Mouse cursor moves beyond windows boundaries. Is it possible to fix that?
Ark72019-01-100 point
Hi, LOMA, some antivirus software do not like your tin3_dxd.exe. Only 6 of 72 in virustotal.com is positive so I guess they are false positives but it leads to problems with execution of the file. In my case is tin3_dxd.exe automatically deleted in Windows 10. I found recommendation to disable DEP but it is quite annoying and I had good results with running only dn.exe. The game so far worked fine and I had no antivirus problem. So is it ok to run the game this way and can everything work without tin3_dxd.exe?
loma2018-08-131 point
@boubof:
I wanted to remove ALT+ENTER, or fix the windowed screen issue. My original purpose was to make the game run in every resolution. Please consider the followings: - The game using 640x480 on directx side + This is really hardcoded in the game so I did not touched this - What I did is to stretch the window basically (cause of low frame rate on virtual side) + from 640x480 to YourScreenResWidth x YourScreenResHeight If you use virtual machine please use the original exe, this fix is really made for Windows fullscreen (any dimension) (+ in the case of this fix, please do not use the Windowed mode )
boubof2018-08-051 point
I got the game to play but now it's virtually unplayable due to unbelievably slow frame rate. Any idea about what might be causing it and how to fix it? Also the game crashes whenever i attempt to switch to windowed mode by pressing alt+enter
FPMIP2018-07-241 point
thanks to (贸 mighty, 贸 mighty) Loma :) see workaround for Windows 10!
https://youtu.be/MSVwOPvfk6E
loma2018-06-014 points
Hi All,
Ive done the fix for discworld noir which now should run on WinXP, Win7,.Win10 Without any compatibility stuff. Feel free to use it. :) Thanks for your reviews / comments. (make backup of it in case the storage get crached..etc) Uploaded here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/xwdimszr23ocer2/DiscWorldNoir_Fix.zip?dl=0 NB : fix mirrored here
COLDBLOODEDLEEROY2018-01-111 point
Hey me again, Windows 10 didn't work for me, but running it on XP in VMWare Player did the job. Good luck!
SplitHead2017-12-252 points
So I went through the whole thing that AGJERDE suggested (with WMWare Player and stuff) and I got the same 'Assert Message: Requested video mode is not supported' error that ColdBloodedLeeroy also reported.
Fortunately, I was able to get the game running straight from the Windows 10. Here's what I did: I installed the game (Full Installation) and copied both the 'fixed exe file' and NoCD patch in the game dir. Next, I deleted the 'tin3_dxd.exe' from the game folder and ran the NoCD patch and patched the 'fixed exe file' (Discworld Noir - Fix.exe). Finally, I started the game with the freshly patched file. And damn, it's still an awesome game :) PS: The game still crashes after the intro movie if you click that 'New Game' main menu button, so hit Alt+Enter for windowed mode until you get to the actual gameplay. After that just slap that Alt+Enter again and enjoy.
ColdBloodedLeeroy2017-12-220 point
I took AGJERDE's recommendation of running Windows 98 on VMWare Player. The game installed successfully, but I get the following message when I try to run it:
Discworld Noir 'Assert Message: Requested video mode is not supported' I'm trying these settings: Display: Default Monitor on VMWare SVGA II Colors: 256 Colors Resolution: 640 x 480 Any help would be greatly appreciated, I played this game as a kid but I was to dumb to complete it!
agjerde2017-09-182 points
UPDATE: I now recommend using VMWare Player instead of VirtualBox. I ran into a lot of problems with stuttering audio and choppy video on VB, and after trying absolutely everything, I switched to VMWare. It handles Win98 much better than VB.
FreebirthOne2017-09-170 point
Damn, I completely forgot about this! But it's nice that I could help some people plaing it.
agjerde2017-08-310 point
Got this working on my Windows 10 laptop: get VirtualBox, install Windows 98 in it and update the display adapter driver (tutorials/files online) so you can get more than 16 colors. Install Discworld Noir in Win98, replace the tin_dxd.exe file with the fixed .exe from the download, and run the NoCD patch in the same folder. Lower the resolution on your computer (my lowest was 800x600) and use the same in your virtual Win98 machine. You can enter full screen mode in VirtualBox, usually with Right Ctrl+F. Start the game, press F1 on the menu to load a game, or click New Game. If new game: press Alt+Enter for windowed mode so it doesn't crash after the intro scene. Enjoy. I know I am.
guadalcanal2017-01-01-1 point
For details on how to get the game running check this out http://blog.ihobo.com/2015/02/how-to-run-discworld-noir.html
Sephirot2016-10-03-6 points
I can't install it. It asks me to insert CD2 but I open the CD' file but there's nothing I can do with those files. Can someone help out?
nero Wayne2016-07-081 point
You're supposed to extract the iso file with a program like magic iso to a folder in your pc then run the game installer.
I really wanted to play this2016-07-07-1 point
It will not download no matter what the hours keep going up but it won't download and another game from this site is downloading just fine. This link is broken.
DrWrong2016-04-27-2 points
I can't seem to get this game to work. Running windows 10, and the patch won't work or the NO CD fix. I tried burning a copy of the first .ISO and putting it into the disc drive in the hopes it would run. It did not.
Anyone have any advice on how to properly crack this game?
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RotcivariouS2016-02-060 point
Is it possible to play it on windows 10 platform?
0gre2015-12-112 points
@ALEX
Can't you tell Win10 to run the executable to run in Windows 98 mode using the compatibility tab?
TheDarkAce2015-11-13-4 points
Use ScummVM to run this i believe
alex2015-09-27-5 points
How do you get it to run on windows 10? it was made for win98..
renato2015-09-12-1 point
hola
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