An update to 1.9.6: launcher updates that can no longer break an installation, online that survives the in-game restart, checks before you play, and The Hunter's Dream is no longer offered.
Installing: the launcher offers this update by itself. Or unpack it over 1.9.6 (or into a new, empty folder). Your settings, saves and mods stay.
Launcher doesn't start since the last update? If it shows "Failed to start embedded python interpreter: Failed to import encodings module", the update to 1.9.6 stopped halfway and can't repair itself: download Bloodborne-Windows.zip below and unpack it over your bbport-windows folder, replacing all files. Your saves and settings stay, and updates work again after that.
Important: online servers
The Hunter's Dream is no longer offered. SuperMedo Server is the port's server. If you played on The Hunter's Dream, the launcher moves you to SuperMedo Server by itself: sign in there once, with Discord or a free account, on the Online page.
Updates
- Updates can no longer break an installation. The download is checked first, copied next to the installation and put in place in one step. If Windows or an antivirus holds a file, everything is undone and the installed version keeps working. An update stopped halfway (a power cut, Task Manager) is finished or undone at the next start. Before, files of two versions could mix, and the launcher no longer started.
- An installation that an earlier update left half done is repaired by this update, as long as its launcher still starts.
Online
- Restart Game (PC Settings) keeps you online. The game came back signed out, because the new start took over the old start's connection to the server.
- Starting from the desktop shortcut or Steam without an online account plays offline instead of failing. Play in the launcher asks you to sign in.
Graphics
- No sharpening on top of FSR 4. FSR 4 sharpens by itself, and sharpening on top of it left flaws along edges with FSR 4.1.2.
- A new graphics card gets its own upscaler (DLSS on a GeForce RTX), also with automatic settings off.
- The frame rate you chose stays, also after the game saves its settings and after the in-game restart.
Checks before you play
- The launcher now tells you before the game starts when Windows has a graphics card that Vulkan doesn't see, when the game folder is in OneDrive, when an old driver keeps the game off your graphics card, when the Visual C++ runtime that AMD's FSR 4 and frame generation need is missing, and when a Windows firewall rule blocks the game.
- A changed
eboot.bin(patched by another tool) is swapped for a clean copy found on your PC, and Help → Check the game files compares every game file with version 1.09.
Saves and settings
- Saves and settings are written in one piece: a crash or a full disk can no longer leave half a file.
- Achievements from another installation can be brought over.
Launcher
- Help & Support on forum.bbport.de replaces the Discord's #help: Help and the BB Report Tool point there. The Discord invite works again.
- Search finds more of what players ask for, also in German and with the sign-in spellings.
- The side bar fits small windows, and Help has the upkeep buttons.
- The launcher no longer goes quiet when something in the background fails, and its log can no longer hold up the game.
- Help no longer calls a full-size
eboot.bin"cut off" when it just can't be read. - BB Report Tool 1.7.9: hints for playing online without an account and for server drops.
Known issues
- Error code 21 ("STOP: reserving the PS4 address range … error 487") can still happen on PCs where another program puts memory into every program at its start, for example some anti-cheat or security drivers. Send a report if you hit it.
1.9.7 by Nick, on top of Medo's and Ethan's 1.9.6. Thanks to everyone who sent reports in the forum and on Discord.