Barnyard

How to Play

The game has been tested on Windows 7 64-bit and Windows 10, it works fine. You may experience some small troubles when you play the game on modern systems, check our Guide and Notes for details

Install & play guide:

• Mount the disc image. You will need the utility for mounting disc image files, like WinCDEmu, UltraISO, Alcohol 52%/Alcohol 120% or Daemon Tools Lite
• Launch the installation (if autorun doesn't work - simply launch the installation from Setup.exe inside the disc). It is recommended to install the game not in default path, but in some other, non-system folder, like C:/Games/Barnyard
• When the installation process will ask for CD2 - mount the disc image of CD2. CD2 must be mounted in same virtual drive as CD1, so first un-mount disc image of CD1 and then mount the disc image of CD2. In example, if CD1 was in virtual drive G:, CD2 must be mounted in virtual drive G: as well
• Finish the installation. The game has no DRM protection and doesn't require the disc for launch, so you don't need NoCD
• Open the directory with the game and find Barnyard.exe and Setup.exe. Right click on both exe-files -> Properties -> Compatibility -> Set "Run this app in compatibility mode with Windows XP" and "Run as administrator"
• Run Setup.exe to configure the game settings
• Launch the game and play. If the game doesn't work in compatibility mode with Windows XP - try to launch it in compatibility mode with other version of Windows (Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows 7, etc.)

Here's also a video guide by Nostalgia Realm. If the installation looks too complicated for you - you can use repack by Magipack, it has a simple installer and include files for all available languages

Notes:

• The game doesn't have any DRM protection so you can just install the game and play it
• European version has the installer on 6 languages, including English, but the game itself has only 5 languages: French, German, Italian, Spanish & Dutch. You can select the language in game menu
• If the installation doesn't start - try to launch Setup.exe in compatibility mode with old version of Windows (Win98, Win2000, XP or Vista)
• It is recommended to install all versions of Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable and NET Framework for the correct work of the game. Also it is recommended to install K-Lite Codec Pack for the correct work of in-game videos
• The game works on DirectX 8, so if you're using Windows 8, 8.1, 10 or 11 - you need to enable DirectPlay: Go to Control Panel, and select 'Programs'. Select 'Turn Windows features on and off', click on 'Legacy Components' and check the box 'DirectPlay'. Select OK, once the installation is done, restart your computer
• The game is using DirectX 8 and should work on any graphics card that support DirectX 9. But if you get error at launch - you can use d3d8to9 wrapper, it is simple dll-file that adapts DirectX 8 games to DirectX 9 renderer. Simply put d3d8.dll next to Barnyard.exe
• If you have graphical bug when instead of the ground textures you see sky textures - download 3D Analyze utility, press Select and choose Barnyard.exe in the game folder; then check Emulate HW TnL caps box and press Run
• By default the game works only in 4:3 screen resolution but you can run the game in widescreen by using Widescreen fix. There's multiple options inside the archive, for different resolutions and all available languages. Open the folder with your resolution and copy Barnyard.exe & Setup.exe, put them in main game folder, agree to replace the original files. Then launch Setup.exe to set the new screen resolution, save the settings and run the game
• If you can't find your resolution or Widescreen fix didn't work - you can enable the custom screen resolution manually, by HeX-edit of executable file. Read this or this guide how to do that. Here's also video guide
• The game also supports windowed mode but you need to enable it through registry edit. Read this guide if you want to play in windowed mode
• If you want to play with anti-aliasing and texture filtering - run the game with dgVoodoo. Just copy d3d8.dll from the MS/x86 folder, dgVoodooCpl.exe and dgVoodoo.conf to the game folder, then run dgVoodooCpl.exe, open DirectX tab and select the setting you want. After that click "Apply" to save settings, close dgVoodooCpl and run the game from Barnyard.exe. dgVoodoo is compatible with Widescreen fix, just don't select forced resolution in dgVoodoo settings
• Some users complained that they have in-game stutters when you ride the bike or the truck. The solution is to enable Vsync for the game in control panel of your video card, or, if you play with dgVoodoo, you can enable Vsync in dgVoodooCpl
• Another method is to limit the game's framerate to 60 or less FPS with one of framerate limit utilities. Even though the game has framerate limit to 60 FPS by default, looks like lowering the game's framerate with utilities helps to resolve the problem with in-game stutters
• Also, user RandalMcdaniel mentioned that the game works great with DXVK. So if you video card supports Vulkan API, you can run it with DXVK by following the next steps: download the archive with one of DXVK releases, copy all dll-files from x32 folder and put it game folder, next to Barnyard.exe. Then create empty text-file dxvk.conf in same folder, open it Notepad and type the two lines below, save the file and run the game:

dxgi.syncInterval = 1
d3d9.presentInterval = 1

• If you want to play with controller - follow this guide. For Xbox 360 controller you can use Xbox 360 controller support fix by icup321
• Don't forget to check PCGamingWiki if you have troubles!