The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay

How to Play

The game version 1.1 with NoCD has been tested on Windows 7 64-bit, Windows 10 and Windows 11, works fine. The game supports widescreen and high resolutions up to 4K. 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
• Install the game. It is recommended to install the game not in default path but in some other, non-system folder, like C:/Games/Riddick EFBB, so you won't have troubles with fixes
• Skip online registration at the end, click "No" when the installer will ask if you want to register the game
• Once you installed the game - install the patch version 1.1
• After that use NoCD for version 1.1, simply copy files from the archive and put them in the folders inside Riddick EFBB/System directory, agree to replace the original files. NoCD is required only if you run 32-bit executable, 64-bit executable is DRM-Free
• Open the game folder and find Riddick.exe. Right click on Riddick.exe -> Properties -> Compatibility -> Set "Run this app in Compatibility mode with Windows XP" and "Run as Administrator"
• 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 95, 98, 2000, etc.)

We also highly recommend to use TCoRFix by Nezarn that resolves many old issues of the game, such as a startup crash, OpenGL extension limit on Nvidia GPUs, fixes flickering in Eyeshine mode, makes Shader Model 2.0++ available for AMD GPUs, and many other problems that was making the game unplayable on some modern machines. TCoRFix have some small issues such as flickering fix making some in-game shadow to disappear, or visual effects issues on 64-bit executable (luckily there's no such issues on 32-bit executable), but the author may release new versions of the fix, we recommend to check GitHub page for possible updates

Notes:

• If the installation doesn't start - try to launch Setup.exe in compatibility mode with old version of Windows (98, 2000 or XP)
• 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
• NoCD is required if you run 32-bit executables, because they are protected with SecuROM DRM, which may have issues on modern systems. NoCD "cracks" DRM protection and allows to run the game without the disc. If you see the error that there's not enough space on the hard drive when you copy NoCD files - re-install the game in non-system folder, like D:/Games/Riddick EFBB, Windows Protection may block copying of files to system folders (like C:/Program Files or C:/Windows). 64-bit executables are DRM-Free, they are located in Riddick EFBB/System/Win64_AMD64 folder
• The game has full audio & text on English language, plus text localizations for French and German languages (menu & subtitles). You can easily change the language of installed game, to do that open Environment.cfg and change LANGUAGE=EN (or LANGUAGE=US, depends on version) to LANGUAGE=Fre for French language, or LANGUAGE=Ger for German language. That method works on US, European and French/German releases
• If the game doesn't run from desktop shortcut or Riddick.exe - go to Riddick EFBB/System directory. There's 4 folders - 3 folders for 32-bit systems and Win64_AMD64 for 64-bit systems. Try to run the game directly from one of executables, in Compatibility mode with Windows XP (or other old Windows OS) and as Administrator
• On modern graphics cards the game may crash on start-up, especially if you have Nvidia GPU. That crash happens due to improper limits for OpenGL extensions set in the modern drivers for this game, use TCoRFix to resolve that issue. With TCoRFix you don't need to use any of methods below, but we added them just in case
• If for some reason you don't want to use TCoRFix or TCoRFix doesn't work, try this method: go to Riddick EFBB/System/Win64_AMD64 folder and rename SbzEngine.exe to quake3.exe. After that run the game directly from that quake3.exe, it should work; if it didn't work - try to rename it to mohaa.exe and run again. Additionally, if you have Nvidia GPU, run the game through Nvidia Profile Inspector and in "Common" tab set Extension Limit = ON or Extension Limit = 0x00001B58 (watch this video or read this guide, we also added Nvidia Profile Inspector with guide in Downloads). Alternative method - rename executable file back to SbzEngine.exe and use the fix by beha_r, simply copy files from the archive and put them in the folders inside Riddick EFBB/System directory
• If you have the problem with flickering/glowing textures when you use Eyeshine mechanic in the game (Q key by default), use TCoRFix, it resolves that issue. That issue is related to Shader Model 2.0++ and may happen on modern GPUs. If the fix doesn't work or you don't want to use it, then in game Options change Shader Model 2.0++ to any other, like Shader Model 1.5, there should be no flickering/glowing textures on other Shader Models
• There's a common bug with twitchy mouse movement if the mouse polling rate exceeds 125 Hz. The solution is to lower the polling rate of your mouse to 125 Hz or lower, in the mouse drivers. Alternatively, you can use dxwrapper utility to fix that issue, follow this guide; however, that method will work only with 32-bit executable
• The game has full controller support, it should work fine with any type of gamepads. The game was tested with Xbox One gamepad so it should work with no problem with any XInput-type gamepad. If the game doesn't recognize your controller - try using one of the additional tools from PCGamingWiki guide for controllers
• The game supports widescreen and high resolutions up to Ultra HD 4K, but on any resolution above 1920x1080 render top left part of the image with the rest being cut off by display borders. Use TCoRFix to fix this issue
• If you want to enable Anti-aliasing in the game, you will need to edit config-files, follow this guide. However, that method doesn't work on AMD GPUs, if you have AMD graphics card, use SSAA or Downsampling instead
• For whatever reason the game engine doesn't have support for 2560x1600 resolution, check this thread for details. But if you have 2560x1600 display and want to play the game in Fullscreen - you can try to run the game with Fullscreensizer tool. First edit Environment.cfg and change VID_MODE= to one of supported screen resolutions, after that run the game and Fullscreensizer. Here's the guide with instructions, it is the guide for the next Riddick game, but it should work with EFBB too, since both games use the same engine
• The game doesn't support ultra-wide screens, but if you have Nvidia graphics card, you can run the game in ultra-wide screen resolution with Nvidia Profile Inspector utility. Read this guide for instruction
• It is possible to play the game on Linux, the easiest variant would be to use Batocera app. Batocera app can be launched on many different devices, including handheld consoles. You can find the files of the game pre-configured for Batocera client in this archive
• Don't forget to check PCGamingWiki if you have troubles, it is very useful!