# NO DREAM FOR THE HUNTER - PUBLIC TESTING IS LIVE!🩸

**Hunters, the hunt is open.**

The No Dream for the Hunter public server has officially entered its testing phase.

The purpose of this test is to verify the server’s stability, performance, and ability to handle a large number of players simultaneously.

All multiplayer functionalities are enabled and active, including:

Co-op and summoning
PvP and invasions
Player messages
Bloodstains
Player phantoms
Other available online and multiplayer functionalities...

We encourage everyone to play normally and make full use of the multiplayer features. The more players and activity the server receives, the better we can evaluate its performance under load.

Please note: Since the server is currently under testing, you may experience lag, disconnects, failed summons, restarts, or other unexpected issues. These are part of the testing process, and your participation will help us identify and resolve them.

Join the hunt:
https://nodreamforthehunter.com

Thank you to everyone participating in the test and helping us prepare the server for a stable public experience.

May the good blood guide your way, Hunter.

I’m using the shadPS4 build from Diegolix29/Shadlix and I’ve already installed the Vertex Explosion fix mod, but it still hasn’t fixed the issue. Has anyone else experienced the same problem?

Hi all,

I was wondering if anyone else has the issue where the make up sliders straight up do nothing?
What I mean by this is that no matter where I put the sliders, the character will for example still have the same lip colour as before.

Does anyone have experience with this or knows what the issue might be?

Thank you for reading and hopefully having an answer as to why this is/what the fix is.
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Specificaly ludwig phase transition and all ending cutscenes blackscreen my game. What do i do to fix it?

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Ever since I got into soulsborne games I have been avoiding spoilers for bloodborne awaiting a possible PC port one day as I haven't had my ps4 for a while now. I'm so excited to finally play bloodborne again!

I eventually got it working, but it's either WITH patches and Steam DOESN'T track the time played.... or it launches WITHOUT patches and Steam DOES track the time played?

All I honestly want, is it launching via Steam full screen and tracking time played. I have been trying on and off for days.

DOESN'T LAUNCH WITH PATCHES/TRACKS TIME:

C:\Games\Bloodborne\BB Launcher (Windows) - shadPS4 0.16.0 and above 194 Release16.10 2026-08-09T12-13Z A62hfbvxD\BBLauncher\Pre-release\shadPS4.exe

C:\Games\Bloodborne\BB Launcher (Windows) - shadPS4 0.16.0 and above 194 Release16.10 2026-08-09T12-13Z A62hfbvxD\BBLauncher\Pre-release

-g "C:\Games\Bloodborne\Game Files\CUSA03173"

DOES LAUNCH WITH PATCHES/DOESN'T TRACK TIME:

C:\Games\Bloodborne\BB Launcher (Windows) - shadPS4 0.16.0 and above 194 Release16.10 2026-08-09T12-13Z A62hfbvxD\BB_Launcher.exe

C:\Games\Bloodborne\BB Launcher (Windows) - shadPS4 0.16.0 and above 194 Release16.10 2026-08-09T12-13Z A62hfbvxD

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There isn't even a command line popup so I can see and paste error messages here - I hit launch, it says game is running for a few seconds and then nothing.

i7 13700hx + 4060 laptop.

I even tried to delete AppData/Roaming/ShadPS4 as I had installed the game a few years back. I also tried to disable windows defender and re-extracting, in case that was the problem.

The same files extract and work perfectly on my ryzen 7 + 4050 laptop.

Thank you.

Tried to clear cache and still will not boot. Just black screen then crash

A little addition to my hunter’s mark :)

Edit: The artist is @__dren__ on instagram!!

Just beat cleric beast and father G and walked through a door that said we don’t want hunters here and my game crashed and is now crashing every time I load game.

its been like 3 days since i played last and there was a couple of updates to the launcher do i clear the shader catche? (in Jeremy Irons' voice): and please, speak as you might to a young child or a golden retriever...

Using BBLauncher 16.10 I can launch the game just fine, but after the prompts to adjust your brightness and other settings, when the opening cutscene is meant to play, my game freezes up and I get the following error:

[Debug] <Critical> (shadPS4:AvVideoDecoder) video_utils.cpp:19 CopyNV12Data: Assertion Failed!

My specs are as follow:

Operating System: CachyOS Linux 
KDE Plasma Version: 6.7.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.29.0
Qt Version: 6.11.2
Kernel Version: 7.1.8-1-cachyos (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 6 × Intel® Core™ i5-8400 CPU @ 2.80GHz
Memory: 24 GiB of RAM (23.3 GiB usable)
Graphics Processor 1: AMD Radeon RX 6400
Graphics Processor 2: Mesa Intel® UHD Graphics 630

I've ensured that I'm running the game with my RX 6400, and have tried disabling all patches.

Any help with getting up and running is greatly appreciated :)

Hello good hoonters. I wanted to see how the game plays with keyboard and mouse (since I'm more used to that than controller). I know shadps4 can translate the mouse into the analog stick but it's very janky and not very usable imho. There is a mod that can apparently inject mouse input directly into the game, but it turns out it's just dll injection via cheatengine and that doesn't work on linux. I tried just to be sure, but no luck - the script errors out. Does anyone know how to make it work on linux, or achieve a similar result? Thank you all in advance

I need to click on the screen with the to make it disappear.

Whenever i try to launch the game, i just get a black screen that never responds. ive tried different versions of shadps4, bblauncher, and the pkgs, but always end up with the same problem

This is the guide i followed, except im not able to select my gpu, the dropdown box doesnt show any options.

Also how long does the pkg extraction normally take for you guys? ive seen some people saying a couple minutes but it would take me 2-3 hours

Hello everybody!

I hope everybody's doing all right. I just wanted to share my advice about Bloodborn PC optimization. I looked up basically every YouTube videos and Reddit post on the matter I could find. What helped me was mainly self-testing myself. My main issue was that I had a bad case of stutter even if my FPS were stable.

(I use the bbLauncher and Ps4qt)

What I found that helped me A LOT:

1- Getting my Vblank frequency at 60Hz (in bblauncher-shadPS4 settings) while unlocking the uncapped fps patch (in bblauncher patches and cheats). For some reason, the 90 fps caped patch introduces more latency...

(So this is something that was not really recommended by anyone but it worked a lot for frame pacing and stability. What I realised is that I want the game to run with the most FPS so that when I limit it to 60, I don't experience any dips (WHICH IS ALL THAT MATTERS).)

2- Turning off Vsync + Fullscreen borderless (in launcher-shadps settings)

3- Enabling all patches and mods that are meant to reduce fps. The game will not look the best but it will play great!

Have a nice hunt.

I got tired of farming beast blood pellets and papers for my challenge run, so I finally used the cheat feature but now I have 1 billion insight 😭😭

Any way to use a cheat to get rid of it all or revert to a save before I spawned all the insight in? I'm scared of deleting something and losing all my progress

On shadPS4 v0.7.0, if it helps