BULLY PC: MUST HAVE FIXES! (English)

A guide to get the most, trouble free experience from Bully on PC.

INTRO

So welcome to my guide on how to completely fix Bully on PC.

Even though I'm writing this on Steam, I'll also be covering the official DVD copies that don't use Steam.

All you need to follow this guide is some very basic knowledge. Either way I'll try to make it as easy as possible.

OFFICIAL PATCHES BY ROCKSTAR

NOTICE: IF YOU OWN THE STEAM VERSION YOU CAN IGNORE THIS PART. THIS IS FOR THE DVD COPIES!


BULLY: Scholarship Edition Patch 1.200

Link: https://support.rockstargames.com/articles/200149976/Bully-Scholarship-Edition-Patch-1-200-PC-Only

How to install:

Download the patch in your language, and run it.
If Bully is installed correctly, the patch will install without any issues.



What it does:

When Bully was first released on PC, there was a load of nasty horrible issues, such as memory leaks, and infinite loading after talking to Dr Crabblesnitch.

If your system had over 2GB RAM, these issues would be unavoidable without this patch. Seriously if you have the DVD copy, for the love of God, download this patch and install it.

FANMADE PATCHES

These patches are made by fans and are NOT official, if there are any issues, contact the mod author, not Rockstar.


SILENTPATCH: https://github.com/CookiePLMonster/SilentPatchBully/releases

What it does:

As many reviews have stated, Bully crashes a LOT on Windows 10, with and without mods.

SilentPatch fixes this, and also allows you to uncap the FPS without needing a dodgy file. So you can now enjoy Bully at a proper 60 FPS.

How to install:
Download the archive (SilentPatchBully.zip) and extract the files to your Bully folder.

Don't know where it is?

On Steam, it's in your SteamApps folder -> common -> Bully Scholarship Edition.

Need a vid?

I did make a mistake with this video: set your FPS limit to your monitors' refresh rate and enable VSync. Otherwise the game may play at double speed if your FPS exceeds your monitors' refresh rate.

Known Issues with 60 fps

Since Bully was never intended to be played at 60 fps, some issues are known to occur. (This is not a fault of Rockstar's, just the game engine)

These issues can be fixed by temporarily reverting back to 30 fps.

The game MIGHT softlock during the mission "Balls of Snow" in Chapter 3, where there's a chance Jimmy may either have rapid fire, or he'll freeze in place unable to move.

During the Chapter 5 mission "Finding Johnny Vincent", you may have problems opening a gate which requires you to mash a button. Either revert to 30 FPS, or temporarily use keyboard controls.

WIDESCREEN FIX: https://github.com/ThirteenAG/WidescreenFixesPack/releases/tag/bully

What it does:

If you play Bully on a widescreen monitor, or ultrawide, you might notice the game does look a bit stretched, and this mod fixes that.

The HUD no longer appears stretched, and Jimmy looks slimmer.

You can also change the FOV in this too, but don't change it too much, because otherwise clipping in cutscenes occurs and sometimes, also in cutscenes you might see stuff you shouldn't, like characters "freezing" in their animations when they should be off screen.

Also, ThirteenAG has widescreen fixes for many other games like the older GTAs, the Tony Hawk games, Mass Effect etc. So if you have any of those games, check out his site as there are a load of fixes for older games.

How to install:

Download the archive, and extract "Dinput8.dll" and the plugins folder to your Bully folder. Just like SilentPatch basically.

In the plugins folder, you can find an editable INI, where you can change the FOV if you want.

By default it's: FOVFactor = 1.0

Change this too high and it'll look ugly.
Personally, 1.2 is the sweet spot for me, but that's down to your own preference.

BETTER SOUNDS https://www.nexusmods.com/bullyscholarshipedition/mods/74

What it does: Fixes & improves the quality of some of Bully's audio

When Rockstar went ahead and ported Bully to PC/Xbox 360, they downgraded a lot of the audio, because of that, a few audio oddities occur, including but not limited to: really low quality audio bites (Pete Kowalski greeting, The Candidate's mission theme) or really loud audio (Pinky's "THANKS FOR A GREAT DATE JIMMY!" & some ambience) plus most character dialogue isn't as crisp as it was on the PS2.

This mod, made by Cos2 brings back most of the PS2 audio back to PC, so some of the inconsistencies aren't around anymore.

So far, Cos2 has ported all PS2 sounds of the soundtrack, cutscene audio, ambience and character audio. Not yet known if the PS2 sound effects (ie weapons, mission specific stuff) will be ported, but as of now, it's good enough

It's a big download, over 1GB, and to install just drag and drop the AUDIO folder into the main Bully folder and select "yes" to overwrite.

BULLY MULTIPLAYER

What it does: Adds online multiplayer to Bully, much like GTA SA:MP.

If you've ever played GTA SA:MP then you'll probably already have an idea of what Bully MP will be like, but if you haven't Bully MP is basically an unofficial multiplayer mod that lets you play online. It does NOT let you play through the story, but instead in custom game modes, or freeroaming etc. Lets you play as anyone, the clique leaders, adults, prefects.

Link: http://www.bully-mp.com/

How to Install:

THE OFFICIAL SOUNDTRACK (Not a patch but read on)

Bully on PC comes with the official OST bundled at no extra cost, and it takes up about 135mb.

The OST is located in your main Bully folder, at steamapps\common\Bully Scholarship Edition\Bully Original Soundtrack

You can safely delete or move this. It won't improve game performance in any way, but if you want to free up some extra space, or want to put the soundtrack on your phone/music library, you can do so without damaging the actual game files.

Soundtrack contains everything you would find on the official iTunes/CD release and comes with metadata and the album artwork etc.

Some metadata for Audiophiles out there:

ARTIST: Shawn Lee
ALBUM: Bully Original Soundtrack
FORMAT: MP3 (NO FLAC)
BIT RATE: Around 300 kbps

Also, this OST will be redownloaded if you reinstall Bully or if you verify game files, so you'll probably need to delete it again afterwards.

UNOFFICIAL LANGUAGE TRANSLATIONS

Bully itself officially has support for the following languages which I believe are automatically set by your PC's language:

• English (American)
  
• French (Français)
  
• German (Deutsch)
  
• Italian (Italiana)
  
• Spanish (Española)

The game files do have files for Japanese and Russian leftover, but they do not work for whatever reason and forcing them to be default will result in missing text entirely.


🇬🇧 BRITISH ENGLISH (Unused) 🇬🇧

There are also leftover files for British English, which was a thing on the original PS2 versions, which can only be accessed by renaming "British.img" and "British.dir" to "American.img & .dir", since British English and US English are similar, you'll only see slight differences like "Principal" will be called Headmaster and "pants" will be called trousers.

Despite this however, there have been a few other fan translations into other languages:

🇺🇦 UKRAINIAN / українська 🇺🇦
A mod by a team (Videntium, Den116pro, blackdot., Cos2 and Nanoposan69) which aims to translate most, if not all, of Bully's subtitles into Ukrainian.



MOD LINK: https://www.nexusmods.com/bullyscholarshipedition/mods/29

To install, replace "american.img and american.dir" located inside "Bully Scholarship Edition\Config\Text"

🇮🇩 INDONESIAN / bahasa Indonesia 🇮🇩

This translation is made by "IGTCTeam" and much like the Ukrainian one above, aims to translate as much of Bully into Indonesian.



This one has a setup.exe, but appears to be safe to use as it has been scanned by NexusMods before it was approved.

MOD LINK: https://www.nexusmods.com/bullyscholarshipedition/mods/11?tab=description

BULLY ANNIVERSARY EDITION HUD

Due to the fact that Bully was originally a PS2 title, the HUD the game uses hasn't aged that well on more modern resolutions, as they do look rather low quality on high resolutions.

Thankfully, when Rockstar released Bully Anniversary Edition for iOS/Android in 2016, they went through the effort to completely remaster all the HUD elements, inc weapon icons, the map etc, which look much more beautiful.

Modder AuraShadow has gone to the effort to attempt to port the entire HUD from mobile and some extra bonuses, to the PC version.

INCLUDES:

* All weapon icons changed
* All HUD elements changed
* Loading screen changes
* Classes upgraded
* Bully AE intro credits
* Higher quality radar
* Changes to obscure things like the bulletin boards
* Pause menu changed
* New yearbook photos
* A choice between PS/Xbox/Android controller icons
* Steam covers & logo

Note: it won't change the keyboard icons if you use them.

LINK: https://www.moddb.com/games/bully-scholarship-edition/downloads/bully-scholarship-edition-anniversary-edition-hud


GAME BREAKING BUG: DO NOT COPY THE "fade.nft" FILE LOCATED IN "TXD/LS FOLDER". IT WILL CRASH IF THAT FILE GETS REPLACED!

MAKE A BACKUP OF THAT ONE FILE BEFORE INSTALLING!

TO INSTALL:

1. Go to the "#1 Important files" folder
2. Extract all contents inside into your Bully folder
3. Select "yes" to overwrite all files
4. Overwrite the NEW fade.nft file with the OLD fade.nft to prevent crashing
5. Enter the "stream" folder in your Bully SE main folder
6. Double click "install.exe" and wait about 3 minutes
7. DONE!

CONTROLLER SUPPORT

Say you want to play Bully with a controller, but you're unsure if your controller will work,

XBOX CONTROLLERS

Bully natively supports the Xbox 360 and Xbox One controllers only.

If you set up those controllers correctly, they'll work right out the box, nothing more needs to be done.


PLAYSTATION CONTROLLERS

Bully does NOT support PlayStation controllers on PC. PS3, or PS4.

However, you can force them to work with a program called x360ce, a program that tricks games into thinking you're using an Xbox 360 controller when you're not.

It's pretty easy to set up, but keep in mind that all the controller inputs will be with Xbox prompts, if you do use a PlayStation controller, I recommend the PlayStation icons "mod" which will change all the Xbox inputs to the PlayStation ones.

https://gtaforums.com/topic/785063-relbully-playstation-23-button-prompts/

STEAM CONTROLLER

Steam controller will only work if you enable the Xbox config in Steam itself.

RESHADE

Bully does work with ReShade, but please be aware that Bully, unlike many games today, are a bit buggier than more modern titles with it.

I recommend at least a GTX 1060 or AMD equivalent GPU or stronger.

Anyway, many ReShade effects will work and apply without any problems, while some other effects seemingly will not do anything. Other effects may give you graphical glitches.

There are some good presets out that that improve clarity, since Bully SE does look a little smudged at times.

Installation video:

END

So that's it for this guide really.

Will update if anything new comes along, but that's all for now.

[franxhorodriguez76]

I get error 0xc0000005 when I generate a .dmp.

Cause? Memory Leaks

[nixkiez]

For all wondering, FPS does not cause crashes, only softlocks.

[lilcasey1]

oh the 60 fps must be why i randomly crash after a while of play or if something happens fast.

[suz moo king]

for reshade directx9 didn't appear as an option

[Andruha]

"failed to complete installation"

[Techno]

when I download the patch and run it it says "1628 unable to complete instillation"

[CyDragonV2]

also Loss Scaling FPS generator can basically help any game regardless of it's performance to play at the monitor's refresh rate so yes without the game bugging out you still can play at 60fps or above

[hyperborea]

How to fix the npc lines bug?
It's when npc say the same quote every time

[Grumpy]

Actually a good guide on Steam, that is rare...

[Coled]

Can't play on PC because my save keeps resetting after manually saving