If you're on Windows 10 and you're finding the game crashes while in full screen every time a cut scene tries to play, you're in a very common situation. The port of Blue Reflection is sadly, one of Koei Tecmo's lazier efforts, but this is the single most frustrating issue related to it. The culprit is ActiveMovieWindow and how it is integrated in the game.

ActiveMovieWindow is based on an older video streaming technology, and there's no current universal fix for this. The problem has manifested in titles as recent as Persona 4 Arena Ultimax on Steam in 2022, so don't expect it to go away.

That all being said, if you do use an Nvidia GPU, there is a way to get the game running at 1080p and at 60FPS (with some mild frame hitches). If you have an AMD GPU, I'm sad to say that I don't have a solution for you.

I spent the better part of two hours searching through threads on Steam and experimenting with set ups, but this one finally got things working well. I can't promise this will work, particularly if you start modifying the resolution options, but let's get things set up:

The only way to stop these crashes from happening is to turn off Antialiasing in Nvidia Control Panel AND to edit a few settings in a game .ini file. Open up Nvidia Control Panel.

For the Nvidia Control Panel section, change the following settings for Blue Reflection:

Anisotropic Filtering: 4X
Antialiasing - FXAA: Off
Antialiasing - Gamma Correction: Off
Antialiasing - Mode: Off
Antialiasing - Setting: None (DO NOT TOUCH THIS, OR YOU WILL HAVE TO RE-DO THIS)

If you touch the last setting and you can't set it to None, go back to Antialiasing - Mode: and set this to 'Off' - this will fix the issue.



After that, go to \Documents\Koei Tecmo\BLUE REFLECTION\BR SETTING.INI and make sure the following settings are as follows:

AntiQuality=0
DepthOfField=0


There might still be a little cut scene stuttering, but the crashes at 1080p and full screen should stop. Once these settings are all changed, you can set the resolution to full screen and 1080p, and it should hopefully work.

An optional step is to go to this thread and download the 60FPS higher quality versions of the handful of the videos in the game.

https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/app/658260/discussions/0/1488861734097954535/

This is an imperfect port, and there will still be some minor frame drops and stuttering. There might still be a few odd moments while cut scenes load, but I'm well into Chapter 4-5 and the crashes haven't repeated since.

This isn't the most broken of Koei Tecmo's PC ports, but this should hopefully get things working. If you've followed these settings to the letter, it SHOULD work.

A special shout out to JRPG Jungle on Youtube for convincing me to take the plunge with Blue Reflection, and good luck to you all.