How to play

Blur's online mode is back. Three small files next to Blur.exe and you race online again: rooms, powered-up races, fans and ranks, with voice chat and friends from the site.

Blur · PC NOBK Online client 3 files · Windows 10 / 11 · for Blur on PC · no game files included

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Voice chat

The in-game voice chat started from BerkayKN's blur-proximity-voice-chat. We built the NOBK menu, sign-in, friends, controller support and the graphics options on top of it. Thank you!

The project on GitHub

What you need

Windows 10 / 11Any PC that runs Blur

Your own BlurThe PC game, see the version below

NOBK Online accountThe same account as FIFA 09 and our other games

ControllerOptional: Xbox or DualSense, no Steam needed

MicrophoneOptional, for voice chat

Which version of the game you need

Game: Blur
Platform: PC (Windows)
Version: 1.2
Players online: 2–20

The PC release of Blur (2010) with its last official update, 1.2. Our client checks Blur.exe when the game starts; if it is a different build it stays off and writes that to nobk_blur.log. The Xbox 360 and PS3 versions don't work.

New install

Download and extract

Download the client above and extract the ZIP. Inside are three files: dinput8.dll, nobk_login.dll and opus.dll.

Next to Blur.exe

Open the folder where Blur.exe is and drag the three files into it. If Windows asks, choose Replace: an older dinput8.dll from another mod has to go. Nothing else to run: no installer, no command window, no router settings.

dinput8.dllnobk_login.dllopus.dllBlur.exe

Sign in to NOBK Online

Start Blur and go to Multiplayer. On the game's own sign-in screen use your NOBK Online username and password. The game remembers you next time.

Only use a copy of the game you own. We never distribute game files, and we can't help you find them.

Create account Sign in

Hit the road

Join a playlist or host a room and race. Every race you finish earns fans and rank, and shows up on the Live page, the leaderboard and your driver page.

In the game

F1Back + R3

NOBK menu: voice, graphics, controller, account

F2Back + L3

Friends: who is online, invite, join

Left Shift

Push to talk (change it in the F1 menu)

GraphicsSMAA, sharpening, 16× anisotropic filtering and a longer draw distance in F1 › Graphics.

Engine sound fixOn by default: stops the high buzz of the engines above 60 FPS.

ControllerXbox and DualSense pads work in every menu, with Xbox or PlayStation button prompts.

Friends and avatarsYour friends and profile picture come from your NOBK Online account.

Updating

When a new client is out, the game tells you. Open F1 › General and press Update: it downloads and checks the new files, then restart the game. If Blur is in Program Files and the update can't write there, download the client here and drag the three files over the old ones. Your settings stay.

If something goes wrong

The game says it can't connect

Check that the three files are in the same folder as Blur.exe and that you signed in with your NOBK Online account. nobk_blur.log next to Blur.exe tells what happened; send it to us on Discord.

My antivirus deletes dinput8.dll

Games load dinput8.dll from their own folder, which is how our client gets in; some antivirus programs flag that pattern. Add the Blur folder as an exception and copy the file again.

The F1 menu doesn't open

Another mod's dinput8.dll is probably still there. Copy ours again and choose Replace.

I see someone in a room but can't join

Races run between the players' PCs. Ask the host to make a new room, or try again in a minute.