Download Barnyard (Windows)

The game has been tested on Windows 7 64-bit and Windows 10, works fine. Check our Guide and Notes for more 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
• Launch the installation (if autorun doesn't work - simply launch the installation from Setup.exe inside the disc)
• When the installation process will ask for CD2 - mount the disc image of CD2. CD2 must be mounted in same virtual drive as CD1, so first un-mount disc image of CD1 and then mount the disc image of CD2. In example, if CD1 was in virtual drive G:, CD2 must be mounted in virtual drive G: as well
• Finish the installation
• Also it is recommended to install DirectX 8 from the disc (if you're using Windows 10 - enable DirectPlay, read this or this guide how to do it)
• Open the directory with the game and find Barnyard.exe and Setup.exe. Right click on both exe-files - Properties - Compatibility - Set "Run this app in compatibility mode with Windows 2000 or XP" and "Run as administrator"
• Launch Setup.exe to set the game's display resolution
• 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 (98, 2000 or Vista)

Here's also video guide by Nostalgia Realm

Notes:

• The game doesn't have any DRM protection so you can just install the game and play it
• European version has the installer on 6 languages, including English, but the game itself has only 5 languages: French, German, Italian, Spanish & Dutch. You can select the language in game menu
• If the installation doesn't start - try to launch Setup.exe in compatibility mode with old version of Windows (Win98, Win2000, XP or Vista)
• It is recommended to install old versions of Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable for the correct work of the game
• Also it is recommended to install RAD Video Tools and K-Lite Codec Pack for the correct work of in-game videos
• The game works on DirectX 8, so if you're using Windows 8, 8.1, 10 or 11 - you probably will need to enable DirectPlay: Go to Control Panel, and select 'Programs'. Select 'Turn Windows features on and off', click on 'Legacy Components' and check the box 'DirectPlay'. Select OK, once the installation is done, restart your computer
• The game is using DirectX 8 and should work on any graphics card that support DirectX 9. But if you get error at launch - you can use d3d8to9 wrapper, it is simple dll-file that adapts DirectX 8 games to DirectX 9 renderer. Simply put d3d8.dll next to Barnyard.exe
• If you have graphical bug when instead of the ground textures you see sky textures - download 3D Analyze utility, press Select and choose Barnyard.exe in the game folder; then check Emulate HW TnL caps box and press Run
• By default the game works only in 4:3 screen resolution but you can run the game by using Widescreen fix. There's multiple options inside the archive, for different resolutions. Open the folder with your resolution and copy Barnyard.exe & Setup.exe, put them in main game folder, agree to replace original files. Then launch Setup.exe to set new screen resolution
• If you can't find your resolution or Widescreen fix didn't work - you can enable needed resolution manually, by HeX-edit of executable file. Read this or this guide how to do that. Here's also video guide
• The game also supports windowed mode but you need to enable it through registry edit. Read this guide if you want to play in windowed mode
• If you want to play with anti-aliasing and texture filtering - run the game with dgVoodoo. Just copy d3d8.dll from the MS/x86 folder, dgVoodooCpl.exe and dgVoodoo.conf to the game folder, then run dgVoodooCpl.exe, open DirectX tab and select the setting you want. After that click "Apply" to save settings, close dgVoodooCpl and run the game from Barnyard.exe. dgVoodoo is compatible with Widescreen fix, just don't select forced resolution in dgVoodoo settings
• If you want to play with controller - follow this guide. For Xbox 360 controller you can use Xbox 360 controller support fix by icup321
• For users of Windows 64-bit systems: if the game doesn't work after you launched it - open Task Manager (Ctrl+Alt+Del by default) and check for processes Barnyard.exe and rundll32.exe. Close Barnyard.exe but don't touch rundll32.exe (it's a Windows app for running old apps from 32-bit operational systems, most old games running through rundll32.exe). Now try to launch the game again, it must work. Don't forget to close rundll32.exe process in Task Manager after finishing playing
• Don't forget to check PCGamingWiki if you have troubles!