Vampire Mascarade Bloodline Is black screen and funky
 

Hello All
Iam haveing a bit of a different problem then everyone else seems to be. I can mount the image just fine and the game loads but it loads to everything but a small section in the middle black and flickering like when a tv channel keeps rolling over. Ive got the latest nvidia driver and latest version of deamon tools and iam stuck it will not work. Any ideas.

mine does pretty much the same thing. i can load my image (bty: if u have clone cd thats the problem just un-install it and it works just fine with image and d-tools) and it starts up and it shows the dumb movies and then when it gets to the game menu it just stays black and i hear the menu music and shizza like that. but i cant see anything i also have the latest drivers for my fx5200 :( :( but anyway whats the problem with the video?

your video card might not be good enough for this game i believe the fx5200 does not have hardware T&S......not sure but that might be it

theres likely to be a list of supported graphs cards in the manual or on a readme file in the directory, check that out, ultimatly contact tech support.

Iam haveing the same problem then you. i "can" load my image and it starts up and it shows the dumb movies and then when it gets to the game menu it just stays !!!BLACK!!! and i hear the menu music and shizza like that. but i cant see anything ????

i also have direkt X 9.0c
i also have the latest drivers for my fx5900XT but anyway whats the problem with the video?

in the readme ...all nVidia GeForce™-Chips working with vampire....

Any ideas?

by RedSean

PS: sorry for my bad english i am a real GERMAN

Contact Tech Support.

yeah i have fixed the problem.. it was the refresh-rate under Direkt X... just stop and edit refresh-rate

thx by RedSean

All this means is that GeForce MX (read:junk) can run it without crashing oe whining (kinda like what PrinceOfPersia did.. that was funny) and that they tested this with the most recent (then .. not now) driver
In other words, even though this is the source engine that is used in a less efficient way than half-life, they still want people to buy the game without worrying about how crappy their current card is.
Marketing.

This has nothing to do with your problem, just me venting out frustration with marketing dudes.

Joyboy: shouldnt there be a rule for the General gaming forum that says something about Tech Support Questions?

refresh rate is not the only problem
 

refresh rate is not the only problem with vampire: bloodlines, eventually, if you have an old nvidia card or any of the mx versions you have to disable fastwrites. the funky screen happened to me also with "sherlock holmes: the case of the silver earring" - this solves it. i read some info about the games, so i figured out that "SH: Silver blab bla" i set to default at 100 hz refresh rate, which can be changed from some config file, i think. still haven't figured it out for vampire: bloodlines. hope that helps.

hi were do i alter the refresh rate in Directx pls help

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hi there guys, me new in this forum site (btw: i'm chilean so sorry bout' my rusty english) well i have the same problem (at the first time i wasn't even able to actually "load" the game, once i've uninstalled CLONECD and mount tne lil' GCW images it worked fine) after all the dumb movies and just when i get to the menu, the screen goes black and the only thing i see is the red "thingy" (like blood effects?) as a "GAME MENU" either i try clicking on some of them still got the black screen (did i mentioned that i hear the menu music? ;B) well i read this thread and it said: "change refresh rate under Direct X)" and other one said: "not only refresh rate... set as default 100Hz... alos the SH:Silver blablabla..." well i don't know THAT DEEP videocard knowledge, so if someone is kind and gentle could you (any of u) explain, very detailed (plz) how can i change the refresh rate and what refresh rate is? (BTW: my monitor is a bit old tis a samsung syncmaster 550v so the max refresh rate i could get to is 60Hz), well looking forward for your answer...
sinceresly,
gUzzAh.

PS: Thanks for any help, =), and again please sorry because of my english...cya

oops
 

BTW: i have an ati radeon sapphire Atlantis 64 DDR AGP 8x, if this could be of any help? the readme says: "Supported Chipsets for 98/ME/2000/XP All ATI® Radeon® Chipsets" still have the black and funky "thingy" bugging me to death! :(

oops.. wrong forum
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i've tried the refresh rate stuff and still doesn't works!! what can i do =( plz i want to play this game!!

@gUzAnO
Maybe you should just use your original discs to play until a proper NoCD.exe is released! That's if one ever does come out! ;)