Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines

[montnoir]

montnoir still hopes someone be a chum and explains to him the virtual drive issue

montnoir has heard rumors that the UK version of bloodlines is CUT and edited. Is this true?!

[bierhuettl]

well, i use the virtual drive that comes with alcohol... never had problems with that one

[montnoir]

Ok got it working, didn't know what I did, just messed around using one of the GCW files (I think the iso one). Never had anything else installed than alcohol 120 and it's what i used now to "mount on the virtual drive". And the game runs no prob.

Is the intro decapitation in the US version, or just the sound like mine (UK ver.)?

[shura]

Can some PLEASE explain me how after the installation, i can make this game works with alcohol 120%? THANXXX!!!!

[Raiten]

I was able to get mine to work without the use of a CD, just use Daemon to mount the images one by one when the installation process asks for them. Once your done with that, you shouldn't even need the "crack" from GCW or a CD to run off. Also remember to get rid of CloneCD/DVD or whichever you have, both if you have both, and to have the latest version of Daemon Tools.

[TBS]

Whenver i try to play this game, or Max Payne 2 (these are the only 2 games i get this error with) i get this error message:

The Bink32.dll file is installed in the windows or windows system directory - it must be installed in the application directory


What does it mean?

[NineZeroD]

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.

[bierhuettl]

Originally Posted by TBS

Whenver i try to play this game, or Max Payne 2 (these are the only 2 games i get this error with) i get this error message:

The Bink32.dll file is installed in the windows or windows system directory - it must be installed in the application directory


What does it mean?

this message says what you have to do... copy the bink32.dll file from windows dir to game directory in the same place where the exe also is... and it will work

[TBS]

I did that, and now it says the same thing about the MSS DLL file, i copied this file to the required game folder, and now it gives the same error everytime.

[seraphim19]

my bloodlines loads the image (if u have clone cd un-install it, then it will work with the image and d-tools) and then it loads the game. i get past all the movies and then my video turns off when i get to the game menu. i can hear the menu music and everything but my video is gone. whats the problem????

[Anubis336]

Now this problem is way different from what you guys have (the game starts just fine with the nocd from gcw in my case).


My problem is related more to a glitch so to say namely: when trying to leave the society of leopold with the boat the game starts loading the new area and when it's finished it crashes (no error msg , no flickering graphics no nothing, initialy i thought it was because i did something wrong but after i replayed the same are over and over again i start to think that somewhere elese there may be a problem). did any of you have this problem too and if yes how did you overcome it?

[TBS]

That ones easy mate:
We are still looking into this issue at the current time, but the following should get you past the issue.

This fix involves using some console commands. Be careful to enter the console commands exactly as they appear, capitalization is important.

To enable the console for the game:
1) Right-click on the shortcut you use the launch the game
2) Select properties
3) Make sure you are on the shortcut tab
4) At the end of the target line add -console, add this outside of the quotes
5) The finished line should look like this if you have the game installed to the default directory
"C:\Program Files\Activision\Vampire - Bloodlines\vampire.exe" -console
6) Hit ok, make sure you launch the game using this shortcut

Once you have enabled the console load the saved game from this level and do the following
1) Get to the boat and approach it, do not get into the boat, but get as close as you can
2) Open the console using the tilde "~" key
3) Type the following commands in:

If you saved Johansen:
SaveJohansen()

Then to level transition if you're anybody but a Nosferatu:
changelevel2 la_hub_1 taxi_landmark

And if you're a Nosferatu, instead use:
changelevel2 la_hub_1 sewer_map_landmark

4) If you get to the next level and you do not have any items in your inventory reload your previous save (make sure you have a discreet save and are not just using the autosave) and try it again, but stand closer to the boat.

Hope that helps
and if it does, click on the scales at the top of this post and give me some points

Mused

now, if only someone could help me....

[Jokerman92]

Hi, this might be a little off topic, but I am having a problem with flickering gameplay. The Intro is choppy, and when I am playing the game it chops allot. Also Takes forever to load! I noticed when I am playing the Hard Drive light on my Case is going NuTs! I have a P4 2.4gig, 160G HD 7200 rpm, 9200 Radeon 128 MB Vid Card, Audigy 2 Sound Card etc. I should have no problems playing this game but it flickers and I can hear my hard drive going nuts. Any help on this problem would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

[TBS]

The minimum specs say you need at least a 1.45gb windows swap file, it may be worth checking that, and also make sure you have the most up-to date drivers for your graphics card and bios and sound card etc.

[Jokerman92]

Originally Posted by TBS

The minimum specs say you need at least a 1.45gb windows swap file, it may be worth checking that, and also make sure you have the most up-to date drivers for your graphics card and bios and sound card etc.

Hi, thanks man, just wondering how I check the swap file? Help on that would be greatly appreciated, I am using Windows XP Professional. About the up to date Drivers, I have already tried those but thanks