Problem playing Vampire: Masquerade BLOODLINES

[NickiSixx]

I DLed the first release (VNGCLONE or something) and that didnt work for me no matter what i tried. The starting "Vampire: Masquerade Bloodlines" screen would pop up, but then it would say "Microsoft Visual ++ Runtime Library error "- saying vampire.exe was the cause. So then i was glad to see the Vampire release by HOODLUM. It didnt require any image mounting, etc - its all bin and cues. Instructions say to just burn them and play.......i still get the same error. I went to the official Vampire website and it says to make your desktop res 800x600 - but that didnt work either.

does anyone know what the problem is?

thanks

i also tried mounting the image with Daemon tools but that didnt work

[celtic_druid]

I am assuming that the hoodlum release requires a crack? You did copy it over right?

[NickiSixx]

yeah, i did that as well (the exe crack and the .dll)

[NickiSixx]

anyone?

[NickiSixx]

?

[whohatemeeh]

what's your setup? cause I've tried to run this game
on a 1.1ghz with 700+MB of SDRAM and it didn't work.
When I tried to run it on my 2.6ghz with 512MB pc3200
it worked flawlessly.

[NickiSixx]

its p4 3.0ghz
x800 XT Platinum video card
1gb Corsair DDR333

what did you do to install it and play?

[NickiSixx]

anyone?

[NickiSixx]

TO ANYONE HAVING THE SAME PROBLEM I AM AND TOOK EVERYONE's SUGGESTIONS AND USED EVERYONE's CRACKS BUT STILL COULD NOT BOOT THE GAME:

THE FOLLOWING FIX IS UNSUPPORTED BY ACTIVISION:

1) Go to start->run and type in Regedit and press enter. This will bring up the registry editor.
2) Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Python\Pythoncore\2.1\ Pythonpath\WIN32 and click on the win32 folder
3) Go to the file menu at the top and select export
4) Choose a location, and then enter a name for the registry key backup
5) then delete the whole WIN32 folder inside the pythonpath folder.

Now close the registry editor and start the game. The problem should be fixed.

Making this change may affect other applications currently installed. If you notice something else you want to use is not working properly on your system after making this change simply locate the exported registry key you made and double-click on it. This will allow you to replace the key easily. Replacing this key will cause the same error message to appear with vampire. You will need to remove this key again if you wish to use the game. You should not need to create the exported key again unless you delete it manually.
THE FOLLOWING FIX IS UNSUPPORTED BY ACTIVISION:

1) Go to start->run and type in Regedit and press enter. This will bring up the registry editor.
2) Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Python\Pythoncore\2.1\ Pythonpath\WIN32 and click on the win32 folder
3) Go to the file menu at the top and select export
4) Choose a location, and then enter a name for the registry key backup
5) then delete the whole WIN32 folder inside the pythonpath folder.

Now close the registry editor and start the game. The problem should be fixed.

Making this change may affect other applications currently installed. If you notice something else you want to use is not working properly on your system after making this change simply locate the exported registry key you made and double-click on it. This will allow you to replace the key easily. Replacing this key will cause the same error message to appear with vampire. You will need to remove this key again if you wish to use the game. You should not need to create the exported key again unless you delete it manually.


This was from Activision's site in SUPPORT (newly added). Now my game finally works!!! I hope this helps some people