NULL CPlayerState data in host_Spawn_f

[Tessera]

Originally Posted by patchmcpatch

I tried doing a clean reinstal and then patching it. The game would black screen then not work. Square one.

Your system is most likely inadequately equipped to run this game.

[SMRieth]

As a side note, I ran into this problem running VTMB on Vista. To correct it, all I had to do was run the program as administrator.

[patchmcpatch]

I actualy lent the game to a friend and he had a few problems. Said he ran it as the admin and it worked fine. Only problem is i dont have the option to run this game as the admin, under where i should have the option i only get the option to run is on xp or 98, so i changed it to 98 and the game worked fine unpatched until i got to that leopold mission and it kept crashing. So i figured it needs to be patched. Do you know how i can get it so i can run htis game as the admin? Perhaps that will help.

Also i got another 512 ram

[Jhereg]

Frankly, even 1 Gb is marginal-lean for this, and the graphics card is definitely going to be an issue. As a first step, go to options for your video card and optimize for performance over quality across the board. Then game options, and drop the resolution, mapping features, shadows, chrome, and what-not to minimal levels. When you've got it as lean as it can get, try that. If that works good, then you can try edging the settings back up to find an optimal balance between quality and playability. As a final shot, you can try going to the services option under administrative tools and shutting down all non-essential services, even to the point of shutting down your internet and virus scanning stuff (no internet, minimal threat). Unplug any devices that don't have to be attached (drivers need love, too). In short, strip it down to the rails. Yes, that does mean that the keen graphic background you use on the desktop goes, and switch the desktop from the warm and fuzzy flavor of the XP interface in favor of the vanilla default '95 blue. Every resource that isn't being used for something else can be used by VTMB and colors are, in fact, a resource - more colors take more memory.

You may have got by with '98 simply because it's a leaner OS, which leaves more resources for the game to use. XP is a bit more on the hungry side - you're going to have to put it on a diet while you're playing until you get the hardware up to snuff. You can always switch on all the keen gear again afterwards.

[patchmcpatch]

How would i go about increasing performance?

Also another problem, on the unpatched version of the game whenever i use protean rank 1(seeing in the dark) the whole screen goes white.

[Jhereg]

Originally Posted by patchmcpatch

How would i go about increasing performance?

Also another problem, on the unpatched version of the game whenever i use protean rank 1(seeing in the dark) the whole screen goes white.

Conttol Panel/Display/Advanced usually will get you to the settings for your particular card. What exactly you can do depends on the card itself, but options may include, but are not limited to:

Hardware anti-aliasing
Anisotropic Filtering
Mipmap Detail level
Shading features
Bloom

You may find others. Generally minimal settings increase performance, and higher settings increase quality (competing perogatives).

In the more general sense, in the game, lower resolution to the lowest allowed, minimise any sound effects you can get away without, set shadows to off, and so forth. Anything that sounds like chrome probably is, and you do have room to fool about here. If you aren't sure about something, try it, start the game, see what happens, and if you don't like what happens, set it back to what it was before. You don't have to play an entire scene, even. Just try running past a streetlight, ideally while it's raining. That will tell you about as much as you need to know. When you've got things workable, you can start over with little or nothing lost.