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AMD Athlon 64 3400+
Win XP SP2
NVidia GeForce 6800 GT
1 GB ram
10+ gb free space

Patches: 1.2 official and 2.5 (latest I could find) community created patches applied.
DirectX 9.0c: yes, freshly re-downloaded today
Updated Nvidia drivers: yes, freshly re-downloaded today
Windows virtual memory: I let windows choose its own settings. I have it hard-set it to 3000 MB to 6000 MB before, still does not work.
Resolution: tried all of them, none work.
Screen refresh rate: 60.

Problem: It plays the intro movies for the producers and video game company, etc, but then it crashes a second after that. If I reboot, I can get in and change the resolution once, and then it will crash if I try to play a game. Then I have to reboot to get back to the game's New Game/Load Game/Options menu, otherwise it just immediately crashes vampire.exe.

I have been working on this for days. I've read so many posts about this problem, tried so many solutions... none of it is working. I have never had so many problems with trying to run a game on my system before and I've done just about all that I can think of and all of the suggestions I've found. My sister has a older computer with not even a fourth of my computer's power, and she can run the game fine.

If anyone has any ideas... I really would love to hear them. Thanks for any advice.

-Niksa.

Hmmm...check your Nvidia drivers, there might be an error due to a problem with the latest drivers...There are allways some issues.

Maybe some Omega Drivers can solve it.

Have you tried a uninstall and reinstall?
I am not clear can you make it to the Main Menu, but crashes once you try to start a new game?
If you can get to the Main Menu, try shutting off Enviromental Sound.
What Sound card/onboard chip do you have and what sound drivers do you use?

Does Half-Life 2 run on your machine, with your current setup?

I don't know about Half-Life 2, I've never tried it... I can run Oblivion on full settings if that's a good comparison.

I'll check into the drivers, but I did just update them only 12 hours ago. I don't know what Omega drivers are but I'll look into it.

I uninstalled/reinstalled many times, rebooted many times.

I can get to the main menu 1 time after a reboot, to change Options. After that, no matter what I selected in the main menu, vampire.exe (after the beginning movies) crashes until I reboot again.

Thanks for the replies, I'll post back if I find out anything about omega drivers..

Oh, I have Soundblaster Live!

I did try to turn off the sound at some point..

Update:

Since I was due for a reformat on this system for general maintenance (I try to do it once yearly on my machines), I decided to do it a bit early and see if I could eliminate the problems with running Bloodlines.

I believe there was a windows-related conflict, and a format & full reinstall of windows completely fixed the problem. It runs very well now.

This may seem like a drastic fix to some people, but I was going to do it anyway in 2 weeks, so it was really not a problem at all.

Also - the Omega drivers are apparently no longer updated/supported by their creators as of 1 year ago so I didn't look into them. And as I found out, I didn't need them after all. But it was a good idea and thank you for it.

I just thought I'd reply and let you helpful folks know what happened and let you know that I'm happily running around as my Gangrel now.

Well congrats.

Redoing one of my drive this week, also.

Yes, Omega stopped supporting NVidia, not sure why maybe he wasn't getting any support from the NVidia crowd.

Ahh...okay...didn't know about the Omega Drivers for Nvidia.

Hmmm...maybe it had something to do with the Python Language Script needed for VTM. Have just built a new computer system and set up Windows anew, gotta check if VTM works for me again....

A little off topic but this is my advice to people like Niksa and others who tend to get problems with games over time.

Get a program like Norton Ghost, format your system, install Windows and Office and and virus scanner or other essential programs you use, then update windows FULLY, and make a ghost image of ur setup, burn this then onto a DVD or keep it in a partition hard-drive.

That way, when your PC messes up, just re-ghost C drive! You can copy all saved files etc. to another HDD, and you have a 'fresh' system to mess up in your own special way again