OMG you ARE the man... i´ve been getting this error for "years" now (at least it feels like years) and the simple change in the files variable has fixed it all. i love you!

THIS is exactly the error i´m talking about...

check out: http://forums.deathmask.net/viewtopic.php?t=33

sadly there seems to be no solution as only a few peoply experience this error. the majority seems to be able to play blood on xp sp2.

no it isn´t... tested with 2 different pcs and 2 different original blood cds + shareware version and all the abandon warez downloads... for some reason blood isn´t able to read it´s own file formats. this is very strange... but i´m not the only one with this error. http://forums.deathmask.net/viewt...

i´ve got the same problem everone else seems to experience with xp sp2. blood isn´t able anymore to read it´s demo files and archives. therefore it can´t be played... look into my other thread for more information. just wanted to mention that this problem occures even with this download version. str...

sounds promising. are you using xp with sp2?

yeah. it´s a really strange problem. even in the vogons forum nobody knows the problem. sp2 comes with a new compiled windows kernel and some extensions to guard the system from buffer overruns. perhaps this is the problem. i don´t know really. it´s sad that blood won´t run outside of dosbox now. i ...

i have exactly the same problem as AndiNo. i tested it on two different computers with two different original blood cds. blood cannot open certain files, i tink. perhaps this has to do something with xp sp2. i remember beeing able to run blood on xp something like a year ago. what can i do? very str...