Hi,
Just want to let you know that Blood's awesome add-on Cryptic Passage can be played multiplayer/coop in XP.
If you have Blood running well on XP you can get Cryptic Passage to run.
CP runs a little jerky compared to Blood as this site's guide says (more on this below).
CP does not support multiplayer/coop out of the box so you need to grab a hold of a file called CPMULTI.EXE from here:
http://files.filefront.com/cpmulti/;845 ... einfo.html
Put it in your blood directory and create a new vdms shortcut to it like you did for blood.exe etc.. NOTE: Make sure you also click on 'Enable Low Level Network Support' in the shortcut properties.
You will most likely get a "Run Time Error 200" when you try to run it.
Now grab this utility called TPPATCH.EXE here to fix this:
http://www.brain.uni-freiburg.de/~klaus ... ml#TpPatch
(located in the TpPatch.zip)
Extract tppatch.exe into the blood directory where cpmulti.exe is and from a command line run 'tppatch cpmulti.exe' from your blood directory
Now click on the shortcut and you will get the Blood setup screen, select 'Network Game' and Launch Blood. NOTE: This will only support LAN games like Blood multiplayer. Other players do the same thing and you are good to go..
except in CP multiplayer the game & sound might be very jerky (a lot more so than with single player CP) which is what happened for me.
I found that in the vdms shortcut when I unclicked 'CAP DOS timer frequency' (in Advanced../Performance) the jerkiness dissipated considerably. I think this has also helped my single player CP jerkniess too.
Like with all vdms emulated DOS games may want to play with your vdms/in game settings to get the best results. I have an athlon 3400 and a pentium with 3.0GHZ and Cryptic Passage mulitplayer coop & sound is working well.
Good luck.
Cryptic Passage Multiplayer/Coop HOWTO
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Improving Jerky CP performance...?
How do you unclick the "Cap DOS timer frequency" in the cryptic VDM shortcut? I have very jerky single player performance in Cryptic Passage and was hoping this might help.