Blood hangs at loading screen
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Blood hangs at loading screen
Hello all,
I used the "build on XP page to try and get Blood running om my XP (yes, with service pack 2, and it's the home edition. Setup doesn't ask me for mixing bits and mono/stereo though, and the game hangs on the loading demo - cradle to grave - please wait screen. I've already tried the newest version of VMDSound (2.1.0), but it changes nothing at all. Can anyone please please help?
thanks in advace for any help,
CHYROS
I used the "build on XP page to try and get Blood running om my XP (yes, with service pack 2, and it's the home edition. Setup doesn't ask me for mixing bits and mono/stereo though, and the game hangs on the loading demo - cradle to grave - please wait screen. I've already tried the newest version of VMDSound (2.1.0), but it changes nothing at all. Can anyone please please help?
thanks in advace for any help,
CHYROS
im sure Service pack 2 causes untold problems,and thats a real bummer.Try re-installing everything from scratch.I ended up installing Win 98 SE to play all my old DOS games that dont have source ports.Its like being in a time warp!!.Weird how the mono\stereo and mixing rates dont appear.What version of Blood are you using?
well to be honest, a downloaded one, an alcohol image of the CD, including the whole unit and cryptic passage... I've also tried the version someone else suggested in some thread, but in that one the mixing bits and mono/stereo don't appear either, and it stops working even before the "loading demo" screen. Damn, this problem really is something strange, innit?
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Yes,and i just checked my new crappy Sound Blaster IRQ and its 17,weird.But i got all the options and sound even WITHOUT VDM sound! Sorry,i just cant replicate the problem.Download and install the Frenchkiss Abandonware version and go through the Build XP guide meticulously one more tiime maybey? Sorry i cant help.Could be the Yamaha sound freaks it out somehow Do you have any problems with audio with other games? Its almost like blood thinks you have no sound hardware or something?!! Anyone else got any ideas?
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Well, the Yamaha card doesn't actually provide ANY problems in any other game, so it's not defective or anything. I've tried runningBlood without sound and music; the results are different, yet exactly as bad as with sound; this time is hangs on the firs frame of the cradle to grave demonstration (it seems to skip the "loading demo"-screen completely, as well).
About the frenchkiss abandonware download: I think the site is closed down. I never actually tested that version, either.
I'm beginning to understand less and less about XP . I'll try re-installing everthing again (how knows how many-eth time it will be) tomorrow, now I'm gonna get a good night's sleep. I also want everyone to know that their help was, is being and will be appreciated. Thanks everybody!
About the frenchkiss abandonware download: I think the site is closed down. I never actually tested that version, either.
I'm beginning to understand less and less about XP . I'll try re-installing everthing again (how knows how many-eth time it will be) tomorrow, now I'm gonna get a good night's sleep. I also want everyone to know that their help was, is being and will be appreciated. Thanks everybody!