HELP! Prob Starting the Game!

bLa · Post by **bLa** » Sat Dec 31, 2005 8:41 pm

hi!

i have a serious prob:
i start the game, i see all the vids (activision, white wolf, nvidia, troika) and then my screen stays black... BUT: i can see the mouse and i can (randomly) open and see the options and the save/load menu.

but the backround is constantly black... have the newest driver etc.

plz help!

CaptRory · Post by **CaptRory** » Sun Jan 01, 2006 1:01 pm

First: Make sure you meet all the minimum requirements. Make sure you have the lastest official patch.

yrthwyndandfyre · Post by **yrthwyndandfyre** » Sun Jan 01, 2006 1:29 pm

[QUOTE=CaptRory]First: Make sure you meet all the minimum requirements. [/QUOTE]
Actually, that's an excellent idea, CaptRory. I once installed a Borland Turbo C++ compiler on an 8086. It ran. It took 35 minutes to load and responded to keystrokes at 5 second intervals, but it ran. It would be reasonable to assume that an under-powered PC would be a valid reason for this problem, too.

bLa · Post by **bLa** » Sun Jan 01, 2006 4:21 pm

well, i do meet the minimum requirements... as i mentioned my whole screen is black but i can go into the options or the save/load screen without any lag or something...
and i already patched it to version 1.2

yrthwyndandfyre · Post by **yrthwyndandfyre** » Sun Jan 01, 2006 5:21 pm

[QUOTE=bLa]well, i do meet the minimum requirements... as i mentioned my whole screen is black but i can go into the options or the save/load screen without any lag or something...
and i already patched it to version 1.2[/QUOTE]
The lead-in stuff is always slam-dunk. It's built to show up fast and unload quick - minimal resource usage. The game itself is what takes time.

I can't say off the top of my head what the problem is, but I would suggest a test. Start the game, let it start loading, and wait. Give it about an hour. If, after that time, the game loads successfully, then you don't have enough processor or memory (memory being the better bet). The time is probably going into paging memory off to the file system. If it doesn't load in that time, then you have some kind of bug, and I would suggest uninstalling the game and re-installing it.

You have to understand the "Minimum Requirements" thing. That's the absolute minimum that the game can run in at all. To get it to perform acceptably, you typically need more. When I bought VTMB, I had 768 Mb of memory, which is far in excess of "Minimum Requirements". I had to upgrade to 1.25 Gb to get reasonably performance, but I have an old CPU - 1.5 GHz.

The original "Minimum Requirements" for Windows '95 was 16 Mb. That's what it took to load the operating system alone. To actually run anything took more.

bLa · Post by **bLa** » Sun Jan 01, 2006 6:51 pm

well i fixed it... i thought it has nothing to do with the rate thingy, but it did...

now im stuck in the tutorial cuz the door wont open!

Foolkiller · Post by **Foolkiller** » Sun Jan 15, 2006 5:15 pm

[QUOTE=bLa]well i fixed it... i thought it has nothing to do with the rate thingy, but it did...

now im stuck in the tutorial cuz the door wont open![/QUOTE]

it looks like i have the same problem. any tips on how to fix it?

gothmetalla666 · Post by **gothmetalla666** » Mon Jan 16, 2006 1:01 pm

Ektoplasma... wrong thread, perhaps??? Belongs in the "Favourite Clan" thread me thinks.

bLa have you tried simply uninstalling and reinstalling Bloodlines? Sometimes it installs wrongly, this sometimes fixes it, I had a problem similar to this.