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I am in the mood for some Vampire gaming again, so I thought I gotta take a look what the latest patches are, and found this one:

http://www.worthdownloading.com/downloa ... 96&id=6408


When I have more info, I am going to add it here.

hope that although it is friday 13. we don't get another corruption
like with 1.9, and 2.0 also solves a big chinatown issue left over by that
corruption even after the re-upload. Special thanks this time must go to
RobinHood70 who did a great job checking all the dialogues against speech
and subtitles and who fixed a lot of other bugs he detected while doing
this! This patch will eventually be translated into french and for the
first time into german too. For a list of all major changes see below:

v2.0
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All dialogues matched to speech and fixed thoroughly by RobinHood70.
Repaired a lot of lines that were not audible to female characters.
Removed Empire key after use and continued standardizing many names.
Made Prince react to Persuasion for money when sending you to Ming.
Restored additional lines of Jack, Imalia, Ming-Xiao and the cabbie.
Fixed money bugs with Bill, Hatter, Heather, Misti and prostitutes.
Made Empire clerk bisexual, responding to Seduction from either sex.
Restored Ventrue specific Prince dialogue and more cut extra lines.
Removed an exploit with Copper and fixed Jeanette taking your knife.
Restored unused Nosferatu and Malkavian lines of Tseng and Wong Ho.
Fixed possibility of Beckett not talking on return from the Society.
Corrected bug caused by 1.9 corruption that broke Chinatown quests.
Restored feeding on rats that would not work for some people in 1.9.
Lessened MAC-10 kickback on firing with increasing firearms skills.
Moved dance spot at club Confession because of the cross-zoom error.
Made crossbow bolts purchasable sooner and added a doll easter egg.
Provided baseball bat and tire iron to anyone skipping the tutorial.
Corrected Hitman quest rewards and added peace-talk lines for both.
Fixed problems with morphine quest and more after angering Mercurio.
Cut exclamation of Nadia that was audible when she was not present.
Removed the annoying sidetable in Gary's lair and hid two map holes.
Changed wrong status display for the power of pump 118a in warrens.

Versions 1.9 and 1.8 statements:

v1.9
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Made the Hallowbrook hotel's naming consistent throughout the game.
Let Ra blade cause more damage instead of not working faster attack.
Fixed a bug with Patty appearing in the alley although she is dead.
Replaced location labels of the missing sewermap with worldmap ones.
Put two of the unused female raver models into the club Confession.
Resized unspectacular lower resolution fonts for better readability.
Made Hannah actually die at the time that she is supposed to do so.
Corrected the corrupted Intimidation font "W" at higher resolutions.
Relocated Pearl of Dubai and cut pulltoy to Kilpatrick's bailbonds.
Put unfinished dogs at Giovanni Mansion and fixed Mira dialogue bug.
Removed critical bum cutscene and illogical Pisha feeding cutscene.
Made Grout's wife fully visible and repaired a Muddy quest shortcut.
Granted occult hacking powerup as reward for doing Mitnick's quest.
Placed Obfuscate and lockpicking powerups at Nosferatu and LA haven.
Fixed a quest bug with the Fu Syndicate elevator and an Isaac text.

v1.8
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Continued adjusting locations names by changing bus and sewer maps.
Restored female Sabbat and put three into the first Hallowbrook map.
Corrected a wrong dialogue option for female Malkavians with Nadia.
Made cemetery quest easier and fixed Romero raising female firearms.
Removed unused subdirectories on two of the Kamikazi Zen computers.
Fixed several dialogue errors regarding Beckett, Flayton and Hatter.
Corrected dialogue getting cut of at Fu Labs for Nosferatu players.
Placed the Pearl of Dubai and the occult braid into the SM pawnshop.
Added the missing Dodge II manual to second Giovanni Mansion level.
Created Justicar guards at Giovanni Mansion and fixed a synchro bug.
Put the unused male asian nurse model into the Santa Monica clinic.
Fixed Carson's appartment key not being removed when it's been used.
Corrected formatting of a few haven pc emails and the Sin Bin note.

I went to the link and How or where is the link or icon to actually download the patch file.

you have to click on one of the mirror sites listed and download it from there

I clicked it and still the same screen. ?

i just tried it and a popup came up with the download button so maybe you have a popup blocker that is preventing it from opening the new window.

Ok so its my spyware stuff, thanks

Yeah i got it thanks
Also when I installed it It did leave a record of the update in the files for the game, if it did where would it be?

It has a version file and mine still says 1.2 any clue to this?

All versions after 1.2 are unofficial, so they probably wouldn't change the version log. Version 1.2 is self executable, while the later unoffical patches are just copy over files you have to do yourself.

Hmm, I guess there really should be an installer for the patch, so to backup changed files and revert them on uninstall. This would make getting back to official state easier and installing next patches a cleaner process...

If you have enough disk space, do this:

Make a clean install of Vampire, install 1.2 ( the last official patch ).

Then make a copy of the whole folder, rename it ( i.e. Vampire 2.0 ), install the latest unoffical patch ( 2.0 for now ). And make a copy of the Vampire.exe of the copied version and drag it to your desktop ( you might have to rename that one too ).

Now, the next time you run the game, insert the game disk but don't click on start from the autorun startwindow. Click on "Cancel" ( or whatever the english version says ) and then start the game from the desktop modified icon you made.

The whole point is....you have a clean installed version allways on your computer and you don't need to uninstall, clean registry or reinstall everytime there is an error in your unoffically patched version.

If a new version comes out and you want to try it, just make a new copy of the clean original install again....

And a less disk-consuming solution would be to just backup the clean-install directory to a DVD and revert to it when I wish. But, one thing in your solution needs considering, some component location paths of the game are set in the registry, so I suspect the game will use them from the original directory. Perhaps such components need not be copied to the other directory. VPK's also need not be copied since they're never changed, and consume most disk space, so you could always have only one copy of those and move them where you need them. This means more work and one needs to know exactly what they're doing, but this would save some space.

However, the main reasons why I was mentioning a proper installer were saving the diskspace and saving the user from such file juggling

I have used that solution with other games too. Without any problems so far....

About the installer....the problem is that the patches are not offical since Troika is no more. So it's more or less a fan/former developer project which they do in their free time. The probably don't have time to code a real installer.

Actually, I've started working on an installer. However (fitting the reeasons you mentioned ), I'm not sure I'll have enough time (or remember to work on it often enough), to finish it until there is, say, 3.0 patch about (if ever...).