I just bought the game when I found it after a long while of searching through shops, since there don't seem to be that many copies over here. I did play it before when the game was new on another PC. It had troubles running properly then because it was a rather old and sluggish PC. Now I have a PC that plays about anything on high settings, such as Oblivion and the like.
However, after having installed the game and started it up for the first time. I selected new game, it showed the loading screen and then.. bang! Back to windows.
On any start-up after this event it doesn't even get past the loading screen of the start-up and immediately gives a windows crash/fault message. So now I can't even get in the main screen or anything. (not that I was able to actually play the game after the install)
This is the first part of the crash log it made in the folder,
* * * Vampire Crash Data Log, Generated From Exe Built On: Oct 6 2004 * * *
vampire caused an Access Violation (0xc0000005)
in module engine.dll at 001b:200f5967.
Read from location 00000000 caused an access violation.
Context:
EDI: 0x00000008 ESI: 0x10493c54 EAX: 0x03609c00
EBX: 0xffffffff ECX: 0x00000000 EDX: 0x00000073
EIP: 0x200f5967 EBP: 0x20d5e078 SegCs: 0x0000001b
EFlags: 0x00210206 ESP: 0x0012e6b8 SegSs: 0x00000023
Bytes at CS:EIP:
8b 11 a3 80 08 2b 21 a1 74 08 2b 21 83 c4 14 50
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Anyone's had any similar experiences and has gotten a solution? It would help a lot, because even though the game was cheap it doesn't mean I don't want to play it!
