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I just bought Vampire again (my last copy had a scratched CD) with the intention of finishing it this time. I got about halfway again, and now I'm having more problems. I installed the latest English update, downloaded from the official site and when loading, when the bar reaches the end and play would normally start, it exits and comes up with this error:
NULL CPlayerState data in Host_Spawn_f

Can anybody help me!? I saw a few people in Russian forums had the same problem, and with the help of Google translator, I found out that nobody could help them either...

I'm already tried re-installing it and it still does the same thing.

Bob_Frank wrote:I just bought Vampire again (my last copy had a scratched CD) with the intention of finishing it this time. I got about halfway again, and now I'm having more problems. I installed the latest English update, downloaded from the official site and when loading, when the bar reaches the end and play would normally start, it exits and comes up with this error:
NULL CPlayerState data in Host_Spawn_f

Can anybody help me!? I saw a few people in Russian forums had the same problem, and with the help of Google translator, I found out that nobody could help them either...

I'm already tried re-installing it and it still does the same thing.

I've never heard of this, but just out of morbid curiosity, what OS are you running? I hear Vista does some strange things in the name of protecting you from yourself.

Nothing particular in mind, just that this appears to be a brand-new problem, and it just happens to occur just after Vista rolls out? If something weird suddenly happens, always look for what has changed. We know the game hasn't changed in a long time, so...

So it doesn't look like it's going to work again?

I'm running Windows XP Professional, though, not Vista.

Bob_Frank wrote:So it doesn't look like it's going to work again?

I'm running Windows XP Professional, though, not Vista.

Well, I've been running it under XP pro for eons, and more recently XP Media Edition, so if you've got XP, then that isn't the problem. Any patches, mods, and the such-like?

Perhaps you have to pull back to a clean install. That's uninstalling it, deleting the folder (by default "C:\Program Files\Activision\Vampire - Bloodlines" and the registry keys (by default "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Activision\Vampire - Bloodlines") and then doing a re-install. With something like this, though, I'd stay away from unofficial patches just yet. Original, 1.2 official, and then try it from there first. Baby steps.

I'll try re-installing it fully, like you've suggested, but I won't be able to until the weekend when I get access to an unrestricted account on my computer. (my dad decided that it would encourage more school work during the week...)

Thanks for going out of your way to help; not many people help with things like this; if it works for them, they're fine.

Bob_Frank wrote:I'll try re-installing it fully, like you've suggested, but I won't be able to until the weekend when I get access to an unrestricted account on my computer. (my dad decided that it would encourage more school work during the week...)

Thanks for going out of your way to help; not many people help with things like this; if it works for them, they're fine.

Ugh. If you're not a local admin or at least power user on that system, it's not going to let you at the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE hive. That might be the problem. You might not have sufficient privileges to run the game anymore. You might not have sufficient privileges to even install it properly anymore.

Regrettably, aside from a few Russian hacking tools I've run across that require admin privileges to breach passwords, there's no way I know of to get past that. You have to get your dad to re-install it for you - under his account, giving you authority to run the game.

I don't now how liberal your dad is, or how persuasive you are. I don't think you are looking at a software problem, though. At least not with VTMB. You have to talk your dad into it. Frankly, I don't envy you the task.

Your best shot would be to try to talk your dad into making you a "Power User" on that system. That might do the trick, but I can't guarantee anything. From the sound of things, that's precisely what he doesn't want you to be.

The account I can access on weekends is an admin account.

Bob_Frank wrote:The account I can access on weekends is an admin account.

Good. That will simplify things greatly.

Vista Solution

As a side note, I ran into this problem running VTMB on Vista. To correct it, all I had to do was run the program as administrator.