Decided to play Vampire Bloodlines again on my new AMD 5600+ dual core 2gb ram 8600GT PC and could not get it to go past the intro screens! I reinstalled DirectX, installed the 1.2 patch, installed the 1.2-4.9 patch and always the same. Back to desktop after the intro movies (which play fine!)

I unistalled and reinstalled the game to different folders and different drives and still no joy. I tried the 3D Analyzer, but again no joy. I tried the 'safe' load, no joy!

What I tried next was switching off my RealTek onboard sound (which works with everything else - even DOS games!) and installed my Soundblaster Live soundcard. Still no joy! I then uninstalled the soundblaster drivers and, forgetting to switch on my RealTek I ran the game. It worked! No sound of course! I then switched my RealTek on and game wouldn't start again.

So what I have found, is if I have no soundcard active, the game will play, but with no sound. As soon as I have an active soundcard, Soundblaster or RealTek, the game won't even start!

Any one have any answers to this quandary? I am at my wits end!

Hey, found the answer to my problem above, so thought i'd let you all know in case you have the same problem! Hope it works for you, like it did me!

All you do is copy all the contents of you Bin folder to your boot directory, the one with vampire.exe in it - it';s as simple as that!

Good luck 'cos this is the best RPG of the last 10 years!