WHEN I START THE GAME A BLACK SCREEN APPEARS AND A MESSAGE TELLS ME<<I CAN NOT LOCATE DISK 1>>EVEN THOUGH THE DISC IS IN THE DRIVE.pLEASE HELP ME i WANT TO PLAY...............
iN THE BLACK SCREEN I CAN UNDERSTAND THAT THE MENU OF THE GAME APPEARS BY THE SOUND BUT I CANNOT SEE IT AT ALL OR DO ANYTHING ELSE.IN IDEAS FOR THIS?PLEASE HELP ME................

I have also had this problem. I found out it is caused because I don't wait long enough after I have exited the game to shut down my computer. You have to make sure the desktop is completely loaded and your CD has stopped processing information. I usually walk away for a couple of minutes. I don't have any problems with starting the game again when I do this.

Hope this helps.

I too have the problem. I can hear the menu but can't see it.

I start the game from the "AUTORUN" screen, but the PC feels so sarcastic, it tells me that Disc1 is not present. Than the game minimizes, I press the thumbnail of the game, Than I see the Nvidia Logo, Trokia Logo and so on, after that I see the blank screen, I hear the menu but, no signs of sight...

Ive seen a dozen of people with this problem, and nobods seems to be able to give a direct solution... I've tried overrunning the Monitors Frequency, worked for some other guy, but not for me, I've tried what wrote above, and that too didn't work.

I really really want to play this game. Can somebody help me? I really need this desperately...

Might help if you posted your os and pc specs, so we can see any similarities.

Ok, what I've noticed about this thing is, I think it is unique to Nvidia Cards(how do they manage to make it faulty eventhough Nvidia is one of the sponsors is a mystery to me.)

ok My Specs are:

OS:Windows XP Pro

Pentium4:2.2
1024 RD Ram
GeForce4: 4600Ti
SB Audigy

(I guess this would be enough)

by the way I managed to run the game in windowed mode, but when I press "new game" it again asks for the 1st Disc, and this time, it crashes...

To run it in widowed mode. Make a shortcut to the Desktop. left-click it. Press the one on the bottom. and add " -windowed" to the end of to the directory..(sorry I use Turkish versiıon of my OS so I can't remember the english words for them)

It happened to me too but after I overwrite vampire.dll with a new vampire.dll that I got from my friend, it worked.