Sign up for free! What do you need help on? Cancel X. Topic Archived Page 1 of 2 Last. Sign Up for free or Log In if you already have an account to be able to post messages, change how messages are displayed, and view media in posts. VestalDarkness 12 years ago 1. Hardware specs? VestalDarkness Topic Creator 12 years ago 3. With this game, you really can't use the performance of other games as a comparison, it is incredibly finicky about what kind of hardware it will actually run on and most importantly, the game actually requires about twice the hardware that is stated in the overly optimistic system requirements.
Considering this is a laptop, I would expect that it is running some kind of integrated Intel Graphics chipset, which could be a bad thing.
Hopefully you have at least an Intel , anything less than that is very likely to have issues running the game, if it runs at all. Dheu 12 years ago 5. Try running in DX7 mode. I could tell you how, but I need to know what version of the game you are running steam, D2D, retail CD. You said you have had the game for years, so I am assuming retail? Then you would edit the shortcut and add -dxlevel 70 to the end. Especially if you are running the steam version on Vista. VestalDarkness Topic Creator 12 years ago 6.
VestalDarkness Topic Creator 12 years ago 7. ClagiusClanlor 12 years ago 8. Try Wesp's Unofficial Patch. It fixes a lot of the bugs. The current Wesp patch build is 6. It is still very picky about when it wants to work, but after three tries I managed to get the game started.
Once I made it past character creation, the game smoothed out considerably. I still get a little crash once in a while, and there was one time that a save file got corrupted and I had to load from like 4 saves ago, but the issues haven't been nearly severe or frequent enough to take the fun out of the game. VestalDarkness Topic Creator 12 years ago 9. VestalDarkness Topic Creator 12 years ago Type "dxdiag" in the Run Dialogue Box without the quotes.
Turn the "Hardware Acceleration Level" down to "Basic. I have Windows 8. I'm jot even sure if my PC uses that. I just wanna play this game : Oh, and I have NO sound issues with any other games. I can run pretty high end games on high graphical settings. That's just my capture program being lame. Yeah, I almost did, but this was the original thread I started a few months ago.
By the way, one more thing about my copy of Vampire: It's a copy from Gamefly digital, not Steam. I can't directly change the compatibility in the. I can only do troubleshooting, which lets me use Winows 7, Vista, or XP compatibility. I can get the game to run and everything. Tennifog Topic Creator 13 years ago 3. Thanks for the reply, wesp. I'm using your fixed engine. Damn, I didn't want to do that I was hoping there might have been a software workaround Thanks for the reply, though.
Any help is appreciated, and I love the unofficial patch, wesp! Hey Tennifog, did you ever resolve that issue you were having? I'm having the same problem.
Looking around right now, and Planet Vampire is down for maintenance for the moment. Tennifog Topic Creator 13 years ago 6. No, I haven't yet resolved my issue.. I was wondering if anyone might know where to get the pc-config utility wesp was talking about? I searched for it, but I didn't come up with anything that said it could limit the amount of RAM your computer uses.
I found a Microsoft article about editing a specific Windows system file by adding a command that tells the computer how much RAM Windows should use, but that applies more to older versions of Windows, which couldn't recognize more than a certain amount. I really don't want to physically remove any of my DIMMS, but I do have a strong desire to finish the game, so I might end up pulling one or two modules out and finishing the game.
I just wish I could find some other way around that. Or if anyone has any other ideas, please. Tennifog Topic Creator 13 years ago 7. Still no luck, but I found a thread from a few months ago on the planetvampire forums with a discussion about an issue that sounds exactly the same as mine. Also, I think wesp was talking about the msconfig utility found in XP and Vista. Tennifog Topic Creator 13 years ago 8. I just used msconfig to limit my amount of RAM from 4GB to 3 see the planetvampire thread I linked earlier and it worked.
I'm not happy with this as a permanent fix, but temporarily, it works: the textures are fine and I'm playing again. Hey Tennifog, I tried what you suggested and the blurry graphics went away, but now the game just crashes every time I try to enter a new area. I was in the Skyline Apartments when I last saved. Now ever time I try to exit to the streets it gives me the error that Vampire. I thought maybe it didn't like 3 gig of RAM so I tried to lower to 2 gig. Once I did that, the game would crash before the load bar completed.
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