Blood and Mapedit - Windows XP related problems
Someone on the Transfusion forum told me how to make a .bat file to run the Blood applications. It's much more stable than using those VDM shortcuts. Just open notepad and copy and paste this in:Rogue Martyr wrote:Using the buildxp shortcuts i find that 1.0s mapedit.exe works fine. I cannot get anyother verision to run i have no idea! if i figure anything out i will share.
@echo off
cls
c:
cd\
cd blood (this is the path to the Blood folder)
nolfb
dosdrv
blood (obviously just replace this with mapedit or whatever application you want)
Then just save the file under some name, just make sure it has the .bat extension. This will be your new shortcut. Ive found this works perfectly for mapedit (and all Blood applications).
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For those that have got the game to run in XP+VDMS but have found that they have choppy sound/framerates, I found that lowering sound settings in Setup has made the game as smooth as it was back in 1997.
Use 8 voices + 22kHz then see how it plays. If you have a fairly old computer then this may not help but on my 3.2ghz it's great. I mean c'mon, these were standard settings back then so don't try and push the game further than it should be pushed.
Use 8 voices + 22kHz then see how it plays. If you have a fairly old computer then this may not help but on my 3.2ghz it's great. I mean c'mon, these were standard settings back then so don't try and push the game further than it should be pushed.
I tried this and it didn't really make a difference, it still doesn't feel like a dos environment, besides I couldn't give up this beautiful crispy sound using 44khz
also check out how Smooth this is

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nataskapaus wrote:Im quite confused because i have 150gb left on my hard drive? Could it be because i downloaded the game? can somebody send me the cd image thing?
EDIT: i have tried dosbox but that made it say my memory was 9mb....
Would it help if i used it on a 700mhz windows 98 computer?
Windows 98 based computer is the best possible solution. If you really wish to run in under WinXP try right-clicking the exe, select properties and then in "Memory" tab select all values to highest possible value.
But please notice that it'll probably crash your windows unless you patch the exe with cli2nop or use VDMSound.
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