Bloodlines

[Tel Aviv]

...having every female vampire dress like Jeanette is not bug fixing.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

 

That's what they've done with it now?! I know they'd moved some weapons around and such, but that's just stupid.

 

*Considers reinstalling Bloodlines and downloading patch*

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Damn, you beat me to it!

[Tha Cunnysmythe]

Ha!

 

Yours was better, though.

[lordodark]

speaking of pathetic im in a bit of a pickle but cant enable the console have done what the other sites suggested by adding -console at the end of the shortcut target location but i get an error message telling me it is an invalid command having just got the game working am a little upset any suggestions

[alanschu]

Make sure it looks like this in your shortcut:

 

"D:\Games\Vampire - Bloodlines\vampire.exe" -console

 

 

With quotes and everything exactly as they are. The D:\Games stuff is just my directory, replace with yours.

 

Do not put -console inside the quotes like so:

 

"D:\Games\Vampire - Bloodlines\vampire.exe -console"

 

It has to be outside of the quotes.

[lordodark]

thanks it worked :D

[Bokishi]

Hey how do I stop bloodlines from getting laggy in the Santa Monica Beach? That's absurd, I have a 7800 GTX!

Edited February 7, 2006 by Bokishi

[Atreides]

^Memory leak

 

I've heard some mention setting Bloodlines to low priority. Here's a quote that I copy and pasted for my own use later. I haven't tried it out yet.

 

Create a text file.

 

Type in: start /low vampire.exe -console

 

Save the file as Vampire.bat, then stick it in the same place as your Vampire.exe and boot up with that.

[Bokishi]

K gonna try it.

[Atreides]

The worst lags for me happened in Santa Monica outdoors when it rains. I think Gabs said that that was when the game lags the worst, but by that time I had uninstalled the game because I thought that I'd be stuck with that level of performance throughout the game.

[Bokishi]

How much lag was that?

[CoM_Solaufein]

Santa Monica when it rains is a killer and so is downtown when it loads. I've had it crash a few times as it's loading to downtown.

[Atreides]

How much lag was that?

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Quite bad. I could be running in the streets and then I'd notice a screen skipping an animation, leading on to total freeze for a few seconds. Eventually I'd Ctrl-Tab to close Bloodlines and restart it, which was frustrating.

[Rhomal]

Very odd...

 

AMD64 3000+

1gig RAM

6600GT 128meg video

 

game always played smooth for me with all eye candy on.

 

I heard less then a gig of RAM and bloodlines did cause issues on lower end hardware setups. But since I have dual channel 512meg I never had a chance to find out.

 

of course shutting down all background apps like mcafee and IM's is quite helpful as well performance wise.

[Tha Cunnysmythe]

My worst lag was Downtown. I found Chinatown fairly bad, too. Forget it, bosssss....

[alanschu]

I didn't have much problems running it either, with the exception of the memory leak which would require me to be playing it for an extended duration.

 

I have 1 GB of RAM too.

[Bokishi]

Hey how do I reduce stutter? Everytime I talk to an npc it seems like each line has to load and there is small stuttering before they say something.

[alanschu]

I don't know. I never had that problem.

[Bokishi]

How fast is your hard drive?

[alanschu]

I do have a good harddrive. Not sure on the speed exactly, but it is an SATA drive. 160 GB.

 

I do notice a bit more stutter now than when I first played it (which is when I first got my computer). I suspect my OS has become a bit "bogged down" as Windows OS' seem to enjoy doing.

[Bokishi]

I mean I hav a 7200 rpm drive, and it seems like it constantly has to load dialog in convos, causing some slight stuttering. I wonder if upgrading to a 10,000 rpm HD will fix that...

[alanschu]

It sounds more like you've overextended your RAM and are now using virtual memory, if you're getting that much HD usage.

 

How much stuff do you have running in the background? Any other areas that memory might be getting used up?

[Gabrielle]

I have 512MB memory and it plays fine. Wonder if I should buy another 512 memory chip? Memory is cheap these days.

[alanschu]

My next computer is likely getting 2 GB, just because memory is cheap (and I finally have a decent paying job).

[Bokishi]

Strange, I got 2.5 gigs of ram..........

Edited February 8, 2006 by Bokishi

[Bokishi]

Oooh found this @ planet vampire

 

Performance Increase

-add: -heapsize xxxxxx after the targetline in the shortcut for bloodlines.Where xxxxxx stands for half of your RAM in kb.So if you have 512 RAM the shortcut target line should look like this:"C:\Program Files\Activision .... blah blah blah\vampire.exe" -heapsize 250000

To enable the console too just make it look like this:

"C:\Program Files\Activision .... blah blah blah\vampire.exe" -console -heapsize 250000

And if you were wondering,yes you have to add those spaces in between.

-When you run the game,before you select a new game or load a saved game, hit the "~" key to bring up console, and type:autosave_on 0

That will disable the autosave and increase the loading speed.

-After that type:particles_enable_precipitaion 0

to disable the rain.

-Open the cfg folder and file in the Vampire folder and:

1.change: rate to "25000"

2.change: dsp_dist_max to "440" (you don't have to do this one,but try it and see if you need the change)

-Disable antivirus software

-Change the paging file size so that the number you typed in + your Ram size equal 2048mb.