If you do not have an autoexec.cfg, you can create one with Notepad by saving a file named autoexec.cfg - don't save a text file named ! Autoexec.cfg is loaded as part of the game's starting sequence, with config.cfg immediately after. \Activision\Vampire - Bloodlines\Vampire\cfgĪutoexec.cfg and config.cfg are the two main files that store game settings. \Activision\Vampire - Bloodlines\Vampire\cfg Run the game and watch the introīloodlines game configuration files are found in \Activision\Vampire - Bloodlines\Bin\shaderapidx9.dll \Activision\Vampire - Bloodlines\Bin\engine.dll \Activision\Vampire - Bloodlines\vampire.exe To fix this, instead of using the usual vampire.exe, we use the vampire.exe from the Unofficial Patch, which has fixed the program to run without the need of the service. Unfortunately, Bloodlines (and many other games) depend on the service to load.
To fix this, an edited shaderapidx9.dll makes the program think the system only has 2gb of RAM, and so correctly displays the textures.įinally, Microsoft turned off the secdrv service because of security exploits. Since the Source engine was designed to work with different hardware setups automatically to meet the needs of whatever it's running on, the game decides to blur most of the textures to an extremely low detail since it believes you have negative RAM, and therefore a shit system. If you have more than 2gb of RAM, a negative number is returned. This is done in a brute force fashion: all of your memory is filled with dummy textures, then once finished the game takes the total result from that and figures out how much memory it needs to use. Do not use the unofficialengine.dll unless for some reason the hexedited engine.dll does not work.Īnother issue the engine has is how it loads models/textures/maps/objects/etc. To fix this, an edited engine.dll is used which fixes the base problem.
This can also occur on 32bit systems if it has more than 2gb of RAM, since Bloodlines will loop back to negative numbers beyond 2gb. However, since a 64bit number returns, the extra bits are seen as a negative flag which tells the program that you have a negative amount of RAM, or less than 15mb. When vampire.exe checks to see how much memory your system has upon initially loading, it expects a 32bit INT number as a result. The Source engine used in Bloodlines is a very early version which operates entirely within the confines of a 32bit program, so running in 64bit can be an issue. In order to make Bloodlines run on modern systems, we need to replace a couple files.
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