Thanks for the XP installation repair suggestion, but after trying it, it didn't improve the situation. I tried vgachall and blood after the initial repair, after applying SP1, and after applying all the other critical updates - no change. It still looks to me like a VGA modes problem stemming from …

Dropped back to the Gainward Nvidia drivers that came with my 4200 (v28.32). Same problems/symptoms. However, looking around the web for video diagnostic tools, I found a simple VGA test utility VGACHALL and ran it on both my machines with interesting results. VGACHALL can be downloaded from http:// …

Strange, does blood just exit without an error like you previously said or not? Also try starting blood with nolfb in 320x200 resolution and change the resolutions (in-game) to see which resolutions can work (I have get different resolutions to work in-game myself, and even then there all distorted …

The advice is sound, but the results unsatisfying. I assumed when I posted here that others would already have experienced these types of problems with Blood and could help, but now I'm starting to believe that the problems are unique to my machines. My second machine runs Blood at 320x200 with or …

For my main and second PCs did the following: 1. replaced pollpipe.dll in the blood and Glidos directories with the one you supplied and re-tested Blood - no improvement 2. uninstalled VDM and re-installed with no updates. Re-tested Blood (still using new pollpipe) - no improvement No improvement …

Well, thanks for support so far anyway. Did you have any thoughts on my last post prior to the CLI2NOP one where I mentioned the TOMB DOS box title and my question on the role of glidos.bat in the blood directory? Oitpher

hmm, interesting. http://www.vogons.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=31 According to the thread above I don't need it for XP, but the mention of Blood 3D and freezing at startup caught my eye... Q. When do I need to run CLI2NOP? A. When most compatibility lists suggest that you do so. Generally …

I set resolutions to 640x480, no joy. On my main PC I tried Glidos 1.2 and then came back to 1.22 (no difference). As an FYI, when I went back to 1.2 I forget to register it, and at the "frozen" blood menu screen, I noticed the Glidos logo still spins, even though Blood is "frozen". I attach a …

Main PC: Closed down everything (zonealarm, norton virus, display managers etc.), killed a bunch of processes in task manager and tried Blood again. Symptoms of problem still the same. I thought I saw a post on this forum recently where there was speculation that DX9 had broken some DOS …

New information. Installed Blood on my second computer, and had much more success on that machine. One noteworthy difference is that this 2nd computer (Dell) has Directx 8.1 rather than the Directx 9.0a of my main PC and gaming machine - see dxdiag highlights below. Tried a bunch of tests on this …

thanks, the mouse and the ESC key don't help (already tried). I'm ready to expend some effort to figure this out, so if there are any debugging versions of Glidos you want to run by me, I'm game. Any of those DMA warning messages in the VDM log worthy of investigation? Otipher

No dripping, or any other kind of animation in the menu. Here is one curious thing - 1. I configure "no sound fx, no music" in setup, FXDevice = 13, MusicDevice = 13 in blood.cfg, menu is exactly as shown in jpg 2. I configure "sounblaster fx, music soundblaster" in setup, then FXDevice = 0, …

I have tried a couple of times in the past as I was playing with different options. I'll try again. For clarity. are you suggesting I try running Blood without VDMS & NOLFB (just XP compat) or with one or both of these. I'm not Sure that sound is disabled in Blood even though I have configured it ( …

nView was enabled, disabled it. Unfortunately still same symptoms (frozen). I attach a screenshot of the Blood menu screen I get to. This time I managed to CTRL-ALT-DEL, and kill the glidos task. The PC is still almost non-responsive, and that is when I found that NTVDM process is consuming 99% of …

I did have nolfb.com already in the folder (forgot to mention). However, I made the changes to glidos.ini you suggested, and separately tried changing ControlJudderFix to 1 Same symptoms (frozen menu screen) Another few noteworthy items - while at the first prompt for "Press any key to continue . . …

Hi I am having no luck getting the retail version of Blood to work. By launching it through Glidos, I get to the Blood menu screen (new game, options etc.), at which point the game seems frozen (can't scroll through menu etc.). In fact, my PC is almost dead at this point - for a short time I can …

I'm new to working with Glidos, although I did get it working with Tombraider without too much trouble. I have also installed VDM with the updates. However, I'm still not having much luck at all with the retail version of Blood. When I launch Blood from Glidos, I can get up to the 3DFX alpha …