Sweet Jesus. Way to come straight out of left field guys. I gave up on Blood 2 around the time I found myself spending long hours attempting to use some crap windows program to partition off part of my computer for a second operating system (98) and thought to myself "is the game really worth this?" …

I just installed an old copy of Blood 2 from a cd onto my Windows XP rig. I disabled v-sync in the d3d menu to get the menus and movies to stop flickering but the sound still stutters like a mofo. I downloaded the latest version of VDM sound hoping this would solve the problem but I can't seem to …

Sorry Nick. Too little, too late. Just an FYI.

Okay, I got Blood working. But I didn't even use VDM. I got that "NOLFB" utility off of Ken Silverman, unzipped it to my Blood folder, and followed his instructions. Start > Run > cmd.exe > CD\Blood > NOLFB > Blood And it ran. I tinkered around with setup and set sound fx to Sound Blaster or …

Sounds great. If only it were real...

What is NOLFB?!?!?

Okay, I redownloaded the latest version, it worked this time. I downloaded Update2 and the "launcher" GUI, all installed nicely. Added a few bells and whistles, but still, nothing. I still get a blank, black DOS window or a "playback failed due to conflicting IRQ" or something. I've tried changing …

I have Windows XP on a Pentium 4 and have been trying to run Blood. As is usually the case with older games on XP, sound is the biggest problem. I was given a lead to come here, and I downloaded the VDMSound-2.0.4-WinNT-i386 installer package and when I double click on it I get: "The installation …