I have XP Pro, and It runs ok at 320x240 with low enough quality sound enabled. It's not as smooth as I remember it from the dos/win98 days. Using a higher resolution kills the performance for me, though I can probably edge the sound quality up more without it lagging too much.

I can't imagine the speed of the hard drive effecting the performance of the game..but I could be wrong.

Oh yeah, did you sign the petition for a Blood source code release? It's linked to in my signature. It'd be greatly appreciated if you did 😀

sirlemonhead wrote:

I have XP Pro, and It runs ok at 320x240 with low enough quality sound enabled. It's not as smooth as I remember it from the dos/win98 days. Using a higher resolution kills the performance for me, though I can probably edge the sound quality up more without it lagging too much.

I can't imagine the speed of the hard drive effecting the performance of the game..but I could be wrong.

Oh yeah, did you sign the petition for a Blood source code release? It's linked to in my signature. It'd be greatly appreciated if you did 😀

I sure did, also tried forcing a lot of my friends/fellow idlers to signing, and posted a thread about it on an ATI forum. Don't know how many actually did.

Regarding my speed problem, with my 120gb instead, windows ran at normal speed, but Blood seemed almost the same. But I found out that winxp didn't like the "enable basic vesa support" in the vdm shortcut. In Win2k it seemed to improve performance, but not in xp.

So now it runs acceptable in 800x600 with sound at max settings, except mixing rate at 22 khz, since 44khz caused a disturbance in sound quality.
It's a little slower than Win2k, but that's expected from a slower OS.. 😉

Now I have another not so serious problem, I can't get more than 60hz. My force through control panel works in everything else.. but just not Blood.

EDIT: I noticed the amount of signatures had risen from 57 (when I signed some days ago) to 87. So it seems I may have influenced a number of them afterall.. 😁

Can't seem to find a fix for my refresh rate problem.
Although I read about Radedit being able to force 85hz.. How exactly does this work? I tried loading my current gigacube XT bios, but I just got the message "this is not a valid ATI bios".