Specs: Nvidia Geforce Quadro4 380 XGL (same as Geforce 4MX) 45.23, Asrock 775i65g, Pentium Dual Core E5800, Win98

I'm encountering the invisible HUD/black screen in-game menu issue in Blood 2. It seems to be a common problem, but the most common fix does not work for me. The game is fully patched.

This is what I tried:
-"MaxFps" "60" in autoexec set to read-only
-Disable directX 6 commands
-Enable optimized Surfaces
-Enable poly gap fixing (slower)
-Enable triple buffering
-Always specify these command-line parameters

I'm able to get the intro FMVs and main menu to work fine; however, when I start the game, the HUD is not visible and pressing escape produces a black screen. The game seems to run fine otherwise.

Do these fixes only work for newer Windows versions and not 98? I was able to get Shogo working with the MaxFps 60 command, but Blood 2 still doesn't work. Has anyone gotten Blood 2 working on similar hardware?

edit: I installed Windows XP and it worked with that.