I've been looking for a soultion to this problem for a while as well. Does anyone have any ideas? Is it maybe ATI's drivers?

If you are running vdmsound do you have the "Low level network support" option checked in the blood setup shortcut? If I'm not mistaken I needed it checked to play network games with blood.

I believe that error appears when the IPX network protocol is not installed. Just add a new protocol in Network properties and choose IPX. If you are running XP i don't think you even need to put the windows cd in, but on others you need it I think.

Has anyone had success getting Blood to run in WinXP over tcp/ip using the Gamer's IPX Tunneler? A friend and I both got Blood working well on our machines, but little success with multiplayer over the net. Our clients can see each other but crash when going in-game. Has anyone had any experience …