Plays fine with 16mb of memory, do not specify more unless really needed.

Try with xms and ems disabled, same for sound (setup of the game).

No, sorry, no change... however I have made some discoveries. In the installation directory - I found 4 .dem files - for the demos... so I deleted those, so now it will go into the Blood menu when I start the game. YAY... but I can't celebrate yet... upon selecting an episode and entering the game, once it loads up - it freezes. Kind of - I started the second episode and found out that the game is actually still running, its just that the screen isn't updating. I heard someone shooting at me after a little bit... so the game is running, the screen just isn't updating. Is there a way to get Blood running in XP? I try running it but it just crashes to desktop with no errors. Again, any more help is much appreciated... I really want to play this game.

substitue dos4gw.exe with dos32a.exe and then run blood in dosbox.

Thanks! That did the trick. It still runs pretty slow, but playable... most of the time. Anyone know any way to speed it up? I guess that's not likely... and yes, I did increase the cycles.

Nope,

Either run the game in Windows XP NTVDM or reboot your computer in MS-DOS. MS-DOS is still the most compatible option for Blood since a source port hasn't been made yet and VPC/Vmware are not ideal for BUILD engine games.

Blood is a pretty heavy game, running worse than Quake oddly enough. I can get it running at a descent speed but if you can't, try decreasing the window size.

set cpu cycles to roughly 60,000 (only if your pc can handle it) to experience average performance while playing this game.

Well, I didn't set the cycles that high... because, once I set the cycles past about 28,000 or so - the sound starts cutting out.

my bad i meant about 40,000 for blood 1.... 61,000 is what i use for settlers 2.

franpa wrote:

my bad i meant about 40,000 for blood 1.... 61,000 is what i use for settlers 2.

40,000 is probably ideal, I've gotten decent performance at 320x240. However the best way to run the games is using the deathmask method.

but dosbox is tons simpler.

franpa wrote:

but dosbox is tons simpler.

Miles. 😀 Unfortunately its better to use what works best. When I upgrade my PC down the line I won't need to worry because dosbox will work just fine with build games. 😁

What we really need is a port like Jonof's for Blood, but that won't happen unless the source code is released some day.

I doubt it will run good enough for you. My computer is higher-end... it still runs like crap. Nobody knows anything to fix the sound from cutting out when the cycles get higher? Obviously some of you are able to set it that high without the sound crapping out.

On that note, let's start a petition to monolith to release the blood source code.

avatar_58 wrote:

franpa wrote:

my bad i meant about 40,000 for blood 1.... 61,000 is what i use for settlers 2.

40,000 is probably ideal, I've gotten decent performance at 320x240. However the best way to run the games is using the deathmask method.

this method works incredibly well... i now recommend the "deathmask" method to those capable of doing it.

Zatos wrote:

I doubt it will run good enough for you. My computer is higher-end... it still runs like crap. Nobody knows anything to fix the sound from cutting out when the cycles get higher? Obviously some of you are able to set it that high without the sound crapping out.

All depends on how fast your CPU is. I have an FX-53 and at 40000 cycles in Blood I don't get sound skipping.

On that note, let's start a petition to monolith to release the blood source code.

Hey hey, its not Monolith's fault. 😏 Blood's rights are up in the air and the blame is probably on Atari, but then who knows who currently owns it. Monolith has no say.

this method works incredibly well... i now recommend the "deathmask" method to those capable of doing it.

I told you. 😁 Thing is: VDMsound doesn't require anywhere near the same kind of CPU speed required to run Blood in dosbox perfectly. Thats why I recommend this method most of the time. In the future though (vista, x64), vdmsound won't work but I figure by that time our machines will be fast enough to play build games in dosbox.

I tried the "deathmask" way of playing it... and well... I would play it that way... except that for some strange reason, my mouse doesn't work right playing it that way. In the game, I can turn a little bit to the left, and then it won't turn any more. So I have to go around always turning to the right, which is highly annoying. I haven't even bothered asking anyone how to solve this because it just seems so odd that I don't know if anybody would even know how to fix it. It doesn't make any sense to me.

I'm gonna take a look around and see who owns the rights to Blood... probably won't find it, but worth a look anyway.

So you're right... the rights are owned by Atari... courtesy their ownership of GT Interactive. On that note, there is a 3d version in the works... maybe...
http://www.transfusion-game.com/
Its been a while since they last updated... so maybe development on it is dead. 😢

use the deathmask method and use the arrow keys to turn?

check tranfusion's forums... the last updat was roughly Wed Dec 14, 2005