Bloodline does not work

[ownederd]

When I try to play Bloodline, it tries to start, but then just gets stuck at my desktop.

Possible solution?

[GigaWatt]

Albus Dumbledore ain't here at the moment. Please, call back later.

[hfric]

When I try to play Bloodline, it tries to start, but then just gets stuck at my desktop.

Possible solution?

post your system , what OS do you use , 32x or 64x ...etc...

we aren't psychic ... but jugging this game was made for Win98 and it has trouble with AMD processors... why not try to use your compatibility tab to run this game ey ?

[ownederd]

windows 7 x86, amd x2 555 CPU (AM3+), GPU is 6770, 3 GB of DDR3, etc

running in adminstrator or compatibility doesn't resolve the issue for me either

[Meddle]

If you're really set on playing this, virtualization might be your only option.

[hfric]

i have to test my version ..hmm

[wkduffy]

I played Bloodline a month ago for the first time. It booted fine in Win7 about a dozen times—but then suddenly it just gave up. It would freeze right before the main menu. My solution—which has been my solution for playing lots of these older games—I imported all my saves over to my XP install of the game and it ran like a champ.

The lesson: Keep a copy of XP somewhere always if you plan on playing these older games. Win7 compatibility is fine and all, but it is far from perfect and only works for me about half the time. If you don’t have a separate drive in order to install XP somewhere, then partition your drive and create a dual boot, with Win7 on one partition and XP on another—not too hard to do. If your game fails in Win7, chances are highly likely that XP will chew through it no problem! That’s been my experience very often.

[hfric]

Just found the time to install it , and well it works right from the box on win 7, i didn't had to set anything in the compatibility menu , just install then press the desktop icon and play ... like i said before i could not run this game on a computer that had a AMD processor on windows 98 theirs engine had problems with processors that didn't had some instructions in them don't remember no more what kind of SSE does your cpu need to run this game ... and the last time i tried to play this i was on a AMD x2 6000+ 3,2ghz [2 core cpu]and thats a cpu that can play any crap even Crysis 1 on Ultra but this game i could not start properly and if it would start then maps would load from 5-8 minutes each so i said fick it and added it on my list to play in the future... and that was back in hmm when this game first came out

Now i am on Intel i5 2320 3,2ghz [4 core cpu] , OS is Windows 7 with SP1 and Compatibility patch from M$ [yes they made a patch that makes 99.99% old win98 runnable on win7] ...so yeah it runs fine , try updating your win7 or play on a intel cpu but yeah thats a bit extreme isn't