Vampire Bloodlines Crashes in First Cut Scene

[Jdoaks549]

Hello --

I'm having quite a problem getting Bloodlines to run. The first issue I encountered had to do with with my graphics resolution and refresh rate. I had to change it to 800x600 with a refresh rate of 60 (for my monitor and as an override in Directx). Those changes let me at least start the game but it soon crashes during the first cut scene. I have applied patch 3.3.

My PC should have enough horsepower to run the game without any problems:

Windows XP Media Center Edition Service Pack 2 (build 2600)

3.20 gigahertz Intel Pentium 4
16 kilobyte primary memory cache
2048 kilobyte secondary memory cache

Board: 915G-ICH6
Bus Clock: 200 megahertz
BIOS: Phoenix Technologies, LTD 6.00 PG 04/22/2005

2048 Megabytes Installed Memory

NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT [Display adapter]
Default Monitor

Creative SB X-Fi

This is the crash description found in my 'Bloodlines' folder:

* * * Vampire Crash Data Log, Generated From Exe Built On: Oct 6 2004 * * *

vampire caused an Access Violation (0xc0000005)
in module mssmp3.asi at 001b:26f05d86.

Read from location 0000286c caused an access violation.

Context:
EDI: 0x00a1af08 ESI: 0x1a622828 EAX: 0x00000007
EBX: 0x201cc6e0 ECX: 0x00000000 EDX: 0x00007d00
EIP: 0x26f05d86 EBP: 0x00000000 SegCs: 0x0000001b
EFlags: 0x00210293 ESP: 0x0013e56c SegSs: 0x00000023

Bytes at CS:EIP:
8b 81 6c 28 00 00 83 c4 40 c2 08 00 8b 54 24 44

-----[ SysInfo ]-----
Error occurred at 2/12/2007 08:29:40.
2 processor(s), type 586.
52% memory in use.
2048 MBytes physical memory.
977 MBytes physical memory free.
0 MBytes paging file.
0 MBytes paging file free.
2048 MBytes user address space.
1263 MBytes user address space free.

-----[ StackTrace ]-----

-----[ ScopeTrace ]-----
SCOPE_TRACE data, stack depth = 4
03. CAudioMixerWaveMP3::CAudioMixerWaveMP3 ()
02. RunListenServer ()
01. CEngineAPI::Run ()
00. LauncherMain ()

-----[ ModuleList ]-----
Module 1
C:\Program Files\Activision\Vampire - Bloodlines\vampire.exe
Image Base: 0x00400000 Image Size: 0x00016000
Checksum: 0x00000000 Time Stamp: 0x4164cd8f
File Size: 1291215 File Time: 10/6/2004 21:12:46

Module 2...

ad infinitum.

 

[Mictlantecuhtli]

This kind of error logs would be much easier to read if people would just attach the file itself instead of copying & pasting it to the message box.

 

[Jdoaks549]

Bloodlines Crash -- Logfile Attachment

Mictlantecuhtli --

thanks for the help. Here's the attached logfile.

 

[steffensan]

I have the same problem but is there an solution to the problem?

 

[Jdoaks549]

Sorry. I was never able to get around the problem. I ended up uninstalling the game.