Blood II: The Chosen
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Developers | |
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Monolith Productions | |
Publishers | |
GT Interactive | |
Atari | |
Engines | |
LithTech 1.0 | |
Release dates | |
Windows | November 25, 1998 |
Warnings
Blood | |
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Blood | 1997 |
Blood II: The Chosen | 1998 |
Blood: Fresh Supply | 2019 |
Key points
- Poor performance on modern systems
- Crashes on certain resolutions
- The game was designed to work at a locked 60 FPS; see frame rate capping to cap the frame rate.
General information
- Blood Wiki
- GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
- GOG.com Support Page
- Steam Community Discussions
Availability
Source | DRM | Notes | Keys | OS |
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Retail | SafeDisc DRM[Note 1] | |||
GamersGate | ||||
GOG.com | Includes "The Nightmare Levels" expansion. | |||
Humble Store | ||||
Steam | Includes "The Nightmare Levels" expansion. |
DLC and expansion packs
Name | Notes | |
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The Nightmare Levels |
Essential improvements
Patches
- Blood II v2.1 fixes various issues (requires Patch v2.0).
Skip intro videos
Delete file[citation needed] |
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Run Blood II on modern systems
Use Peixoto's patch[citation needed] |
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Or dgVoodoo2[3] |
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Game data
Configuration file(s) location
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>\[Note 2] |
Steam Play (Linux) | <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/299050/pfx/[Note 3] |
Save game data location
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>\Save\[Note 2] |
Steam Play (Linux) | <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/299050/pfx/[Note 3] |
Save game cloud syncing
System | Native | Notes |
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GOG Galaxy | ||
Steam Cloud |
Video settings
Widescreen resolution
- Blood 2 hard crashes when vertical resolution exceeds 1000p, and resolutions wider than 4:3 are simply a stretched image. Fixes can be installed to correct both issues.
Fix crashes and stretching[4] |
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Input settings
Audio settings
Localizations
Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
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English |
Network
Multiplayer types
Type | Native | Players | Notes | |
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LAN play | 32 | Versus, Co-op For co-op use the Co-op addon. |
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Online play | 32 | Versus, Co-op For co-op use the Co-op addon. |
Issues unresolved
Crashes on focus lost
- Whenever using Alt+Tab ↹, the game crashes with the error message: "Client MFC Application has stopped working".
Issues fixed
Poor performance on modern systems
Setup dgVoodoo[3] |
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Crashes on certain resolutions
- Crashes with 1000+ pixel height resolutions by default.
Fix resolution crash[3] |
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"ERROR - Unable to set the video mode. (6929314)" error
Use Windows 10 patch[5] |
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Music doesn't play in game
Fix missing music[citation needed] |
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Cutscenes play too fast
Limit frame rate to 60 FPS[citation needed] |
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See Frame rate capping. |
Set monitor 60hz[citation needed] |
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Always starts on second monitor
Set display manually[citation needed] |
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Notes
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Window positioned off-screen
- Occurs with dgVoodoo's windowed mode.
Software workaround[citation needed] |
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Error 0xc0000022 on launch
Other information
Run without the launcher
Start with batch file[6] |
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@echo off cd "path-to-game" start /affinity 1 client.exe -rez BLOOD2.REZ -rez SOUND.REZ -rez Custom/WidescreenPatch.REZ exit @echo off cd "path-to-game" start /affinity 1 client.exe -rez BLOOD2.REZ -rez BLOOD2NM.REZ -rez SOUND.REZ -rez Custom/WidescreenPatchNM.REZ exit |
Other information
API
Technical specs | Supported | Notes |
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Direct3D | 6 |
Executable | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
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Windows |
Middleware
Middleware | Notes | |
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Audio | Miles Sound System | |
Multiplayer | GameSpy |
System requirements
Windows | ||
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Minimum | Recommended | |
Operating system (OS) | 95 | 98 |
Processor (CPU) | Intel Pentium 166 MHz | Intel Pentium II |
System memory (RAM) | 32 MB | 64 MB |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 700 MB | |
Video card (GPU) | 4 MB of VRAM DirectX 6 compatible |
- An Intel Pentium II 233 MHz or equivalent is required for software rendering
Notes
- ↑ SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows 10[1] or Windows 11 and is disabled by default on Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1 when the KB3086255 update is installed.[2]
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below
%PROGRAMFILES%
,%PROGRAMDATA%
, or%WINDIR%
might be redirected to%LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore
on Windows Vista and later (more details). - ↑ 3.0 3.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in
~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/299050/
in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (299050) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.
References
- ↑ Not Loading in Windows 10; this will break thousands of - Microsoft Community - last accessed on 2017-01-16
- ↑ Microsoft - MS15-097: Description of the security update for the graphics component in Windows: September 8, 2015 - last accessed on 2018-02-16
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 VOGONS • View topic - Blood 2: The Chosen On Windows 8, 8.1
- ↑ Blood II: The Chosen | WSGF
- ↑ Blood II The Chosen · elishacloud/dxwrapper Wiki
- ↑ Ultimate Fix Blood 2 :: Blood II: The Chosen + Expansion General Discussions