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Blood II: The Chosen

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Blood II: The Chosen
Blood II: The Chosen cover
Developers
Monolith Productions
Publishers
GT Interactive
Atari
Engines
LithTech 1.0
Release dates
Windows November 25, 1998
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Blood II: The Chosen guide on StrategyWiki
Blood II: The Chosen on Wikipedia
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Warnings

GameSpy online services have been shut down (see Network for solutions).
Blood
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
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
 SafeDisc DRM[Note 1]
Windows
GamersGate
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Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
 Includes "The Nightmare Levels" expansion.
Windows
Humble Store
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Windows
Steam
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 Includes "The Nightmare Levels" expansion.
Windows
SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see above for affected versions).

DLC and expansion packs

Name Notes
The Nightmare Levels
Windows

Essential improvements

Patches

Blood II v2.1 fixes various issues (requires Patch v2.0).

Skip intro videos

Delete file[citation needed]
  1. Go to the installation folder.
  2. Delete/rename Monolith.smk.

Run Blood II on modern systems

dgVoodoo stabilizes performance and is essential for getting Blood II to run on modern systems.
Setup dgVoodoo[3]
  1. Download and extract dgVoodoo.
  2. Run dgVoodooSetup.exe and click on DirectX tab.
  3. Uncheck "Disable Alt-Enter to toggle screen state".
  4. Uncheck "dgVoodoo Watermark".
  5. Set "Antialiasing (MSAA)" to the desired samples.
  6. Click Apply. Go to the MS folder and copy D3DImm.dll and DDraw.dll to the installation folder.
If you are having issues getting DgVoodoo working you could alternatively try this wrapper. Note that it automatically limits resolutions to prevent the high res crash, though this can be disabled in the settings.
If you are having issues with both fixes above, this ddraw.dll will fix performance in Lithtech games under Win8/Win10. Place it in the game main folder.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\[Note 2]
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/299050/pfx/[Note 3]

Save game data location

System Location
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
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video settings

External video settings.
External video settings.
In-game video settings.
In-game video settings.

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Widescreen resolution

Fix crashes and stretching[4]
  1. Download Blood II - high resolution fix.
  2. Extract to the installation folder and overwrite.
  3. Download Blood II - widescreen patch.
  4. Extract the ".REZ" files to a "Custom" folder in the installation folder. If the Custom folder doesn't exist, create it manually first.
  5. Run Blood II launcher, click on "Customize", select either "WidescreenPatch.rez" for Blood II or "WidescreenPatchNm.rez" for the Nightmare Levels and click on "Add". Whenever you enable and disable the Nightmare Levels you have to add the right patch and remove the other one. Make sure that "Always load these rez files" is checked and click "OK".
  6. Click on "Advanced" and paste +ScreenWidth 1920 +ScreenHeight 1080 +FovX 100 in the Command-Line field.
  7. Adjust the values according to the resolution and horizontal FOV you want to play with (FOV parameter is optional).
  8. Make sure that "Always specify these command-line parameters" is checked and click "OK".

Input settings

In-game key map settings.
In-game key map settings.
In-game mouse settings.
In-game mouse settings.
In-game joystick settings.
In-game joystick settings.

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Audio settings

In-game audio settings.
In-game audio settings.

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Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
LAN play
32 Versus, Co-op
For co-op use the Co-op addon.
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]

See Run Blood II on modern systems.

Crashes on certain resolutions

Crashes with 1000+ pixel height resolutions by default.
Fix resolution crash[3]
  1. Download Blood II - high resolution fix.
  2. Extract to the installation folder and overwrite.

"ERROR - Unable to set the video mode. (6929314)" error

Use Windows 10 patch[5]
  1. Download Blood II - high resolution fix.
  2. Unzip to the installation folder and overwrite.
  3. Download Blood II The Chosen Windows 10 patch.
  4. Unzip the files to the installation folder.

Music doesn't play in game

Fix missing music[citation needed]
  1. Download Blood 2 Music Patch.
  2. Extract to the installation folder and overwrite.

Cutscenes play too fast

Limit frame rate to 60 FPS[citation needed]

See Frame rate capping.

Always starts on second monitor

Set display manually[citation needed]
  1. Go to the installation folder and edit autoexec.cfg.
  2. Locate line "CardDesc" "\\.\DISPLAY2"
  3. Replace with "CardDesc" "\\.\DISPLAY1"

Notes

If the line doesn't already exist, add it manually.
Can be set in the launcher, but may revert back to default.

Window positioned off-screen

Occurs with dgVoodoo's windowed mode.
Software workaround[citation needed]
  1. Install and run Borderless Gaming.
  2. Press ⊞ Win+F6 to set game window to top left corner.

Error 0xc0000022 on launch

See Older games refuse to start on Windows 8 and later

Other information

Run Blood II without the launcher

Start with batch file[6]
  1. Open a text editor and add the following: 
    @echo off
cd "path-to-game"
start /affinity 1 client.exe -rez BLOOD2.REZ -rez SOUND.REZ -rez Custom/WidescreenPatch.REZ exit
    • Replace path-to-game with the actual installation folder for the game.
    • If you want to start the Nightmare expansion just replace "BLOOD2.REZ" with "BLOOD2NM.REZ" and "Custom/WidescreenPatch.REZ" with "Custom/WidescreenPatchNM.REZ".
    • Any additional command-line arguments you wish to use can be added before the word "exit".
  2. Save as a new file with the .bat file extension.
  3. Start the game by double-clicking the .bat file you created.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 6
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Audio Miles Sound System
Multiplayer GameSpy

System requirements

Windows
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

  1. ↑ 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. ↑ 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. ↑ 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