Bloodline

Warnings

This game is only playable in English with a fan translation (see Localizations for details and other supported languages).

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail

Essential improvements

Sui's Fix

Fix aimed primarily at fixing issues, with the game breaking explorer.exe. In addition, allows to correct camera aspect ratio (for widescreen resolutions) and override functions that change resolution.

Sui's Fix Installation^[1]
Download and extract Sui fix. Copy `dinput8.dll` and `dinput8.ini` to `<path-to-game>`. Configure the fix, by editing dinput8.ini.

English Patch

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\Default.cfe^{[Note 1]} <path-to-game>\system.cfg^{[Note 1]}

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\Save\^{[Note 1]}

The save directory can be changed from current directory, if a file %WINDIR%\Bloodline.ini exists (or its virtualized version %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore\Windows\Bloodline.ini). This file is being created and used by "Unofficial patch" (not to be confused with Sui's Fix) and due to game's tenancy to corrupt file paths, it's highly advised not to use this patch, especially with elevated privileges!^[1]

Video

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution		Use Sui's Fix.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Borderless fullscreen windowed		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS
120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)		See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

Input

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping		Can be rebound only from main menu.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity		Mouse sensitivity seems to be framerate dependent!^[1]
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support

Controller types

Audio

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles		Often bug out.^[1]
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English				Fan patch - download.
Czech
Polish
Russian

Issues unresolved

Loadings take absurd amount of time / poor performance

This issues seem to be partially related to how the game was coded (running mainly using one thread) and most likely can't be fixed without access to original source code.^[1]

Issues fixed

Running the game breaks down start bar / explorer.exe

Use Sui's Fix^[1]

The game creates seemingly random folders inside and outside of its directory

Use Sui's Fix^[1]

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
OpenGL

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum
Operating system (OS)
Processor (CPU)
System memory (RAM)
Hard disk drive (HDD)

Notes

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 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).

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 ^1.4 ^1.5 ^1.6 Verified by User:Suicide_machine on 2020-08-08

[gamedir-2] 1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 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).

[Sui-1] 1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 ^1.4 ^1.5 ^1.6 Verified by User:Suicide_machine on 2020-08-08

[1]

[Note 1]

Developers

	Zima Software
Publishers
	Cenega
Engines
	T.O.S.H.
Release dates
Windows	December 10, 2004