Bloodline

Bloodline

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

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
Download and extract Sui fix. Copy dinput8.dll and dinput8.ini to <path-to-game>. Configure the fix, by editing dinput8.ini.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\Default.cfe <path-to-game>\system.cfg

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\Save\

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!

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.
High-fidelity upscaling		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!
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.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English				Fan patch - download.
Czech				Retail only. link #1
Polish
Russian

Issues fixed

Running the game breaks down start bar / explorer.exe

Use Sui's Fix

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

Use Sui's Fix

Loadings take absurd amount of time

Use a workaround below

A workaround is to move all files inside Texture subfolders to Czech folder and then delete everything inside Texture folder besides two font files. After that the loading times should be reduced from 1-3 minutes to 10-30 seconds. This works because the game doesn't seem to know where the relevant graphical files for the maps are stored and it does a full brute-force search for them. This workaround should work with every version of the game.

A simple way to do all the required actions is to create a .bat file inside Bloodline folder with following commands (supported by every Windows version) and run it:

@echo off
if exist Bloodline.exe (
    for /r "%%cd%%\Textures" %%f in (*) do move "%%f" "czech\"
    cd Textures\
    rd /s /q . 2>nul
    copy "..\czech\font.jpf"
    copy "..\czech\font.tga"
    echo "Success!"
) else (
    echo "This is not a Bloodline folder!"
)
pause

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)