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Bloodline

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Bloodline
Bloodline cover
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
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
Windows

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]
  1. Download and extract Sui fix.
  2. Copy dinput8.dll and dinput8.ini to <path-to-game>.
  3. 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.
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![1]
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support

Audio

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

Localizations

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

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]

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)


Notes

  1. 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. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Verified by User:Suicide_machine on 2020-08-08