Summary

Received the follow messages: 1) The documentation specifically says "Windows 95 or 98" but so far, I have had no issues under Windows 2000. 2) Running Dual Celeron 366's @ 550 on BP6 with SB LIVEWARE for Windows 2000, and Matrox G400 MAX. Textures and sounds are glitchy at times, but games runs fairly well...Sound works fine without EAX enabled.... 3) Activision has responded to my tech support email confirming that Vampire the Masquerade does not work in W2K and there are no plans for a patch ever. 4) Crashes on install with a memory exception. 5) Works great so far!!! PII 300, TNT2 Ultra (Xentor 32MB w/Nvidia 5.22 Drivers), SB Live 6) The game was very slow installing on W2k. After installing it in Win9x, I started in Win2000 and is running smoothly! My configuration: P2 450 Mhz, 128 Mb Ram, Hercules GeForce (3.78 Drivers from Hercules), Soundblaster Live! (Drivers Liveware from Creative) 7) Here's how to do it, for those getting the 99% install crash: Copy the Vampire Disc 2 to the hard drive Replace the setup.ics file with one from a copy of Soldier of Fortune. Install the game. Ignore the errors that pop up. The only side effects are that the Autorun on Vampire doesn't work, and the Autorun for Soldier of Fortune runs Vampire. 7) This game crashed everytime in the install program. So I installed it under Win98 and logged all registry and file changes. Then I copied everything to my WIN2000 partition and it works fine! 8) Refuses to install. Get the memory-exception error stated on Activision webpage.

K, i got the simple less time consuming method of making the game work. download the compatiblity patch for win2k i got the may version, download sp3, i heard alot of bad things about it but so far really good(no bugs no probs all apps not working before work), then when u install it, make a shortcut of the setup.exe in teh first cd and then go to its properties, ull see a compatiblity tab click it, enable it and set it to win95 (this worked for me) run the shortcut the game will prompt u about running sock 2.0 or something, ignore it finish the install, make a shortcut of the game exe and do the exact same thing as with the setup.exe, properties > compatiblity > enable + win95 hit apply + ok and run this works for me and it should work on any system with sp3 *1.4ghz athlon geforce 2 mx400 64mb 512 ram blah blah blah, only system hardware that should affect this games compatibility if at all would be the video card (... ur computer should meet system reqs also) this should work and i donno why it wouldnt if u get those 2 things

To run this game in Win2000 you need to download the support files and follow the directions. This is not a simple patch job, but not too hard either. The activision website help section contains the files and directions: Answer ID 6158,PC Vampire: The Masquerade - Redemption. The url is https://activision.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/activision.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_admin=1&p_faqid=6158
as I write this (Sep 8th 2002)

My game would still not run correctly after doing this though. The graphics looked like broken glass shards all over the screen, making gameplay impossible. This totally resolved itself after downloading & installing Windows2000 service pack2 from the Microsoft website.

The game works normally, without setting any compatibility options, but there seems to be unable to overwrite save games if the save slot has been used. Tested version 1.1