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3 Jun, 2023 @ 6:55am

Game keeps crashing whenever I try to play

It doesn't crash when I boot it up, and the character creator + opening cutscene works fine, but once I'm actually supposed to play the game it just crashes. I'm playing with the unofficial patch and a bunch of updated texture mods from nexus. Even with all my mods turned off, it's the same issue. It also crashes when I launch it from both steam and from vortex. Any help would be appreciated, and I'd be willing to provide any information necessary to help.

Thanks!

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Vepar

3 Jun, 2023 @ 7:09am

If you didn't add

-game Unofficial_patch

to Steam launch options, you aren't actually playing the unofficial patch. You need to add that if you haven't. And if you launch it from Vortex, it probably needs to be somewhere there too.

4 Jun, 2023 @ 2:03am

Originally posted by Vepar:
If you didn't add
-game Unofficial_patch
to Steam launch options, you aren't actually playing the unofficial patch. You need to add that if you haven't. And if you launch it from Vortex, it probably needs to be somewhere there too.

Still just crashes, unfortunately. Nothing changes.

Vepar

4 Jun, 2023 @ 6:16am

Originally posted by h:
Originally posted by Vepar:
If you didn't add
-game Unofficial_patch
to Steam launch options, you aren't actually playing the unofficial patch. You need to add that if you haven't. And if you launch it from Vortex, it probably needs to be somewhere there too.
Still just crashes, unfortunately. Nothing changes.

Just to make sure cause i wrote "Steam launch options" so it might have been confusing...

You clicked properties on the game in steam library, and under "launch options" in the window you wrote that line right? You didn't open Steam with those parameters right?

Wesp5

4 Jun, 2023 @ 8:40am

Also delete all saves from before you patched, they are not compatible anyway.

4 Jun, 2023 @ 7:58pm

Originally posted by Vepar:
Originally posted by h:
Still just crashes, unfortunately. Nothing changes.
Just to make sure cause i wrote "Steam launch options" so it might have been confusing...

You clicked properties on the game in steam library, and under "launch options" in the window you wrote that line right? You didn't open Steam with those parameters right?

Yes, I did do that exactly

4 Jun, 2023 @ 7:59pm

Originally posted by wesp5:
Also delete all saves from before you patched, they are not compatible anyway.

It was patched from the moment I first opened the game

Wesp5

5 Jun, 2023 @ 12:58am

Maybe the texture mods are not turned off correctly. Bloodlines is known to crash if the texture size it can handle is exceeded!

Last edited by Wesp5; 22 Jul, 2023 @ 12:45pm

Vepar

5 Jun, 2023 @ 7:26am

Originally posted by h:
Originally posted by Vepar:
Just to make sure cause i wrote "Steam launch options" so it might have been confusing...

You clicked properties on the game in steam library, and under "launch options" in the window you wrote that line right? You didn't open Steam with those parameters right?
Yes, I did do that exactly

Just checking. Cause i wrote it weird, i thought you might run Steam with the launch parameters instead of the game. :P

Try doing a clean install. Uninstall the game, remove the remaining folder, and only install the game and the unofficial patch. Then add the launch options to the game, and try running it. If it works, go from there, install texture packs and what you want.
Then you'll have a point of faliure if you do it step by step, you'll see which part makes it crash.
And of course, don't resume your save games, always start a new game with a new patch.

OnyxTerrerra has Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines

22 Jul, 2023 @ 12:00pm

I had same issue. Figured out I had to change resolution as it was too low for my rig. After changing to 1920x1080 and relunching the game, it worked.