Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines keeps crashing when I try to feed

[speakinsilence]

Well, I downloaded the program and it is running about 56c, which seems pretty hot to me. When I touch my gfx card it pretty damn hot; however none of my other programs are affected by at all. No blurs no sudden color lines, and also I've played games around the same time period, and even OLDER on my computer and they've always ran fine too.

 

[Sclamoz]

Well, I downloaded the program and it is running about 56c, which seems pretty hot to me. When I touch my gfx card it pretty damn hot; however none of my other programs are affected by at all. No blurs no sudden color lines, and also I've played games around the same time period, and even OLDER on my computer and they've always ran fine too.

That doesn't sound very hot, is that while you're playing or just idling? I'm assuming your not having similar problems with other games which doesn't sound like a problem with overheating to me. I've looked around but I can't find any concrete answers to your problem. Did you try turning your graphics settings all the way down to see if that has an effect?

 

[skace]

Just a note, when you are monitoring temp issues in your PC, you need to monitor everything, your video card, audio card, any other card, ambient case temp, cpu temps, hdd temps, northbridge / southbridge temps, motherboard temps, etc. I'm just trying to make sure people understand that the video card isn't the only component in a computer that can overheat.

In one scenario, the heat from my video card was venting down onto my motherboard because, while I did have enough heatsink cooling, I didn't have enough venting to displace all the heat. So all the heat would cause the southbridge (i think) and it's very shitty heatsink to overheat. If you've bought a recent motherboard, you'll notice a lot of the southbridges now come with massive heatsinks and heatpipes that come down from the CPU. The fact that this design has become more and more standard, makes me think a lot more people than myself have run into this problem.

Now, this doesn't necessarily make me believe Bloodlines of all games is causing your problem. So why would an nVidia card break on 1 game? Here is 1 tip to get your mind thinking, nVidia writes game profiles in their drivers, if they detect a certain exe file or a certain hash (I forget what they use now) then it programs the card settings to act differently based on this. This allows them to tweak the game and hopefully have it run better on their cards. However, it is possible that the 'tweaked' settings for Bloodlines actually causes problems with all the patching that occurred for it. I'm not sure how to test this, maybe you can eliminate the profile for the game or rename the executable not sure.

 

[OCNewbie]

I noticed a new "Gold" edition of the True Patch just came out recently. Perhaps you could try that, though you'll have to start the game over most likely. I think that would be a good idea anyway.

http://www.tessmage.com/forum/index.php/topic,56857.0.html

Download link below yellow colored text within first post. Follow the installation instructions very closely, just to rule out any possible (and suggested) errors if you do not do so.