Re: Blood Omen : Legacy of Kain, Patch

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From: Markus Schäfer
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 18:07

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> > Knight37 wrote:
> >
> >> Icon <car...@invalid.co.za> wrote in
> >> news:ce6dpo$g28$1...@ctb-nnrp2.saix.net:
> >>
> >>
> >>>Hello,
> >>>
> >>>I'm hoping someone can help me find a patch for the original Blood
> >>>Omen (1) Legacy of Kain, so that I can hopefully play it on my
> >>>Windows XP machine.
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >> I have this and I don't recall needing a patch to play it on XP. I
> >> did use VDMSsound to get the sound to work IIRC.
> >>
> >> Knight37
> >
> > Hmm, do you maybe have a DOS version of the game?
> >
> > Mine's a Windows 95 version, but it won't play nice in XP, regardless
> > of the compatibility mode, because I read somewhere that it tries to
> > access your vid card directly.
> >
>
> Yeah I think mine is the dos version. it's pretty old.

There is an unofficial patch for the vid card problem somewhere. But I don't
know where.

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From: Markus Schäfer <markus....@ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
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Subject: Re: Blood Omen : Legacy of Kain, Patch
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 20:07:59 +0200
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