Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines

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1 Game Information
2 Widescreen Support
- 2.1 Method
- 2.2 Screen change
3 Surround Gaming support
4 Known Issues
5 Condensed detailed report
6 WSGF links
7 External links

Game Information

By: Activision, Troika
Genre: Sci-Fi, RPG
Release Date: November 16, 2004
Players: 1
Version: Retail with patch 1.2 installed. Please note that this game has many unofficial patches. To the best of my knowledge none of the unofficial patches touch the changed file so you should be OK.

Starting out as a recently sired vamp-baby, you get to make your way around the LA area looking for some meaning to your now pointless existence. While you are dragging your undead behind throughout the city you may also get lucky and avert the vampire Apocalypse. Or not. It's your call bloodsucker.

Lead your character in first or third-person perspectives as you stalk the streets, feed on some hookers, and chat up the normals. You have several vampire clans to choose from which will determine your characters abilities and tendencies. Skill points can be assigned for character development allowing you to become such wonderful things as a gun-toting psychopath or a perky chatterbox. Or both.

Just remember that you have to retain some shred of your tattered beliefs in humanity or you won't amount to undead crap. Will you be the nice hero that can sleep at day? Or give in to the voracious beast that festers within your dead flesh? Remember to floss.

Widescreen Support

Method

No native support. There is a resolution patcher located at http://www.fileplanet.com/156598/150000/fileinfo/Vampire-The-Masquerade:-Bloodlines---Resolution-Patcher that will allow you to use custom widescreen resolutions for Bloodlines. If the patcher works skip down to Method Section #2 for the rest of the solution. If you cannot find or cannot get the patcher to work the manual solution is listed below. Resolution tweak posted by pirapira at the Planet Vampire Forums. We need to open up the "engine.dll" file with a HEX editor. The file is located in the "Bin" folder that is in the root game directory. Make the edits as per the instructions in this thread.

Screen change

Hor+

1600x1200

1920x1200

Surround Gaming support

None

Known Issues

Condensed detailed report

MGL Classification	Hor +
Widescreen method	Hack
Resolution support	Full
Singleplayer anomalies	None
Multiplayer support	Full
Aspect ratio support	Full
HUD stretch	Stretch
Cut-scenes	rendered cut-scenes
Rendered cut-scene correction	Hor +
Calculated grade	D