Blood LAN Game on XP? Can It Be?
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Blood LAN Game on XP? Can It Be?
http://38.113.204.56/~kahnmit/
It describes itself as a utility to play blood lan games in XP!!!!
Has anyone tried it?
Does it work?
I CAN't WAIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It describes itself as a utility to play blood lan games in XP!!!!
Has anyone tried it?
Does it work?
I CAN't WAIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Bad news ;(
I've tried it - it sounded great till I found out that it requires Khan - this IPX emulator uses VXD kernel drivers, so, in fact, it requires Windows 9x/Me to run - it won't work on any NT based Windows, including XP ;( So Your (our ;/) only hope to play Blood via Internet is Transfusion ...
I've tried it - it sounded great till I found out that it requires Khan - this IPX emulator uses VXD kernel drivers, so, in fact, it requires Windows 9x/Me to run - it won't work on any NT based Windows, including XP ;( So Your (our ;/) only hope to play Blood via Internet is Transfusion ...
This was posted on the PlanetBlood forum a little while ago.
I've not personaly tried this yet, so I can't say if it will work or not.
You can get COMMIT.EXE v1.4 hereAuthor: ddriag <gareth_krantz@hotmail.com>
Date: 7/29/04 6:06:00 PM
Subject: winxp blood(/build?) LAN multiplayer working!
well after some tinkering I managed to get my winXP machine to connect to a LAN game with a winMe machine . Im pretty certain that 2 or more XP/win2k machines will be able to connect the same way.
I basically enabled VDMsound's 'low level network support' checkbox when creating a VDMSound shortcut to setup.exe in the Blood directory. Setup.exe is the only way to start a LAN game in Blood.
this is what you need to do:
I took the vdmsound shortcut (http://www.deathmask.net/buildxp/files/blood.vlp) from this cool site and saved it on my desktop (or any other directory). I right clicked properties and set the shortcut to point to setup.exe (instead of blood.exe) with no arguments.
After clicking OK, I opened it up in textpad added the following line to it under the section [winnt.storage]:
useNetware=yes
Save the vlp shortcut from notepad and run setup.exe from that shortcut and you should be able to play an IPX LAN game fine, as long as all XP/Win2k machines start the same way!
BTW: useNetware=yes is an option which gets set when you create a vdmsound shortcut when you check 'low level network support'
Hopefully this helps people. Good luck, This is a great game to COOP with, especially with an industry that is too lazy to support COOP nowadays.
EDIT:
btw You may need to get a hold of COMMIT.EXE version 1.4 (which comes with Duke3d atomic), as I havent tried it with the 1.3 version which comes with Whole Blood.
It may work with 1.3, though I've read that 1.3 may not be XP friendly.
I've not personaly tried this yet, so I can't say if it will work or not.
That's from the Khanmit site. And if it still dont work, then Cruiach's helpful post keeps our hope alive!Q: How can I play Duke directly on LAN without using Kahn?
A: Install IPX/SPX on every computer in LAN, then launch Kahnmit, set reduction to none and play. If you don't want to install IPX, run Kahn in local server mode on one of the computers and connect other computers to that one using Kahn (insert server - type ip of server computer - connect).
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OK,
I tested this on my lan tonight and it works fine,
just get Blood to work in XP using the BuildXP page
http://www.deathmask.net/buildxp/
then change the Blood.vlp to point to setup.exe instead of blood.exe,,
TA DA!!! Blood multiplayer in XP....
Very Important:::: Make sure you have loaded the IPX protocol on your network connection in XP or it wont work[/url]
I tested this on my lan tonight and it works fine,
just get Blood to work in XP using the BuildXP page
http://www.deathmask.net/buildxp/
then change the Blood.vlp to point to setup.exe instead of blood.exe,,
TA DA!!! Blood multiplayer in XP....
Very Important:::: Make sure you have loaded the IPX protocol on your network connection in XP or it wont work[/url]
From the first paragraph.
I would gess that it would work between Win98, WinME, Win2K, and WinXP. But they might all need to run Blood using the BuildXP VM setings.Well after some tinkering I managed to get my WinXP machine to connect to a LAN game with a WinMe machine.
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Good news: Commit 1.4 is all you need for beautiful lan play over TCP/IP.
Bad news: Only catch is that you cant play smooth(will be unplayable) if you run with sound in XP, in my experience.
Advice: Keep a back-up copy of the old version of commit.exe in the case that any problems arise with your copy of 1.4
Bad news: Only catch is that you cant play smooth(will be unplayable) if you run with sound in XP, in my experience.
Advice: Keep a back-up copy of the old version of commit.exe in the case that any problems arise with your copy of 1.4
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Unfortunatly, it will be some time before I have time to make any updates, but hopefully the next one will contain a lot of useful information for BuildXP.
In reply to unplayability with sound in XP, there is actually a fix to that, and that is editing the commit.dat file (open it with notepad or something similar), editing the launch file from blood.exe to the blood.vlp shortcut, which should make a tremendous difference.
In reply to unplayability with sound in XP, there is actually a fix to that, and that is editing the commit.dat file (open it with notepad or something similar), editing the launch file from blood.exe to the blood.vlp shortcut, which should make a tremendous difference.