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Vampire The Masquerade seriesCinematics/videos keep freezing? Please help(25 posts)(25 posts)
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Posted January 10, 2013
HI all,
I recently got this game. When I start it up though the video in the company logo/intro movie keeps breaking up every second, it's all glitchy. The actual gameplay works fine, but anything that is a video is all glitchy and breaks up.
I'm using windows 8. Can someone please help me to get it so that video plays fine in this game?
Posted January 10, 2013
Meow, I just got the game a few days ago and I run it fine on windows 7 x64. I'm sorry you're experiencing problems, and I'm not much of a tech headed cat just wanted to share my randomness.
Posted January 10, 2013
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Kamma999: HI all,
I recently got this game. When I start it up though the video in the company logo/intro movie keeps breaking up every second, it's all glitchy. The actual gameplay works fine, but anything that is a video is all glitchy and breaks up.
I'm using windows 8. Can someone please help me to get it so that video plays fine in this game?
Interesting issue, haven't heard of that. I'm running W8 and it's running like a dream, so that's not likely the culprit. Might be some kind of direct x issue, idk. Might try right-clicking on the desktop shortcut and going to properties. In the properties menu, go to the shortcut tab. In the "target" line, add -"dx90" at the end. So for example, it could read "c://programfiles/vampire the masquerade redemption/vampire.exe -dx90".

Regardless of whether this smooths the video out, it'll make the game look much sharper :)
Posted January 12, 2013
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Kamma999: HI all,
I recently got this game. When I start it up though the video in the company logo/intro movie keeps breaking up every second, it's all glitchy. The actual gameplay works fine, but anything that is a video is all glitchy and breaks up.
I'm using windows 8. Can someone please help me to get it so that video plays fine in this game?
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Signothorn: Interesting issue, haven't heard of that. I'm running W8 and it's running like a dream, so that's not likely the culprit. Might be some kind of direct x issue, idk. Might try right-clicking on the desktop shortcut and going to properties. In the properties menu, go to the shortcut tab. In the "target" line, add -"dx90" at the end. So for example, it could read " the masquerade redemption/ -dx90".

Regardless of whether this smooths the video out, it'll make the game look much sharper :)
I tried typing that in but it said that was an invalid thing
Posted January 15, 2013
Actually the target line should look like so:

(do NOT copy pasta this)
"file location of vampire.exe in the quotes" -dx90

Actually I noticed that just -dx9 should do it. I think you getting an invalid because you tried putting the -dx9 inside the quotes.
Posted January 18, 2013
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Javokis: Actually the target line should look like so:

(do NOT copy pasta this)
"file location of in the quotes" -dx90
Actually I noticed that just -dx9 should do it. I think you getting an invalid because you tried putting the -dx9 inside the quotes.
Nope, that didn't work either. I'm running directx 11 (i assume dx 9 has something to do with directx?).
Posted January 19, 2013
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Javokis: Actually the target line should look like so:

(do NOT copy pasta this)
"file location of in the quotes" -dx90
Actually I noticed that just -dx9 should do it. I think you getting an invalid because you tried putting the -dx9 inside the quotes.
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Kamma999: Nope, that didn't work either. I'm running directx 11 (i assume dx 9 has something to do with directx?).
You could try going into the vtmr folder and rename the Videos folder to something like _Videos and see if that solves the crash issue though you wont see any videos.
Posted February 04, 2013
I'm having this video problem on Windows 8 as well. Could it be a video card/driver issue?
Posted February 10, 2013
Other than trying to run in admin, I don't know what else to try. I run it on W8 just fine, I'm running 2 HD7950's in crossfire, which is a little overkill. I remember Javokis having an issue with his old Nvidia card a GTX8600 or something like that, if my recollection serves me.
Posted February 13, 2013
I had an 8800GTS and the only problem I had is that it lagged something fierce till they updated drivers.
Posted February 22, 2013
same problem here, in win 7 64 bit
Posted May 16, 2013
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egemen: same problem here, in win 7 64 bit
Folks, someone made another thread with this issue and replacing the binkw.dll file with one from a new game seemed to do the trick for him/her, might want to try it.
Posted July 15, 2013
windows doesnt come with directx 9.... directx 10 and directx 11 isnt as backwards compatable and doesnt include directx 9c.... go to microsoft website and dl directx 9c.... it installs fine leaving directx 10 and 11 alone (this is the only one that does, dont try to get 8 7 ect bc its in as a part of dx9c) that should do the trick

the file name is "directx_Jun2010_redist"

but microsoft prolly has a auto web installer
Post edited July 15, 2013 by triphopscott
Posted August 13, 2013
Hello everyone!

I have read the through this thread and the two other threads relating to stuttering audio and video in the movies. I am having the same problem. The in-game audio and video is fine, but all of the movies have stuttering audio and video.

Troubleshooting

Installed latest Windows updates
Installed latest NVIDIA release drivers v320.49
Installed latest DirectX run-time package v9.29.1974
Verified that the installer passed the file integrity check
Tried running as administrator
Tried running all previous Windows versions in Compatibility Mode
Tried running the game with Windows Explorer killed

None of these affected the stuttering movies (or anything in the game, as far as I could tell).

Vampire: The Masquerade - Redemption uses the Bink video codec for its movies and despite the fact that RAD Game Tools says that you should not swap the "BINKW32.DLL" file between game directories; however, I found that this did affect the movie quality - sometimes for the better. Here are the games whose "BINKW32.DLL" files I have tried in place of the DLL provided by the GOG installation and their effects.

BioShock - Movie video is perfectly smooth, but there is no audio
Diablo II - Game crashes at launch
Dishonored - Game crashes at launch
Dungeon & Dragons: Neverwinter - Game crashes at launch
Gothic 3 - Movie video plays perfectly smooth, but there is no audio
Marvel Heroes - Game crashes at launch
Remember Me - Game crashes at launch
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion - Movie video stutters a bit less, audio stutters a bit less

I am all tapped out! Does anyone have a solution to this issue, any other ideas for a fix, or know of a specific version of the "BINKW32.DLL" that will allow the movies to play without video and audio stuttering?

System Details

Operating System: Windows 8 Enterprise 64-bit
Motherboard: Asus Maximus IV Extreme
Processor: Intel Core i5-2500K @ 4.0GHz
Memory: Corsair Vengeance 4x4GB DDR3 2133
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 680 Classified 4GB @ 1.176GHz
Sound Card: Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Pro
Post edited August 13, 2013 by L3X3CU710N3R
Posted January 07, 2014
I am also having this issue, I'm trying out lots of Bink files but I get most of the same issues as the poster above.
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