I can't seem to get BloodRayne (the first one) working on Windows 7 64-bit. The configuration screen seems to work, but after selecting "Play" the game crashes regardless of chosen settings. I'm getting the same errors with both the integrated (Intel) and the dedicated GPU (NVidia).

If I pick the DX8 renderer I get:

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DirectX8 3D Driver error
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Cannot create hardware vertex processing device. Please check with your hardware manufacturer to make sure that your video card indeed has hardware vertex processing.

If I go for the OpenGL one, Windows detects that the executable is not responding and spits out:

Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: rayne.exe
Application Version: 2.0.1.0
Application Timestamp: 3e565c6c
Fault Module Name: StackHash_bc91
Fault Module Version: 0.0.0.0
Fault Module Timestamp: 00000000
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Offset: 00000000
OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.48
Locale ID: 1033
Additional Information 1: bc91
Additional Information 2: bc910aa7e8abb7a58bacc2267cef11f6
Additional Information 3: 35e2
Additional Information 4: 35e22bdf178fa923a8100065c36aebe2

Any ideas?


EDIT: Just noticed that the game works fine on my laptop display and crashes only when I've got my computer hooked up to an HDMI display (single monitor mode). I'd still prefer to play the game on my external monitor however...

Have you tried installing DirectX?

https://www.microsoft.com/en-US/download/details.aspx?id=35

I have the same problem. Everytime I start the game it runs smoothly until I get to the main menu, where it crashes. The weird thing is that sometimes I manage to get it to work, but I don't know what else should I try to make it work permanently.

Any suggestions please?

Yep, DirectX is installed and updated.

Maybe this?

http://www.gog.com/forum/bloodrayne/bloodrayne_1_keeps_crashing_to_desktop_win7_64bit

Old Game....

Tried this? It may help.

I resolved setting affinity just to cpu 0 from task manager