Comments - stevendorsey43822

Captain's Log, final entry:

I've got my version of Camarilla Edition launching successfully when I click New Game. Here are the steps I effected to accomplish this objective.

1) Download the vanilla files freshly to the root directory (after I nuked it again)

2) Copy steam.dll from (in my case) C://Games/Steam/ to ".../common/root_game_dir/" such that a copy of steam.dll resides next to vampire.exe

3) Backed up vanilla root directory to an internal folder called "000 -- Backup".

4) Downloaded Unofficial Patch 11.4 (there may be an 11.5 you can try as well, but I happened to use this one from the site), and installed it directly into the root directory.

5) Launched vampire.exe, and confirmed it did not crash on New Game

6) Backed up VOTMB UP, the entire root directory in this state, to "000 -- UP", so it could be copied over if I need to nuke the files again.

7) Downloaded CEFinal (the installer) and executed it, telling it to install its files to a folder called "cefinal_files" in the root directory.

8) Navigated into the internal "cefinal_files" folder, and exclusively copied the "cefinal" folder residing in there into my root directory.

9) Optional -- if this didn't have hte loader, I'd also copy the "bin" folder to root as well, I hear.

10) Launch Loader.exe, and selected "cefinal" as the third option in the gui.

Now I will attempt to play the game, and will spam this comment section again if further issues arise.

I also previously created my own list of club songs I wanna add into the mod, with songs I felt match the aesthetic or personalities of each club owner, so hopefully that works.

This is a necro reply, but for the sake of posterity, "you need admin privileges" is apparently fixed by moving the steam.dll file from the parental "Steam folder" in which the votmb folder is contained, into the root directory of your game, so that steam.dll is right next to vampire.exe.

After this, the unofficial patch instructions state to:
1) install unofficial patch to the root directory of the game
2) Download cefinal installer/zip
3) Install/extract to a separate folder, renamed to cefinal
4) Copy that mod folder named cefinal to the root directory
5) Then running the game you can:

5--A) Run vampire.exe with the command line property "Vampire.exe -game cefinal"
5--B) Use launch options in steam that do that, or a batch file instead
5--C) If you launch Loader.exe, you're supposed to be able to select the game from the mod list that displays.

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Conversely, for running the game, I read in other places online that cefinal requires only the internal "cefinal" folder be copied over to the root directory if you have hte mod loader. Which, installing the latest Unofficial Patch (UP) appears to have this mystical "loader" I've heard about, or if you don't have this elusive votmb loader, then you'd need to copy both teh internal folders "bin" and "cefinal" to the root directory.

I'll attempt THIS first, and see what happens when I use loader.

I've had to wipe and verify my game files integrity so many times now, that I've copied my vanilla files to a backup folder, and the UP latest patched version of the game files to a backed up UP folder as well.

So I can just delete all and copy over those, with each attempt, and have steam.dll in the root folders of all of them. So I will eventually get this sonuvabitch working, harf!

I'm having an issue with this mod or something. After I installed GOF 1.2, whenever I start my new game, after I get beaten by that third English guard who is after the sick man upstairs, I have a permanent death. There is no *all guards sheath weapons and take me to prison for trial*. All that happens is the third guy turns to kill the blonde dude next, and then I see a skull lying in sand on a beach. The quest is broken or not working correctly I think.