Well, that pretty much settles it. Monolith removed the startup sequence for some reason with version 1.21.

I used to run into crackly SFX when running it on XP using VDMS and found using 22khz for SFX instead of 44 fixed the problem (in case anyone else ran into this problem.) Other than that, and the fact that CD tracks only play through once and then stop, everything runs fine for me.

Yes, Caleb's movement is something else... He's very springy...

It seems that the problem is not in the executables themselves... Is it possible that the game's startup sequence is kept somewhere else?

It's more of an issue of whether this functionality was stripped out by Monolith or not. Without a copy of blood.exe and cryptic.exe directly off of the OUW CD I can't verify this. The ISOs could contain copies that are modified to not play these movies (many don't include any of the game movies.)

Gila wrote:blood had NO cd check so that original/not original cd is s***

You're correct. Perhaps it's possible that someone modded blood.exe to not display the opening cinematics? If someone had an official copy, they could verify this.

They don't play on any of the computers I try it on, so if your copy is off the original game CD, Monolith must have intended it to work this way.

Are your copies off of the game CD?

Is One Unit: Whole Blood able to use logo.smk and gti.smk? Mine doesn't play either of them, even when they are in Blood's directory. It also doesn't display the Blood splash screen (with the gargoyle) that appears after these 2 smacker videos play. Was OUW Blood ever able to do these things, or is ...