Blood II The Chosen

Status

Supported on Windows 10

I am using the version of Blood 2 The Chosen from GOG.

Problem

The problem I had with Blood 2 The Chosen was that it would error out each time I tried to play the game on Windows 10. The error would say "ERROR - Unable to set the video mode. (6929314)".

Solution

There were several issues with Blood 2 The Chosen on Windows 10. Using DxWnd I was able to force the game to use 16bit color mode to resolve the error. However the game would still show a border and would not go into fullscreen with out DDrawCompat. It also did not seem to run as smooth without DDrawCompat. However DDrawCompat would fail when using 16bit color mode. So I had to update the code so that it would automatically fail over to 32bit mode if 16bit mode failed. See check in here.

Next I found out it would crash when using too high of resolution so added DxWnd to limit the resolution to 1280x960. Finally blood2.exe would crash when clicking the "Display..." button so I had to use the winmm.dll stub to load dxwrapper.dll.

Installation

In order to install the Windows 10 patch for Blood 2 The Chosen you can follow these steps:

1. Download the fix below.
2. Unzip the files to your Blood 2 The Chosen installation folder (where the blood2.exe file exists).
3. Set Windows XP (Service Pack 2) compatibility mode on both blood2.exe and client.exe.
4. Start the game and enjoy!

If you run into issues check the compatibility settings. Below are the compatibility settings I am using:

Download

Here is the Download for the patch to fix Blood 2 The Chosen on Windows 10.

This download contains 6 files:

• dxwnd.dll
• dxwnd.exe
• dxwnd.ini
• dxwrapper.dll
• dxwrapper.ini
• winmm.dll