Overview
Blood Omen was originally ported to the PC in 1997, when Windows 95 was still the standard. Because of its age and a number of quirks in its design, it will not run on newer systems without a bit of help.This guide is for those who actually wish to play this game on operating systems like Windows 7, 10 … or even Vista or 2000.
Downloading…
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All you will need for this tutorial, is installation (preferably an ISO file or a physical disk), a patch and a tool specifically designed to force CPU usage called “CPU-Grabber”.
I won’t post the download link to the ISO, because I’m not sure if I have rights to do so, unless you know a reason why should the game be free. Instead, here’s the essentials for the game to run…
- 1. Download the patch (dropbox link): Click here [www.dropbox.com]
- 2. Download the CPU-Grabber (dropbox link): Click here [www.dropbox.com]
- 3. Assuming that you have the installation of the game, we can continue to the Installation part…
Originally posted by wrace
Additional patches (includes fix for video): Click here [onedrive.live.com] Huge shotouts to him! 🙂
Installing the game
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- Extract a shortcut of “SPLASH.EXE” from the disk/iso file contents. Either with tools like Daemon Tools or built in mount capability of Windows 10. Just place it on desktop or other easily accessible place. In the properties of shortcut, select to run in in compatibilty mode for “Windows 98/ Windows ME”. This is so that installation would not get confused, because of your large disk storage space, due to the fact that at the time, hard drives were of a much smaller capacity
- Launch the shortcut and install the game (default: C:/Program Files/KAIN)
- Apply the patch “kain_setup.exe” and choose your current installation directory after selecting that Kain is already installed (default: C:/Program Files/KAIN)
That’s about it for setting the game up…
How to PLAY
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To play the game, just launch the previously downloaded “cpugrab.exe” and select to use 60%-80% of the CPU power, press “start”. This step might not be important, but it should solve issues with game freezing at the Tavern.
Now just launch “KAIN.exe” from its directory (default: C:/Program Files/KAIN).
Videos might have color issues, but other than that, game should run fine.
These screenshots are actual screenshots from in-game on Windows 7 using “Print Screen” function… yes, you can actually do alt+tab and it shouldn’t crash the game or glich up your screen
Game launcher (*.bat)
If you have cpugrab.exe in the same directory as the main game and you use CPU Grabber to run the game, due to compatibility issues, you can create a custom game launcher in the game directory with *.bat extension, like this: