[Tomster]

Just a note that BloodRayne has just been updated to support multiple resolutions. Not sure how it runs because I downloaded the updater at work and left all of the disks at home.

Overall, the game was good for mindless violence, but the port was absolutely horrible. There was a good amount of tearing at 640 by 480 on a 1ghz G4. Glad to see developers are beginning to respond to our feedback.

Can anyone respond as to how this port was? Any improvements?

[Tomster]

Followup post to the update. With the new resolutions, the menu graphics look fantastic. Not sure what the game play is because the game crashes before I can play it. Pretty much a complete waste of time.

[a2daj]

Same here, which OS? Did you notice you can start it up without a CD now too? But if you play the game with CD1 in, the startup behavior is different.

[Tomster]

Well, it's finally Friday so I guess now I can say it. Crashes under 10.3 Not sure if it is specific to this OS or if it blows up under Jaguar too.

[a2daj]

Heh, once again, "same here."

10.3 crashes.

[Horsepoo!!!]

Doesn't surprise me...Aspyr didn't test a whole bunch of games against the, what was then, almost released 10.3.

That surfing game (at least the demo) is really problematic under 10.3 (no textures).

Aspyr is crummy. I can't believe Brad is there now.

[Dr. No]

Check out this response from Aspyr support:

Original Question
So WHEN is the Panther patch coming out to fix the current issues?

Thanks!

Dr. No

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I think we're REALLY in trouble waiting for this Panther patch!

[Brad Oliver]

Originally posted by Dr. No:
Check out this response from Aspyr support:

Looks like you got the wrong "canned" reply back.

Here's what I know. I asked Glenda about getting a Bloodrayne patch that works with Panther (I wanted to play it to see what all the fuss was about) and the last I heard, we were talking with the original developer to get a patch from them. I don't know if one is actually coming yet or not, but I do know that we're trying.

[littlegreenspud]

A beta patch for 10.3 is out.

http://macnn.com/rd.php?id=15999

[SouthPaW1227]

It's b/c the game sucked (at least the vast majority of ppl thought so) and even Glenda Adamas admitted to being embarrased that that game was chosen to port.

[a2daj]

The game actually got decent reviews when it was first released, but subsequent ports didn't fare very well.