Thanks for replying again! I'm happy to answer.
> (1) What kind of monitor are you using, exactly..?
Dell E198WFP
> (2) You mentioned a forced screen resolution of 1440x900. Are you trying to run VTMB on a laptop computer..?
No, desktop
> (3) Certain built-in, onboard (motherboard) audio hardware does not work with VTMB. Some do... and some don't. Again... this is an older game and it expects to find a dedicated audio card in the system. Failing to find one, it often crashes. Or else the audio misbehaves. Or both.
I'm not quite sure what you're asking here, but I'll try to answer. Here are my audio devices, as listed in the device manager:
AMD High Definition Audio Device
Realtek High Definition Audio
(And if it matters, I use external speakers)
> Regarding the VTMB ResPatcher utility, you need to run it REGARDLESS of whether or not you are using a widescreen monitor. <snip> If you do not intend to run the game in widescreen mode, then do the following: <snip>
I followed your instructions (which is to say, I deleted all VTMB content from my computer, reinstalled from Steam, moved it to my desktop, reinstalled TPG, and then followed the instructions in this post). It opened in regular-screen instead of widescreen, which was great! Unfortunately, I got the same result - it crashed when I tried to start a new game.
The weird thing is how, after I click "New Game", it gets to the loading screen and shows a little bit of the loading bar filled in, then goes black and Windows tells me "vampire.exe has stopped working."