Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines

[Yapa]

I've never had cloneCD installed < so that eliminates it as a possible conflict

I've uninstalled alcohol and only had deamon tools 3.47 running... installed and mounted cd1 with deamon tools. Game starts up, the startup images appears and goes off... then the monitor flicks (changes resolution) and a 'grey' or 'brown' screen appears for around 5seconds... then the monitor goes back to the desktop without any error message.

I've also tried with the latest version of alcohol, same thing happens. I've tried both the available image files from gamecopyworld, both do the same thing.

I've uninstalled, reinstalled all programs, tried all combinations suggested. Changing driver names etc etc... nothing works.

Hopefully a simple old fashioned no-cd crack appears soon

Yapa