Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines

Game Info

Game version	1.0, 1.2
Installer	Works, no known problems
Game	Works with nVidia cards, but has some serious issues with ATi cards, described below
Patch	1.2 - works fine
Download patch	3D Gamers
Demo works	No known demo
Download demo	N/A
Requires no-cd patch	No
Multiplayer works	No multiplayer
Works with Cedega version(s)	6.0 (best), 5.2.10, 5.2.7, 4.2.1
Tested with Cedega version(s)	6.0, 5.2.10, 5.2.7, 4.2.1
Supported by TransGaming	No
URLs	Official site 3D Gamers OC Forums: Configuring The Source Engine: HL2 and CSS

With an ATI graphics card, the textures on human (and vampiric :D) models are highly corrupted.
With ATI hardware, the pixel shaders corrupt the environment and buildings rendering - disable them as a workaround.
Game crashes, time dependent. (Oh? Please verify?)
You must set the win version to win2k like --winver win2k.
Performance is bad with many people close by, dropping to ~5-10 fps. Might very well be a game issue, not a Cedega issue.
Non-responsive pause before audio in conversations.

The issue about the game crashing at the end of the Society of Leopold quest is a known -GAME- problem; common workarounds are: a small cheat with game console, updating the game with Patch 1.2.

It is possible to manually reduce some of the hidden graphic settings like texture quality by editing the autoexec.cfg which will avoid some of the bad performance. See Configuring The Source Engine: HL2 and CSS. Note that reducing texture quality will introduce minor graphical glitches like unreadable bus stop signs.

The 3.5 Unofficial Patch seems to break compatibility with Cedega. The game crashes immediately before the Activision logo. A workaround seems to involve some npctemplate files included in the patch, and found in Vampire/vdata/system. Deleting them fixes the crash.