my character is normal in game but on the character sheet and creation is just a shadow and lighting is bad in a lot of places

[Antichromeking]

Ok so i know someone is more than likely going to come at me for not finding the solution already but i legit cant. In game my character model is fine, but on the info sheet and creator it is just a shadow. As well the lighting in some areas seems to be way darker than I remember almost to the point where I cant see unless I go turn up the gamma in the settings when it dont seem like it should be that dark. Any ideas on how I probably installed the unofficial patch wrong and can try to fix it?

[Vepar]

There's not a lot of ways you can install the UP wrong lol, it's basically just clicking next and pointing it to the VTMB folder.

However, if you're launching it from steam, you need to add this to the launch options:

-game Unofficial_Patch

If you forgot to add that, you're in fact playing an unpatched version, which could have your bugs.

Or... What's your GPU? Is it a laptop with some integrated/dedicated hybrid graphics?
If so, maybe the game is not using the correct one.

I heard some intel integrated chips could have weird effects on the game as well. Do you have an Intel integrated GPU?

[Antichromeking]

Originally posted by Vepar:

There's not a lot of ways you can install the UP wrong lol, it's basically just clicking next and pointing it to the VTMB folder.

However, if you're launching it from steam, you need to add this to the launch options:

-game Unofficial_Patch

If you forgot to add that, you're in fact playing an unpatched version, which could have your bugs.

Or... What's your GPU? Is it a laptop with some integrated/dedicated hybrid graphics?
If so, maybe the game is not using the correct one.

I heard some intel integrated chips could have weird effects on the game as well. Do you have an Intel integrated GPU?

I launch the game from the unofficial patch launcher and i have a intel inside core i7

[Vepar]

Originally posted by Antichromeking:

Originally posted by Vepar:

There's not a lot of ways you can install the UP wrong lol, it's basically just clicking next and pointing it to the VTMB folder.

However, if you're launching it from steam, you need to add this to the launch options:

-game Unofficial_Patch

If you forgot to add that, you're in fact playing an unpatched version, which could have your bugs.

Or... What's your GPU? Is it a laptop with some integrated/dedicated hybrid graphics?
If so, maybe the game is not using the correct one.

I heard some intel integrated chips could have weird effects on the game as well. Do you have an Intel integrated GPU?

I launch the game from the unofficial patch launcher and i have a intel inside core i7

You're using the integrated intel GPU then right?
Are your drivers up to date?

Cause i heard intel GPUs can cause some issues like that.

[Antichromeking]

Originally posted by Vepar:

Originally posted by Antichromeking:

I launch the game from the unofficial patch launcher and i have a intel inside core i7

You're using the integrated intel GPU then right?
Are your drivers up to date?

Cause i heard intel GPUs can cause some issues like that.

my drivers are up to date i just checked to make sure

[Wesp5]

Have you installed the latest 11.5 version of the patch or 11.4?

[Antichromeking]

Originally posted by Wesp5:

Have you installed the latest 11.5 version of the patch or 11.4?

so whether i downloaded it off moddb or nexus it was only a unreadable text file it would download so i had to download a older version its 9.7 i have it says the file name is VTMBup11rc9.7

[Vepar]

Originally posted by Antichromeking:

Originally posted by Wesp5:

Have you installed the latest 11.5 version of the patch or 11.4?

so whether i downloaded it off moddb or nexus it was only a unreadable text file it would download so i had to download a older version its 9.7 i have it says the file name is VTMBup11rc9.7

Oof, that's quite old...

https://www.moddb.com/mods/vtmb-unofficial-patch/downloads/bloodlines-unofficial-patch-114

https://www.moddb.com/mods/vtmb-unofficial-patch/downloads/bloodlines-unofficial-patch-115

Why can't you download those files? Do you have an antivirus maybe?

[Antichromeking]

Originally posted by Vepar:

Originally posted by Antichromeking:

so whether i downloaded it off moddb or nexus it was only a unreadable text file it would download so i had to download a older version its 9.7 i have it says the file name is VTMBup11rc9.7

Oof, that's quite old...

https://www.moddb.com/mods/vtmb-unofficial-patch/downloads/bloodlines-unofficial-patch-114

https://www.moddb.com/mods/vtmb-unofficial-patch/downloads/bloodlines-unofficial-patch-115

Why can't you download those files? Do you have an antivirus maybe?

no i dont have antivirus and when i download either of those when i try to do anything with the file it says its a text file that can only be read by Microsoft edge or notepad always says its a unconfirmed file and shows those as the only 2 ways to open it

[~⁧⁧kapacb]

Originally posted by Antichromeking:

Originally posted by Vepar:

Oof, that's quite old...

https://www.moddb.com/mods/vtmb-unofficial-patch/downloads/bloodlines-unofficial-patch-114

https://www.moddb.com/mods/vtmb-unofficial-patch/downloads/bloodlines-unofficial-patch-115

Why can't you download those files? Do you have an antivirus maybe?

no i dont have antivirus and when i download either of those when i try to do anything with the file it says its a text file that can only be read by Microsoft edge or notepad always says its a unconfirmed file and shows those as the only 2 ways to open it

Did you download one of them fully?

[Vepar]

Originally posted by Antichromeking:

Originally posted by Vepar:

Oof, that's quite old...

https://www.moddb.com/mods/vtmb-unofficial-patch/downloads/bloodlines-unofficial-patch-114

https://www.moddb.com/mods/vtmb-unofficial-patch/downloads/bloodlines-unofficial-patch-115

Why can't you download those files? Do you have an antivirus maybe?

no i dont have antivirus and when i download either of those when i try to do anything with the file it says its a text file that can only be read by Microsoft edge or notepad always says its a unconfirmed file and shows those as the only 2 ways to open it

What download button did you press?
And are you sure they downloaded fully?
If they did, they should have an .exe extension. If they don't, it's a partial file.

[Antichromeking]

Originally posted by Vepar:

Originally posted by Antichromeking:

no i dont have antivirus and when i download either of those when i try to do anything with the file it says its a text file that can only be read by Microsoft edge or notepad always says its a unconfirmed file and shows those as the only 2 ways to open it

What download button did you press?
And are you sure they downloaded fully?
If they did, they should have an .exe extension. If they don't, it's a partial file.

the only download button i see on the paige is the big red one that says download now and 608.63 mb

[Vepar]

Originally posted by Antichromeking:

Originally posted by Vepar:

What download button did you press?
And are you sure they downloaded fully?
If they did, they should have an .exe extension. If they don't, it's a partial file.

the only download button i see on the paige is the big red one that says download now and 608.63 mb

Hmm, well i tried it and it works fine for me. Weird. Sometimes an antivirus can block the download, make sure you're not runing any when visiting this site.

Or try here:
https://www.moddb.com/mods/vtmb-unofficial-patch/news/unoffical-patch-114-released

The right side, under profile. Click "Download 714.2K" It'll open 2 more options, for 11.4 and 11.5 version. Maybe those will work. They still take you to the main page with the big download button, but idk, try it.

If it still doesnt' work, here, i uploaded them to WeTransfer:
https://we.tl/t-iyxbZ8FNUF

They're still the same .exe files so, if your antivirus was deleting them, quarantining them or otherwise corrupting the download, the same will happen here. If your antivirus is the culprit, you need to deal with that first.

[Antichromeking]

Originally posted by Vepar:

Originally posted by Antichromeking:

the only download button i see on the paige is the big red one that says download now and 608.63 mb

Hmm, well i tried it and it works fine for me. Weird. Sometimes an antivirus can block the download, make sure you're not runing any when visiting this site.

Or try here:
https://www.moddb.com/mods/vtmb-unofficial-patch/news/unoffical-patch-114-released

The right side, under profile. Click "Download 714.2K" It'll open 2 more options, for 11.4 and 11.5 version. Maybe those will work. They still take you to the main page with the big download button, but idk, try it.

If it still doesnt' work, here, i uploaded them to WeTransfer:
https://we.tl/t-iyxbZ8FNUF

They're still the same .exe files so, if your antivirus was deleting them, quarantining them or otherwise corrupting the download, the same will happen here. If your antivirus is the culprit, you need to deal with that first.

yeah it still only gives a corrupted text file that cant be read guess i need to go see about why my antivirus is doing whatever its doing and try to figure out how to keep it from doing so

[Vepar]

Originally posted by Antichromeking:

yeah it still only gives a corrupted text file that cant be read guess i need to go see about why my antivirus is doing whatever its doing and try to figure out how to keep it from doing so

Yeah, most likely your antivirus then. Weird, usually the file doesn't get downloaded at all, or maybe it's corrupted in case your AV tries to move it before it's finished downloading.

Which one are you using? Usually Windows defender is enough, and whichever it is, there should be a way to disable it temporarily.

[Antichromeking]

Originally posted by Vepar:

Originally posted by Antichromeking:

yeah it still only gives a corrupted text file that cant be read guess i need to go see about why my antivirus is doing whatever its doing and try to figure out how to keep it from doing so

Yeah, most likely your antivirus then. Weird, usually the file doesn't get downloaded at all, or maybe it's corrupted in case your AV tries to move it before it's finished downloading.

Which one are you using? Usually Windows defender is enough, and whichever it is, there should be a way to disable it temporarily.

i have to figure that out first im not really pc savy i know im an idiot its just whatever this laptop had but i need to try and figure that out first i think i only have windows defender though