Got the game working.

[GMAN]

Win 7 x64
After trying everything on these forums i tried copying the whole Vampire Story Folder to C:\ and run the main.exe from C:\A Vampyre Story\game

[FluffyArmadillo]

I am assuming nothing below, I apologize if this is patronizing to some folk.

Finding the Pathname
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Find A Vampyre Story in your game list in your Library.
Right click on the name and select properties.
Left click on the tab Local Files.
Left click on Browse Local Files...
Left click on game.
Right click on main and select properties.
Select location the location path.
(Left Click+Hold before the drive letter and
select all the text by scrolling the mouse right)
Copy the text (Right click and Copy)
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Creating the Batch File
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(where the Path for the CD can be pasted in using
the right mouse click or paste from the Edit Menu)
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Open notepad and type the following:
echo off
cd C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\A Vampyre Story\game
main.exe
echo on
exit

Then Save As from the File menu and name vamp.bat
Select the desktop as the folder or place to save this,
and select Save as type: All Files and click on Save.

File Vamp should appear on your desktop and when you left mouse button double click on it your wait a few seconds and Mona with a blood level will fill up to the start of the game.

[GMAN]

That worked too! Awesome. Thanks.

[ROXManiac [ITA]]

Well, i tried but not worked for me.
I also have the game drm free on Dotemu: i tried to install the game on my pc desktop and doesn't work; so i tried to install the same game on my laptop and it works without a problem at first run!
Both desktop and laptop have the same SO (Windows 7 64 bits); the same directX version; but have a different graphic card (ATI 280X on pc desktop, Nvidia 9200 on laptop).
So what is the problem?

[GMAN]

Did you run it in XP compatibility mode and added steam's folder to the system path variable?

[MoOoOo]

No, it not work.
Created the .bat file, and setted it in XP compatibility.
Don't work on Win-7 64.

[Suspicious Activity]

That's strange that it's not working. I have Windows 7 64 bit, and it's working so far.

[Knightgaunt]

excellent. bat worked perfectly on win 7 x86, thanks this game is beautiful

[Riff the Awful]

Worked for me too, thx guys.

[ignotus.persona]

Originally posted by GMAN:

Win 7 x64
After trying everything on these forums i tried copying the whole Vampire Story Folder to C:\ and run the main.exe from C:\A Vampyre Story\game

This worked thanks.

[Reblosch]

I have tried every trick listed on this forum for no avail.
I keep getting main.exe in my Windows 8 "task manager", as many as I try to launch the game. It's really upsetting to buy a game and having to try so many hacks with no result.

Sorry for my bad english.

[Shadrach]

It appears the game does not work well with multiple monitors. I tried both the .bat file and copying the game to the root of C: and none fully worked - the main.exe launched but the game would not display.

I disabled my second monitor and voila the game launched fine. So if you have multi-monitors this is worth a try.

Tough to have to do this for every bloody launch of the game though... must find a way to script this... not sure if worth it...

[Lord_Zoltus]

Originally posted by GMAN:

Win 7 x64
...copying the whole Vampire Story Folder to C:\ and run the main.exe from C:\A Vampyre Story\game

Thanks! That's th only solution that helped me.

[Umiko]

Well it didn't work for me, any other solutions?

[FluffyArmadillo]

I can only vouch that the batchfile I wrote works on an Aspire V3 772G running Windows 8.1. It may be graphics card specific, but it doesn't run though steam, you have to run it seperately.

[GMAN]

Originally posted by Umiko:

Well it didn't work for me, any other solutions?

Did you add the game to the PATH system variable?