Re: Xarlor Infinite Expanse mouse black bordering and disappearing asteroid

Posted on 2022-09-05, 10:44

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by ghotik2002

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Dege, you wrote: > I quickly fixed the cursor problem. I was interested to fix that as well within DxWnd. I already devised a fix by replacing the original texture with another one that uses the alpha channel to make all black pixels become transparent, this way bypassing the color key specification …

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Re: MechWarrior 2 3Dfx Edition doesn't load HUD in mission as well as pause menu

Posted on 2022-06-30, 16:45

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Ok, if I understand correctly the test case would be this one: Mechwarrior 2 dgVoodoo2 DirectDraw wrappers DxWnd with handle exception flag but (experimental custom feature) leaving the guard page exception 0x80000001 uncaught The hope would be that dgVoodoo2 + some handle exception but not the …

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Re: MechWarrior 2 3Dfx Edition doesn't load HUD in mission as well as pause menu

Posted on 2022-06-22, 14:32

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Oh, I see .... About guard page exceptions (code 0x80000001) DxWnd does not do anything special. So, there are two cases: a) with DxWnd handle exception turned off, it doesnt intercept the exception. Hopefully someone else should do it? b) with DxWnd handle exception turned on, it treats the event …

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Re: Riverworld - polygons have improper coordinates

Posted on 2021-08-31, 08:51

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by ghotik2002

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We got some result: the scrambled polygons are a sort of game copy protection. The game performs a CD status check about the overall length in millisecond units and compares the returned value with the value 4788001. A good CD image and an accurate CD emulator (like Daemon Tools) makes the trick, …

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Re: Game will ONLY work with CD in drive

Posted on 2021-06-27, 20:24

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by ghotik2002

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Just in case someone is interested, a DxWnd thread discussed this game and found it possible to play it with ripped CD audio tracks through CD emulation. In addition to what I read here (I used in DxWnd configuration for this game) we found that the game checks the EXACT length of CD tracks #7 and …

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Re: RAD Game Tools: Bink/Miles/Smacker Windows .dll's.

Posted on 2019-09-20, 12:30

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by ghotik2002

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I got an interesting problem. Finally I found a way to skip the bink movies (sometimes they can be an annoyance if they don't react to some skip button) and the trick uses a BinkGoto to the last frame. But the problem is that there's no supported API to get the movie length, the information is …

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Re: A newbie problem

Posted on 2019-09-06, 11:56

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by ghotik2002

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Gorgeous! Setting the OutputAPI field in dgVoodoo.conf to the "d3d11warp" value fixed the problem for me! My video card is a "Mobile Intel(R) 4 Series Express Chipset Family" (as reported in Device Manager), a cheap integrated video card inside my old portable, so it is reasonable that there could …

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Re: Spec Release dgVoodoo version (with Debug Layer)

Posted on 2019-09-06, 09:44

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by ghotik2002

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Well, what you say makes sense, I was looking for just a help to ease the testing of dgVoodoo on my Win7 portable to give support to DxWnd users. It seems there's a lot of people asking for help just because they don't have proper legacy support installed on their Win8+ computers. About other …

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Re: Spec Release dgVoodoo version (with Debug Layer)

Posted on 2019-09-03, 15:54

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Hi, it's me again, ghotik2002 with DxWnd. I understand that dgVoodoo may need strong support (dx11, shaders etc.) to accomplish demanding tasks, but it is also a pity that a basic ddraw usage is stopped by this. One typical problem with old games support is MS updating ddraw stuff all the times and …

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Re: A newbie problem

Posted on 2019-09-03, 15:32

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Well, it took a while but I learnt ... here's the log [7496] [dgVoodoo] INFO: Reading config from file D:\Games\MoHo\dgVoodoo.conf. [7496] [dgVoodoo] INFO: INI file based version of config file is successfully read. [7496] [dgVoodoo] INFO: DDraw is successfully loaded: D:\Games\MoHo\DDRAW.DLL [7496] …

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Re: RAD Game Tools: Bink/Miles/Smacker Windows .dll's.

Posted on 2019-01-16, 13:40

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by ghotik2002

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If of some interest, we found a smackw32.dll with identical functional interface but different size/hash of 2.1c in Hellbender and also another similar dll without the SmackUseSoundMSS/DirectSound calls in S.C.A.R.A.B. See here https://sourceforge.net/p/dxwnd/discussion/general/thread/b69fca37b3/# …

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Re: Extreme-G 2

Posted on 2018-06-28, 08:45

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by ghotik2002

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@SaxxonPike: this is the code of the DxWnd tweak. If you still want to patch the game, the operation could be simpler: find all occurrences of ddraw CreateSurface in the assemply that request the unsupported capabilities (that is DDSCAPS_MIPMAP + DDSCAPS_COMPLEX + DDSCAPS_TEXTURE, possibly not in …

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Re: Extreme-G 2

Posted on 2018-06-27, 21:51

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Good! Though the result is not perfect, I found an interesting trick: if when DxWnd finds a surface creation operation like the ones descibed above, if the mipmap and complex capabilities are cleared then the operation doesn't fail and the result is much better with the white textures properly …

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Re: Extreme-G 2

Posted on 2018-06-27, 14:10

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In case this may give birth to some bright idea, this is what happens from the DxWnd point of view, that is close to the application logic: with Wine3.0 you get this log: BuildGenericEmu: lpdd=54d59a0 pCreateSurface=66cc6af0 lpddsd=698a00 version=2 FixSurfaceCaps: INPUT Flags=21007(DDSD_CAPS+HEIGHT+ …

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Re: A newbie problem

Posted on 2018-04-05, 21:39

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by ghotik2002

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Log? I suppose there is a way to get a text logfile, but I never saw one. I'll read the doc better.... I noticed one thing: the minimum requirements talk about dx10, I doubt it's supported on my old pc, maybe this is the reason.

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A newbie problem

Posted on 2018-04-05, 15:00

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by ghotik2002

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There must be a silly reason for my problem: I download dgVoodoo2 bundle, extract ddraw.dll, copy that over the game folder and run the game. Very often (but not always) I get from the game logs a DirectDrawcreate(0, ..) error with DDERR_GENERIC error code, in practice while doing the DirectDraw …

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Re: ddhack

Posted on 2018-01-12, 18:36

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by ghotik2002

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Uhm, it seems I saw the reply to my question a bit late, but anyway thank you: I got the demo and found it running in DxWnd with very little tuning. Probably some more work should be done to handle the mouse and keyboard (they seem trapped in the game). Here are some screenshots from Win10.

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Re: ddhack

Posted on 2017-03-30, 12:01

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by ghotik2002

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Savage for windows 95? what sort of game is it? (and, most important, how to get a copy?) I'd like to make some attempts to support it with DxWnd ....

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Re: Episode 1 Racer - White Screen (LA FTP down)

Posted on 2017-02-12, 22:29

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by ghotik2002

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Hi. I'm gho (ghotik2002 here in this forum) developer of the open source program DxWnd hosted on sourceforce ( https://sourceforge.net/projects/dxwnd/ ) I already inserted within DxWnd a patch for SW Episode 1 Racer, based on the repetition of a VideoPort->Clear2 invocation, but this patch is not …

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