Re: Peixoto's patches for a few old games

Posted on 2021-01-11, 06:59

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Hi Peixoto, I'm not sure whether this is related to your particular fix, but I've noted that when you use widescreen resolutions with Clive Barker's Undying, the weapon / hand offset is wrong, meaning you will only see the upper part of the weapon. I tested it and it seems to be consistent with a …

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Re: Clive Barker's Undying crash: please check dgVoodoo debug info

Posted on 2020-06-29, 23:45

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You're right, I must have overlooked or forgotten that part. I guess I was expecting Undying to be as capable as any Unreal Engine 1 game, strange that it it's not. Thanks.

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Clive Barker's Undying crash: please check dgVoodoo debug info

Posted on 2020-06-28, 19:22

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I'm getting crashes with Clive Barker's Undying with any resolutions larger than 2048 px wide. I already had the same problem with another Unreal Engine 1 game (see here https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=59&t=74447), where it turned out to be a RAM allocation issue, where dgVoodoo somehow …

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Re: Running Direct3D 7 games at > 2048px resolutions with D3D9+ wrapper

Posted on 2020-06-05, 18:43

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By the way, do you have an idea why the HUD shows no texture filtering on these higher resolutions? Would be nice to get it at least filtered, even if it is badly oversized etc.

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Re: Running Direct3D 7 games at > 2048px resolutions with D3D9+ wrapper

Posted on 2020-06-05, 17:54

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ZellSF wrote on 2020-06-05, 17:45: FYI you can't play Undying at higher ingame resolutions (it will crash at certain places). You need to select a lower resolution ingame and just force a higher one with dgVoodoo. I'll give it a try, thanks.

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Re: Running Direct3D 7 games at > 2048px resolutions with D3D9+ wrapper

Posted on 2020-06-05, 17:31

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I added the executable folder to dgVoodoo's settings, and it showed 256 MB there (so I assume that is what is used as default..?), but I changed the value to 1024. Now it works! For a while I was fairly convinced that it had something to do with the resolution, as I've had the same problem with …

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Re: Running Direct3D 7 games at > 2048px resolutions with D3D9+ wrapper

Posted on 2020-06-05, 15:14

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Btw, does the dbg version of dgVoodoo say something useful before crashing? Maybe the amount of VRAM in dgVoodoo.conf is set to extremely low or sg like that. Made a new installation, removed any dgVoodoo settings to the folder, and ran installed debug version of dgVoodoo. Still crashes, and I got …

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Re: Running Direct3D 7 games at > 2048px resolutions with D3D9+ wrapper

Posted on 2020-06-05, 12:12

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The game is Star Trek Deep Space Nine: The Fallen. With dgVoodoo (2.63.2), any resolution higher than 2048 px will give me a window of 2048 pixels' width which will crash after a few seconds. That happens no matter whether I launch it with the resolution completely unforced, forced WITH the …

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Running Direct3D 7 games at > 2048px resolutions with D3D9+ wrapper

Posted on 2020-06-04, 22:52

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Hi, To my knowledge there are so far two custom DLLs that allow you to overcome the restriction of the 2048x2048 maximum resolution specified by Direct3D 7 (or would it technically be DirectDraw [7]..?), therefore enabling you to play games from around 2000 at resolutions such as 2560x1440, or even …

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Re: Problems capturing Direct3D 7 games with OBS (+ dgVoodoo 2)

Posted on 2020-05-19, 10:27

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I will do further tests - the thing is though, it has worked a couple of times, so that shows me it is not impossible per-se, I wonder why OBS sometimes succeeds in capturing the source, and sometimes fails. I have also tried opening OBS first or opening the game first, without any discernable …

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Problems capturing Direct3D 7 games with OBS (+ dgVoodoo 2)

Posted on 2020-05-19, 04:14

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Hi, I've recently been testing streaming on twitch with OBS, and two wonderful games, Clive Barker's Undying and No One Lives Forever . Both have exhibited similar problems, namely · Black screen (no detection of source despite using both "Fullscreen" source as well as "window of a certain exe" …

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Re: Two custom ddraw.dll's possible?

Posted on 2019-03-22, 13:31

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By the way, I also experience the phenomenon that the framerate drops from 60 to even around 15 when I have a lot of enemies, even though of course the GPU has enough power. The clocking and GPU load just stay the same... Hi, Kizz did run fine back in pre-directX 9 dgvoodoo, but i had to remove any …

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Re: Ignition (DOSBox, GOG version) has low framerate

Posted on 2018-10-29, 20:14

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This sounds plausible, since I witnessed long stretches of 36 fps, and both DOS and Windows version behave very similarly. Even though for short moments, MSI Afterburner measured 60 fps - I'm not sure whether this could be explained away with some phenomenon.

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Re: Ignition (DOSBox, GOG version) has low framerate

Posted on 2018-10-29, 18:56

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It feels the same without Afterburner...

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Re: Two custom ddraw.dll's possible?

Posted on 2018-10-27, 18:42

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By the way, I also experience the phenomenon that the framerate drops from 60 to even around 15 when I have a lot of enemies, even though of course the GPU has enough power. The clocking and GPU load just stay the same...

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Re: Ignition (DOSBox, GOG version) has low framerate

Posted on 2018-10-26, 22:24

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Hm, I did a video of the game over a year ago and it ran pretty smooth even in 800x600 in DOSBox. I didn't run a FPS counter though, but to me the framerate seemed pretty stable. Many games of that time weren't even able to run in 60FPS. Did you try running the game without the hq3x scaler? That …

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Re: Two custom ddraw.dll's possible?

Posted on 2018-10-26, 20:41

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Under normal circumstances, I don't get over 60 fps though because of activated VSync (driver-side).

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Re: Two custom ddraw.dll's possible?

Posted on 2018-10-26, 20:33

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Currently I do not have maxfps in the autoexec.cfg. P.S. Added "maxfps" "30" and the limiter works.

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Re: Two custom ddraw.dll's possible?

Posted on 2018-10-24, 01:10

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Update: As I found out, the choppy movement affects movement in general. I just did not notice it in the turning movement by arrow keys, but I can notice it when I move into different directions by WASD.

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Re: Ignition (DOSBox, GOG version) has low framerate

Posted on 2018-10-24, 01:09

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I found out GOG has included the Windows version as a CD image (game.gog), and I'm trying to run the Windows version now. Apart from glitches of its own, it seems to have a strange cap of 36 fps that only occasionally venture up to 55-60 fps.

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