Re: Joint Strike Fighter (1997) lags to unplayable framerates when "Terrain Objects" slider is higher than minimum

Posted on 2024-08-29, 12:06

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Did you install the latest patch 1.12? Among others the readme says This new executable enables Voodoo 2 support. The previous version was NOT compatible due to a conflict with triple buffering. kind regards soggi Yeah, I already had that patch installed when I tested it (it's just a newer EXE …

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Joint Strike Fighter (1997) lags to unplayable framerates when "Terrain Objects" slider is higher than minimum

Posted on 2024-08-27, 13:38

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So this is a jet fighter game from Innerloop Studios (they also used this game engine for IGI 1 and 2), it uses Glide 2 for the hardware-accelerated renderer, and that's the one I'm using. However, when the "Terrain Objects" graphical option is anything different from minimum, the game lags way too …

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Re: End of Twilight (2001) and Barbie Explorer (2002) don't start with dgVoodoo2

Posted on 2024-08-25, 15:31

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I checked out Barbie Explorer and it still worked. The video cutscenes are corrupted though, probably the same issue as with other DX8 games where the Win compat layer forces 32 bit swapchains instead of 16 bit without the game being aware about it. Well, for me Barbie Explorer doesn't run with …

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Re: Midnight Outlaw: Illegal Street Drag - Rainbow colors in the main menu (mainly pink-colored)

Posted on 2024-07-24, 23:52

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Like Dege found in Elite Forces: WWII - Desert Rats (uses the same engine as this), it's a Windows compatibility layer that hooks into DirectX calls ends up corrupting the bit depth data. The byte pattern is slightly different in this game. In a hex editor like HxD, open the file srDD_cpD3D.dll, …

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End of Twilight (2001) and Barbie Explorer (2002) don't start with dgVoodoo2

Posted on 2024-07-24, 20:19

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So these 2 games don't start with dgVoodoo2, but start just fine natively without it, I'm pretty sure both use Direct3D 7 for the 3D rendering API, but not 100% sure. Might be a dgVooodoo2 bug, or something wrong I'm doing from my side. Tested with the latest WIP95.5 version.

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Re: Barbie Horse Adventures: Mystery Ride (2003) - Ugly black partial squares around characters

Posted on 2024-07-12, 16:39

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PS: Nevermind, I managed to fix it. Turns out forced MSAA on dgVoodoo2 causes it, I just had to untick "Force scale&MSAA on RT textures" on the DirectXExt tab, not sure if this fixes the problem entirely, but so far I'm not getting those squares anymore, and still manage to keep forced MSAA on.

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Barbie Horse Adventures: Mystery Ride (2003) - Ugly black partial squares around characters

Posted on 2024-07-12, 16:16

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So I came across this, most probably a dgVoodoo2 bug, because when I tested it on d3d8to9 and native, it doesn't happen at all, even when forcing AA and AF externally. This also happens with Unreal Engine 2 games, and some RenderWare games as well, like Manhunt 1, I think. Tested with the latest …

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Re: Crusaders of Might and Magic (1999) doesn't work on Windows 10

Posted on 2024-04-12, 00:32

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tgomola wrote on 2024-04-11, 10:16: Crazy thought, but have you tried renaming the .exe and then starting the game? Maybe Windows has some built-in compatibility shims for this game which mess things up? Yes tried that too, doesn't work either.

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Crusaders of Might and Magic (1999) doesn't work on Windows 10

Posted on 2024-04-11, 00:38

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So I tried everything with this game, using dgVoodoo2 with narzoul's DDraw COM Redirection fix, setting compatibility modes, like reduced color modes, running in 640x480, running in Windows 95, 98, 2000 and XP mode, and the game doesn't start at all, the icon in the taskbar appears for a split …

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Re: Requiem: Avenging Angel (1999) lags when there's text on screen

Posted on 2024-04-07, 01:04

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eddman wrote on 2024-04-07, 00:41: Are you logging? Enabling tracing has a large effect on performance. No, didn't use a debug release, just a regular one

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Re: TNN Outdoors Pro Hunter (1998) - Game runs in a tiny window at the top left

Posted on 2024-04-06, 22:51

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You can try if enabling/disabling option DirectX\DisableAltEnterToToggleScreenMode helps. It does for me with the some of the games affected and I have. I'll try to come up with a general solution handling the deadlock and this one. See my latest respone for the same problem: https://www.vogons.org …

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Re: "Atlantis: The Lost Empire – Trial by Fire" crashes during loading a new game/savegame

Posted on 2024-04-06, 22:10

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Yeah in windowed mode, it runs fine, just not on fullscreen, but I'll wait for a WIP version to come out

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Re: Requiem: Avenging Angel (1999) lags when there's text on screen

Posted on 2024-04-06, 22:09

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Dege wrote on 2024-04-06, 17:14: And what is the in-game resolution? It lags in any resolution I set it too, either forced or unforced, even at 640x480 it lags, not sure if it's from the renderer or dgVoodoo though

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"Atlantis: The Lost Empire – Trial by Fire" crashes during loading a new game/savegame

Posted on 2024-04-04, 20:39

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So the game first loads just fine, but then after the 2nd or 3rd time it crashes after loading a new game and/or save game (tested with WIP95), and this doesn't happen natively without dgVoodoo2 at all, it loads everytime no matter how many new games or savegames I load. Please help, the log is …

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Requiem: Avenging Angel (1999) lags when there's text on screen

Posted on 2024-03-23, 23:54

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So whenever any text or elements pop up on screen during gameplay, the game lags, and lags more the more characters are talking at the same time. Here's the proof: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-oKoXhWtJw . This makes the game really hard to play, as dialogue and messages appear all the time, …

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TNN Outdoors Pro Hunter (1998) - Game runs in a tiny window at the top left

Posted on 2024-03-21, 19:10

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I'm using dgVoodoo v2.82.3. The game runs in a small window at the top left instead of filling the whole screen, also I'm using a smaller ingame resolution and forcing to 1080p in dgV for a bigger HUD. Same happens with unforced screen resolution as well, the same tiny window at the top. When I'm …

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Re: KISS: Psycho Circus - The Nightmare Child (2000)

Posted on 2024-02-05, 12:22

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Remove the DWM8And16BitMitigation shim from the registry in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\AppCompatFlags\Layers. I found the issue anyway using the 32-bit Compatibility Administrator, seems like it was a compat flag triggering the color issue in-game. Couldn't be …

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Re: KISS: Psycho Circus - The Nightmare Child (2000)

Posted on 2024-02-05, 11:56

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Remove the DWM8And16BitMitigation shim from the registry in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\AppCompatFlags\Layers. I found the issue anyway using the 32-bit Compatibility Administrator, seems like it was a compat flag triggering the color issue in-game. Couldn't be …

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KISS: Psycho Circus - The Nightmare Child (2000)

Posted on 2024-02-04, 23:26

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So the game runs but has incorrect colors with images on the main menu and loading screens.. Tried with the latest version of dgVoodoo. Also the performance with dynamic lighting on the LithTech engine is improved with dgVoodoo, but still far from ideal at times. dgVoodoo: https://u.cubeupload.com/ …

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Forced resolution doesn't fully work for Speed Challenge: Jacques Villeneuve's Racing Vision (2002)

Posted on 2024-01-31, 17:12

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So I'm trying to run it with forced resolution, since the game only supports widescreen resolutions up to 720p, so I wanted to force it to 1080p in dgVoodoo. The startup intros run at the forced resolution, but then in the splash screen onwards, it runs at the game's resolution and ignores the …

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