Re: Peixoto's patches for a few old games

Posted on 2019-03-10, 13:26

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Sorry if this came up before, but I couldn't find anything about this after quite a while of searching. I'm playing TR3 at the moment. Works fine, but right now in Nevada level the barbed wire is inivisible, just some texture of something that looks like little rocks just hanging in the air defying …

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Re: Peixoto's patches for a few old games

Posted on 2018-03-22, 17:11

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I just re-checked the newest version of the patch for my old Jedi Knight troubles. By now, there is a lot of new options to choose from, so I wanted to mess around a bit with them. Noticed some attention-worthy behaviour: Right now, I can always start the game with all newly-provided compatibility …

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Re: Peixoto's patches for a few old games

Posted on 2018-03-22, 01:45

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"It's not a limitation of the patch. Some games just only recognize the preferred controller." Ok. I noticed this in the Resident Evil games at first. There were other games I noticed the "preferred device" trouble, but I don' t remember which ones right now. An "force Xinput controllers" option in …

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Re: Peixoto's patches for a few old games

Posted on 2018-03-21, 23:21

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Regarding the "preferred controller" limitation: I have a special controller setup keeping my Xbox controller the non-preferred controller. I won't explain this in detail why I do this, it has to do with xpadder autoload solutions and several games I use my Force Feedback 2 joystick, not the Xbox …

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Re: Alternative for inmm.dll for playing redbook audio on Win1064?

Posted on 2018-03-12, 04:57

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Thanks a lot, I already heard of this. I'm going to give it a try.

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Re: Installing Half-Life GOTY (non-Steam version) on Windows 7 64-bit

Posted on 2018-03-05, 02:08

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Thought so, grrrr.

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Re: Alternative for inmm.dll for playing redbook audio on Win1064?

Posted on 2018-03-05, 02:07

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I tried all methods, first patching with inmm.dll and then adding the fix, as well as the other way round. Didn't change a thing. I of course deinstalled every CAs setting/shim after each new attempt (must have been hundreds or so, lol) to make sure there is nothing interfering. Or do you hint at …

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Re: Installing Half-Life GOTY (non-Steam version) on Windows 7 64-bit

Posted on 2018-03-04, 11:20

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Ok. Does the Steam vs. still look the same, though? With the sierra intro, the yellow on black fonts etc.? I can be an awful pedant about these things, sorry.

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Alternative for inmm.dll for playing redbook audio on Win1064?

Posted on 2018-03-03, 22:27

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I recently ran into an annoying little problem when trying to make Earthsiege 2 work perfectly on Windows 10. I know there are "Windows 95 via Dosbox" options for this game, but I still would like to play it natively in Win1064. It's running quite well with a lot of tricks, one of them is enabling …

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Re: Installing Half-Life GOTY (non-Steam version) on Windows 7 64-bit

Posted on 2018-03-03, 22:00

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I could install my Half Life 1 retail relatively trouble-free recently on WIndows 10 64, but for recognizing the disk I had to update to 1.1.1.2. There I stayed. Runs fine, but I have this bug now that the screen stays black when I return from game environment to menu. This is not a devastating blow …

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Re: Peixoto's patches for a few old games

Posted on 2018-02-21, 17:07

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Forgetting about my Jedi Knight problems for a while, I checked out Tomb raider II some days ago and it runs very fine with the patch, thanks a lot for this. Call me a nostalgic pedant, but I kinda miss the red inventory background a bit when I'm enjoying the new widescreen mode. The option to turn …

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Re: Peixoto's patches for a few old games

Posted on 2018-02-11, 20:07

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@ peixoto Could an apitrace log be helpful in the JK case, too? Although it sound a little bit complicated at first, I'd try to do one tomorrow, if that's the case. If I don't mangage to find the time tomorrow it will take a while coz I'll be on holiday for 1 1/2 weeks from tuesday on. But I'll be …

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Re: Peixoto's patches for a few old games

Posted on 2018-02-09, 19:31

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Ok, created JEDITEST.INI with the 6 lines you wrote and nothing else in a fresh re-download of the newest update of the patch. Started the new ini. A folder with the game without any ddraw.dll and with the pre-patched version in d/root again didn't start. A folder in c/root with the same content did …

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Re: Peixoto's patches for a few old games

Posted on 2018-02-09, 16:54

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Still the same path trouble with the updated patch. Actually, it didn't have any problems before with the patched exe per se. It really seems to have problems with certain paths. I have one folder in c root of the game which starts fine with the patch. I just copied it to d root and it refused to …

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Re: Peixoto's patches for a few old games

Posted on 2018-02-09, 16:34

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Yes, affects all versions unfortunately. I wouldn't even care about the GOG version. Your patch would give me the possibility of lossless soundtrack, GOG just accepts ogg. I know the dgvoodoo wraps the game on my pc without these problems. But as I wrote before, it gives me screen tearing in the …

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Re: Peixoto's patches for a few old games

Posted on 2018-02-08, 18:44

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And even more snaps of the glitchy bugs. The smearing isn't that easy to demonstrate in a still picture, but I think you get the idea. Checking or uncheciking the z blits box didn't really change anything, as far as I can tell by now.

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Re: Peixoto's patches for a few old games

Posted on 2018-02-08, 18:34

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Here are two screenshots of this "invisibility" problem, one with vanilla JK1, one with enhanced. I will post two more soon (were too big to upload right now).

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Re: Peixoto's patches for a few old games

Posted on 2018-02-08, 18:16

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Ok, the graphical glitches sadly are still there, even with the new option checked or unchecked. But I found out more about the GOG version problems. Unofficial exe was already there and exchanged. But here are the new facts: Gog version refused to start when I had the folder and exe in (something …

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Re: Peixoto's patches for a few old games

Posted on 2018-02-08, 09:28

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Thanks again, just tested the update. Much appreciated. It still crashes with my gog version (despite all ddraw files being deleted), BUT it starts up and works just fine now when I'm using my retail cds, installed by the patch. I have no tearing in the cut-scenes, which I always had when I was …

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Re: Peixoto's patches for a few old games

Posted on 2018-02-07, 09:19

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@Peixoto Better integration possibilities for Launchbox would be awesome. Thanks for considering it. You're correct, I was talking about the shortcuts created by the patch. They would just have to stay "passively" active for the time of the game running. Or, other workarounds for that problem could …

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