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Reply 40 of 71, by Hammer

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OK, so what am I doing wrong? When I use this dll with the hacked executables provided above, I get "The procedure entry point dimeKillEvent could not be located in the dynamic link library DXMCI.dll." And this DLL is much smaller than the previous one.

???

Reply 41 of 71, by gulikoza

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hmm...I probably rehacked the executables 😜
The dll is smaller because it doesn't have all the debug crap inside 😀

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Reply 42 of 71, by Hammer

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OK, definitely making progress. Now either executable will run. The problem is, I'm getting a popup saying "Some of the streams in this movie are in an unsupported format." and then another popup from DXMCI saying "Error loading video". I tried to play the movies in Media player directly (which worked before IIRC). The first five seconds or so work fine, and then it seems to choke and play one frame every few seconds as if it can't process the file fast enough or something. (It makes no difference if I copy the file to my hard drive.) It's been a while since I tried this last so it's possible that the codecs or something else on my machine changed since then. Media Player reports that the video codec on the file is "CyberLink Video/SP Decoder".

Any suggestions?

Reply 43 of 71, by gulikoza

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Make sure you have ac3 filter and mpeg2dec installed.
Use the configure from the original release to access the configure dialog. There should be 2 new options. Check force mpeg2dec.

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Reply 44 of 71, by Hammer

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OK, so I reinstalled ac3filter and rebooted. Between those 2 actions, I can now play the movies fine again through media player. But I still get the same error when trying to run the game.

I assume that mpeg2dec is an mpeg2 decoder but I never heard of it. Where can I get it? Is it just a dll? If so, what do I do with it? Just stick it in the directory and register it?

Also, you never told me how to access the configure dialog in the original release, or if you did, I don't remember. You only uploaded the 2 game executables and the dxmci.dll. (I can't go back and check anyway because the original files seem to be gone.)

Thanks for all the help.

Reply 45 of 71, by gulikoza

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Get it from my page 😀
Unzip dxmci 1.3 release to SFA dir, then overwrite with the dll above.

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Reply 46 of 71, by Hammer

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It works! Thanks for everything!

The thing with the ESC key is annoying but obviously not a show stopper. Let us know if you ever manage to fix it. But until then, the game is playable! You the man!

Reply 47 of 71, by jcgamo88

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I can get into the game, even after setup.exe crashes. However, on attempt to play the missions I'm asked to insert CD1.

Reply 48 of 71, by MiniMax

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And? Is the CD in the drive?

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Reply 49 of 71, by jcgamo88

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Well, no. The DVD is.

Reply 50 of 71, by MiniMax

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Okay. Mounted with -t cdrom ? -ioctl ? -label ?

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Reply 51 of 71, by jcgamo88

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I wouldn't have any clue. I insert the DVD version of the game, click install, get a windows error report, click play, goto new game, see "insert CD1", hit esc, goto missions, click "create mission", see "insert CD1", hit esc, then quit.

Regardless of a fresh install, or modified executables/files from gulikoza.

Reply 52 of 71, by MiniMax

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Sorry - my bad. I didn't see that this thread was in the Windows section.

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Reply 53 of 71, by Hammer

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I think the fact that setup.exe crashes should be some sort of a clue. You should try to figure out what is causing that and not just ignoring it.

Reply 54 of 71, by jcgamo88

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Other than the missing install log, I've been unable to see any other side effect. I've attempted installing in compatibility mode to no avail also. Both Setup.exe and _setup.exe. Even when downloading the 1.17 patch I get the same problem of CD1 missing.

Reply 55 of 71, by gulikoza

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1.17 patch shouldn't be needed (actually, it must not be installed 😀).
Can you attach your exe files, perhaps you have a different version of the game?

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Reply 56 of 71, by Hammer

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jcgamo88 wrote:

Other than the missing install log, I've been unable to see any other side effect.

How can you tell? Do you know what files are supposed to get copied into the directory? What files do you have there? And how do you know there isn't supposed to be some registry entry created at the end or something?

Reply 57 of 71, by jcgamo88

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GetExitCodeProcess is the last bit mentioned in the error report log. Registry values are written, considering the program is listed in the add/remove program list.

All 90MB of files are installed. Here's a copy of the executable from a "fresh" install.

One thing I did find curious, was that years ago I thought I remembered the game installation requiring nearer to 200MB of space. During install, the requirement is listed as only 90MB.

Reply 58 of 71, by Hammer

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You have mp.exe even in a fresh install? (No 1.17 patch applied???)

Reply 59 of 71, by gulikoza

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heh..great. You have a completely different version (and it's also 1.15) 😀
Here are the modified executables, but I can't promise anything. Obviously it doesn't work with my install...I can't even see if it uses MCI or it is tailored for some software player (as would mp.exe suggest)

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