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Recoil (1999) HUD text missing (DirectX)

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First post, by SlackJoint

Posted on 2022-07-27, 20:25

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Hello,

I use Windows 10 64bit, dgvoodoo 2.79 and the green HUD text is completely missing when I use DirectX (on any resolution). The text is there with Glide,
but Glide crashes when I try to set the resolution to 1080p.
I attached 1 screenshot that shows the problem in DirectX (no text in the mission tab, no ammo counter and no health %).
I use a RX460 on that machine.

Any help appreciated.

EDIT:
The bug disappears when I use v2.55 from 2018 (I uploaded a screenshot).
So somewhere along the line a bug got introduced?

There is another annoying bug, VSync is permanently activated no matter what I do, I'd rather have tearing than VSync-micro-stutters. This might be a driver issue, I know AMD has been silly about this in the past, I deactivated it in dgvoodoo and in the driver options, but no luck...

Reply 1 of 4, by Dege

Posted on 2022-07-31, 19:01

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Then yes, a bug must have been brought in. Most part of the internals has changed significantly since 2.55. I'll have a look.

Reply 2 of 4, by SlackJoint

Posted on 2022-07-31, 21:03

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Thanks, you are doing awesome work.
I wrote here how I managed to run the game in 1080p btw. Recoil (1999) widescreen/custom resolution patch + hidden campaign menu

Reply 3 of 4, by Dege

Posted on 2022-08-02, 18:30

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Thanks!

2.74 is the last version working. After that I introduced performance optimization for DDraw surface GetDC/ReleaseDC but this game accesses the text surfaces by the CPU in a very unexpected, invalid way which is not completely detected by the optimization.
Anyway, I fixed it now. It'll be included in the next WIP/version.

Reply 4 of 4, by SlackJoint

Posted on 2022-10-30, 23:47

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I just started the game up again and wanted to use the unmodified 3dfx exe, but the game always crashes when a level is being loaded.
Is anyone experiencing the same thing? The 3dfx file works with nGlide but I want to use dgvoodoo and finish my widescreen patch for 3dfx, too.
I uninstalled nGlide to prevent any kind of conflict, but no luck 🙁
There is no error message, it just crashes to the desktop.

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