Hi!

Thanks!
Last time I tried Infernal Machine it didn't have performance problems, only they native dialogs switch away from fullscreen (when pressing ESC ingame).

Edit: ops, OK, it's not the GOG version I tried. 😀

Check if the GOG version has any compatibility modes applied? Windows 95/98 compatibility modes decrease performance on Windows 10.

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Hi!

Thanks!
Last time I tried Infernal Machine it didn't have performance problems, only they native dialogs switch away from fullscreen (when pressing ESC ingame).

Edit: ops, OK, it's not the GOG version I tried. 😀

Only the GOG version laggs with dgVoodoo2. I think it has no compatibility modes applied.
If you have not the GOG version, I can give you the altering files. It's just the Indy3D.exe from GOG that cause the performance issues with dgVoodoo2's ddraw.dll. Or buy it for only $5. The retail CD version runs fine. But the GOG exe has so much important bug fixes added for the game compared to the retail exe, so the GOG version is the best version ever released, it just laggs with dgVoodoo2. Maybe it has some native compatibility fixes built-in while it runs smooth with GOG's ddraw.dll.

And would it be possible to have widescreen corrected FOV Hor+ in dgVoodoo2 for games that cuts 4:3 images down to 16:9 and lost image material at the top and bottom such as subtitles? Stretching the image isn't a good alternative too.

Googolplexian wrote:

Only the GOG version laggs with dgVoodoo2. I think it has no compatibility modes applied.

Um, don't think. Check.

ZellSF wrote:

Um, don't think. Check.

I've checked already and there is no compatibility mode applied. But maybe the compatibility fixes are part of the exe itself. GOG said they also fixed compatibility for modern systems. Nevertheless it runs smooth with their ddraw.dll, but not with the ddraw.dll that comes with dgVoodoo2.

I've moved the related posts into this new topic.
Plz let's continue the conversation here.

I tried another ddraw.dll which I use for other games (I think this is the best direct draw dll of all) and with this one the game runs smooth like a dream!

It's the ddraw.dll from narzoul, stable release 0.2.1
https://github.com/narzoul/DDrawCompat/releases

I noticed the dgVoodoo2 ddraw.dll will broke the performance with the same result as when you play completely without any ddraw.dll.

I've tested it on my machine, and

- Replacing GOG's ddraw.dll with mine causes no performance problems, 60 fps
- GOG's ddraw is a wrapper to D3D9, so using dgVoodoo D3D9 in combination of GOG ddraw also works, 60 fps

Is there a specific location in the game I could test (I did my tests only with the opening scene)?
Could you attach your dgvoodoo config file plz?

That's strange.
In the attachment is a screenshot of my Resource folder. I already used D3D9.dll in combination.
Don't be worried about some additional folders or files. They are from a german language patch, but this one has no effect to the topic.

I will also show you my config, but it doesn't matter which settings I use.
It's directly in the opening level in the Canyon. Maybe it shows you 60 fps, but move around and you should notice massive stuttering.

You need only ddraw.dll and d3dimm.dll from dgVoodoo for this game. Glide, d3drm and the compiler_47 dlls are superfluous.

Or, if you want ddraw+d3d9 then leave GOG's ddraw.dll as is and copy dgVoodoo D3D9 into the folder.

Isn't 'passthrough to real DirectX' enabled on the DirectX tab or sg like that?

Thank you for the hints! I will try that now.
No, Passthru to real DirectX is not activated.

Here is my config file.
Don't worry about the custom resolution. I used that for a best compromise of widescreen and original aspect ratio (without the picture zoom in and cuts the subtitles).

Maybe you can just test it like my installation and report if you can notice the stuttering then?

So, I tried everything and the only configuration that worked is GOG's ddraw.dll + D3D9.dll from dgVoodoo2. The config tool even works and all settings are applied to the game. Thanks!

But that does also mean there is definitely something wrong when replacing GOG's ddraw.dll with that one from dgVoodoo2. The game runs only smooth with GOG's ddraw.dll or that one from narzoul I linked in a previous post. Somehow the game does not like ddraw.dll from dgVoodoo2.

FPS counter may show you 60, but make some 360 ° rotations with Indy and you will definitely notice stuttering. With GOG's ddraw.dll everything is so smooth!

But I can live with the solution only use D3D9.dll from dgVoodoo2 for now 😀

Thx, tried your config file but saw nothing wrong with that. The game just ran fine with that too for me.
Even your hw ( RTX 2070 ) is top-notch so I couldn't even recommend lowering some settings like 16x aniso filtering or 8x MSAA.

It's really strange, cannot explain at the moment. 😕

Okay, that's too strange. I will look if I can make videos to show the difference between the both ddraw.dlls in use.
I hope you can see the difference there.

FPS counter may show you 60, but make some 360 ° rotations with Indy and you will definitely notice stuttering. With GOG's ddraw.dll everything is so smooth!

I tried that and rotating was butter smooth.

BTW, stuttered animation (with potential full FPS) is a symptom with some stuffs. Just try to run (the original) Extreme G-2 or some ThreePixels scene demos after some days elapsed since the OS boot. It's because they use timeGetTime from Winmm.dll for animation calculation which returns the elapsed milliseconds since the OS boot. These stuffs typically convert those values into 32 bit float format and the value loses a lot of its precision if it's too large. A simple reboot solves the problem.

But I don't think this game suffers from the same because then stuttering should come with GOG ddraw dll too.

I restart my computer every day and also clean the cache 😀

I made two videos. I filmed with my mobile phone camera @ 60fps, because I haven't a recording program. But you can still see the difference very clear:
https://www.mediafire.com/file/oj9ejbj1o0adna … /Videos.7z/file

For some reason my mediafire account shows "0 downloads" for the previous .zip archive containing the altering game files which you said you downloaded. Hmm ...

Hi Dégé!

I have to contact you again about "Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine" which does not work correctly using dgVoodoo 2.75.1

1. D3D8.dll & D3DImm.dll in use doesn't affect anything. The game keeps running in standard configuration.

2. D3D9.dll in use works, but imperfect. The window behavior get always broken after the player change a level or dies. Then the game continue in a very small window on the top left border. And in general the game always lose focus when a new menu box opens.

3. DDraw.dll from dgVoodoo 2.75.1 doesn't even let the game start.

Please can you fix dgVoodoo for this game?
Play with the GOG version. Locate dgVoodoo2 files into game directory\Resource.

Thank you so much.

The GOG version launches fine with dgVoodoo 2.75.1's ddraw.dll here. Triple check that you're using a stock dgVoodoo.conf.

Hi,

I can't see any difference in behavior between 2.75.1 and earlier versions.
The game starts and works with ddraw.dll + d3dimm.dll. D3DImm.dll is needed, not just ddraw.dll.

Fun fact: the GOG version runs at ~45fps for me. I don't know why, but the main thread spends a lot of time in Sleep.
The original version runs fine.

So, other than that, I can't see any problems here.