@ Peixoto:

Alpha Testing NVIDIA Fix integrated in your patch in the future would be greatly appreciated (regardless if messing around with dgvoodoo or not). If it's easily done as you said (at least in TR3)... would just be a great and important improvement of the playability status of classic Tomb Raider games.

While some of the instances of the bugged textures remain predominantly aesthetic, the wretched invisible barbed wire thing really breaks gameplay to an extent in the already somewhat difficult levels of the games affected by this. You will just run into certain death at times, tiles below you that seemed "jumpable" will just result in unnecessary Lara kills & frequent frustration and so on.

But I will remain a patient Jedi pupil and wait for things to come, not giving in to the dark side of impatience and of annoyingly pestering patch/fix programmers in the meantime...

Hello there people.

I've been testing a lot a games in a effort to make this a program similar to DXWnd, with several tweaks you can apply to any game.

Its not sufficiently mature for a release yet and since i will have little time to work on this in the next months, i decided to release new "patches" for the games that already work.

There are 20 new games, forced resolution works in all of them, xBR filter woks ins all directdraw games but silver and texture swapping works in all 3D games but turok 1 and 2.

These are the new games:
Alien Earth
Blood 2
Darkstone
Diablo
Diablo 2
Die by the sword
Forsaken
Grim Fandando
Oddworld 1 and 2
onScappe
Outwars
Prince of persia 3D
Shadow man
Silver
Star wars - SOTE
Planescape torment
Turok 1 and 2
Tomb Raider I

Enjoy

Cool additions, great work!

I just checked my old copy of Pop3D, seems to run at first glance but I had to turn off Forced Resolution.

With FR turned on, the intro video defaulted to a black screen (only music playing) and crash after that.

Would a working FR allow me to play in custom widescreen?

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Cool additions, great work!

I just checked my old copy of Pop3D, seems to run at first glance but I had to turn off Forced Resolution.

With FR turned on, the intro video defaulted to a black screen (only music playing) and crash after that.

Would a working FR allow me to play in custom widescreen?

Try this quicktime version:
https://1drv.ms/u/s!ApHOE-Ru-xkG5VRrqh6HSumF23x-
and do a clean install: uninstall, reboot, install

Hello, I can't get tomb raider 4 to work. I have the GOG version.
It crashes on launch, saying that directx failed to setup.
I applied the multipatch.
Error log attached.
Thank you for your work!

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Hello, I can't get tomb raider 4 to work. I have the GOG version.
It crashes on launch, saying that directx failed to setup.
I applied the multipatch.
Error log attached.
Thank you for your work!

Hold shift to run the game's setup and see what happens

and update the program

Program is already updated though?
I can access setup, but many resolutions are missing (1080p for example).
If I launch the game normally, without your program, it launches but crashes after the EIDOS screen. Also, setup gives all resolutions.

Hi Peixoto,

Having an odd problem with your patcher

After downloading , double clicking on the help.exe just brings back a message 'Windows cannot access the specified device, path or file. You may not have the appropriate permissions to access the item'.
The very weird thing is that it then also removes the help.exe from wherever I have extracted it to - I don't know what it does with it...

I've tried to set permissions, run as administrator, extract to different locations - I'm a little stumped, any ideas as to why the help file won't open and removes itself??

D'uh!! Sorted it - was my anti-virus messing about with it, should have looked there first **embarrassed** - as you were 😀

Hello Peixoto! My name is Blade Darkeden! Before I start, I just want to commend and thank you for making such an awesome patching system for these old games. Your work is helping to keep many of these old treasures alive. Now, on to the matter at hand. Just a few days ago, I updated the Patch and have come across at least 2 problems so far. The first lies with Tomb Raider The Last Revelation and Tomb Raider Chronicles. Everytime I go to play the game with your patch, it gives me a Failed to Setup DirectX error. I've tried everything from going through the setup for both games respectively to patching it with the Multipatch. I feel like the Multipatch would work except, everytime I replace the old exe with the new ones, it gives me a No CD Retry error (I have the Steam edition of the game if that tells you anything) which forces me to use the exe supplied by Steam. For the time being, I'm able to play these two games fairly well without the patch right now, so it isn't really a big deal, but I thought I'd let you know. The second problem is with Tomb Raider III. Ever since I updated the patch, everything appears zoomed in and set in the bottom right hand corner of the screen. I've supplies screenshots as well as the error log for you. I don't expect you to take care of these problems anytime soon, for I too am a very busy person, but if there's anyway you could give insight as to what is causing these problems, I would very much appreciate it! Thanks again, for all your hard work!

Edit: I also tried Tomb Raider 2, Golden Mask, and the Lost Artifact and they're also acting up in the same manner as Tomb Raider 3. Plus Tomb Raider 2's fmvs are skipping automatically (At least the HQ ones) even though I have the K-Lite Codec Pack installed. Thought this might help in troubleshooting the issue.

Edit 2: If possible, do you think I could get the previous version of your patch until if this doesn't get resolved for a while? No pressure. Just thought I'd ask.

Whenever i try to launch the shortcut to Tomb Raider 2 that i created from the help.exe, i get an error message that says "C:\Games\Tomb Raider II\Tomb2.exe is not a valid Windows 32 or 64 bit program", i'm running the steam version on Windows 10 and have all the patch updates copied into the game files. Any idea what I should do Peixoto?

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Hello Peixoto! My name is Blade Darkeden! Before I start, I just want to commend and thank you for making such an awesome patchi […]
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Hello Peixoto! My name is Blade Darkeden! Before I start, I just want to commend and thank you for making such an awesome patching system for these old games. Your work is helping to keep many of these old treasures alive. Now, on to the matter at hand. Just a few days ago, I updated the Patch and have come across at least 2 problems so far. The first lies with Tomb Raider The Last Revelation and Tomb Raider Chronicles. Everytime I go to play the game with your patch, it gives me a Failed to Setup DirectX error. I've tried everything from going through the setup for both games respectively to patching it with the Multipatch. I feel like the Multipatch would work except, everytime I replace the old exe with the new ones, it gives me a No CD Retry error (I have the Steam edition of the game if that tells you anything) which forces me to use the exe supplied by Steam. For the time being, I'm able to play these two games fairly well without the patch right now, so it isn't really a big deal, but I thought I'd let you know. The second problem is with Tomb Raider III. Ever since I updated the patch, everything appears zoomed in and set in the bottom right hand corner of the screen. I've supplies screenshots as well as the error log for you. I don't expect you to take care of these problems anytime soon, for I too am a very busy person, but if there's anyway you could give insight as to what is causing these problems, I would very much appreciate it! Thanks again, for all your hard work!

error.log

Screenshot (2).png

Screenshot (5).png

Edit: I also tried Tomb Raider 2, Golden Mask, and the Lost Artifact and they're also acting up in the same manner as Tomb Raider 3. Plus Tomb Raider 2's fmvs are skipping automatically (At least the HQ ones) even though I have the K-Lite Codec Pack installed. Thought this might help in troubleshooting the issue.

Edit 2: If possible, do you think I could get the previous version of your patch until if this doesn't get resolved for a while? No pressure. Just thought I'd ask.

You need the multipatch for all games. Since you have the steam release what you can do is build yourself and iso from the steam files, but there is another easier method i cannot mention here

MarkoftheWolves wrote:

Whenever i try to launch the shortcut to Tomb Raider 2 that i created from the help.exe, i get an error message that says "C:\Games\Tomb Raider II\Tomb2.exe is not a valid Windows 32 or 64 bit program", i'm running the steam version on Windows 10 and have all the patch updates copied into the game files. Any idea what I should do Peixoto?

Just star the game with the start button once to update the path on the tomb2.ini

warm_wind wrote:

Program is already updated though?
I can access setup, but many resolutions are missing (1080p for example).
If I launch the game normally, without your program, it launches but crashes after the EIDOS screen. Also, setup gives all resolutions.

Try apitrace(https://github.com/apitrace/apitrace), so i can figure out what is happening. Just place apitraces's ddraw.ddl on the game folder, start the game once and then upload the tomb4.trace file it will create

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You need the multipatch for all games. Since you have the steam release what you can do is build yourself and iso from the steam […]
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BladeDarkeden wrote:

Hello Peixoto! My name is Blade Darkeden! Before I start, I just want to commend and thank you for making such an awesome patchi […]
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Hello Peixoto! My name is Blade Darkeden! Before I start, I just want to commend and thank you for making such an awesome patching system for these old games. Your work is helping to keep many of these old treasures alive. Now, on to the matter at hand. Just a few days ago, I updated the Patch and have come across at least 2 problems so far. The first lies with Tomb Raider The Last Revelation and Tomb Raider Chronicles. Everytime I go to play the game with your patch, it gives me a Failed to Setup DirectX error. I've tried everything from going through the setup for both games respectively to patching it with the Multipatch. I feel like the Multipatch would work except, everytime I replace the old exe with the new ones, it gives me a No CD Retry error (I have the Steam edition of the game if that tells you anything) which forces me to use the exe supplied by Steam. For the time being, I'm able to play these two games fairly well without the patch right now, so it isn't really a big deal, but I thought I'd let you know. The second problem is with Tomb Raider III. Ever since I updated the patch, everything appears zoomed in and set in the bottom right hand corner of the screen. I've supplies screenshots as well as the error log for you. I don't expect you to take care of these problems anytime soon, for I too am a very busy person, but if there's anyway you could give insight as to what is causing these problems, I would very much appreciate it! Thanks again, for all your hard work!

error.log

Screenshot (2).png

Screenshot (5).png

Edit: I also tried Tomb Raider 2, Golden Mask, and the Lost Artifact and they're also acting up in the same manner as Tomb Raider 3. Plus Tomb Raider 2's fmvs are skipping automatically (At least the HQ ones) even though I have the K-Lite Codec Pack installed. Thought this might help in troubleshooting the issue.

Edit 2: If possible, do you think I could get the previous version of your patch until if this doesn't get resolved for a while? No pressure. Just thought I'd ask.

You need the multipatch for all games. Since you have the steam release what you can do is build yourself and iso from the steam files, but there is another easier method i cannot mention here

MarkoftheWolves wrote:

Whenever i try to launch the shortcut to Tomb Raider 2 that i created from the help.exe, i get an error message that says "C:\Games\Tomb Raider II\Tomb2.exe is not a valid Windows 32 or 64 bit program", i'm running the steam version on Windows 10 and have all the patch updates copied into the game files. Any idea what I should do Peixoto?

Just star the game with the start button once to update the path on the tomb2.ini

warm_wind wrote:

Program is already updated though?
I can access setup, but many resolutions are missing (1080p for example).
If I launch the game normally, without your program, it launches but crashes after the EIDOS screen. Also, setup gives all resolutions.

Try apitrace(https://github.com/apitrace/apitrace), so i can figure out what is happening. Just place apitraces's ddraw.ddl on the game folder, start the game once and then upload the tomb4.trace file it will create

Okay! I think I can do that for Tomb Raider 4 and 5. But will that also fix the Issues with the other games that I mentioned? Like I said, I tested Tomb Raider 2, Golden Mask, 3, and Lost Artifact and those all are the ones that I was able to update with the Multipatch. But even still, no matter what resolution I choose with or without the "Force Native Resolution" option, every one of those games play zoomed into the top left and I have no idea on how to resolve this issue at the moment. I even tried fresh reinstalls and that didn't work either. Everything was working great with the previous version of the patch, so I'm confused at this point. Any ideas? Oh! And thank you for replying! I really appreciate the help!

Update: So I made an Iso for both Tomb Raider 4 and 5 to work with the Multipatch and I'm happy to say that it worked! However, there are still a few problems... Just like the other games, everything is zoomed in to where I can only see part of the fullscreen and for both games, if I don't activate Non-exclusive Fullscreen, whether I have the HQ FMVs or not, I get a perpetual black screen in which I have to restart my PC. Also, when I start TR5 with Non-Exclusive Fullscreen active, it'll play the Eidos Logo FMV and after that the game crashes. I even tried playing in Windowed mode for both games and it gave me the dreaded Failed to Setup DirectX error. I don't know if it's the patch or something I have to tweak in my graphics settings, but so far, I'm just completely puzzled. Anyway, hope this narrows it down for you! Thanks again!

In RE1 the FMV scale, doesn't work.

Hello Guys, I tried do find the answer but I couldn't sooo. I've trying to play Legacy of Kain Soul reaver, after turned-off all my anti-virus (including win defender) I can't patched it, "no target supplied", I'm using a brazilian version of soul reaver can be the reason of this problem?

BladeDarkeden wrote:

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Try the latest version that was just uploaded, and of that doesn't work, try apitrace

Alkimical wrote:

In RE1 the FMV scale, doesn't work.

That option was disabled because it was causing the last FMV frame ti get stuck on the screen hiding the game

Starting on the the next update. i will keep links to older versions

Sinko wrote:

Hello Guys, I tried do find the answer but I couldn't sooo. I've trying to play Legacy of Kain Soul reaver, after turned-off all my anti-virus (including win defender) I can't patched it, "no target supplied", I'm using a brazilian version of soul reaver can be the reason of this problem?

If you're trying to run the injector directly, read the help. If you're running from a shortcut created with help.exe, download the latest version, creating shortcuts was broken in the last version

Update

Now there is a create new button to add new games. I don't expect a good compatibility for most options, but there are two of them that should have very good compatibility

Texture swapping
Now we have a general tool to mod textures on DirectX 7 and earlier and old Opengl games. Soon, all DirectX (but 12) and OpenGl versions will be supported

Forced resolution on 2D games with or without xBRz
Now we have a general hardware upscaler with hardware xBRz for DirectDraw games

There are also a bunch of new entries and bug fixes

Hello Peixoto, I'm having trouble using your injector with Little Big Adventure (LBA).

* Playing LBA through LbaWin 0.8.1.
* Installed using the EU version of LBA.
* Using the most recent version of your injector (updated 2019-5-22).
* Any combination of injected settings (xBR scaler, looping music, compatibility options, plugged-in gamepad) causes the issues mentioned below.

The issues I'm having:

* The entire screen is blacked out from the moment the starting Adeline Software logo appears, up until the main menu (can still hear the music/sound effects of the opening logos/cinematics).
* At the main menu, creating a save file (even naming it "auto", as your new save system recommends) or loading a pre-existing save file immediately results in a hang and CTD.

Here is the accompanying error log:

1CreateProcessA Hook: 0
2CreateProcessW Hook: 0
3Succeeded to create the DirectSound interfaces
4Desktop 1920x1080
5OpenAdapter Hook 0
6DDraw.dll : C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\DDRAW.dll
7DirectDrawCreate Hook  : 0
8Succeeded to create DirectDraw
9Succeeded to create Direct3D
10Succeeded to hook IDirectDraw2::CreateSurface
11Succeeded to hook IDirectDraw::CreateSurface
12Succeeded to hook IDirectDrawSurface::restore
13Succeeded to hook IDirect3DDevice::EndScene
14Succeeded to hook IDirect3DDevice::AddViewport
15Succeeded to hook IDirectDraw::EnumDisplayModes
16Succeeded to hook IDirectDraw::SetDisplayMode
17Succeeded to hook IDirectDraw2::SetDisplayMode
18Succeeded to hook IDirect3DViewport::SetViewPort
19Succeeded to hook IDirect3DViewport::GetViewPort
20Succeeded to hook IDirect3DViewport::Clear
21Succeeded to hook IDirect3DDevice::Execute
22Succeeded to hook IDirectDrawSurface::flip
23Succeeded to hook IDirectDraw::GetDisplayMode
24Succeeded to hook IDirectDrawSurface::QueryInterface
25Succeeded to hook IDirectDrawSurface::GetPixelFormat
26Succeeded to hook IDirectDrawSurface::GetSurfaceDesc
27Succeeded to hook IDirectDrawSurface::GetDC
28Succeeded to hook IDirectDrawSurface::ReleaseDC
29Succeeded to hook IDirectDrawSurface::GetPalette
30Succeeded to hook IDirectDrawSurface::SetPalette
31Succeeded to hook IDirectDrawPalette::SetEntries
32Succeeded to hook IDirectDrawPalette::GetEntries
33Succeeded to hook IDirectDrawSurface::Bltfast
34Succeeded to hook IDirectDraw::SetCooperativeLevel
35Succeeded to hook IDirectDraw2::SetCooperativeLevel
36So far, so good
37CreateFile  Hook  : 0 <- 0 means no error
38CloseHandle Hook  : 0 <- 0 means no error

I hope that this is fixable, as playing LbaWin with a gamepad would be great. Thanks for reading.

So, the zooming issue for Tomb Raider 2, 2 Gold, 3, and 3 Gold is still prevalent in this new version. I have the trace file, but this website won't let me upload it. Any other way I can get it to you?

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Update

Now there is a create new button to add new games. I don't expect a good compatibility for most options, but there are two of them that should have very good compatibility

Texture swapping
Now we have a general tool to mod textures on DirectX 7 and earlier and old Opengl games. Soon, all DirectX (but 12) and OpenGl versions will be supported

Forced resolution on 2D games with or without xBRz
Now we have a general hardware upscaler with hardware xBRz for DirectDraw games

There are also a bunch of new entries and bug fixes

HyperBlade works with 3D forced resolution. Menus didn't work the first time I tried it, but then they suddenly started to work perfectly, but top left aligned in a 640x480 rectangle. MCI emulation seems to work too.

Never played the game though, so if anything subtle was wrong I wouldn't be able to spot it.

It's a bit problematic on my 4K display though. It only renders 1/4 of the screen. Obviously a DPI scaling issue (and I turned off DPI scaling to verify that it indeed is), but I see no option in help.exe to deal with DPI scaling and it clears Window's own compatibility flags for that whenever I launch the game?

Battle Isle: The Andosia War sort of works with 3D resolution forcing too. It has a bit problematic window handling, which is why resolution forcing with dgVoodoo doesn't work too well.

There's a few problems, first is "Disabled maximized mode". If it's on, then FMVs as the description says "might not play". I expected them just to either play, or don't, but it seems entirely random when they do. On some application launches they do, others they don't. Weird. If you disable the setting you get window borders (regardless of the "Hide window border" setting).

Second problem is that "Mouse clip fix: Constrain clip area" seems to be off by one pixel.

Third problem looks intentional, the resolution enumeration is not at all what I need:

Values look too specific to be a bug, so I'm guessing this is a feature request to customize resolution (and refresh rate; I'm stuck at 60 here) enumeration.

Other minor experimenting with forcing 3D resolution:
Army Men RTS doesn't work.
MechCommander 2 doesn't work.
Neverwinter Nights doesn't work.
Plane Crazy works great.
Quake II works great.
Quake III Arena works great.
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic doesn't work.
Thandor: The Invasion doesn't work.
The Longest Journey doesn't work.
Total Annihilation: Kingdoms doesn't work.

Outlaws which has a profile included crashes whenever I look at waterfalls. I haven't disabled texture swap, am I supposed to do something else?

Metal Fatigue in OpenGL mode works as well with 3D resolution forcing as DxWnd. It needs two steps first to be done first though. First is fixing the OpenGL extension limit problem (just open OpenGLRendEng.dll in a hex editor and change "Extensions: %s" to something else), second at least on Nvidia cards is the GL_CLAMP issue. Can be fixed by downloading GLOverride and setting FixClamp = 1.

Direct3D render works as well as with DxWnd too. Meaning it doesn't draw the sidebar in game and ends up looking a glitchy mess. Resolution forcing seems to be working though.

Dogs of War works with resolution forcing, but UI is distorted, same as with dgVoodoo.

Nelson Piquet's Gran Prix Evolution works with 3D resolution forcing. Since dgVoodoo doesn't work with this game that means this is the easiest way to get this game working in high resolution (the alternative is hacking the exe).

Less success:
Conflict Zone
Desperados 2
Etherlords
Pools of Radiance
Populous the Beginning
Wipeout 2097/XL