alberthamik wrote:2.55.2's download has a password on the zip file, though the spec release works alright. I am meaning to try out the original pre-patch release of Requiem, but at the moment the game will just crash when I try going ingame for the 3DFX.exe, regardless of voodoo version set, and input is completely lost when attempting the D3D version.
On an unrelated subject, I've been attempting to use dgvoodoo with older versions of Thief: The Dark Project, Thief Gold and Thief II. I've had mixed to reasonable results with the former two, but Thief II as is will not act correctly on screen changes from the menu to ingame, sometimes just crashing, and in Thief II's case there's been documented problems for years with it's fog not being rendered on modern GPUs or with modern DirectX.
This had been fixed with a community made directx wrapper titled ddfix, but ddfix carries it's own issues with regards to capturing the game. It wouldn't be a big deal except that the older versions of the Thief games have gained interest again recently with the thief speedrunning community, where the modern fan patched versions of the game have fixed alot of the older engine issues, but also fixed exploits of use to runners.
It's rather hard testing the game in demo form, as Thief 2's demo is based on an older engine that does not have fog and is effectively a different engine from the final game, and it was never even technically released, and most downloads of it today are fanmade versions using the new engine.
1: The password is dege, listed on the front page. It's there because virus scanners flag the files (false positives) which leads to Dege's web page being delisted from Google and blocked by malware filters.
2: Have you applied single processor affinity to the .exe? When you're running an old legacy version of the software, you have to look up what the old compatibility fixes were... dgVoodoo2 only deals with rendering, it's not a generic compatibility fixer.
3: dgVoodoo2 does not like overlays (FRAPS, MSI OSD, etc...) with some games. Thief 2 is one of them.
4: Fog does work, but you might need to change dgVoodoo2's Videocard setting. The default mission files apparently also have broken fog, so you need to download fixed files. Read here:
http://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.p ... 731&page=2No clue why 3DFX rendering crashes for Requiem (nGlide works, native ddraw+dgVoodoo2 works, dgVoodoo2 windowed works, dgVoodoo2 fullscreen doesn't), but Direct3D rendering works fine here, no input issues.