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Re: Spider-Man: The Movie - Black screen issue

Posted on 2025-06-10, 02:37

in Windows
Figured this out, it's floating point shenanigans just as I thought, specifically a divide by zero issue. The game uses timeGetTime function to keep track of time which returns time in integer milliseconds. The problem is that somewhere during the loading time, the game divides a value by delta time …

Re: So Windows 11 22H2 is super cautious (or super buggy)?

Posted on 2025-04-19, 00:32

in Milliways
Tested crazyc's fixed EmulateHeap hooker and module. Seems to be running well on Windows 11. All tested games work now (12 of them) Have you a link with crazyc's fixed EmulateHeap hooker ? I didn't find a link with google search. You won't find one yet. Password is "heap". TO use, load cmd and type …

Re: So Windows 11 22H2 is super cautious (or super buggy)?

Posted on 2025-04-06, 00:27

in Milliways
Bleh, I spoke too soon. NFS: Carbon crashes with EmulateHeap again (usually in C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\AcGenral.DLL). Do you have a general build number? I don't have the PC to access right now, else I would have shared the Win11 fixed heap module I assume you mean Win10 build number - 19045.5608.

Re: So Windows 11 22H2 is super cautious (or super buggy)?

Posted on 2025-04-05, 21:23

in Milliways
Why use EmulateHeap with NFS: Carbon? It's a XP era game. Though if idea is to test the shim itself, I get it. But who knows if some game doesn't work right with 9x's heap manager like some don't work with NT's heap manager. Some related reading (I didn't find the original link): https://mcpmag.com …

Re: So Windows 11 22H2 is super cautious (or super buggy)?

Posted on 2025-04-05, 16:55

in Milliways
Can you re-check this on Windows 11? Microsoft has actually broken EmulateHeap on Windows 10 as well at some point but they seem to have fixed it recently. Do you have any source for that info? My computer seems to be fully updated but it is similarly broken The only thing I am participating on is …

Re: WinQuake - Choppy framerate

Posted on 2024-07-05, 14:27

WinQuake draws directly to the primary surface and also does some other operations on that like setting the palette entries, etc. Since the changes on the primary surface must be presented at once to mimic a real hardware, the frame time and the physical FPS won't be smooth (evenly distributed). …

Re: 2004 Condition Zero resolution limit?

Posted on 2024-05-15, 14:59

in Windows
Try loading with the parameter: -heapsize 2331984 Bad luck here Edii: i consider everyone else to know better than me with the game commands. The game issues a "No masters loaded, using default master", usually before level loads. But on my machines it happens mid match, causing it to freeze. Do …

Re: The Orange Box: Broken HL2:EP2/Portal/TF2

Posted on 2024-05-15, 14:53

in Windows
IIRC there's nothing wrong with TF2 build from The Orange Box, I don't know where you got the idea that it's "broken". You can start it from Steam by adding hl2.exe to Steam library as a non-Steam game with "-game tf -steam" parameters. The build itself is almost identical to the first public beta …

Re: Crashday (2006) won't start on Windows 10

Posted on 2024-05-15, 14:30

in Windows
tgomola wrote on 2024-05-15, 11:26: Find and install a crack. Sometimes old DRM doesn't work on modern Windows and cracking the game is the only way to get it running. SecuROM (which is the protection used by Crashday and only in EU release) works perfectly fine on modern Windows, don't spread …

WinQuake - Choppy framerate

Posted on 2024-05-15, 14:23

I'm observing choppy framerate in WinQuake with dgVoodoo - checking with Bandicam shows that the game seemingly runs above 60 FPS but the meter bounces a lot and the game is visually decidedly less smooth than 60 FPS. Tested with both D3D11 and D3D12 renderers on Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER and …

Spider-Man: The Movie - Black screen issue

Posted on 2024-05-15, 11:22

in Windows
I've been looking into Spider-Man game based on 2002 movie and its issues. Now, most people who played this game are likely aware of the issue with black screen softlock that happens in most training levels and some of the story levels. This bug has been fixed in 1.3 patch (attached) but there's a …

Re: The Need for Speed Special Edition for Windows "DOES WORK"

Posted on 2024-05-14, 12:58

in Windows
I was able to get unmodified game running with DxWnd on Windows 10 (no custom profile settings other than disabling the banner, that causes a crash). Game and installer require the following ACT shims: EmulateCDFS EmulateGetDiskFreeSpace GlobalMemoryStatusLie IgnoreException MapMemoryB000 …

Re: Need for Speed III Hot Pursuit official EA patch

Posted on 2024-05-09, 15:32

in Windows
I found this on a covermount disc, it looks like this archive contains official 1.01 and 1.02 patches that used to be delivered via auto updater. These only work on US version although nfs3.exe is literally the only difference EU version has so you can replace that with US exe and install the …

Re: NFS High Stakes D3D6 mode

Posted on 2024-05-08, 08:01

in Windows
According to Modern Patch's readme, the original d3da.dll crashes if your GPU supports too many texture modes. This led me to try DirectXTrimTextureFormats shim in ACT and that fixed the crash. That said, you still want to use dgVoodoo2 with either GeForce 4 or GeForce FX selected otherwise you'll …

Re: NFS High Stakes D3D6 mode

Posted on 2024-05-08, 06:17

in Windows
According to Modern Patch's readme, the original d3da.dll crashes if your GPU supports too many texture formats. This led me to try DirectXTrimTextureFormats shim in ACT and that fixed the crash. That said, you still want to use dgVoodoo2 with either GeForce 4 or GeForce FX selected otherwise you'll …

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