Re: indirect sound

Posted on 2017-12-02, 23:12

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UCyborg, I found out what the issue was. My firewall was blocking the game exes. When I lifted the firewall restrictions, Alchemy started to work. When I add the game exes back to the firewall restrictions, Alchemy stops working again. I was very surprised to see that firewall was the issue.

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Re: indirect sound

Posted on 2017-12-01, 00:49

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UCyborg, Thanks for the information. It seems like hardware ID spoofing via virtual card would be useless. I was just about to post some other information about Creative Alchemy here. I recently found out that Vogons community member MST made a restriction remover for Creative Alchemy that removes …

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Re: indirect sound

Posted on 2017-11-30, 16:14

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XJDHDR, Thanks for the dsound to OpenAL fix. I couldn't get it to work with Beyond Good & Evil. It adds bunch of different virtual sound card options to the drop down list of the game's configuration tool but EAX option is greyed out for all of them. But still, it might work with other games, so it …

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Re: Peixoto's patches for a few old games

Posted on 2017-11-30, 15:35

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Peixoto, thanks for the Sanitarium patch. I tested it with the GOG version of Sanitarium and it works great.

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Re: indirect sound

Posted on 2017-11-30, 00:59

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Thanks jonpol. Anything you can think of to get EAX emulation working is much appreciated 😀

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Re: indirect sound

Posted on 2017-11-29, 23:44

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jonpol, Thanks for the IndirectSound wrapper. Is it possible to take advantage of OpenAL (OpenAL32.dll) or "OpenAL Soft" (soft_oal.dll) to emulate EAX effects? http://kcat.strangesoft.net/openal.html OpenAL Soft has EAX emulation (which can be turned on/off through alsoft-config.exe), but I can't …

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Re: dgVoodoo 2 for DirectX 11

Posted on 2017-11-29, 23:18

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So I cannot see problem there. But, if you try 2560x1440 as an ingame resolution, you should see something like this ::SetDisplayMode: Setting display mode has failed. Reason: display mode "2560x1440, 16 bit, x Hz" is required but not supported by the output device. I do not get an error like that …

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Re: dgVoodoo 2 for DirectX 11

Posted on 2017-11-27, 14:48

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Late edit: 4- Why do games have a tendency to crash at boot if the chosen ingame resolution is high, like 2560x1440? Thankfully I can use dgVoodoo's forced resolution on top of the ingame lower resolution (ingame resolution usually works up to 1920x1200 or 1920x1440). Check out the virtual VRAM …

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Re: Peixoto's patches for a few old games

Posted on 2017-11-25, 14:43

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Star Wars Racer works on my laptop with the latest script. :-D Thanks Peixoto. I was able to see the sun with "Proxy z buffer on system memory" unchecked. What's weird is that, turbo speed did not work. When I nose dived (pressing up arrow key of the keyboard), turbo did not fill up. When I checked …

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Re: Peixoto's patches for a few old games

Posted on 2017-11-24, 21:34

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Good news about apitrace. Since you are already communicating with the developer, could you request the option to log the caller address ? That would simplify some things, including widescreen patches Yes, I can submit a feature request ticket under the github Issues section (linked below) that has …

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Re: Peixoto's patches for a few old games

Posted on 2017-11-24, 16:51

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Apitrace still crashes, but i can see the first call to clear the zbuffer and it works, no idea about what is happening. I will install the demo on a win 7 computer later and see if i can reproduce the bug Peixoto, I submitted a bug report to Apitrace developer Jose Fonseca regarding Star Wars …

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Re: Resident Evil 1 PC - so stressful - please help :(

Posted on 2017-11-22, 14:52

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Dege, Is there a temporary solution that can make the videos play in fullscreen? The videos are encoded by Cinepak codec (fourcc: CVID) and Windows 7 uses "C:\Windows\SysWOW64\iccvid.dll" codec file to play them. Unfortunately not... I think it's the good old GDI-problem. Either I finish the …

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Re: Resident Evil 1 PC - so stressful - please help :(

Posted on 2017-11-21, 01:50

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Unfortunately, I still had the same issues, the backgrounds in the game wouldn't render, the stair case rails did though, and the character was fine. I found my RE1 CD and replicated the above error and the main menu error that you experienced. These glitches happened either when I did not set the …

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Re: Resident Evil 1 PC - so stressful - please help :(

Posted on 2017-11-19, 00:58

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I can't find my CD for RE1 at the moment, but have you tried to set the Videocard setting to "ATI Radeon 8500" preset on the dgVoodoo control panel? Dege usually puts game specific recommendations, patches on the web page linked below. ATI 8500 preset was mentioned there. http://dege.freeweb.hu/ …

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Re: dgVoodoo 2 for DirectX 11

Posted on 2017-11-15, 00:24

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You can already try that. If a wrapper-scaled scaling mode is in usage ('Stretched, * ascpect ratio) then dgVoodoo always scales up or down the output image to screen size. So, if you set ImageScaleFactor to 2, you'll have an output image larger than the screen but it'll downscaled to fit into …

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Re: Spec Release dgVoodoo version (with Debug Layer)

Posted on 2017-11-14, 23:27

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Update: I found a way to make Apitrace work with dgVoodoo. Apitrace has a wrapper file named dxgitrace.dll (this is under lib\wrappers folder of the release). It can trace both dxgi.dll and d3d11.dll. I renamed dxgitrace.dll to dxgi.dll and d3d11.dll, and put both files under PodRacer game …

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Re: Spec Release dgVoodoo version (with Debug Layer)

Posted on 2017-11-14, 21:52

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Nvidia Control panel says that my GPU's Direct3D API version is 10.1 . I usually have the API set to "Best Available". For Star Wars Episode 1 Racer, I listed the results with different combinations of APIs and FastVidMem access below: API 10.1 + FastVidMem Disabled = Game does not start and gives …

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Re: Peixoto's patches for a few old games

Posted on 2017-11-14, 21:10

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Peixoto, can you look at the attached new trace file please. I was able to make a much smaller trace file by pressing the buttons quicker and navigating the game quickly. If this one does not help either, it is OK. Thanks for your help. I wrote the details about the new trace file below: It turns …

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Re: Spec Release dgVoodoo version (with Debug Layer)

Posted on 2017-11-13, 22:39

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It is time to put some mileage on this debug release. Dege, I attached two log files for issues that you could not replicate on your machine. This way we will see if the debug layer can be useful to fix errors that you can not replicate on your machine. Log Level is 2 for both of them. I attached …

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Re: Peixoto's patches for a few old games

Posted on 2017-11-13, 15:22

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by CoolGamer

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Peixoto, thanks a lot for the Star Wars Racer script. Unfortunately I am still having issues. The game installation via your tool works. The game also starts without any problems. The intro videos work and 2d starting menu and 2d profile selection menu work. After I select player name and click OK, …

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