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First post, by umisery

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Hello, I'm trying to play this old game: http://www.gearheadgarage.com/index.htm with dgVoodoo but it causes the game to not launch and hand out errors when installed. I can get the game to run with DDrawCompat, but I'd like to use the resolution and antialiasing features of dgVoodoo if possible.

These are the errors for both hardware mode and software mode;

Hardware: hs2sPRP.png

Software: 367gc5j.png

Any help would be greatly appreciated, cheers!

Reply 1 of 2, by Dege

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You need Win98 mode for this game, but even with that, there is a problem:

[dgVoodoo] WARNING: Attempt to access DirectDraw from DllMain. Application may need to be modified or patched to use with dgVoodoo.

So, it won't work with dgVoodoo without patching the renderer dlls to initialize DD/D3D from code other than DllMain.

Reply 2 of 2, by umisery

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Dege wrote on 2021-12-04, 13:34:
You need Win98 mode for this game, but even with that, there is a problem: […]
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You need Win98 mode for this game, but even with that, there is a problem:

[dgVoodoo] WARNING: Attempt to access DirectDraw from DllMain. Application may need to be modified or patched to use with dgVoodoo.

So, it won't work with dgVoodoo without patching the renderer dlls to initialize DD/D3D from code other than DllMain.

Ah fair enough, thanks for the information. Guess I'll stick with DDrawCompat then.

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