Re: strange pixel format

[Stefan Dösinger]

Am Sonntag, 23. September 2007 05:20:06 schrieb Jose Osvaldo:
> The No-CD crack for "The Sims" calls to "IDirectDrawImpl_CreateSurface"
> (ddls/ddraw.c) which calls to "IDirectDrawImpl_CreateNewSurface".

Is this behavior added by the nocd crack?
> The abnormal value is this:
>
> dwFlags = 0x00000000
> dwSize = 32
> dwFourCC = 0x00000000
> u1 = 0x00000000
> u2 = 0x00000000
> u3 = 0x00000000
> u4 = 0x00000000
> u5 = 0x00000000
>
> I do not know what is the expected behaviour in real Windows. The original
> executable file crashes with other error, but I think that is caused by the
> anticopy protection.

Can check the full surface description the game passes? Perhaps there are some 
settings in there that should implicitly provie a pixel format