DirectX 8 wrapper update

[Oliver Stieber]

Hi,

I've updated the directX 8 wrapper with a load more bug fixes notably Max payne 2 now works
correctly. For anyone who's interested the update patch is avaialble here:
https://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=371929&group_id...

Thanks,

Oliver

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[Willie Sippel]

Am Sonntag, 20. November 2005 17:50 schrieb Oliver Stieber:
> Hi,
>
> I've updated the directX 8 wrapper with a load more bug fixes notably Max
> payne 2 now works correctly. For anyone who's interested the update patch
> is avaialble here:
> https://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=371929&group_id...
> 4206

Just gave it a spin, here are some results:

Out from Boneville, Telltale Games
Shows a black screen as soon as it enters D3D mode - music plays, menu gives 
feedback, but it stays black. Used to show stuff without the patch. Demo 
available at http://www.telltalegames.com/products?pc=bn0102&CID=0&dlact=1

Morrowind, Bethesda Softworks
Still gives the "unknown stencil mode" error and quits.

Freelancer, Digital Anvil
Mousepointer invisible (with and without your patch), lots of drawing errors, 
particle effects displayed wrong or missing completely. Demo available at 
http://www.microsoft.com/games/pc/freelancer.aspx#downloads

Ciao,
Willie

[Oliver Stieber]

--- Willie Sippel  wrote:
> Am Sonntag, 20. November 2005 17:50 schrieb Oliver Stieber:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've updated the directX 8 wrapper with a load more bug fixes notably Max
> > payne 2 now works correctly. For anyone who's interested the update patch
> > is avaialble here:
> > https://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=371929&group_id...
> > 4206
>
> Just gave it a spin, here are some results:
>
> Out from Boneville, Telltale Games
> Shows a black screen as soon as it enters D3D mode - music plays, menu gives 
> feedback, but it stays black. Used to show stuff without the patch. Demo 
> available at http://www.telltalegames.com/products?pc=bn0102&CID=0&dlact=1

Hmm.. I can;t get it to run at all, even under windows!
> Morrowind, Bethesda Softworks
> Still gives the "unknown stencil mode" error and quits.

I'm going to re-write mode detection in the next week or so, so hopefully this will be fixed.
> Freelancer, Digital Anvil
> Mousepointer invisible (with and without your patch), lots of drawing errors, 
> particle effects displayed wrong or missing completely. Demo available at 
> http://www.microsoft.com/games/pc/freelancer.aspx#downloads

Thanks, I'll take a look.

Oliver.
> Ciao,
> Willie
>
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>
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[Willie Sippel]

Am Sonntag, 20. November 2005 18:35 schrieb Oliver Stieber:
> --- Willie Sippel  wrote:
> > Out from Boneville, Telltale Games
> > Shows a black screen as soon as it enters D3D mode - music plays, menu
> > gives feedback, but it stays black. Used to show stuff without the patch.
> > Demo available at
> > http://www.telltalegames.com/products?pc=bn0102&CID=0&dlact=1
>
> Hmm.. I can;t get it to run at all, even under windows!

That's strange. It installed just fine with Wine a few weeks ago, using no 
native DLLs IIRC. Maybe it needs the Transgaming MozCtl? I'll try to 
re-install later - maybe it's a regression elsewhere, or it needs funky 
settings...
> > Morrowind, Bethesda Softworks
> > Still gives the "unknown stencil mode" error and quits.
>
> I'm going to re-write mode detection in the next week or so, so hopefully
> this will be fixed.

Great!
> > Freelancer, Digital Anvil
> > Mousepointer invisible (with and without your patch), lots of drawing
> > errors, particle effects displayed wrong or missing completely. Demo
> > available at http://www.microsoft.com/games/pc/freelancer.aspx#downloads
>
> Thanks, I'll take a look.

This one could get rough. Microsoft Games. The intro is a WMV (Wine skips it 
completely), the music hangs (filed bug 3853), a trace shows lots of 
unrecognized D3DFORMATs (1347371332 and 943800644) and stuff... But at least 
it installs and starts, whereas Cedega 5.0 just crashes (installer _and_ 
game). ;-)

And I tested another game:

X2 - The Threat (rolling demo), Egosoft
Still crashes with vertex shaders enabled, but the splash gets displayed 
correctly with your new patch (was messed up with the alpha patch). After the 
splash, it displays a random quote, that one's still messed up (works without 
the patch). The demo itself seems to look better with the patch, however. 
It's available for download at 
http://www.egosoft.com/download/x2/demos_en.php?download=22
> Oliver.

Ciao,
Willie

[Oliver Stieber]

> This one could get rough. Microsoft Games. The intro is a WMV (Wine skips it 
> completely), the music hangs (filed bug 3853), a trace shows lots of 
> unrecognized D3DFORMATs (1347371332 and 943800644) and stuff... But at least 
> it installs and starts, whereas Cedega 5.0 just crashes (installer _and_ 
> game). ;-)

Those odd formats are stopping Battlefiel 2 from starting too, so it's handy having another test
case!

Oliver.

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[H. Verbeet]

On 11/20/05, Oliver Stieber  wrote:
> > This one could get rough. Microsoft Games. The intro is a WMV (Wine skips it
> > completely), the music hangs (filed bug 3853), a trace shows lots of
> > unrecognized D3DFORMATs (1347371332 and 943800644) and stuff... But at least
> > it installs and starts, whereas Cedega 5.0 just crashes (installer _and_
> > game). ;-)
>
> Those odd formats are stopping Battlefiel 2 from starting too, so it's handy having another test
> case!

Those look like FourCC codes to me, "DAA8" and "DAOP" respectively. I
guess DA stands for Digital Anvil there.

The one Battlefield 2 uses, 1178752590 / 0x4642564E translates to "NVBF".

[Oliver Stieber]

--- "H. Verbeet"  wrote:
> On 11/20/05, Oliver Stieber  wrote:
> > > This one could get rough. Microsoft Games. The intro is a WMV (Wine skips it
> > > completely), the music hangs (filed bug 3853), a trace shows lots of
> > > unrecognized D3DFORMATs (1347371332 and 943800644) and stuff... But at least
> > > it installs and starts, whereas Cedega 5.0 just crashes (installer _and_
> > > game). ;-)
> >
> > Those odd formats are stopping Battlefiel 2 from starting too, so it's handy having another
>
> test
> > case!
>
> Those look like FourCC codes to me, "DAA8" and "DAOP" respectively. I
> guess DA stands for Digital Anvil there.
>
> The one Battlefield 2 uses, 1178752590 / 0x4642564E translates to "NVBF".

Any idea what  NVBF format is? Creating the texture anyway doesn't seem to help so there are other
things stopping Battlefiel 2 from starting.

Oliver.
>

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[H. Verbeet]

> Any idea what  NVBF format is? Creating the texture anyway doesn't seem to help so there are other
> things stopping Battlefiel 2 from starting.
>
> Oliver.
> From what I understand from FourCC it's probably a format specific to

Battlefield 2. If I were to guess, I'd say NV stands for nVidia and BF
for BattleField.

On the subject of BattleField 2 (Demo), did you try starting the game
with +fullscreen 0 on the command line? For me, it made the demo get
to the point where it displayed at least displayed an error message. I
don't remember the exact message, but I think it was related to some
shaders not being supported by my graphics card, which could very well
be correct... the game doesn't support my Geforce 4400 Ti on Windows
either, and according to some messages on message boards I read the
error message I got was the same as the one people get on Windows. I
pretty much stopped trying at that point.

I'd look up the exact message, but unfortunately I won't be able to do
that before the end of the week, maybe even later.

[Oliver Stieber]

--- "H. Verbeet"  wrote:
> > Any idea what  NVBF format is? Creating the texture anyway doesn't seem to help so there are
>
> other
> > things stopping Battlefiel 2 from starting.
> >
> > Oliver.
> > From what I understand from FourCC it's probably a format specific to
>
> Battlefield 2. If I were to guess, I'd say NV stands for nVidia and BF
> for BattleField.
>
> On the subject of BattleField 2 (Demo), did you try starting the game
> with +fullscreen 0 on the command line? For me, it made the demo get
> to the point where it displayed at least displayed an error message. I
> don't remember the exact message, but I think it was related to some
> shaders not being supported by my graphics card, which could very well
> be correct... the game doesn't support my Geforce 4400 Ti on Windows
> either, and according to some messages on message boards I read the
> error message I got was the same as the one people get on Windows. I
> pretty much stopped trying at that point.
>
> I'd look up the exact message, but unfortunately I won't be able to do
> that before the end of the week, maybe even later.

That works here, it looks like it's complaining about 800x600 support being missing.
>

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[Oliver Stieber]

--- Willie Sippel  wrote:
> Am Sonntag, 20. November 2005 18:35 schrieb Oliver Stieber:
> > --- Willie Sippel  wrote:
> > > Out from Boneville, Telltale Games
> > > Shows a black screen as soon as it enters D3D mode - music plays, menu
> > > gives feedback, but it stays black. Used to show stuff without the patch.
> > > Demo available at
> > > http://www.telltalegames.com/products?pc=bn0102&CID=0&dlact=1
> >
> > Hmm.. I can;t get it to run at all, even under windows!
>
> That's strange. It installed just fine with Wine a few weeks ago, using no 
> native DLLs IIRC. Maybe it needs the Transgaming MozCtl? I'll try to 
> re-install later - maybe it's a regression elsewhere, or it needs funky 
> settings...
> > > Morrowind, Bethesda Softworks
> > > Still gives the "unknown stencil mode" error and quits.
> >
> > I'm going to re-write mode detection in the next week or so, so hopefully
> > this will be fixed.
>
> Great!
> > > Freelancer, Digital Anvil
> > > Mousepointer invisible (with and without your patch), lots of drawing
> > > errors, particle effects displayed wrong or missing completely. Demo
> > > available at http://www.microsoft.com/games/pc/freelancer.aspx#downloads
> >
> > Thanks, I'll take a look.
>
> This one could get rough. Microsoft Games. The intro is a WMV (Wine skips it 
> completely), the music hangs (filed bug 3853), a trace shows lots of 
> unrecognized D3DFORMATs (1347371332 and 943800644) and stuff... But at least 
> it installs and starts, whereas Cedega 5.0 just crashes (installer _and_ 
> game). ;-)

It seems to be running fine here, the sounds a bit jumpy though.
> And I tested another game:
>
> X2 - The Threat (rolling demo), Egosoft
> Still crashes with vertex shaders enabled, but the splash gets displayed 
> correctly with your new patch (was messed up with the alpha patch). After the 
> splash, it displays a random quote, that one's still messed up (works without 
> the patch). The demo itself seems to look better with the patch, however. 
> It's available for download at 
> http://www.egosoft.com/download/x2/demos_en.php?download=22
> > Oliver.
>
> Ciao,
> Willie
>
> -- 
> Willie Sippel
>
> ////////  |  Tritium Studios
>  //         |  ______________________________
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[Willie Sippel]

> > This one could get rough. Microsoft Games. The intro is a WMV (Wine skips
> > it completely), the music hangs (filed bug 3853), a trace shows lots of
> > unrecognized D3DFORMATs (1347371332 and 943800644) and stuff... But at
> > least it installs and starts, whereas Cedega 5.0 just crashes (installer
> > _and_ game). ;-)
>
> It seems to be running fine here, the sounds a bit jumpy though.

Huh? Mousepointer works? Music actually plays (without "To less out 
space"-messages)? Particle effects get displayed? No "unrecognized format" 
FIXMEs?

[Willie Sippel]

Am Sonntag, 20. November 2005 19:02 schrieb Willie Sippel:
> Am Sonntag, 20. November 2005 18:35 schrieb Oliver Stieber:
> > --- Willie Sippel  wrote:
> > > Out from Boneville, Telltale Games
> > > Shows a black screen as soon as it enters D3D mode - music plays, menu
> > > gives feedback, but it stays black. Used to show stuff without the
> > > patch. Demo available at
> > > http://www.telltalegames.com/products?pc=bn0102&CID=0&dlact=1
> >
> > Hmm.. I can;t get it to run at all, even under windows!
>
> That's strange. It installed just fine with Wine a few weeks ago, using no
> native DLLs IIRC. Maybe it needs the Transgaming MozCtl? I'll try to
> re-install later - maybe it's a regression elsewhere, or it needs funky
> settings...

My bad... You can't get it to INSTALL or won't it START? If it's a problem 
with the download applet thingy, you might try the full installer (75MB) at 
http://files.vgpro.com/file/3758 - or, if it won't work at all, I could 
upload traces with and without the beta patch to my webserver if you're 
interested...?
> This one could get rough. Microsoft Games. The intro is a WMV (Wine skips
> it completely), the music hangs (filed bug 3853), a trace shows lots of
> unrecognized D3DFORMATs (1347371332 and 943800644) and stuff... But at
> least it installs and starts, whereas Cedega 5.0 just crashes (installer
> _and_ game). ;-)

BTW, the missing pointer thing also happens with Stronghold 2 (which doesn't 
work anyway, multithreaded D3D - bug 3835). But Stronghold 2 is D3D9, so I 
don't know if it's the same bug.

Ciao,
Willie

[Evil]

It gets a little bit farther than the alpha version of your patch did
with Counterstrike: Source.  If I turn off the pixel shaders I can know
see the menu... but it still crashes when I try to run the video stress
test or enter the game (runs okay under wine CVS).  This happens whether
I specify dxlevel 70 or 80 in the game settings.

ATI9600XT, 8.19.10 drivers, Mandriva 2006.

I'll try to turn on some debugging tonight to see if I can give you some
more useful feedback.

-Jesse

Oliver Stieber wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've updated the directX 8 wrapper with a load more bug fixes notably Max payne 2 now works
> correctly. For anyone who's interested the update patch is avaialble here:
> https://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=371929&group_id...
>
> Thanks,
>
> Oliver
>
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[Ivan Gyurdiev]

Oliver Stieber wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've updated the directX 8 wrapper with a load more bug fixes notably Max payne 2 now works
> correctly. For anyone who's interested the update patch is avaialble here:
> https://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=371929&group_id...

Warcraft 3 lags quite a bit for me with this patch, unlike the last one, 
which behaved just like OpenGL.
I'm not getting the locking error messages, however... in fact I don't 
get almost any error messages:

fixme:advapi:SetSecurityInfo stub
fixme:d3d:IWineD3DDeviceImpl_GetSwapChain (0x7ff5e190) Unable to find 
swapchain 0
fixme:d3d:IWineD3DDeviceImpl_CreateAdditionalSwapChain Creating context
fixme:d3d:IWineD3DDeviceImpl_CreateAdditionalSwapChain Created context 
0x7d7eb440
fixme:d3d:IWineD3DDeviceImpl_GetAvailableTextureMem (0x7ff5e190) : stub, 
emulating 64Mib for now, returning 64Mib
fixme:d3d:IWineD3DDeviceImpl_CreateAdditionalSwapChain Set context to 
65011715, 0x7d7eb440
fixme:sync:CreateIoCompletionPort (0xffffffff, (nil), 00000000, 
00000000): stub.
err:dsound:DSOUND_MixOne underrun on sound buffer 0x7d6114c8
err:dsound:DSOUND_MixOne underrun on sound buffer 0x7d6114c8
fixme:imm:ImmAssociateContextEx (0x20026, (nil), 16): stub