Using cnc-ddraw with Megaman X4 results in graphic errors.

To install the game in Windows 7 x64 I used winevdm, but that is just with the installer, the game works ok.
https://github.com/otya128/winevdm

According to pcgamewiki the game supports Direct3D 5 and DirectDraw 6
https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Mega_Man_X4

Hey, this isn't really an issue, it's just a question:

I really the way xbrz-freescale upscales pixel graphics and I'd like to be able to use it on games that rely on d3d9/d3dx9. Reshade has nothing that really compares.

Is there any way your work could be repurposed to allow .glsl shader support for d3d9 games? Thanks in advance, and sorry for polluting your issues tab with a request.

Unfortunately this doesn't seem to work with my copy of RA2/YR. I've unset the compatibility options on every executable in the game directory as instructed but the game crashes at launch no matter what. This is on a fresh RA2 install and I've also tried repairing through Origin and using the previous version of cnc-ddraw from 2018 with no luck.

In the most recent version it just crashes and tells me to disable the compatibility options which I've done, I've checked through multiple times now and they're all still disabled. I also tried setting all of them to Windows 8 just to test and that didn't help either. I've tried launching the game with administrator permissions and without. No difference. I've tried launching straight from the game executables instead of the Origin launcher in case that's messing with stuff but that doesn't seem to work even without the patch (It either does nothing or starts the launcher).

The game works pretty much fine without, but I'd much rather get this working and have windowed mode, alt-tab, etc. if possible.

Is there any way to submit a log file or something?

As current Wine versions have ddraw issues this has been very useful however if the executable is not listed within ddraw.ini then it won't be applied. So things like XWIS multiplayer clients as they don't use the expected exactable names. Same for the Tiberian Sun Demo it did not function when tested for the winetricks verb I asked for.

Would it be possible to have some function so it would always be working with handlemouse=false set so other games could possible take advantage of cnc-ddraw?

if applied RA2/YR Launcher Remover (ModExe)
then the names of the executable files will most likely be renamed from
GAME.EXE/gamemd.exe in ra2.exe/ra2md.exe

already in the list the profile for ra2 (.exe) :
; Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 - XWIS
[ra2]
noactivateapp=true
handlemouse=false
maxfps=60

but not for YR:
; Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2: Yuri's Revenge
[ra2md]
noactivateapp=true
handlemouse=false
maxfps=60

p.s.

and so it is clear that the game has only 4 files GAME.EXE/gamemd.exe and ra2.exe/ra2md.exe
and two of them are gaming ones.

therefore the separate into xwis, ccnet, the original, is not true.
These are the same original executable files of the game, differing only in small hacks, and renamed in different ways.
therefore, this list does not need to be increased so just one

;
Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 / Yuri's Revenge
[ra2md];[ra2];[gamemd];[GAME];[another names for xwis ccnet etc]
noactivateapp=true
handlemouse=false
maxfps=60

Issue
Random garbage being displayed in the resulting black bars (Maintain aspect ratio/Integer Scaling)

The garbage being displayed in the black bars seems to be graphics driver related as it doesn't occur on my system with Nvidia graphics (the specs of my main system are: Ryzen 7 1700, 16GB RAM, RX480 8GB with open drivers/Mesa 18.2.4 from Padoka stable PPA, Linux Mint 19)

Reported by u/adamhm_ on reddit.

Possible solution
use glClear in every frame in case Maintain aspect ratio/Integer Scaling are enabled.

Hello, thank you for your job. It's very great, that you are making this.

I know that you have menu resolution bug, but i found something interesting info, which can help you to fix it.
First of all i tried to play with ddraw settings to make the best resolution for my display (1920x1080)
When i use handlemouse=true i have menu scaling , but i can't control game

When it's disabled i have this:

My config file for ddraw
ddraw.zip

Also i found some parameters in gamend.exe which can be used in ra2md.ini

When i set AllowModeToggle=yes, i get this



I tried to set Resolution =1920 1080, but i haven't see any changes

I hope, my information can help you to solve menu problem

Game doesn't work with the latest release? Please follow the instructions below to generate a debug log file:

• Download DebugLogXP.zip and extract it into your game folder.
• Start the game and wait until the bug occurs and then close the game.
• Create a new issue and upload all files named cnc-ddraw-*.log and cnc-ddraw-*.dmp here https://github.com/FunkyFr3sh/cnc-ddraw/issues/new/choose

Hello, I'm not quite sure if it is even compatible, but is it possible to make the wrapper work with the old Robin Hood game?
When I try to put the wrapper in game folder, the game is crashing with DirectDrawEnumerateExA error.

I'm mainly interested in xbrz shaders for the game. One of the earlier performance fixes for the game included use of aqrit's ddwrapper

Hi,

First of all, thank you for the patch, it at least helps me get into the game.

I put the game in windowed mode, and try to change the resolution but it does not seem good.

And after the game created, it loads out the 'starting point' on the game window but nothing else. The whole window stays still without any change. I try to move the mouse and select unit, and based on the voice I can hear, it's working since the unit is responding. But the window always stays without any change unless i'm defeated.

I'm not sure if i'm the only one facing the issue. But would you please take a look and let me know how to solve this?

Thank you and best,

Hello, first thank you very much for your effort and work.
I tried to use "cnc-ddraw" on Twisted Metal 2, but the following error occurs when starting the game:
"DirectDraw Error
A DirectDraw object could not be created (code: 1).
You may need to restart your computer and/or reinstall DirectX."
cnc-ddraw.log

Hi, I have just tried it with default settings, straight out of the zip archive, and it crashed the game. I'm attaching here the crash log.
Crash Report_04_06_2020___11_16.txt

1. Overall panning speed is too fast, even on the slowest setting.
2. Speed varies between vertical and horizontal camera panning over explored space. Much faster when panning vertically compared to horizontally.
3. Panning speed is hyper fast when panning over the Shroud in any direction (unexplored space).
4. problem doesn't exist when using DGVoodoo wrapper, but that wrapper has other issues that this wrapper seemingly resolves (menus not rendering being a notable issue when using DGVoodoo).

Ryzen 3700X
Geforce 1070Ti (441.87 standard driver)
Windows 10 v1909 x64
Downloaded from EA Origin.
1920x1080 native monitor resolution
CnC DDraw configuration file has not been modified

In Dark Reign on Windows 10 without enabling a compatibility mode, the game window still receives mouse messages even when it is out of focus. This causes clicks on other windows to propagate to the game as well, resulting in unintended actions in-game. I figure this is part of how Windows 10 supports scroll messages for out-of-focus windows when the cursor is over them.

Is there a workaround to this or is this behavior common across all games using cnc-ddraw on Windows 10? Could cnc-ddraw hook the window class's WndProc to check if the window is in focus?

Hello,
Diablo GOG edition does not work with cnc-draw on Linux/Wine?
I can only see logo video, then a black window and the game exited.
I overrided ddraw dll, tried "opengl" or "directx9"...what info do you need for debug?

Been trying to figure out how to get this working for diablo 2 - lod patch 1.14d.

Have tried a number of different settings, shaders, and compatibility settings but nothing seems to work.

Game won't even load unless I add a -w. I remove it when I try to get the shader to work.

Would appreciate any kind of help to get this working.

Load .glslp settings file instead of .glsl shader directly to support all shaders including multi-pass ones.

Game crashes immediately on the start, as well as NFS III Hot Pursuit.
Game render: Software (works without ddraw library)
Platform where the log is taken is Exagear Windows Emulator for Android (the same issue is on PC)

cnc-ddraw.log

The log from regular Win 10 PC:
cnc-ddraw.log

So I downloaded the latest release, and was having issues where, with a 16:10 aspect ratio, the right black bar didn't cut off properly. Finding the latest commits, I assumed that the post-release commits ad07b46 and 1d83797 would fix this, so I downloaded the source and compiled myself, however I am still having this issue. It should be noted that for both games, there are different fixes I found for this issue. For TD, setting the renderer to GDI fixed it, and for RA, setting the resolution to 600x400 fixed it. However, for some reason, neither of these fixes are working anymore, and I can't figure out why.

handlemouse.zip
Handlemouse = true is necessary for maintaing aspect ratio when using fullscreen stretch.

Which causes the cursor to become invisible in menus. It's there if you click randomly, you will click on a menu item sooner or later, it's just invisible. Also, framerate falls to around 5 FPS if it matters.

Also, handlemouse=false + Scroll Coasting=OFF means that cursor will jump into a corner of the screen and stay there stuck until right mouse button is released.

PS: Scroll Coasting OFF in any case is jumpy/choppy/jittery - holding right click makes the screen jump some pixels and then it pans in a jittery manner.

Tried multiple clients, even vanilla, on Win7x64, same issues with handlemouse and coasting.

the carmageddon section of the ini is incorrect, it has carma95 but every version i can find (95rpp and gog) has the carmageddon 95 file as carm95
and the maxgameticks is set to 30 despite the game working with 60 (and the menus are capped at 48 by stainless)

This works amazingly well with Red Alert 1 and C&C, but not the sequels. Are they supported yet?

1、Press keyboard “C” in the game, the mouse will jump to the upper left corner；

2、Press keyboard “L” in the game, the mouse will jump to the upper left corner；

Hi,

is it possible to use cnc-ddraw with GTA2?

https://github.com/ThirteenAG/WidescreenFixesPack/releases/tag/gta2
https://gtamp.com/gta2/
nGlide Glide to D3D9 or Vulkan https://www.zeus-software.com/downloads/nglide/compatibility
dgVoodoo Glide to D3D11 http://dege.freeweb.hu/dgVoodoo2/dgVoodoo2.html
DxWrapper https://github.com/elishacloud/dxwrapper

nothing of this works for me.

Thanks

like IDirectDraw4

Used version:
Release 1.3.5.0
Tested 2.13 builds: 7609 and 8796

It says something about:
"Process-entrypoint DirectDrawCreateClipper was not found in the DLL "F:\Games\GOG.com\Ja2\ja2.exe"
My windows is in german so i did translate it to the best of my knowledge.

Also did try the debug version from 5/2/2009 you linked in another post, it didn't write a log, probably crashes before that.

While Wallpaper Engine is running, RA2 can only be opened with windowd mode. If you try to turn it to fullscreen, you will flashback to the desktop.

Do not set compatibility

After setting compatibility

I tried to use cnc-ddraw on a clean install of diablo 2 1.14c or 1.12/1.13c but whenever I try to, it give me that Exception statement.

I followed solutions to try and fix it but nothing solves it.

populous 3 not work with cnc-ddraw

3d acceleration disappears

the game writes, the required 3d accelerator was not found

the game works with dgVoodoo, but with artifacts, I would like to use cnc-ddraw.
It is indicated that the game is supported, I want it to be so.

Hello,
do you know that your wrapper works very well with Starship Titanic (original french cd version version 1.5)? I didn't see that game in your compatibility list. And it's a good thing because on Linux with Wine it is the wrapper that obtain the better results with this game.
Only one issue I saw: at the game beginning, when you have to insert the cd in the cd-rom computer drive, we could see violet color that should normally be transparent:

Do you think you could correct this issue?

I set my laptop's DPI level to 200% so that I could see the items and captions. But in game program, whether in option page or in network page, the items are so small that I can't even click on it.

For a very long time WorldsPlayer would not work on newer Windows on computers running on AMD systems. I recently got my hands on an AMD system and discovered that ddraw.dll replacements, specifically this one, seem to resolve that issue, and means people who want to try it on AMD don't need to use a VM anymore.

I wonder why this ddraw.dll replacement works better than the others I tried. DDraw_Compat was the only other one where it worked (and I tried WineD3D for Windows and a few others), but that had weird GUI problems (the GUI uses obsolete Java AWT stuff).

I try this on different desktop with rtx2050, rtx2060, and rtx2070 graphic card. When I set renderer=auto or renderer=direct3d9, the game leaved no response after loading the game. Opengl and gdi works fine.

I know it's not on the list of compatible games, but would you consider supporting it at some point?

Videos/intro etc work just fine but the menu interface is broken and starting a new game crashes the game completely.

Log file here of me opening the game, clicking new game and then crashing:
cnc-ddraw.log

The City Building series includes three ddraw games: Caesar III, Pharaoh, and Zeus. (I’m not sure if the forth game, Emperor: Rise of the Middle Kingdom, uses ddraw or not.) I know the README doesn’t include any of these in the list of supported games, but I’ve tested Zeus with cnc-ddraw v1.3.5.0 to see if I could make it work better under Wine. To my surprise, it’s almost perfect.

First of all, to make graphics and the mouse cursor actually appear, the intro videos need to be renamed (so that they don’t play) and the following adjustments have to be in ddraw.ini:

[ddraw]
renderer=opengl
handlemouse=false
noactivateapp=true

Now, here’s the only thing so far that’s missing: When the in-game resolution is lower than the screen resolution (and stretched), the position of the mouse cursor is incorrect. The further you move the mouse from the upper left corner, the actual position becomes further from where it’s registered by the game. It seems like a mouse sensitivity issue.

On the other hand, if both the in-game and screen resolution are 1920x1080 (by using a widescreen hack), the mouse works fine. Although in this case, the visuals are so small that it’s difficult to make them out.

When the main menu changes to another menu, the game screen flashes

when using cncddraw with the fanmade 1.7 patch, it seems to cause a crash when trying to save a game
tactics.log

When yuri's revenge main menu window is closed after being moved, the game start window will continue to use the current window position, resulting in the game window is not centered

Issue

Cursor starts to flicker on game speeds lower than 60fps (All CnC Games)

Known workaround

Adjust maxfps in ddraw.ini and ensure it is matching your game speed (highest speed is 60 FPS).
Red Alert 2 campaign should be hardcoded to run at 30 FPS (aka game speed 4)

1. by default maxfps = 125, I think it would be better to use maxfps = -1 for most, there is no need to load weak video cards
2. [C&C95] [C&C95] [C&C95] and other profiles use maxfps = 60
   I think it is necessary to remove these lines, which were most likely added automatically, and are simply confused, there is no usefulness for individual applications from this
3. disable automatic addition of the maxfps = parameter to application profiles, for most it is enough to use the global parameter, the more it depends on hardware rather than individual applications

Can I get this to work with Serum (VST), which uses DirectDraw as it's rendering backend?

#1 Ctrl+Grouping in Yuri's Revenge sometimes stops working, like I was able to press P + Ctrl+0 to group, but then when I made 3 Battle Fortresses & tried grouping it to Ctrl+1, it was unresponsive, I also got a tooltip saying "Nothing to copy." I think it interferes with Groza's YR trainer.
#2 After making a NightHawk, the Battle Fortress wouldn't be created & it just got stuck in the training queue -- couldn't do much with vehicles. Again I was using the Instant Build option on Groza's trainer.
I'm having these problems with the newest release i.e. "1.3.6.0" Before it used to work fine.

Hello,
do you know this great adventure game?
It's impossible today to play this game in other resolution than 640x480 and actually the game is not cnc-ddraw compatible.
Will you be interested to try to make this game cnc-ddraw compatible?

The title says it all you need.
Game: Croc 2
Direct3D/DirectDraw version: 7
No logs created.

Judging by the usage in the rest of the code, the vtables looks like they should be a typedef - currently it just declares a variable. E.g. https://github.com/CnCNet/cnc-ddraw/blob/737a26b/inc/palette.h#L38-L51

Add support for the maximize button in windowed mode

I have trouble running Atomic Bomberman with cnc-ddraw (v1.2.4.0 and Win7x64). I know it's not mentioned anywhere, but the game has the same type of ddraw issue as C&C, Carmaggeddon and others.

When I apply the cnc-ddraw .dll to the gamefolder and start the game it looks perfect at first. All colors are working as intended again.
But while playing the game i noticed several lags and low framerates. I checked the FPS with bandicam while running it with opengl/d3d renderer and I only got 12-18 FPS while playing. it is a fast paced game and these low-fps are breaking the gameplay. I tried all possible options in the ddraw.ini file but whatever I chose (renderer, maxfps, maxframerate etc.) there is no change in low-fps.

I also have a virtual machine running windows XP with Atomic Bomberman. When I play it there, the game performance is overwhelming good, it runs with something like >200fps (estimated), so the gameplay is lightning fast and smooth.

What causes the issues on AB? is it a general win7-10 problem or a ddraw.dll emulation problem that the perfomance is so low?