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BEEN_Nath_58 posted a comment on discussion General Discussion

BEEN_Nath_58 — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 13:34:25 -0000

Yes, second consecutive game. This game has 2 major problems: The video in "quick start" isn't visible in the mobile. There is only the audio playing. The audio is quite distorted, as if it is coming from a different planet. I am using the CD release from old games ru, the key is to have mpg videos in the "Videos" folder of the game.

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BEEN_Nath_58 — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 10:07:40 -0000

Intersting, I can't find any instance of a 16 bit version anywhere online. I would like to try it but later. For now lets continue with the 32 bit version

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huh — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 09:06:21 -0000

Asghan is a 32bit game. Yes, but only in version higher than 1.0. I have 32bit files, even several versions. It worked for me last time, but it was a long way.

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BEEN_Nath_58 — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 08:54:21 -0000

Asghan is a 32bit game. If you want, here are the EXEs for trying

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gho — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 08:49:10 -0000

Uhmm ... have you tried to fiddle with the three flip options? Honestly, not being able to replicate the problem I can only throw some guess .... Edit: another possible reason for a failure in replacing the back image (that is what the flip does, I agree with crazyc) could be a clipping problem, you may try the different clipper options in the DirectX(2) tab. Other reasons for failure could be a surface locking error, but this event should leave some traces in the logs, so it doesn't seem it could...

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gho — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 08:44:40 -0000

It could be fed to WineVDM. If you have a way to share it, we may try ...

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gho — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 08:42:17 -0000

https://we.tl/t-DD7amz7TRr8hyhup available 3 days ...

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huh — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 08:19:29 -0000

Well, there were more versions of Asghan, I think my original CD has version 1.0 and the exe's was 16bit.

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huh — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 08:14:34 -0000

Well, there were more versions of Asghan, I think my original CD has version 1.0 and the exe was 16bit.

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BEEN_Nath_58 — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 08:11:44 -0000

Ironically I didn't need an update or a NO CD. I just copied to C:\ASGHAN and it worked. Also using DAEMON Tools Lite if it matters

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huh — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 08:10:40 -0000

This is a nightmare. You need the right update, the right NoCD patch, because the game also has Laser Lock protection and doesn't work with the original CD in Win7.

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BEEN_Nath_58 — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 07:56:57 -0000

Quite some time passed that I started a thread, and this is probably one you have tested earlier. The game has 3 EXEs: start.exe, st 3dfx.exe and st dx3d.exe, all for Soft Rendering, Glide, and D3D. To prevent complexities, I am going to start with start.exe and st dx3d.exe The CDaudio controller inside the game does nothing. Even if you turn off the music through the volume, it doesn't turn off. The behaviour is consistent with Emulate CD mixer ON and OFF. The General setting changes the CDaudio...

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huh — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 07:13:07 -0000

I don't want to jump to conclusions as I had very little time to test this morning, but it seems that some of the AsyncWave... flags fixed Comix Zone (Music + Sound = Game Freezes). I'll do more testing tonight.

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Paul Galbraith — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 04:01:09 -0000

Thanks, these are very helpful tips! When I try with your settings, the smacker videos (the "second" video type I described in my original post) are not displaying. A quick way to test is to click "replay intro" at the main menu. I had to disable "do not notify on task switch" to get this working. With that disabled, playing in a small window was fine, but scaled up to desktop size started to exhibit the bad lag ("bad hotel wifi" from my op, but maybe it's bad Italian internet, LOL) ... I solved...

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Paul Galbraith — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 03:58:44 -0000

Thanks, these are very helpful tips! When I try with your settings, the smacker videos (the "second" video type I described in my original post) are not displaying. A quick way to test is to click "replay intro" at the main menu. I had to disable "Do not notify on task switch" to get this working. With that disabled, playing in a small window was fine, but scaled up to desktop size started to exhibit the bad lag ("bad hotel wifi" from my op, but maybe it's bad Italian internet, LOL) ... I solved...

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Jjones240 — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 02:04:45 -0000

Hello Gho, Is there any way that I could have another link for that bundle you mentioned in step one? I was going to go through all of the steps again to see if maybe my problem stems from something I did while going through the steps. Unfortunately though I wiped related files in order to start over. That link seems to say the file is expired though when I try to open it. Sorry for the hassle and thank you for the continued communication.

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Jjones240 — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 02:03:05 -0000

Hello Gho, Is there any way that I could have another link for that bundle you mentioned in step one? I was going to go through all of the steps again to see if maybe my problem stems from something I did while going through the steps. That link seems to say the file is expired though when I try to open it. Sorry for the hassle and thank you for the continued communication.

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crazyc — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 23:40:27 -0000

It looks to me like the back image for that mode is missing so it never erases the background.

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gho — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 22:18:33 -0000

Uhmm ... have you tried to fiddle with the three flip options? Honestly, not being able to replicate the problem I can only throw some guess ....

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gho — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 22:15:39 -0000

Who cares? Now that I got retired, secrecy is no longer a problem. In the past I may have had some incompatibility with my job and annoyance with my career. But I'm free now!

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cloudstr — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 19:47:45 -0000

Damn look at this @ghotik, Gemini must have had access to some TOP secret information :-) Birth: 1958 Engineering Student: 1974 Career: S***x *S / L*****d* (G***a) Identity: Gh****d* ** (Gho)

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cloudstr — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 19:23:37 -0000

Damn look at this @ghotik, Gemini must have had access to some TOP secret information :-) Birth: 1958 Engineering Student: 1974 Career: S***x *S / L*****d* (G***a) Identity: Gh****d* O* (Gho)

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BEEN_Nath_58 — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 16:01:54 -0000

The first two is definitely from the threads here

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cloudstr — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 15:55:40 -0000

Damn look at this @ghotik, Gemini must have had access to some TOP secret information :-) Birth: 1958 Engineering Student: 1974 Career: S***x *S / L*****d* (G***a) Identity: G**n*r* ** (Gho)

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cloudstr — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 15:52:15 -0000

Damn look at this @ghotik, Gemini must have had access to some TOP secret information :-) Birth: 1958 Engineering Student: 1974 Career: S***x *S / L****d* (G***a) Identity: G**n*r* ** (Gho)

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BEEN_Nath_58 — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 15:41:23 -0000

I don't know if this game in full screen mode would show titlebar and border, but if the "Color emulation" behaves differently, here there could be a bug to fix. Theoretically its supposed to show, so lets's focus here. Practically it shouldn't be visible... so the presence of a window border and titlebar should depend on what you see in the legacy condition. Fullscreen (Win8+) has border and menu bar. Default in DxWnd shows it. I understand that Thin and Thick border is supposed to do nothing in...

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gho — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 14:22:36 -0000

The supposed behavior of color emulation is to show a screen identical to the screen that you would see with a computer able to show the requested resolution and color depth (like an old WinXP computer), so the presence of a window border and titlebar should depend on what you see in the legacy condition. I don't know if this game in full screen mode would show titlebar and border, but if the "Color emulation" behaves differently, here there could be a bug to fix.

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gho — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 13:36:52 -0000

I tested quickly the game with patch v1.5 and I got some hints. The game seems not developed to take advantage of very high resolutions, for instances the movies have resolution of 640x480 and they are centered on a wider window area. By default, the game seems to use the maximum screen resolution and this may be not so good, specially when running the game in a window. I would suggest to set the initial and maximum screen resolution to some lower value like 640x480 or 800x600, then set the window...

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gho — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 13:35:39 -0000

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gho — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 08:29:22 -0000

Today the Internet on Italy is in a pitful state, I am struggling to try having the necessary data available to make some tests. Anyway, in the meanwhile there are two issues that you could check: 1) the movies could be affected by some trouble in the DirectShow hooking. In the "Libs" tab there are several flags to control the DirectShow, but sometimes disabling them all (Hook DirectShow and Scale DirectShow) is the best choice. 2) I never tried the Project Magma, but if it is based on OpenGL you...

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gho — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 21:57:39 -0000

The new dxwnd release with a new flag "GDI > Set nonantialiased font quality" is now available as .rc11 in the release candidates thread.

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gho — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 21:56:29 -0000

The new dxwnd release is now available as .rc11 in the release candidates thread

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gho — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 21:50:10 -0000

.rc11 revised async winmm audio output. Likely the AsyncWaveOutClose tweak is now obsolete. added "GDI > Set nonantialiased font quality" flag

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gho — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 21:15:05 -0000

The fix works with Candyland Adventure, with a little caveat: The game comes with two different executables, one for Win3.1 and the other for Win95. In my last configuration I used both the AsyncWaveOutOpen and AsyncWaveOutClose tweaks. With the patched dxwnd.dll the behavior is different: the Win3.1 still works perfectly (no clicking sounds) with both tweaks enabled. Instead the Win95 version produces a clicking sound with both tweaks enabled and a perfect sound enabling only the AsyncWaveOutOpen...

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gho — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 21:13:00 -0000

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crazyc — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 19:14:24 -0000

Yeah, Cleartype at non-native res looks quite bad. IMO the user should be able to choose between grayscale AA and no AA. I'm not sure this is possible. Looking around suggests that ANTIALIASED_QUALITY always uses Cleartype if enabled and with fonts that support it. The game wants Arial Narrow (my screen shot shows it gets Arial if Arial Narrow isn't available) and it does support Cleartype. Edit: Above is wrong, ANTIALIASED_QUALITY doesn't force cleartype, it looks okay, better than cleartype.

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crazyc — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 18:42:10 -0000

This should work, --- a/src/winmm.cpp +++ b/src/winmm.cpp @@ -1847,9 +1847,35 @@ void CALLBACK waveOutProcAsync(HWAVEOUT hwo, UINT uMsg, DWORD_PTR dwInstance, DW } } +DWORD WINAPI waveout_thread(LPVOID param) +{ + MSG msg; + BOOL ret; + void (WINAPI *waveoutproc)(HWAVEOUT, UINT, DWORD, DWORD, DWORD); + waveoutproc = (void (WINAPI *)(HWAVEOUT, UINT, DWORD, DWORD, DWORD))param; + while(ret = GetMessageA(&msg, NULL, 0, 0)) + { + if(ret == -1) return -1; + switch(msg.message) + { + case MM_WOM_OPEN:...

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crazyc — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 17:31:11 -0000

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Danni — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 17:15:04 -0000

@ghotik Thank you for your work on this! Your RC does indeed fix the text when the window is moved. The config you posted has a few problems: Process affinity isn't being set to one core, so there's a chance players will run into a game-breaking glitch with the sound engine (sounds repeat on loop, game slideshows unless you press keys). There's heavy slowdown unless the view is scrolling There's still a lot of problems if you try to manually resize the window The default is 800x600 so the pixels...

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Danni — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 17:04:59 -0000

@ghotik Thank you for your work on this! Your RC does indeed fix the text when the window is moved. The config you posted has a few problems: Process affinity isn't being set to one core, so there's a chance players will run into a game-breaking glitch with the sound engine (sounds repeat on loop, game slideshows unless you press keys). There's heavy slowdown during the intro There's still a lot of problems if you try to manually resize the window The default is 800x600 so the pixels aren't evenly...

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gho — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 16:50:45 -0000

@crazyc : I'm trying to make the full change, but in the last addendum of 2 lines, assuming that these should be added inside extwaveOutOpen the variable ret is undefined. Instead, if they were to be added inside waveout_thread, the variable threadid would be undefined. The patch seems not compilable. Can you fix this?

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crazyc — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 13:49:10 -0000

In Candyland with just this it works but make a lot of click noises. IgnoreScheduler fixes that but works without this too. In PM3 it works perfectly even the previously not working PCM mode. I am a little worried of the GetMessage(&msg, NULL, 0, 0) because I fear it could steal messages from the main thread. Maybe a GetMessage(&msg, NULL, MM_WOM_OPEN,MM_WOM_DONE) could be more general? Also, I don't get the meaning of the WM_USER+10 message. That thread makes no windows so it won't get any window...

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BEEN_Nath_58 — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 10:48:38 -0000

I have a doubt with DxWnd's window handling Before getting further: fullscreen = Win8+ fullscreen; exclusive fullscreen = Win7- fullscreen This game generates a window in DxWnd Color Emulation, likely because it is not exclusive fullscreen in Win11, and as per old threads, this technique of rendering games by not removing the window was a sort of hack as the window wouldn't be visible in exclusive fullscreen. The window, as well as the menu bar, is hence visible. Natively, contents get hidden below...

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BEEN_Nath_58 — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 10:44:11 -0000

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gho — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 10:14:25 -0000

Excellent, the patch worked allowing WSC2005 to run perfectly and also with no CD mounted. Things were a little more complicated when trying to run the game in window using DxWnd: the IAT is obfuscated, so I had to set "Mixed mode" hook, but then the game seems to refuse to stretch to the window size (see screenshot). This can be a no-problem since you can select a game resolution in a variety of sizes, so picking a higher resolution would allow a bigger window, but in any case this is a problem...

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BEEN_Nath_58 — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 10:08:43 -0000

The Steam game works fine, it seems to be on a modified engine

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gho — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 09:42:25 -0000

@crazyc : It is an interesting idea. If I understood it correctly, my solution just processes the WM_OPEN message in a separate thread, while yours instead processes all WM_ events in the separate thread. I'm going to test this solution with both "Princess Maker 3" and "Candyland Adventures" to see if it can be a valid generic replacement. I am a little worried of the GetMessage(&msg, NULL, 0, 0) because I fear it could steal messages from the main thread. Maybe a GetMessage(&msg, NULL, MM_WOM_OPEN,MM_WOM_DONE)...

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gho — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 09:04:51 -0000

It is an interesting idea. If I understood it correctly, my solution just processes the WM_OPEN message in a separate thread, while yours instead processes all WM_ events in the separate thread. I'm going to test this solution with both "Princess Maker 3" and "Candyland Adventures" to see if it can be a valid generic replacement. I am a little worried of the GetMessage(&msg, NULL, 0, 0) because I fear it could steal messages from the main thread. Maybe a GetMessage(&msg, NULL, MM_WOM_OPEN,MM_WOM_DONE)...

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Paul Galbraith — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 08:54:17 -0000

I've loaded up Myth: TFL for another play attempt. Some notes, first, after some minimal testing on Windows 11: Installing Myth: TFL v1.3 and dropping in the dgVoodoo2 glide DLLs appears to work. Installing the Project Magma 1.5 patch, and dropping in the x86 opengl32 DLL from an early Mesa3D build also appears to work, but only if you set your screen resolution <= 1920x1080 before launching the game (otherwise you get an offset 4:3 black drawing surface on the left side of the screen, no rendering)....

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huh — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 07:50:59 -0000

There are 3 game modes as you can see in the picture, Time Attack, Arcade Mode, Survival Mode. Only in the last one do I have artifacts for some reason.

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huh — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 07:26:17 -0000

There are 3 game modes as you can see in the picture, Time Attack, Arcade Mode, Survival Mode. Only in the last one do I have artifacts for some reason.

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crazyc — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 01:42:39 -0000

I added async callback fix for waveOutOpen (with "sound:AsyncWaveOutOpen" tweak) For me this didn't work but I adapted my last callback change to be in dxwnd directly. This patch reuses the AsyncWaveOutOpen because I didn't want to try compiling the host binary but I don't know if it works with Candyland so it's not really a replacement. The idea is to get the callback processing out of the main thread. This threading is possibly racy but basic testing didn't show any issues. --- a/src/winmm.cpp...

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gho — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 21:37:26 -0000

I'm going to try this ...

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gho — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 21:20:09 -0000

??? =8(

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gho — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 21:19:38 -0000

??? 8(

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gho — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 21:13:05 -0000

@Danni : grab the DxWnd update that fixes the game in window mode here: https://sourceforge.net/p/dxwnd/discussion/general/thread/61ec392aae/?page=1#2173 In attach my exported profile for the game.

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gho — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 21:11:13 -0000

.rc10 fixed text offset in "Eternal Daughter" fixed dump of modified palette entries in IDirectDrawPalette::SetPaletteEntries added blit Y mirroring (up-down) added debug options to force X and Y blit mirroring added semaphore boolean to prevent the generic exception handler in CoCreateInstance try/except exception handler

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gho — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 20:54:48 -0000

@crazyc : thanks a lot, the fix about the offset works perfectly and I'm going to build a new release so that also @Danni will be able to take advantage of the possibility to set the size and position of the window. About the second fix for the un-aliased font there is now no DxWnd flag to set this possibility, but I'm going to add it.

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crazyc — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 20:11:41 -0000

I'm guessing the gdi32.SetWindowOrgEx call just isn't being handled correctly. This is right as skipping this call works. It's annoying as there isn't an obvious change as the origin is set to (0,0) both before and afterward. Edit: or not extSetWindowOrgEx sets the origin to the window position. I don't think a memory dc should do that and --- a/src/gdi32.cpp +++ b/src/gdi32.cpp @@ -3587,7 +3587,7 @@ BOOL WINAPI extSetWindowOrgEx(HDC hdc, int X, int Y, LPPOINT lpPoint) dxw.MapClient(&X, &Y); OutTraceGDI("%s:...

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crazyc — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 20:03:16 -0000

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agathosdaimon — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 16:33:52 -0000

right well yes i dont know what the go is - i have a geforce RTX card and an intel card and both are up to date -but i think perhaps the issue might be that i just couldnt get the game to use the nvidia card, - windows will default to the intel one for many old games, only be using dgvoodoo or something similar can i then get the nvidia card in the game and with that the issues are fixed

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huh — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 16:33:49 -0000

Update: It seems that the problem is only in SURVIVAL MODE. It does not happen in the other two modes.

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huh — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 16:21:01 -0000

Again, try "Msgs > Get all messages", does anything change? Unfortunately nothing changed. I disconnected the keyboard, but it was the same, moreover disconnecting the keyboard does not explain why it works for me with DDC 0.1.0 and with ddrawOG.

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huh — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 16:06:41 -0000

I pressed the down arrow key when I started playing the game to trigger the artifact effect then quit the game. Here is the new log with the Get all messages flag.

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gho — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 16:05:01 -0000

Well my card is just the NVIDIA card and or the Intel card in my Acer nitro 5 laptop - and running windows 11. I think I have things working better since a new windows reinstall but also I don't think the issue of the game running from the temp folder is a graphics card issue either. I know my experience is not entirely unique as someone else on the NASCAR heat core forum had the same issue And another person had this issue with viper racing a game put out earlier by the same company using the same...

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gho — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 16:02:57 -0000

I have the suspect that the Mr. Driller problem and this problem could be related. In both cases, there could be some non-consumed message that forces a repaint of the graphic somehow. The logs don't show an intentional re-design of the dolphin head, so it may likely be a refresh of the image that is supposed to stay quietly in the background. Again, try "Msgs > Get all messages", does anything change? A weird idea: could you replace your keyboard or just detach it?

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gho — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 16:01:56 -0000

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gho — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 15:55:57 -0000

I don't understand the presence of a huge number of log messages like this: user32.PeekMessageA: event WM_KEYDOWN wparam=0x12 lparam=0x20380001 This seems to suggest that either the keyboard key 12 was continuously pressed, or perhaps that the message was never "consumed" and remain still in the message queue. In my logs this situation doesn't happen. I wonder if the newborn flag "Msgs > Get all messages" could help.

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gho — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 15:05:29 -0000

Awesome!!! Tested and working perfectly both alone and in window with DxWnd (default options). One of the most troublesome games ever is now finally working. I attach a profile here, though it is perfectly useless, you just drop the patched exe on the DxWnd window and the configuration is done.

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huh — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 14:35:09 -0000

Unfortunately this happens even without scaling. It doesn't do it in windowed mode without DxWnd. The game creates a huge log so I'm attaching the logs in Circular mode.

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Hristo Konstantinov — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 13:39:41 -0000

You are right, yes. No need for the compatibility settings. Can't believe this game works again 25 years after its release. If I’d known someone would eventually patch it, I wouldn’t have made an entire remake of it :D

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Hristo Konstantinov — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 13:39:40 -0000

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Hristo Konstantinov — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 13:39:11 -0000

You are right, yes. No need for the compatibility settings. Can't believe this game works again 25 years after it's release. If I’d known someone would eventually patch it, I wouldn’t have made an entire remake of it :D

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BEEN_Nath_58 — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 13:00:20 -0000

Yes I also saw. If you don't want to use it, you can get the equivalent files from the fixed installer present in abandonware france, they aren't called virus. There is a ddraw.dll that does something

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BEEN_Nath_58 — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 12:57:38 -0000

It should work without it as well. 98/ME modes import other issues so try to avoid it usually

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BEEN_Nath_58 — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 12:57:00 -0000

I am not talking about the temp folder. I am talking about the wireframe issue you have. It seems more like a graphics issue than anything. The main exe, race.bin is run from the temp folders so dgVoodoo2 has to be there. I hope I am not confusing you

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agathosdaimon — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 10:47:55 -0000

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Hristo Konstantinov — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 09:33:16 -0000

I confirm it works on Windows 11 in Windows 98/ME compatibility mode

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Hristo Konstantinov — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 08:52:29 -0000

I confirm it works on Windows 11 in Windows XP/ME compatibility mode

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huh — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 08:34:33 -0000

Because it still doesn't work for me here and I want to know why. The launcher you sent me has a significant number of virus detections on virustotal.com

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huh — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 08:23:02 -0000

@abrasive OK, I can confirm that the fix works in Windows 7 now. However, it doesn't really matter here—both executables work the same on my old Nvidia card.

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BEEN_Nath_58 — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 06:29:23 -0000

Why not let's focus on non-HQ mode now? Oh btw, I got this:

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BEEN_Nath_58 — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 06:07:26 -0000

Why not let's focus on non-HQ mode now?

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BEEN_Nath_58 — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 05:47:28 -0000

Looks like you have fixed it. Thanks! Although one more thing, why does the window bar change to Non-client Renderer Oh and can you please remove the Run as admin requirement for both the EXEs :)

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BEEN_Nath_58 — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 05:45:39 -0000

Looks like you have fixed it. Thanks! Although one more things, why does the window bar change to Non-client Renderer

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BEEN_Nath_58 — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 05:44:50 -0000

Looks like you have fixed it. Thanks!

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BEEN_Nath_58 — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 05:05:49 -0000

Well your graphics card is "weird" as always so the message is normal. It could be possible to circumvent this through dgVoodoo2 directly.

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BEEN_Nath_58 — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 04:58:45 -0000

Just no music playing in game You already have winmm.dll? That looks like a cd audio wrapper from someone else. Unfortunately DxWnd can't comment much on other cdaudio wrappers, it can comment on its own CD audio wrapper. Fortunately, DxWnd cd audio wrapper works fine for this game

platinumblonde3 posted a comment on discussion General Discussion

platinumblonde3 — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 03:58:28 -0000

Zohaib hassan im trying what you suggested also!

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platinumblonde3 — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 03:56:08 -0000

Hey thanks everyone for testing it and trying it out. I really do appreciate it! I'm using my laptop, I have an Intel core i7 1165G7 @ 2.80GHz (2.70 GHz) Intel iris xe graphics card and 16GB ram windows 11 pro 25H2, os build 26200.8246 I downloaded the collection chambers version and it worked for me, but i had to go into the file, click mount.bat and then click the clue.exe and it starts. I tried just clicking the shortcut icon and it pulls up powershell and either does nothing( says a copy of clue...

abrasive posted a comment on discussion General Discussion

abrasive — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 02:06:36 -0000

Thanks for testing folks! Sorry, I didn't have access to a Windows machine... I've borrowed a Windows Server 2022 box for now. The startup crash was some trouble with the import table, a fixed version is in the repo. Now it chucks an error and falls back to software rendering when you enter a level; I think the engine is not tearing everything down properly, and Windows cares while Wine does not. I'll have a dig this evening.

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agathosdaimon — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 00:10:33 -0000

i was getting the weird graphics card error message when i tried to just run from a normal installation, so instead i am using the Heat Core version which is preferable also because of all the other AI fixes too. That install doesnt use the CD at all, I could get the game running fine, just the graphics issue i was experiencing, which prob not everyone encounters, but for me the temp dgvoodoo solution fixes everything and using the Heat core version means one can use the many mods for Nascar Hea...

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Danni — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 23:14:12 -0000

Shortly after posting this I realized that of course, the window frame is gonna be nudging the text a bit. So I got rid of the frame, locked the window to the top-left, and it seems to be working! I can see all the text and there's no residue after the cutscene (knock on wood). Of course, the caveat is that the game is stuck in the corner of the screen. But at least it's nice and large now! I also tweaked the config so that the mouse is mapped correctly in the pause menu. Config attached for anyone...

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Danni — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 22:01:58 -0000

Whoa, you're right! If I drag the window to the top left of my display, I can see a bit of the dialogue. I'm guessing the gdi32.SetWindowOrgEx call just isn't being handled correctly. you can see it at the top but only after the dialog window is closed which means there's probably some other problem too. I could see the text during the dialogue, but I also noticed it getting stuck after the cutscene. I don't think this is an issue with DXWnd but rather an old bug with how The Games Factory/Multimedia...

gho posted a comment on discussion General Discussion

gho — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 21:53:56 -0000

You've got no luck, again the game (your copy of the game with your configuration!) works perfectly here, the window stretching causes no artifacts. Later I'll try on Win7, just in case ...