DirectX 8 wrapper update

[Oliver Stieber]

--- Willie Sippel <willie at zeitgeistmedia.net> wrote:

> Am Sonntag, 20. November 2005 18:35 schrieb Oliver Stieber:
> > --- Willie Sippel <willie at zeitgeistmedia.net> 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
> 
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> Willie Sippel
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