How can I get Star Wars Dark Forces II to work with dd7to9?

[eddmanx]

It is the original release of the game, not GOG.
The guide says it is fully supported, but only launches to a black screen with white borders and then terminates.

I copied over ddraw.dll, dxwrapper.dll and dxwrapper.ini and set dd7to9 to 1. I had set the game to software mode beforehand.
I also tried a few fix options mentioned on the dd7to9 wiki page but no change.

[elishacloud]

Yes, you need to disable 3D acceleration in the in-game options before the game will work. Also, I am using the GOG version. Not sure if there is another issue with the CD version.

You could try setting the FullscreenWindowMode or DdrawDisableDirect3DCaps options and see if either of these help.

[elishacloud]

Nothing in that log. Can you use the debug version of dxwrapper and send me the log file of the crash with the debug version?

[eddmanx]

dxwrapper-jk.log

[eddmanx]

I thought what would happen if I applied dgvoodoo on top of dd7to9 (d3d9 to 11), and the game launches, however, the image occupies only a small part of the screen at the top-left corner.

EDIT: It only goes as far as the menu though. The only resolution listed is 1920x1080. When I try to start the campaign, it throws an error about not enough memory, and then another one about not being able to set the previous display mode (probably because of only 1920x1080 being available).

[elishacloud]

From the log it looks like the game never even sets the refresh rate. The game calls EnumAdapterModes() twice and then exits. I guess it does not find the resolution and/or refresh rate it is looking for. I suspect that your video card does not have any 48 or 50 Hz resolutions and thus the game does not find any resolution for this call and just exits.

I need to think about the right fix for this. But I guess this fix might help: dxwrapper.zip

[elishacloud]

The only resolution listed is 1920x1080. When I try to start the campaign, it throws an error about not enough memory

Yeah, the game has a bug here. I don't believe that is related to dxwrapper. You need to set the game to a lower resolution. For testing try: 1024x768

[eddmanx]

I suspect that your video card does not have any 48 or 50 Hz resolutions and thus the game does not find any resolution for this call and just exits.

48 Hz is a custom resolution I made, but 50 Hz does exist by default, alongside 59, 60 and 75. It's odd that dxwrapper's presence somehow prevents the game from finding those when I'm using 48 Hz (although it might be the case with any custom Hz, not just 48. EDIT: Yea, I created a 72 Hz one and it's the same; the game with dxwrapper can't find the regular refresh rates).

You need to set the game to a lower resolution. For testing try: 1024x768

In that test scenario (48 Hz display and dxwrapper + dgvoodoo), only 1920x1080 is listed in the game settings, so I can't pick any other resolution.

EDIT: The new dll crashes too.

[eddmanx]

It behaves the same.

[elishacloud]

Are you still getting duplicate resolutions?

[eddmanx]

Yes, I don't see any difference between this and the previous dll.

[eddmanx]

Just noticed the code was updated with a duplicate fix. I downloaded the binaries from Actions. No more duplicates, and it goes up to 1920x1080 as expected.

[elishacloud]

Yeah, I must have posted the wrong update. Glad it is working for you now!

[eddmanx]

Testing the game on XP in VMware, the rendered image is not fullscreen but the UI is. I tried dxwrapper but it didn't change anything.

Any way it can be fixed?

Alright, false alarm; that's just the view size in the game's settings. :D

[elishacloud]

Ok, great. I was wondering about that!