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by UCyborg
Sun Dec 30, 2018 12:34 pm
Forum: Drakan (PC) Game Discussion & Technical Support
Topic: Widescreen hack and some other fixes aka AiO Patch
Replies: 354
Views: 2271504

Re: Widescreen hack and some other fixes aka AiO Patch

Or the oddity with "Server launch sucessful!" message not appearing under certain circumstances.
by UCyborg
Sun Dec 30, 2018 3:57 am
Forum: Drakan (PC) Game Discussion & Technical Support
Topic: Widescreen hack and some other fixes aka AiO Patch
Replies: 354
Views: 2271504

Re: Widescreen hack and some other fixes aka AiO Patch

Somehow the FPS/rate counter stopped bugging when I tried it again this time without me doing anything. It did work much slower when started via Remote Desktop session, though the FPS was still around 110, while normally it goes up to about 2000 FPS. The console was empty if started before connectin...
by UCyborg
Sat Dec 29, 2018 5:00 am
Forum: Drakan (PC) Game Discussion & Technical Support
Topic: Widescreen hack and some other fixes aka AiO Patch
Replies: 354
Views: 2271504

Re: Widescreen hack and some other fixes aka AiO Patch

Strange, I tried it in Safe Mode with Networking, so no graphics drivers were loaded. It shouldn't slow down neither when connected with Remote Desktop. https://i.imgur.com/C2FXu08.png Built-in frame limiter for dedicated server is a bit bugged (type maxrate ##). Up to certain value is OK, then it d...
by UCyborg
Fri Dec 28, 2018 8:55 pm
Forum: Drakan (PC) Game Discussion & Technical Support
Topic: Widescreen hack and some other fixes aka AiO Patch
Replies: 354
Views: 2271504

Re: Widescreen hack and some other fixes aka AiO Patch

How did you come to conclusion that the server needs 3D capable card? Because it doesn't from what I can tell. I don't know about Blt performance. What would be the "normal" speed of the server? Using DirectDraw for the server console is unusual, that's for sure. At least you can minimize ...
by UCyborg
Fri Dec 28, 2018 9:31 am
Forum: Drakan (PC) Game Discussion & Technical Support
Topic: Drakan available on Good old Games?
Replies: 4
Views: 11580

Re: Drakan available on Good old Games?

4027 votes. Not much in the grand scheme of things. But it appears games with less votes made it on GOG. Guess it'll never happen with Drakan being Sony's IP.
by UCyborg
Fri Dec 28, 2018 9:15 am
Forum: Drakan (PC) Game Discussion & Technical Support
Topic: Windows 10
Replies: 5
Views: 14517

Re: Windows 10

and NO MOUSE! hard to play with no mouse? ya! This happens with Drakan when Windows applies DPI scaling (when DPI setting is above 100%), more specifically, when per-monitor DPI scaling is enabled, which is a thing since Windows 8. The mouse is still there, just confined in the corner. It could've ...
by UCyborg
Fri Dec 28, 2018 8:33 am
Forum: Drakan (PC) Game Discussion & Technical Support
Topic: Widescreen hack and some other fixes aka AiO Patch
Replies: 354
Views: 2271504

Re: Widescreen hack and some other fixes aka AiO Patch

Oops, I don't know what the heck happened, but I was having problems with OllyDbg. When I was moving the code around, OllyDbg changed one of the bytes in the saved file. I thought it was a temporary glitch, so double checked the code in code section and saved again, only to realize this morning I re...
by UCyborg
Thu Dec 27, 2018 10:52 pm
Forum: Drakan (PC) Game Discussion & Technical Support
Topic: Widescreen hack and some other fixes aka AiO Patch
Replies: 354
Views: 2271504

Re: Widescreen hack and some other fixes aka AiO Patch

A minor update has been released; audio device enumeration is now skipped when starting dedicated server.
by UCyborg
Sat Dec 22, 2018 12:45 am
Forum: Drakan (PC) Game Discussion & Technical Support
Topic: Widescreen hack and some other fixes aka AiO Patch
Replies: 354
Views: 2271504

Re: Widescreen hack and some other fixes aka AiO Patch

Yes. I was thinking of it rather in terms of being more elegant and readable. Oh. What for? The WINAPI functions work perfectly fine for this purpose; no point in reinventing the wheel. True. Just saw someone needing to deal with much larger INIs where performance bottleneck was apparent due to ope...
by UCyborg
Fri Dec 21, 2018 8:50 pm
Forum: Drakan (PC) Game Discussion & Technical Support
Topic: Widescreen hack and some other fixes aka AiO Patch
Replies: 354
Views: 2271504

Re: Widescreen hack and some other fixes aka AiO Patch

Someone with no understanding of low-level details would be equally unable to put together any working map editor in that particular case, either... Sure, they could make a nice GUI and all, but good luck actually having it work with the data. In fact, how would you even go about making an editor w...
by UCyborg
Fri Dec 21, 2018 3:37 am
Forum: Drakan (PC) Game Discussion & Technical Support
Topic: Widescreen hack and some other fixes aka AiO Patch
Replies: 354
Views: 2271504

Re: Widescreen hack and some other fixes aka AiO Patch

When it comes to portability, I was speaking in general. Some game devs tried to be clever with assembly, only for their games to fail miserably several years later. Pro-Rally 2001; just freezes on newer AMD CPUs during level load time. Some guy makes a patch, faking reported CPU vendor string in on...
by UCyborg
Thu Dec 20, 2018 7:23 pm
Forum: Drakan (PC) Game Discussion & Technical Support
Topic: Widescreen hack and some other fixes aka AiO Patch
Replies: 354
Views: 2271504

Re: Widescreen hack and some other fixes aka AiO Patch

True, an old style multi-byte NOPs (like lea ecx,[ecx)] to be precise, but not the explicit modern forms as that would result in an exception on old CPUs. It's all compiler generated code, typical appearance when switches are involved. Can't wrap my head around how do you find assembly an easy langu...
by UCyborg
Thu Dec 20, 2018 7:00 pm
Forum: Drakan Level Editing and Game Mods
Topic: Drakan Remake by YanGez93 [Project abandoned]
Replies: 119
Views: 1157116

Re: Drakan Remake by YanGez93

I'm not a lawyer neither so I can't give any better advice than to tread really carefully. While Sony indeed seems not to give a damn, which so far has been proven to be the case and even asking them anything might remain ignored (this is yet to be tested), their inaction today does not guarantee th...
by UCyborg
Thu Dec 20, 2018 12:06 pm
Forum: Drakan Level Editing and Game Mods
Topic: Drakan Remake by YanGez93 [Project abandoned]
Replies: 119
Views: 1157116

Re: Drakan Remake by YanGez93

Drakan is abandonware, so shouldn't the assets and name be free to use, as long as it's non-commercially? Absolutely not! Abandonware is nothing more than a term used to refer to software that is no longer maintained. Copyright expires in no less than 90 years according to US laws. Twisting words a...
by UCyborg
Thu Dec 20, 2018 11:43 am
Forum: Drakan (PC) Game Discussion & Technical Support
Topic: Widescreen hack and some other fixes aka AiO Patch
Replies: 354
Views: 2271504

Re: Widescreen hack and some other fixes aka AiO Patch

I expect this to be related to the long-since-fixed crash that sometimes happened when they threw Rynn Doubt it. That fix is just a workaround - zero pointer check - that prevents the crash as that function is not supposed to be called in the first place under that circumstance. By the the time it'...