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Great! It's really easy to break something when tinkering with it. When I was trying out various player-created levels, one level just refused to work in multiplayer mode (Apex). If you setup dedicated server and join it just crashes. There's one really beautiful level IMO (forgot the name...), whic...

I've addressed the small memory leak yesterday caused by original "patch" for 3D view crashing on Windows 2000 and above. The author simply removed the call to UnmapViewOfFile without addressing the actual issue, which was that Surreal needed the single variable from the memory block which...

Figured ignoring the level property Max Fog Depth might not have been the best idea, given that this property can intentionally be set to a lower value to have a foggier level. Upper limit is still 60 while vanilla Drakan has it at 30 and will ignore higher values. Min Fog Depth that is allowed has ...

Only added 2 minor fixes for the Level Editor 3D Viewer I forgot about last time, on modern Windows, there is a strange glitch with windowed mode, window sort of flashes every once in a while and when it loses focus, for some reason Windows considers it non-responsive after 5 seconds. Workaround is ...

Levels are usually packed in a ZIP file, along with a Readme file that says where are you supposed to put files that make up the level to be able to launch it from the game. After the files are in place, you need to put the game in developer mode, if you have never done that. To do that, hold SHIFT ...

(Shame on me but) To be honest, i used Drakan EasyMod (which i found on this website) and with that my weapons were 2 times stronger, and some of them were indestructible too. (60 dmg mithril axe AP for the win and then mournblade) + helath elixirs restored to full HP :D Silly me, guess the Nightma...

One thing that could be done to improve the difficulty, it seems that you always have plenty of weapons scattered throughout the levels, so your inventory is always full, you never really run low on anything and have to resort to Atimar's Blade.

I also like the volcano level, a lot probably due to the fact that there is magma/lava everywhere and you just go "wow!" when you get there. The islands (daily part) were a bit tiring because I wanted to search every last bit and pick everything I could find and the question did I miss any...

I think it's a good idea if we make sure all your game files pass integrity check. I'm attaching a file which you can use to check if your files are OK: Extract the file Drakan.md5 from the attachment to your Drakan installation directory. Download Md5Checker from here and unzip it to anywhere you w...

I know this will sound very random, but after you click Install and nothing happens, open the Task Manager and see if there is any process called rundll32.exe running. If there is, end it, it may get the installer running. If all else fails, you can download Universal Extractor and use it to extract...

While I do think "never run user programs as admin" is a good rule, that fact alone was not the main reason this was changed. Newer Windows versions have this feature that redirect registry and directory writes to user specific locations if the user doesn't have permissions to write there ...

There we go, I think I've ran out of things I'm able to fix or improve: Fixed Direct3D resolution limit remover so it doesn't crash the game anymore on some Windows versions. Fixed the bug with quick-save not saving the correct track ID to the save file under certain circumstance. Restored engine's ...

Just put Windows 7 on virtual machine and got the same crash as you. My d3dim.dll is the culprit. Now to see what gives...kinda funny that it works as intended on Windows 10 and Windows XP, but not on an OS in between.

I'll investigate later today and if I can't come up with something that works universally, remove it, or at least, write in Readme to use that file on one's own risk and place it separately in ZIP file.

Try deleting d3dim.dll from Drakan folder. That file is supposed remove resolution limitation from Direct3D so it goes above 2048 pixels in each direction. Guess there is something different about Windows 7 version of original DLL...