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Work in Progress / Double Dragon Forever - I need help

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DarkPhear
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Posted: 3rd Nov 2005 22:51 Edited at: 27th Dec 2005 17:08
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UPDATED 27-DEC-2005:
My freeware fangame Double Dragon Forever is almost done, and the Windows XP compatibility problems are history now. The latest public beta is available for download.
What I need from the community is testing. I want to make this thing work. Please, I need you guys to download my beta, run it and tell me how it goes. Does it run? Are the graphics messed up? If it crashes please give me the log file and your system specs.

Please click the link bellow to download (~8 Mb).

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Hmm... Not sure what could be up. Be careful on your models and code you use. Some may not work on all systems, let's say if a really high detailed particle won't run on a junk graphics card. That might be a problem. Hope I helped.

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Posted: 3rd Nov 2005 23:12 Edited at: 4th Nov 2005 00:04
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Sure that's not the problem. The game is entirely 2D.

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DarkPhear
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Posted: 3rd Nov 2005 23:17 Edited at: 4th Nov 2005 00:09
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*moved to the first post

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Posted: 4th Nov 2005 15:49
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Anyone?

Please guys, this game is freeware for you.
I'll be back on November 12, I hope I find some answers here...

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Posted: 4th Nov 2005 16:04 Edited at: 4th Nov 2005 16:05
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Dude, omfg I love this game, probobly the best DarkBasic game ever created thats this long and good.. Great job!

But when I got the the third level, I alt tabbed to chat with my freind a bit, (I paused), then when I went back to the game, it just shut off...
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Glad it works.
Well, alt-tabbing really messes things up when running full screen. But that's DBPRO's fault. If you run windowed or desktop you can alt-tab.

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Yeah, I see. But great work overall, everything is perfect to me.
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Sounds like the problems I had with dark fighter. Some graphics cards aparently don´t support non square multiples of 2 textures (64x64,128x128,256x256). So they just crash when loading images. Someone had this problem and updated his drivers to make it compatible but that´s the only solution I´ve found.

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Works fine for me. Played it until got to top right and then no more baddies appeared and no level advance 'go' icon appeared.

Great game!

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Happy to see it's working.

Quote: "Sounds like the problems I had with dark fighter. Some graphics cards aparently don´t support non square multiples of 2 textures (64x64,128x128,256x256). So they just crash when loading images. Someone had this problem and updated his drivers to make it compatible but that´s the only solution I´ve found."


Yeah, it makes sense...

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Are you launching the game from a shortcut when you install on other PC's? Because you need to make sure you set the working directory. Otherwise DBP apps tend to really screw up quite badly.


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This beta has this working directory issue. But in my current WIP, the program automatically changes the working directory to its location.

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My users are complaining the game doesn't run after DBPRO 5.9. Can you please test this new version?

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I am one of the people that can't seem to get this application to work. If I remember correctly it does work on my workstation pc at work, but not any of my home computers (which are newer machines). When I ran this demo after configurations it just starts and then exits silently.

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Posted: 5th Dec 2005 21:43 Edited at: 5th Dec 2005 22:24
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Does it make a crash log?

Please try this patch:
http://forum.thegamecreators.com/xt/xt_apollo_download.php?i=722517

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5.9 is not worth it, downgrade to 5.8 until TGC fixes the weird problems (If EVER)
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anyone? success? failure?

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Posted: 14th Dec 2005 21:47 Edited at: 14th Dec 2005 22:01
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Assuming all the files in ddf_bulld are present, the running the main program doesn't work here - starts the program and crashes out straight away.

Do we have to setup keyboard controls and what-not ?

I'm using ATI X700 Mobile. Tried it on an X700 standard and that does the same thing.

It looks like its reading in data, but possbly not checking to make sure its valid.

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Yes, this is a self-extractable.

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I would start writing information to a debug file - that way you can find out where the initial crashes are.

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I've tried. It seems the program crashes before the first line of code.

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That would be a DirectX initialisation problem.

Does the program run in FSEX or Window mode ? Is the initial screen resolution set to something strange like 800x800 ?

Might be worth checking the .DBPRO file to make sure its still okay.

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There's a setup program to configure it. Does it run on your PC?

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Yes, but you can set the screen resolution - only whether its Windows or not and 16/32 bit mode.

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Ah, got it. The resolution is 320x240.

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Its possible that resolution isn't liked, although that resolution should be fine.

Its not set for 24-bit mode is it ?

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No, it's 16-bit or 32-bit. But I don't think the resolution is the problem. If 320x240 is not supported, DBPRO will get other display mode and expand the image to fit. Also, it should run fine on windowed mode.

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Indeed - which does leave the DirectX initisation as the cause.

First off, can we see the .DBPRO file ?
Are any graphics added to the executable ?

If nothing can be found there, it might be worth letting Mike know...

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There's other possibility: the plugins...
No media is attached to the EXE. The .DBPRO is here. I can't post the .DBA because it's closed source.

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The other possibility is the change of the application window title - I had thought that had been fixed though...

It may be worthing trying to compile it with 640x480 or 800x600 as the initial resolution.

I also see it starts of as hidden - again, whilst it shouln't make any difference, try window.

On your machines, do you compile as EXE and not stand-alone ?

Quote: "I can't post the .DBA because it's closed source."

Shame, but there we go...

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I have tried compiling stand-alone, normal, and small exe with pck, but the effect is the same. I'll try messing up with the settings in the .DBPRO.

It would be very helpful if a power user with a system the game doesn't work on could run this application http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Filemon.html and tell me where exactly it breaks.

Also it would be nice if people who downloaded the demo told me if it works or not. Please guys.

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Heres my log file - it does appear that the PCK file may be the problem...

It does seem to reset the working path back to C:\ for some reason...

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Updated. See the first post.

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Nope - still brings up the icon on the task bar and then shuts down.

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The problem seems to be in the new beta of MultiJoy plugin... I'll have to borrow a XP to do some tests.

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Are you using DirectInput or the stupid non-DirectInput functions ?

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The previous version used the old windows API. With this new beta version I'm trying to use directinput, but sadly Windows XP and Windows 98 have different behaviour. I could make it work as EXE in a Windows XP machine, but when I try to use it as a DLL it crashes.

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The game is updated, and it seems the Windows XP compatibility issues are gone. The download link is updated (first post).

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