Hmmm, which DX9 are you trying? AoP COAS or ERAS? I did have a problem with the original COAS music files not working with the newer fmodex.dll, and I had to redo all of the music files for that one. But I don’t seem to remember a problem with any others. If that’s the case with the dialog sounds, I may have to redo those the same way. I will…[Read more]

Don’t now why I didn’t think of this earlier. Most of my recent work has been to fix/adjust just the start.exe and .dll files, with no changes to other areas of the game. It seems too inconvenient to have someone download the entire set of other files that haven’t changed any time something is fixed. So in the cases where I fix or change…[Read more]

Ah, at the moment, the back-end looks for a particular character attribute, then sends back to the .c function that particular value (war, pirate, trade), that then uses a combo of nation/value to determine flag. What you’re describing is better, but just needs a little tweak. It’s better though. What I would send back is the whole character…[Read more]

Depends on the computer system you have.

If you have downloaded ERAS2TestDX9.zip from https://mega.nz/#F!WtMDgRxK!hbeUg86kGLlQAqvWRNwTqg , you need to unzip that to a new folder, like C:MyGamesERAS2.

Next, that download does not have all the models, textures, etc., so you need to change the start.ini to point at those files for the original ERAS…[Read more]

LOL, yeah, I wasn’t sure if you were back yet because I thought you mentioned first week of September, so thought maybe….

Anyway, that ‘crazy international plan?’ You should have heard it on my end while it was ringing. Fricken’ loud, crazy, almost old-skool modem sound for the ring tone in my ear. Who woulda thunk it would affect the ring I…[Read more]

Hey MK, just got the flag thing working today. Modified the flag texture to be a 2D array of flags. Right now, using the width-shrunken one, where I widened them back out, they still look fuzzy when expanded in game. But if you were to remake that file with crisp images for each flag using the original width-per-flag, they would retain better…[Read more]

Different game.

ERAS was based on Gentlemen of Fortune 1.2 and there was no Constitution. I think it was added to GOF 2.0, but I’m pretty sure it’s not in ERAS.

While using top-down memory allocation, I ran into a problem in the geometry procedures where the game casts some pointer values to a 32-bit number type. This does not work and results in a crash. I also encountered discovered a buffer overflow problem in that scrolling text (I was hammering on changing shot types for a long while to watch the…[Read more]

OK, OK, it’s a pain to keep re-downloading these files. But definitely do it this time!

I have great news! That app-hang-on-exit is very likely solved.

During some debugging, I noticed that the DX9 version initiates a few threads that are executing a function: wmt_CSSEShaderCode::ProcessPositionAndColors. What I noticed, is that even after…[Read more]

OK, OK, it’s a pain to keep re-downloading these files. But definitely do it this time!

I have great news! That app-hang-on-exit is very likely solved.

During some debugging, I noticed that the DX9 version initiates a few threads that are executing a function: wmt_CSSEShaderCode::ProcessPositionAndColors. What I noticed, is that even after…[Read more]

When I first tried the widescreen adjustments for the Character, Ship, Item screen, there were a few minor glitches in some of the Title Caption red background not fully covering the background of the rectangle displaying the caption. There was also a slight bit of truncation in the +/- number displayed in red/green by the skill points. As…[Read more]

Uploading Large Address enabled. Give them a try:

ERAS.Patch.zip = patch files for original ERAS with fixes and Orazio’s cabin models, walkfiles, and ship camera fixes
AOP2.Patch. = patch files for vanilla COAS with fixes
GOF1.2Patch = patch files for GOF 1.2 with fixes
ERAS2Test.zip = Our source compiled ERAS in DirectX 8
ERAS2TestDX9.zip = O…[Read more]

Uploading Large Address enabled. Give them a try:

ERAS.Patch.zip = patch files for original ERAS with fixes and Orazio’s cabin models, walkfiles, and ship camera fixes
AOP2.Patch. = patch files for vanilla COAS with fixes
GOF1.2Patch = patch files for GOF 1.2 with fixes
ERAS2Test.zip = Our source compiled ERAS in DirectX 8
ERAS2TestDX9.zip = O…[Read more]

More news.

I have now sifted through through the code to adjust for dealing with large addresses, which would convert to a 64 bit number and if for whatever reason a program casts those memory pointers as a numerical value anywhere, it could break things. See…[Read more]

Much better!

First, SoundService was not releasing ‘sounds’ prior to system release, per FMOD: “Make sure any sounds, channelgroups, geometry and dsp objects are released before closing the system object.” I added a routine to do so.

Also, ParticleService was failing on Clear() and I fixed that.

Also, on occasion, the Window message WM_CLOSE…[Read more]

Good news…I’ve isolated the problem to the SoundService class upon cleaning up/destroy.

In simplified terms, when the game is exiting, there is a loop to iterate the running ‘services’ and call Clear() to delete/destroy the service objects and their memory allocations.

Clear() simply does this:

delete pService;

Where pService is the…[Read more]

That on-game-exit sometimes problem? Could never get it to happen in VS debug mode while running the game…only a release version I can’t get break stops or step through. However, through some debug log messages I sent to the system.log file, I have now got it narrowed to a single function. Message right before the function gets written to the…[Read more]

Did another change.

The detection of processors and whether to enable SSE and Multithread was outdated and inaccurate in the sense it only allowed multi for Intel and no other. I updated the code to determine multicore/multithread and SSE for both Intel and AMD, and also SSE and multi are now enabled by default if the processor supports multiple…[Read more]

Files uploaded.

Change some of the start.ini options. Remove max_fps (preface with semicolon), enable hyperthreading (remove semicolon):

;max_fps = 120
HyperThreading = 1

The start.ini files in the downloads show as example. Added some to the Readme.txt files for the possibility of needing the newer VCR for older OS, like WinXP.

ERAS, GOF &…[Read more]

New development…the multithread capability was actually broken in the sense that what I thought was causing the game-exit-hangup due to the thread’s inability to gracefully terminate was not really due to the SEA threads because the logic to create those threads was always disabled.

So it was due to something else, and still sometimes happens…[Read more]