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Hey, sorry that I only noticed this now. If the problem persists, can you post a copy of your savegame so I can run a few tests? Judging by the crash address, at first sight it doesn't seem to be related to anything the patch is doing... but it would be interesting to try and figure the cause...

Try downloading this fix and see if it helps: https://www.wcnews.com/news/2013/12/26 I'm currently on vacation, so away from most of my WC-stuff, but when i get back to Portugal i'll be glad to help you through this if the problem persists.

Hey guys, Sorry for the away time! Unfortunately, had a crazy crunch period at work that took all the energy I had to pull through. Guess that's the downside of working in the telecom industry... I'm glad it's over though, and that i can finally get back to the really interesting stuff (this...

Nice discussion :) The second SO2 comm face looks like it could be a Mandarin pilot, but I agree the others might be Wild Eagles. We should dig into the game files at some point and see if they are used. As a side note, I'm getting close on my disassembling of the WC2 scripting code that we...

WOW thanks a lot guys, i'm honoured! :) And i'm very glad people in the community are interested in the patches and hacks i've been working on! By the way, small update: Still looking into translating my WC2 scripts into HTML5 / Javascript, hopefully i'll have something to show soon (to be...

Hmm it's been a while, but i'm pretty sure those are essentially encoded in the same way as the Xan AVIs, only without an AVI header. If you like, you can try unpacking the audio chunks with the following code (reconstructed from reverse engineering the EXE)...

Still around, of course ;-) On my end, I started converting my WC2 importers into HTML5 + JavaScript. Pretty fun! I need to brush up my HTML5 a bit for the day job, so it's a good opportunity to start working on a full converter using these technologies, based on my various research scripts as...

Hey guys, (long-ish post ahead, sorry about that) In order to further explore the possibilities of what can be done with the WC2 engine, I decided to quickly put together a converter for WC2 animations. WC2 in fact supports FMV-like animations which are triggered at various parts of the game...

Hey Gulikoza, The sources of the modified dxmci were uploaded into my site some time back, they currently can be found here (*). Just to clarify, the main changes that were made to your excellent dxmci were mostly in order to fix a few issues people were having, as well as making dxmci...

Hey just gave it a quick try. I like it, great work! :) Just a small note / comment: if you click on Download without generating any files first (if you never generated any files before), you simply get an empty Filename / Change Date table. That was a bit puzzling at first... then i noticed...

Hey great work here! :) For everyone's benefit, i'll elaborate a bit on WC1/2 cutscenes, which have a lot in common with cutscenes from Armada, Academy and Strike Commander: Animations are stored exactly the same way, with frames coded in "blocks". Each block, as you noticed, share the same...

Thanks Chris :) Here's a summary of issue and fix: This package (wc4gog_1.0.2_test1.zip) fixes a rare issue in WC4 GOG that causes movie playback to fail even when all codecs are correctly installed. The core DirectShow Filter Graph Manager fails to initialize when any compatibility mode is set...

Hey here you are :), I didn't notice you started a thread on this topic until now. I sent you a small e-mail regarding the PAK format. It really is standard WC1/WC2 packaging, with RLE data. Once you become familiar with the WC1 RLE format you'll be able to decode it. As a test, i ran it...

Great, thanks for testing this! That confirms that compatibility mode is the origin of your problem, as strange as it may seem. Lesson i've learned here: compatibility mode is good, but avoiding it at all if possible is better :) If this comes up again in the future, we'll be able to point...

That's great news :) Glad to know it's finally working for you! The extra logs do shed some light on the issue, thanks for posting them! As I suspected from the previous test runs, dxmci was failing when instancing the DirectShow Filter Graph Manager. This is the very first step of the process...

Thanks! The insurgent log seems reasonable, the MS codec may not be the ideal choice, but it should do the trick for now. What's really strange though, is that the debug.txt you posted is essentially empty. Even when I uninstall all codecs and force the render to fail, that file tends to have...

Ok thanks for the info! The Missing Movie is indeed triggered by the EXE itself if the rendering fails. Dxmci triggers a Messagebox of its own, but it's most likely obscured by the video window. No problem though, as we have another log file in place for dxmci: debug.txt. Next steps: - By any...

Back at home for the weekend. I've been thinking about this and i'm beginning to suspect you may have a wrong version of mpeg2.dll in there somehow. Just to test this possibility, try unzipping the following mpeg2.dll into the WC4 GOG folder and run the game again, let us know if it helps. Use...

Indeed, that has been my experience as well. :) For this reason, I really think the best approach is to change that byte for WC1 and SM1 campaign and edit the resource references for the custom campaigns. Just to correct myself, i was wrong: I was looking into my notes last night, and the info...

It could be, actually! The game could be looking for movies in c:\vob instead of .\vob, leading to the problem you're seeing. This observation led me to notice something else: up to this point, I always assumed that the error message you were getting was generated by the dxmci DLL... but it...