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Hey, Anti-virus is still my best guess at this point, as I saw the exact same behavior on my machine with ThreatFire installed. Disabling ThreatFire did not fix it, I had to uninstall it completely. Still, I can run some tests with you and try to get to the bottom of it, if you're still...

Hey, Do you have ThreatFire installed? During my tests, i discovered ThreatFire prevented WC4 to run completely. Disabling wasn't enough either, a full uninstall was required.

Hi and welcome to the forums! It's always great to hear from Origin veterans. As someone who has been researching and tweaking WC games since 1996, i really appreciate these stories of WC development, so thanks for that! I've been wondering about the background of the "Muchow Virtual Vision"...

It should trigger the movie side plots from the correct sections of the game, since i patched the CD check in order to simulate the CD change. Disassembling the EXE, the CD check looks a bit like: While NeededCD not in drive Check CD End CurrentCD = NeededCD Basically, my patch always...

Hey guys, sorry to bump this thread. I've been working on hacking the P2 EXE a bit and think i have a solution for a no-cd setup. It involves hacking the CD check on the EXE only, so movie files remain unaltered. Hopefully this will allow us to have all movie files on the hard drive while...

Great! Glad to know it is working now :) Lesson learned: DirectShow doessn't always set up the renderer in the best way, so it sometimes needs a few hints to point it in the right way. (it also stresses the need for an alternate player, i'll try to prioritize this a bit among the streams i...

Ok here's a new DLL with two couple of options configurable via videoRenderer.cfg: - vmr7offscreen (currently set) configures the DLL to use the VMR video renderer, but instructs it to avoid using an overlay (which i think is what your system is having trouble with). - evr, which configures...

If you can, try turning off triple buffering and threaded optimization on your NVidia control panel, see if it makes a difference. I'll get to work on those work-arounds, i have a few ideas that could help. I'll try to give you a new DLL to test soon.

Thanks for the piece of information! That's actually very interesting: it means the game and DLLs are working fine, you have the codecs correctly installed and the video image gets to the correct surface. For some reason however, it doesn't get to the screen. This brings me back to my...

Ok since you see a glimpse of the video, it means data is reaching the video renderer, so i decided to review the window setup and tweak it a bit. I'm also moving the main game window out of the way when video is playing to see if it helps. Give it a try and let me know if anything changes...

I'm not out of ideas yet, although we did go through a good number of them by now. Anyway, i went through the code again and tweaked the video window code a bit. Now there is a better separation between the "game" window and "movie" window. Try putting these files on your WC4 folder and give...

This is mighty strange... I wonder if there's something wrong with DirectShow on your machine somehow. Try re-installing the DirectX End-user runtime and update your video card drivers. After this, you may want to reinstall the dwrap 1.0.1 test9 dlls (earlier on this thread) to get back to the...

It's strange, the behavior seems to be the same for you, for the two renderers. No errors in either case as well. This made me look for other causes... and after reviewing the code for a bit i did notice that there was Windows message that wasn't being handled according to spec. Tweaking it a...

Ok that's a good sign. I made a few more tweaks, so here's a new DLL! Give it a try, then please post debug.txt. Let me know if things improve.

Definitely, looking into these issues will contribute to making a more robust patch. The new player will be also be useful on that regard, as it will remove dependencies from DirectShow and codecs installed in the system. I'll post more info about it when it's ready for testing. Here's a new...

Thanks for the logs. The error reported in the log disappeared with the installation of AC3 Filter. The graph builder is now using AC3 Filter and not the MS codecs. Lesson here is not to trust the MS Codecs, i guess... Ok one problem out of the way! Regarding video however: I don't see any...

Alright, here's a new DLL! Basically I added a few new debug messages and made a few tweaks here and there regarding monitor usage. Please give these a try and post the resulting debug.txt here (you may want to delete your current debug.txt first). I'll tweak the DLL a bit more during the...

As Blair said, there's always hope :) Hang in there, there's a few things I can try that may help. DirectShow is a complex beast... There's a couple more things we can monitor to see how DirectShow is behaving on your machine, so we can start with that. Also DirectShow has a number of renderers...

Thanks for the log! It's odd though, i don't see any error messages showing up while setting up DirectShow or during runtime. I'll look more closely when i get off work though. In any case, there's a couple of things i can try. I'll try posting a new DLL soon!

Ok, here's a new version of the DLL with quite a few more debug messages. Unzip this into your WC4 folder and run the game, then please post the resulting debug.txt here. Hopefully it will give us some clues as to what's wrong.