TurboTim07
Rear Admiral
no delay what-so-ever for me it runs perfectly 
WC4 DVD Problems
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Finder of things, Doer of stuff
cff said:
The thing is, even if you had a DXR2 card (I should find out where my brother put mine), They were always very, very finiky to Keep running so that WC4DVD would work properly. Any kind of hardware change would screw it up and and it would require driver reinstalls that needed to be done in a particular order for the game to work... So even having the card, it was sometimes more trouble than it was worth the play the game. It wasnt untill the patch that it was made relatively easy to install and run... almost hassle free. So even if I sold it to you, I'm not sure why you would want a DXR2 card for playing it.
gulikoza
The DVD Patch Guy
Well...it's really luck that WC4 does not use DXR directly but through MCI interface - or life would be much more complicated 
I'm really excited about the new dxmci version, I almost rewrote the whole thing (I was ignoring a few DShow rules :blush. I thought to test it a bit more but I'll put a link to the beta version anyway. You can find dxmci 1.3b1 here.
There's a new configuration dialog that allows you to set how DShow is treated incase you have problems. There are 5 levels - lower level means there will be a shorter delay when loading videos (but that of course will depend on your computer speed...you might not even notice the difference between L4 and L0). L0 is how the original used to work (the very very first version), L1 is the updates, L2 is similar to test2, L3 to test 3 and L4 will reset entire DShow between clips. L1 is the default, TurboTim07 obviously has to select L3. The configuration is stored inside the dll itself, so there's no ini files or messing with the registry therefore no uninstall required . Configuration dialog can be found by clicking on the link file also in the archive or alternatively you can type 'rundll32 dxmci.dll,configuration' to get to it.
I'm really excited about the new dxmci version, I almost rewrote the whole thing (I was ignoring a few DShow rules :blush
. I thought to test it a bit more but I'll put a link to the beta version anyway. You can find dxmci 1.3b1 here.There's a new configuration dialog that allows you to set how DShow is treated incase you have problems. There are 5 levels - lower level means there will be a shorter delay when loading videos (but that of course will depend on your computer speed...you might not even notice the difference between L4 and L0). L0 is how the original used to work (the very very first version), L1 is the updates, L2 is similar to test2, L3 to test 3 and L4 will reset entire DShow between clips. L1 is the default, TurboTim07 obviously has to select L3
. The configuration is stored inside the dll itself, so there's no ini files or messing with the registry therefore no uninstall required . Configuration dialog can be found by clicking on the link file also in the archive or alternatively you can type 'rundll32 dxmci.dll,configuration' to get to it.
gulikoza
The DVD Patch Guy
Well...since it seems there are no problems b1 could be considered final 
. No really, other than that I added a feature request to be able to play the vobs from a different location so that could be considered b2, but unless somebody reports something is not working then I have very little to do - dxmci has always worked on my machine since the very first release
. No really, other than that I added a feature request to be able to play the vobs from a different location so that could be considered b2, but unless somebody reports something is not working then I have very little to do - dxmci has always worked on my machine since the very first release
gulikoza
The DVD Patch Guy
The new version is up. Sorry it took so long 
. Report any problems .
Use the shorcut to access the configuration dialog. I'd really like to know if it works for you. Alternativly it can be accessed by running 'rundll32 dxmci,configure' (from a dos window) although this is somewhat inconvenient...
. Report any problems .Use the shorcut to access the configuration dialog. I'd really like to know if it works for you. Alternativly it can be accessed by running 'rundll32 dxmci,configure' (from a dos window) although this is somewhat inconvenient...
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SirCarcass
Guest
I tried playing WC4DVD with the patch, but the game crashes right after launch. All I see is a black screen for a second then the "xxx has encountered a problem" Windows message. Any ideas what could be wrong? I tried all of the settings (using 1.3), and have the exe set to Win 98 compatiblity mode.
ChrisReid
Super Soaker Collector / Administrator
Did you try 95 compatibility mode too? You can also try the 1.2 version of the patch, though that should exist as one of the 1.3 settings. http://download.wcnews.com/files/wing4/dxmci12.zip
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SirCarcass
Guest
95 compatibility does the same. I just tried version 1.2 with both compatibility settings and it was the same.
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SirCarcass
Guest
I have DirectX 9.0c. My drivers aren't new, but they're fairly up to date (maybe a few months old, newer drivers conflict with a game I'm playing). The only difference I can think of is I recently installed the DirectX SDK, but I wouldn't think that would matter. I don't have problems with any other recent games acting weird.