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ATI Radeon 4350 question with Windows 7 ..
Calamity:
--- Quote from: haynor666 on March 21, 2016, 04:13:37 pm ---So the only way to get this game working is right now use official ATI drivers with VMMaker or Soft15kHz :/
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No no, it was working for me the other day, I should have recorded a video as a proof.
I spent a few hours with Windbg and the damned thing, and it turned out it was trying to set 1280 x something, I patched the binary to set 640x480 instead and got it working. But today I was trying the same binary on a fresh installation and it's not working anymore.
Calamity:
--- Quote from: JoeB on March 21, 2016, 04:29:48 pm ---Calamity: According to Ultimarc, he provides Windows 7/8 32 and 64 bit drivers. If that's the case (especially for 64 bit), then M$ must be signing them for him! How did he pull that off??
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Windows 7/8, NOT 10 :)
It's with W10 when the kernel code signing method has changed.
--- Quote ---If he is using signed 64 bit drivers for Windows 7, than I assume that mp4 playback in Windows media Player should have less issues as well. The link you provided is for Flash (FLV) playback. HS has since been updated to play mp4 files. The days of FLV playback in HS are finally DEAD (thank god!). If an mp4 can play in Windows Media Player, it will play in HS. If it can't play in WMP, it won't play in HS. The 2 are now linked. Can't blame HS anymore. :)
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Flv or mp4, it's still the same issue. You can blame HS for not providing a fallback software method. Anyway, my main objection to HS is that it's arguably beautiful :)
JoeB:
experimented some more with DXDIAG and directx.cpl today. Here are some interesting observations (confirmed via dxdiag in Windows 7):
- directx.cpl only effects the 32-bit version of directX. 64-bit mode stays on. By default, WMP is the 32-bit binary. But you can run the 64-bit version by executing it from Program Files (Rather than the 32bit x86 version)
- The thing that kills HS is Direct3D HW acceleration. If you turn that off, but keep DirectDraw HW acceleration on, the mp4 files work.
For some CRAZY reason, I turned on both hardware acceleration, and WMP started playing the mp4 files!! And so did VLC!! Now only HS shows green screen with MP4 files and hardware acceleration. I did install (and uninstall the soft CODEC's). I think something is stuck from before that makes it work now. I'm sure on fresh install, hardware playback in WMP and VLC will stop working!
I confirmed this by starting 64 bit WMP. It just shows black screen on mp4 files. ARGGG.. Why is windows so bad at cleaning up after itself when you uninstall!?
haynor666:
--- Quote from: Calamity on March 21, 2016, 05:05:54 pm ---
--- Quote from: haynor666 on March 21, 2016, 04:13:37 pm ---So the only way to get this game working is right now use official ATI drivers with VMMaker or Soft15kHz :/
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No no, it was working for me the other day, I should have recorded a video as a proof.
I spent a few hours with Windbg and the damned thing, and it turned out it was trying to set 1280 x something, I patched the binary to set 640x480 instead and got it working. But today I was trying the same binary on a fresh installation and it's not working anymore.
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Well, I've installed couple days ago XP x32 again and set up everything from zero. But I still have two spare HHDs so If something interesting pops out then I'll be happy to test on 7 x64.
JoeB:
I'd love to go back to xp 64bit but I'm now using an SSD drive.
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