Integrate dominion wars fixes?

[yochenhsieh]

Hello,
Thank you for your efforts developing the wrapper to fix many old games!
I wonder if it's possible to integrate Star Trek: Deep Space 9 - Dominion Wars fixes here?
http://jiridvorak.webpark.cz/dw/
The source code is available on the page.

Thank you!

[elishacloud]

Have you tried with the latest download build from the Actions tab? Please upload the log file.

[yochenhsieh]

dxwrapper-ds9dw.log
dxwrapper.ini.txt

install Dominion Wars
apply patch 1.04
apply no-cd fix (perhaps optional, but I always use it; still requires a empty virtual drive.)
hexedit ds9dw.exe - replace ddraw with ddra2
copy ddraw.dll dxwrapper.ini dxwrapper.dll to game folder
rename ddraw.dll to ddra2.dll
Set compatibility mode - 640x480 (if desktop resolution is larger than 1600), 16bit.
Start ds9dw.exe

[elishacloud]

I don't see any DirectX APIs being called. I also see the following compatibity settings:

Environment variable __COMPAT_LAYER = "640X480 16BitColor DisableThemes"

I recommend doing the following:

1. Disable all settings in the ini file except dd7to9.
2. Disable all compatibility setting in Windows for that exe file.
3. If you need 16bit color then you can set the DdrawOverrideBitMode option in the ini file to 16.

[yochenhsieh]

Tried again with only dd7to9 enabled, and DdrawOverrideBitMode = 16
And this time keep ddraw.dll reference in exe unchanged.
Game will start now. But:
1- mouse cursor and gui rendered incorrectly.
2- 3D scene in game cannot be rendered
dxwrapper-ds9dw.log

Normal: (with only jiridvorak's wrapper)

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[elishacloud]

Looks like there is a lot of stuff in this game that is not yet supported by dd7to9. Here is a list of some items:

13072 12:07:04.508 m_IDirect3DViewportX::AddLight Error: Not Implemented
13072 12:07:04.992 m_IDirect3DVertexBufferX::ProcessVertices Warning: 'D3DVOP_CLIP' not handled!
13072 12:07:04.992 m_IDirect3DVertexBufferX::ProcessVertices Warning: 'D3DVOP_EXTENTS' not handled!
13072 12:07:04.994 m_IDirect3DViewportX::TransformVertices Error: Not Implemented
13072 12:07:11.516 m_IDirect3DViewportX::DeleteLight Error: Not Implemented

I recommend disabling dd7to9 and just trying DDrawCompat.

BTW: Given the incorrect color of the dash, I suspect that DdrawOverrideBitMode = 16 may not be needed.

[yochenhsieh]

Crashed to desktop after game start if using DDrawCompat. Tried all 3 versions (2.0 2.1 3.2)
dxwrapper-ds9dw.log

[elishacloud]

Ok, try this one. I implemented all the missing functions in Dd7to9, including AddLight, DeleteLight and TransformVertices.

Here is the testing build: dxwrapper.zip

[yochenhsieh]

Great improvement!
Mouse cursor and gui rendered correctly.
Only 3D scene not rendered.

log file:
dxwrapper-ds9dw.log

[elishacloud]

I will need to look into this more. I noticed this log:

5956 21:32:58.731 m_IDirect3DVertexBufferX::ProcessVerticesUP Warning: 'D3DVOP_LIGHT' not handled!

It is possible that the 3D aspects are being rendered, but with no lighting so they show up as black.

[elishacloud]

I added support for lighting. I have no way to test it, but hopefully this will work.

Try this one: dxwrapper.zip

[yochenhsieh]

Graphically it looks same as previous version.
Log:
dxwrapper-ds9dw.log