Hello, I would like to play the game Kick 3 in Windows mode. Does anyone have the settings for it? I tried to configure it for a long time, but unfortunately couldn't. It is a game from 2000 which is started in Dos mode.
I don't know this german only game. If it is a GOG distribution I doubt it could be a DOS game, probably GOG guys wrapped it into a DOSBox emulation and you could hook the DOSBox.exe program, which may require SDL hooking.
If I could find a bundle of this game I could be more precise
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I got the game installed, but Anstoss 3 is not a DOS program, it is a regular win32 program.
Looking at the files it seems that the game can be configured to work with ddraw, d3d or opengl renderers. The German language doesn't make things simple, but I'll try....
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The game can be run in window mode easily hooking anstoss3.exe, but I'm having problems with the client area resize after a repaint operation: the picture "before.png" shows the first game panel after the start, almost perfect, but if you refresh the window (for instance clicking outside and inside again) the window is refreshed as in the "after.png" picture. I have to understand why, the game has a quite complex handling of the graphics ...
Ok, it seems I fixed the problem by using hot patching and other tricks. Anyway, the attached export should allow you to run the game in a window. Then you will be able to change the positioning parameters to your preferred size and position.
Please, remember to update the game path.
An update on this game:
Finally I got my hands on a GOG distribution of the game. The configuration suggested in the previous post is not working with this game release because GOG's people added a ddraw wrapper in the game folder and this somehow interferes with DxWnd hooks. If you want to run the game in window mode through DxWnd is necessary to rename the file ddraw.dll that is in the game folder and everything works. If you prefer the GOG solution instead, just rename that file to its original name.
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Hello, I would like to play the game Kick 3 in Windows mode. Does anyone have the settings for it? I tried to configure it for a long time, but unfortunately couldn't. It is a game from 2000 which is started in Dos mode.
https://www.gog.com/game/anstoss_3
I don't know this german only game. If it is a GOG distribution I doubt it could be a DOS game, probably GOG guys wrapped it into a DOSBox emulation and you could hook the DOSBox.exe program, which may require SDL hooking.
If I could find a bundle of this game I could be more precise
I got the game installed, but Anstoss 3 is not a DOS program, it is a regular win32 program.
Looking at the files it seems that the game can be configured to work with ddraw, d3d or opengl renderers. The German language doesn't make things simple, but I'll try....
thank you dude. I hope you can help me.
The game can be run in window mode easily hooking anstoss3.exe, but I'm having problems with the client area resize after a repaint operation: the picture "before.png" shows the first game panel after the start, almost perfect, but if you refresh the window (for instance clicking outside and inside again) the window is refreshed as in the "after.png" picture. I have to understand why, the game has a quite complex handling of the graphics ...
Ok, it seems I fixed the problem by using hot patching and other tricks. Anyway, the attached export should allow you to run the game in a window. Then you will be able to change the positioning parameters to your preferred size and position.
Please, remember to update the game path.
An update on this game:
Finally I got my hands on a GOG distribution of the game. The configuration suggested in the previous post is not working with this game release because GOG's people added a ddraw wrapper in the game folder and this somehow interferes with DxWnd hooks. If you want to run the game in window mode through DxWnd is necessary to rename the file ddraw.dll that is in the game folder and everything works. If you prefer the GOG solution instead, just rename that file to its original name.