EmpireEarth AoC - Black Screen
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Hello,
I tried running EE AoC in DxWnd to play in windowed mode, but I keep getting black screen with working audio (it seems to ignore inputs tho). I tried with included EE preset but had the same effect pretty much.
I can start it without an issue natively on Win 10. I've attached the log.
EDIT: I managed to get input working by checking "Hook dinput" option, and got intro displayed by switching renderer to SDL. But It looked like in the screenshot below and crashed after few seconds.
EDIT2: I also found this thread: https://sourceforge.net/p/dxwnd/discussion/general/thread/5516add96b/ seems to describe exactly the same issue.
EDIT3: I suspect that GOG did some compatibility fixes that interfere with DxWnd. There is for example ddraw dll in game folder, when I remove it, the game displays intros without changing renderer, main menu is then black and I cant click on anything tho so there are probably more changes.
Last edit: Krzysztof Kowalczyk 2022-02-13
Seems, that game works pretty well with DxWnd here in Win7. Only in the 800x600 window the font is difficult to read, but in higher resolution it is good. I had to use a patched exe due to some unsupported protection. But I don't have a GOG version, see if there are any suspicious proxy libraries in the game folder (such as ddraw.dll and the like). The profile "Empire Earth.dxw" in the exports folder was not suitable with this game for me. My DxWnd version is 2.05.81. Here is my test configuration.
Thanks a lot for the fast reply, configuration you provided + removal of ddraw proxy dll finally seems to be working for me. Thanks again!
Hey guys, thank you very much you helped me so far that the ingame almost looks perfect, only problem is that I have a blue box around my cursor but that's not a big problem. I more have the problem that when I tab out of the DxWND it immediately crashes, does this happen to you too?
I made no tests yet, but in general the solution to this problem could be setting the "Main / Do not notify on task switch" flag so that the game doesn't even know it was switched out.
The only drawback for a RTS game is that this way the game could continue, which is good for gathering resources, but very bad to contrast an enemy's attack!
Oh sorry I forgot to write that I already did that and my I can't press ingame actions then. Thank you very much tho
I can play now but now the graphic got a little worse and also it keeps crashing after a few minutes. I also tried it without DxWnd and there its also crashing so might be a normal error
Last edit: qqwe 335 2022-08-04