ah, sorry i forgot about this. himm, yeah the black window only appears when using multimonitor, so it blocks the second players screen. if i use traditional splitscreen it works fine. you say you tested it with the non steam version, but wihtout two monitors? p.s - thanks for looking into this. do you think for it to work properly, the kill black screen hack needs to be built into/ executed by the nucleus co op handler to work? because it works fine when i launch the game normally from steam, but...
darn, i found the old version that works here from 'sources' (v2_04_41_fx2_src). i tested it and it appears to work. but when i try to launch the game via nucleus co op it no longer works. the reason i wanted to remove the black screen on my second monitor was so i could play splitscreen/ multimonitor in this game via nucleus co op. everything works fine, except the second player on the second monitor has a black screen, when you push buttons on their controller you can hear the game working. so...
Hi, i have the same issue, Kane and lynch 2 on steam, launches fine without dxwnd, but with dxwnd active and the only thing changed is the tweak for 'killblackwindows' the game crashes on startup. i tried with windowed ticked and without, i also tried your above advice of setting video mode to native. but it still crashes on startup. i have searched the internet but cannot find the old version of dxwnd that works. is there any way you can link it to me? alternatively, if you want me to send you some...