Cabela s 4×4 off road adventure 3 ошибка

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  First of all, thanks for the truly amazing program! It helped me to run a lot of old applications.
  Now I have a problem with «Cabela’s 4X4 Off-road Adventure” that I cannot resolve on my own.
  This game has two exe files:

  4×4 Setup.exe
  Windows 10 – runs application, but it’s not possible to choose the Hardware render type probably because of calculating overflow of a Video Memory and a Video Texture Memory.
  Dxwnd – doesn’t run the application. Debug shows following error “CreateDevice(D3D7) ERROR: err=0x80004005(DDERR_GENERIC) at 1975”.
  dgVoodoo2 – runs the application perfectly.
  VMware with Windows XP – runs the application perfectly.

  4×4 Adventure.exe
  Windows 10 – runs the application in the software mode but in the hardware mode, the game doesn’t properly show a car and environment textures.
  Dxwnd – same problems as with running under Windows 10.
  dgVoodoo2– doesn’t run properly even main menu.
  VMware with Windows XP – runs in the software and in the hardware mode, albeit rather slowly.

  Furthermore, both application didn’t even run under my machine in none of aforementioned cases claiming that my CPU doesn’t have MMX support. I made patches for both applications so MMX error is skipped. Also I made a NOCD patch for 4×4 Adventure.exe. Original disks and patches can be found on archive.org.

  I still want be able to play game under Windows 10 so I need help with next problems.
  1. The most important part is to run game without problem with textures in hardware mode under Windows 10.
  2. Be able to run setup.exe with dxwnd, limiting VRAM (without overflowing).
  3. To solve a problem with MMX without patching. Maybe in this case it not even possible without somehow faking certain CPUs.

  Tested with dxwnd v2_05_74_build.

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  I hope I stumbled over your stuff here: https://archive.org/details/CabelasORA3
  Sure I’m going to try this all, anyway here is one advice: the «Limit available resources» flag is the one that is supposed to reduce the VRAM as well as RAM and avoid the overflow, but it likely requires the combination with an early hook mode like «Inject suspended process», or the program may catch the overflow before that the system calls are hooked.

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  No, that is a link for the third game of this series.
  This is a link for the first game https://archive.org/details/cabelas-4×4-off-road-adventure

  Thanks for advice, but I think I tried all combinations with different hooking methods.
  And I tried «Limit available resources» flag too. It’s the first thing I try, when an old application won’t start =)

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    Uhm… maybe I didn’t get all your problems, but the game runs like a charm up to the race screen, then gets completely blocked with a strange screen that seems caught during a transition. I’ll try to take a picture if I can. Anyway, it stops for no apparent good reason!!

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  Hm…
  It’s seems like we have quite different problems. But maybe they have the same source?
  I uploaded two pictures. One under virtual machine (everything seems normal) and another under dxwnd.

  Have you been able to run 4×4 Setup.exe with dxwnd? Had it showed overflow for Video Memory?
  Did you have a MMX error without my patch?

  

  

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  I’ve got to get out of home, I will try as soon as back, asap.

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  Hmm, I just did a quick test, but the game for me works with DxWnd in Win7 (with some settings). I removed «4×4 Setup.exe» request to MMX with flag Compat.-Disable CPU MMX Support flag. I’ll try again tomorrow.

  

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    Wow, thanks!
    Seems like third problem has been fully resolved. Who would think that you need disable CPU MMX support to fix «You need a processor with MMX capabilities to run this game» error. Really weird.

    Have you been able to run game in the Hardware mode? Can you please share your dxwnd settings for both files?

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  Have you been able to run 4×4 Setup.exe with dxwnd?

  yes, on my Win10 64bit the 4×4 Setup.exe runs with no problems both with and without DxWnd

  Had it showed overflow for Video Memory?

  not at all

  Did you have a MMX error without my patch?

  I can’t test it because in the files there’s no game version with noCD patch and without MMX patch: if I try to run the original executable file, the CD protection stops the program.

  I probably am going to give you another superfluous advice, but the «Inject suspended process» flag works as intended ONLY IF the program gets run from the DxWnd GUI, if you run it elsewhere (for instance by double-clicking on the program icon) the program is hooked anyway, but in late hooking mode, so some action could be skipped.

  The pictures below show one of the game menu screens working correctly and the 3D driving scene that gets blocked in this weird way.

  

  

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    I uploaded Cora1_NOCD.zip to archive.org.

    It’s really strange. No matter what settings I’ve been using to run setup.exe, it’s just won’t start with DXwnd. And it always breaks on this line:
    «CreateDevice(D3D7) ERROR: err=0x80004005(DDERR_GENERIC) at 1975»

    My specs are:
    Windows 10 64bit
    AMD Ryzen 3 2200G 3.50 GHz
    RAM 16.0 GB
    Radeon RX 590 VRAM 8192MB

    There is a screenshot in attachment of setup.exe that was launched under my Win10 without DXwnd hook. As you can see hardware render type and the most options are not available.

    In-game menu works everywhere fine except with dgVoodoo2. I uploaded screenshot with the game in the software mode.

     

    Last edit: UnrealDeveloper 2021-09-11

    

    

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      -I forgot to mention that I applied patch 1.2. I haven’t tried NoCD yet.
      -The game settings are set to Hardware (via DxWnd). Here are both profiles, but profile for setup is almost the default.
      -I can’t run «4×4 Setup.exe» without DxWnd due to an MMX error (I haven’t tried your patched file yet).
      Maybe it makes a difference that I have old Nvidia graphics.
      The only problem I have with «4×4 Launcher.exe», the buttons do not appear.

      

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        The Launcher works without any graphical glitches for me. I also have applied 1.2 patch.
        Thanks for the config files. I’ll try them as soon as I’ll return to a home.

         

        Last edit: UnrealDeveloper 2021-09-11

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          Maybe it’s because I transferred the game from Xp to Win7, but I think I have all the registry keys.
          By the way, it is interesting that the audio track from the CD image appears empty if I want to play it via vlc with the cd image mounted.
          Maybe it’s part of cd protection, I’ll explore it later.

          Update:
          I was right. If you rip an audio track, you create a Music folder in the game folder, here you copy an audio track with the correct name (in the DxWnd manual), then create a text file mcihack.txt (in Music folder) with content
          [msec]
          track01=3844294
          track02=699987
          cd=4544281
          and then enable the flag «Hook-Inject suspended process» + «Sound-Virtual CD audio + Hack track frames», the game will be happy and will not want a CD.

           

          Last edit: huh 2021-09-11

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            Very interesting! I got the same suspect that the empty audio track track02 was meant for copy protection only, but I missed a CD emulator able to emulate the CD perfectly to get the exact values in milliseconds.
            @Huh: The very same protection schema seems applied also to the next two chapters, Cabela’s 4X4 Off-road Adventure 2 and 3, so I would like to ask you if you could grab the CD images for these games as well (they both are on archive.org, a simple search starting from the first episode will lead you there) and get the magic lengths for these games as well.
            By the way, if this is the track usage, it is perfectly useless to drop a big file on your hard disk: since track02 will never be played, probably an empty file would do the trick and save you some ripping work and HD space.

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              -Okay, I’ll post the tracks length for both versions later.
              -That’s not a big problem Track02.ogg has 66kB

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            Wow! Really amazing finding. I didn’t even noticed that the game disk had hidden CD audio track.

            enable the flag «Hook-Inject suspended process» + «Sound-Virtual CD audio + Hack track frames», the game will be happy and will not want a CD.

            I guess, it’s a much more cleaner method of patching a game than changing bytes in the executable.

             

            Last edit: UnrealDeveloper 2021-09-11

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          Unfortunately, your config files gave me same result.
          Setup didn’t start and a log showed same error «CreateDevice(D3D7) ERROR: err=0x80004005(DDERR_GENERIC) at 1975».
          And 4×4 Adventure worked but still many textures were not visible in the hardware mode.

           

          Last edit: UnrealDeveloper 2021-09-12

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            It probably depends on the capabilities of the graphics card.
            Maybe you could create some logs in DxWnd…

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              I recall that in certain cases the DDERR_GENERIC error was caused by the missing support on legacy DirectDraw/Direct3D on some «modern» Windows 10 release. There was some Windows update to install to get the support that otherwise one could get with wrappers like dgVoodoo. But I’m not sure about this …

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                I think I have everything installed on my Windows 10 machine. And after all Setup.exe can be started on my machine without dxwnd although without the active Hardware mode.

                After some trial and error I managed to start Setup.exe with dxwnd with «No HAL Device» and «No TnL HAL Device» flags. I don’t have overflow now but I still can’t choose the Hardware render probably because of disabled HAL devices with dxwnd flags.

                I also attached 2 log files with and without aforementioned flags.

                 

                Last edit: UnrealDeveloper 2021-09-12

                

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  Another interesting discovery, perhaps. While I was digging in dxwnd.log file in search of the reason for my game hung I saw that while starting the game keep searching for unexistent resources on the file system, like these:

  CreateFileA ERROR: err=3 fname=".DataMenumenu_game.tga"
  CreateFileA ERROR: err=3 fname=".DataTextesHelpskill.1st"
  CreateFileA ERROR: err=3 fname=".DataCarstexture.dat"
  CreateFileA ERROR: err=3 fname=".DataTexturesloading3.tga"
  CreateFileA ERROR: err=3 fname=".datasoundenvironmentbaja_sm_e.scr"
  

  and these are just samples from many more errors. Following each error there is a succesful read from some other file. So my guess is that all game resources are within the data*.res archives, but each single element could be overwritten if the good file is present on the file system. This is a typical trick from developers to ease the game debugging or to make it possible to easily patch the game, so it could be ideal to take advantage and mod the game!

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    Cabela’s 4×4 Off-Road Adventure 2 from the web archive does not contain an audio track. Is there to be one or more tracks?
    If Cabela’s 4×4 Off-Road Adventure 3 uses the same protection scheme, the contents of mcihack.txt should be
    following:
    [msec]
    track01=4257574
    track02=347987
    cd=4605561

    P.S.
    I’ve noticed that Cabela’s 4X4 Off-road Adventure 2 was developed by Clever’s Games Ltd., while the other two were developed by Fun Labs, so there may be no such protection.

     

    Last edit: huh 2021-09-11

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    So my guess is that all game resources are within the data*.res archives, but each single element could be overwritten if the good file is present on the file system.

    Yes, you are absolutely right. While searching for a solution for my problem I stumbled upon a version of the game with unpacked «data» recourses.

     

    Last edit: UnrealDeveloper 2021-09-11

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  Update of my previous post:
  OK, it seems that Cabela’s 4×4 Off-road Adventure 3 (Cora3) works without CD with this mcihack.txt. The Music folder must be in the Bin folder.

  Update:
  CD checking in CORA2 is not based on autio tracks but on existing file and DxWnd FakeCD handles it well.
  I had to set up Video-Native, but the game still has some interesting technical issues, eg I can’t see a mouse with DxWnd…

   

  Last edit: huh 2021-09-11

  

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  I can’t see a mouse with DxWnd…

  In the first episode I had to enable dinput hooking + emulate mouse relative movement to prevent the mouse to skip outside the screen. Maybe CORA2 has the same problem?