Dungeon Lords Collector's Edition black screen, no UI textures

[BSoD38]

Describe the bug

• A clear and concise description of what the bug is. Dungeon Lords Collector's Edition displays a black screen on menus when using RTX Remix. The initial video cutscene works, but the screen turns black when the menu is supposed to be displayed. Mouse input works (I can hear menu interaction sounds). The RTX Remix developer menu displays nothing in the UI textures tab.
• Which Remix version (include branch and commit info for dxvk and bridge if not a stable build) 0.1.1
• Which GPU RTX 2080 Super
• Which GPU driver version 531.61
• Which game build (and whether it is from Steam/GOG/Other) DRM free, French Collector's Edition (version 1.5C). I have archived the game's ISO on archive.org.

Attach logs!

• NvRemixBridge.log
• d3d9.log
• dlords_d3d9.log

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Install Dungeon Lords CE
2. Install RTX Remix
3. Run the game
4. Intro videos play correctly, then the screen turns black

Expected behavior The menu should be visible, or at least the UI textures should be shown in the developer menu.

[BSoD38]

I have tested RTX Remix 0.4.0 on Dungeon Lords again. It's much better now, but still unusable.

• The main menu works now, but the cursor will be invisible, you need to alt-tab out of the game and back again a couple of times to see your cursor (it is normally a custom cursor, but Windows' cursor is shown instead here, but it works anyway).
• 3D graphics are displayed, but the camera is very broken. It shakes extremely wildly in random directions, which is headache-inducing, and makes testing difficult.
• Once in-game, the HUD is invisible.
• Static meshes such as buildings, trees, and bushes are displayed, but are very bright.
• Characters are displayed but don't seem to be lit properly like with static meshes (it's hard to tell because of the camera shaking so much).
• The skybox is completely black.
• Terrain seems to be invisible.
• There are shiny blue streaks visible on the ground level, which is probably water, although I'm not too sure.
• Performance isn't great, despite most of the geometry not being visible. I'm at around 40FPS with an RTX 2080 Super.
• Pressing escape to display the main menu (used for saving, loading and quitting) freezes the game. You need to kill the game's process after this happens.

I'll send a video of how it looks like in-game here : Dungeon Lords 2024.01.25 - 18.23.14.01.webm

Here are the logs: d3d9.log dlords_d3d9.log NvRemixBridge.log

[NV-LL]

Hello! Will you please test this on the latest release and let us know if the issues from January persist? Thank you!

[BSoD38]

Hello, I have tried using the latest 0.5.0 release, and the issue is pretty much the same. The rendering of the characters seems to have changed a little, but it's still unusable as-is. I have also noticed that the character creation screen is completely black, apart from the 3D character preview that shakes wildly across the screen.

[NV-LL]

Thank you for checking! This may be a rendering bug; it also may be an issue with setup. If you haven't already, we recommend checking in with the community on Discord to see if other members know how to address these issues - the runtime-help channel would be a good place to start. If you can help rule out setup problems, that would make it easier for us to investigate any possible rendering bugs. Thanks!

[ezloj]

@BSoD38 sorry to hijack this thread, but I would really like to ask you if you have some magic way to make Dungeon Lords run on win11 or win10? my email is if you'd prefer to take this to DM.

Really love the game but the best I was able to do is to install it on a win7 VM and port the installed version on my old PC with win10 where it launched. But there was no GPU in VM so the game runs off of CPU and only supports 800x600

[BSoD38]

@BSoD38 sorry to hijack this thread, but I would really like to ask you if you have some magic way to make Dungeon Lords run on win11 or win10? my email is jan.lutenko@gmail.com if you'd prefer to take this to DM.

Really love the game but the best I was able to do is to install it on a win7 VM and port the installed version on my old PC with win10 where it launched. But there was no GPU in VM so the game runs off of CPU and only supports 800x600

Hi! I didn't do anything special: I installed the game from the official DVD, and just ran the .exe, and it runs fine. The only change I made is hex edit the exe file to replace the 1600x1200 resolution to 2560x1440.

I tried both the original 1.4 version, and the collector's 1.5C version, and both worked perfectly fine. I even played in co-op online with a friend and both versions worked without issues after I set up port forwarding on my router.

[ezloj]

@BSoD38 thanks a lot for the response! You helped me to better understand the issue. I now realised that the installer wouldn't copy all the files for some reason on newer windows versions. Additionally, to change the resolution I had to also lower the desktop resolution beforehand - else it wouldn't work

EDIT: I would also appreciate if you could edit my email address out of your response as it's no longer necessary 🙏

[NV-LL]

@BSoD38 - have you been able to re-check game setup to rule that out as an issue here?

Thank you for checking! This may be a rendering bug; it also may be an issue with setup. If you haven't already, we recommend checking in with the community on Discord to see if other members know how to address these issues - the runtime-help channel would be a good place to start. If you can help rule out setup problems, that would make it easier for us to investigate any possible rendering bugs. Thanks!