Open ghotik opened 3 months ago
As an aside, I was wondering if you could use your expertise with DirectX to help me fix an issue with a game when alt-tabbing from fullscreen mode; if you are willing to help please tell me where would be best to contact you.
... please tell me where would be best to contact you
I would suggest to create a thread on the DxWnd forum on SourceForge ( https://sourceforge.net/p/dxwnd/discussion/general/ ) because that is the place where I check my messages more often, but any other place would be OK. By the way, SF has a private mailing system that would allow to exchange private information (like my email address) to establish an even tighter contact, if necessary.
Some news here: https://sourceforge.net/p/dxwnd/discussion/general/thread/15812bad5f/?page=2#f0cf The summary: I bought a USB CD reader to test some Genuine CDs with Safedisc protection on my Win11, a configuration that should be useful for nostalgic guys that kept some CDs in a drawer. But the results were unexpected:
Game Safedisc version - without SafediscShim - with SafeDiscShim
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Black & White 2 4.0.2 not working not working
Rise of Nations 2.70.30 working working
Divine Divinity 2.70.30 not working not working
With these first 3 games it seems that SafeDiscShim had no effect on the games. I wonder why ...
I apologize to repeat here some of the questions I made in the closed thread, but I was not sure that you read it. So, I'll repeat some questions trying to be short and not to steal too much of your time:
1) could you suggest a SafeDisc target for testing that works with your shim? I picked "Age of Empires II" but I'm not sure it would be the easiest case, since in this case there is a drvmgt.dll file in the game folder 2) In your opinion it would be correct to hook kernel32:DeviceIoControl in addition to ntdll:NtDeviceIoControlFile? I did that and it seemed ok, but I don't know ... 3) The Process::Relaunch() method in your project seems unreferenced, is that correct? 4) if you have time, please read the longer plea in the original thread
Thank you, Gho