Closed EricOakford closed 8 months ago
I can't get this game to work on Windows 11, with or without DDrawCompat. It's stuck on a black screen at startup, seemingly in an infinite loop, before the intro video would start playing. It doesn't respond to any input, so I have to kill it from Task Manager. It works fine in an XP VM, but I can't use DDrawCompat there.
I used Carmen Sandiego's Great Chase Through Time for debugging instead, and fixed the videos there: ddraw.zip (diff.txt compared to v0.4.0)
I assume it should work for Word Detective also. I didn't notice any cursor issues, but most likely it's related to display scaling, so the DisplayResolution=app setting might be a workaround for that. If you know of a way to get Word Detective working, or to reproduce the same issues in some other title, let me know.
The opening video works correctly now! I'll play through and check for any more bugs.
Fixed in v0.5.0.
So I started up Carmen Sandiego Word Detective using DDrawCompat in Windows 11. It fixes fading in and out (which wouldn't work otherwise), but prevents the opening movie (which uses QuickTIme 2.1) from playing past the first frame (the audio plays fine, however). Also, after a while, the cursor is replaced with a black box, fouling up the animations.
Here is the log file: