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narzoul / DDrawCompat

DirectDraw and Direct3D 1-7 compatibility, performance and visual enhancements for Windows Vista, 7, 8, 10 and 11
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Jane's Fighters Anthology crashes #322

Closed raptor264 closed 3 weeks ago

raptor264 commented 1 month ago

After a normal installation and applying the official patch 1.02... the game in the menus works but when loading a mission or wanting to see a plane in references it directly crashes. If I don't apply the patch and leave it as it is, the game also crashes with or without DDrawCompat. I am using compatibility mode as well.

narzoul commented 4 weeks ago

The game works fine without any compatibility modes for me, with or without the patch, and with or without DDrawCompat. It's recommended to use ThreadPriorityBoost=on for DDrawCompat to fix the stuttery cursor issue.

The game's entirely software rendered with very basic use of DirectDraw, so I think your crash is unlikely to be related to ddraw, but let's check anyway. Please set CrashDump=full and LogLevel=debug in DDrawCompat.ini, reproduce the crash (e.g. with Create Quick Mission), then compress and upload the DDrawCompat log file and dmp file.

raptor264 commented 4 weeks ago

here it is... what's the problem? I really don't know what it is because it happens even before having DDrawCompat in the game directory. https://drive.google.com/file/d/18BSFTaqq-Lis2kXm-clc5YPNfXPFqZLj/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ytTVwiL15EVYelfOQyacP5yMOpXZ_Nys/view?usp=sharing

narzoul commented 4 weeks ago

Based on your crash dump, it crashes when FA.exe is trying to execute code from a memory area outside of the executable file or any of its loaded modules. So it may be a DEP (Data Execution Prevention) issue. You can try to enable the DisableNX shim for FA.exe in Compatibility Administrator to see if it fixes it.

I wonder why it's not an issue for me, even though according to my Windows Security settings, DEP is set to "Use default (On)".

raptor264 commented 3 weeks ago

The game works at 99.99% due to the supposed lack of multiplayer. I put some fixes and other things on it, it practically comes back to life in its entirety along with its respective manual. Thank you very much friend, thanks to DisableNX I can enjoy a classic. You are a genius and I learned many new things that I applied to other programs thanks to you. thank you so much.