piano-sam on 13/5/2008 at 21:19
good show, mate.
ZylonBane on 13/5/2008 at 21:39
Quote Posted by TheNightTerror
My only little nitpick is the main menu is stretched.
That's unlikely to be fixable, since the menus are almost certainly not rendered through the 3D pipeline.
weak-ling on 13/5/2008 at 21:46
Nameless Voice:
Sorry if this sounds like a stupid question but did you check if 1280x800 actually works for you in windows? That would explain the "Your video hardware is not supported by System Shock 2" error.
TheNightTerror:
System Shock 2 is the only Dark Engine game I ever played and I don't have any of the others. The menu being stretched is caused by the way ddfix handles things and has nothing to do with my mod. Just install ddfix without the widescreen mod but enter a widescreen resolution in ddfix.ini. This will obviously not work ingame but you will see that the menu will still be stretched.
Nameless Voice on 13/5/2008 at 21:52
The menu stretching is caused by DDFix anyway, it stretches the menus to your desktop resolution IIRC. Timeslip would have to write a workaround for it.
Edit: Too slow...
ZylonBane on 13/5/2008 at 22:11
Quote Posted by weak-ling
TheNightTerror:
System Shock 2 is the only Dark Engine game I ever played and I don't have any of the others.
Good lord! As a reward for this impressive hack, you should treat yourself to playing Thief. Seriously.
Someone send this man a trapezoid!
Nameless Voice on 13/5/2008 at 22:24
Quote Posted by weak-ling
Nameless Voice:
Sorry if this sounds like a stupid question but did you check if 1280x800 actually works for you in windows? That would explain the "Your video hardware is not supported by System Shock 2" error.
Well, that would explain it. I feel quite stupid now! :o
I had assumed that any resolution lower than my actual screen resolution would work, but Windows obviously sees that I don't have a widescreen monitor and won't let me use that resolution.
That's what I get for trying to be helpful and test something that I don't actually need...
I just tested it with 1280x960, and that works flawlessly.
Good work! I'm sure if I ever have to use a widescreen monitor, I'll appreciate this...
TheNightTerror on 13/5/2008 at 22:39
Quote Posted by weak-ling
TheNightTerror:
System Shock 2 is the only Dark Engine game I ever played and I don't have any of the others. The menu being stretched is caused by the way ddfix handles things and has nothing to do with my mod.
Ahhhh, gotcha. How exactly does the mod work? It might not take much work to get it working for the Dark engine games. If all the shock2.exe references were switched to Thief 1+2's exe files, that might do the trick unless the mod is more complicated than it looks. *strokes chin thoughtfully*
Nameless Voice on 13/5/2008 at 22:43
It's modifying parts of the executable's code, so you'd need to find the appropriate offsets for the same sections of code in the other games.
Considering that the program has a simple text file with all the addresses in it, I'd assume that you would just need to put the appropriate offsets in there once you have them.
TheNightTerror on 13/5/2008 at 22:55
That would be beyond what I could do, but it sounds simple enough for someone who knows how to find the offsets. It would certainly be interesting seeing if the widescreen mod would crash some of the higher poly fan missions!
weak-ling on 14/5/2008 at 01:29
This is an experimental mod for Thief2 v1.18 that is mostly based on guesswork. It has never been tested in any way because I don't have the game. It might work perfectly but it will probably not work at all or maybe even explode in your face. Do not use this mod. Good night.
link removed, new version below
