Warhammer Dark Omen Forum

Hi all,

Glad to be part of the group. I share the consensus that MoC was a shit game compared to DO. I have both and I found that some of the best RTS fun I had was playing LAN with DO.

But now with my AMD Athlon processor, I find that DO installs but wont run on XP!!

I have searched somewhat halfhearted at these forums to find a fix but can't. Can someone post a link or a guide to show how to make DO work with this system:

AMD Athlon X2 4400 Dual core, X1900XTX 512mb Vid Card, 3 Gig DDR2 RAM, and various joysticks and gamepads...

Cheers
Crix

ps.I can be contacted on alonewolfwithcub@hotmail.com thru facebook or email and my msn is deuwl@hotmail.com

Hi Crix and Welcome,

it's very easily fixed for Dark Omen to run on XP/Vista/Win7

http://forum.dark-omen.org/index.php/topic,111.msg310.html#msg310 (http://forum.dark-omen.org/index.php/topic,111.msg310.html#msg310)

:)

Hi buddy,

Yea im looking into that now. It looks okay but hopefully this time it works. Hey I remember ages ago when I tried to play this guy had designed all the Armies straight from the Codex and edited their hex values and stuff. I also noticed the sprite editing as well which looks great.

Is there been an effort to design new sprites to encompass other races like Skaven and Dark Elves and Chaos?

p.s. How often you guys play online? I have a DO nut of a friend who would be very keen to play!

I'm on hamachi nearly every night, Welcoming any new members and

fixing any of their problems, so they can successfully play Multiplayer

and I train them up to join our Monthly Tournaments.

Hope to see you on the battlefield soon.

:)

ps. there are great plans to add all the Warhamemr Races and work has begun
on Dark Elf and others and I know that Chaos and Lizardmen are high on the To do List.

Good news is that the game seems to running beautifully!! No problems whatsoever!! I just set the graphics to CPU and turned off the color selectors but I will adhere to the help post and download the new textures and the modified cursor which makes the black and white cursors into the color ones.

Also, I will install hatachi soon and I was wondering, do you guys just play the original game without mods? I know you have modified rules which is a great idea eg.Caps on amount of gear a hero can have but what other modifications have been made?

Cheers
Crix

Hey I installed Hatachi and tried to join the network as following:

Name: Dark-Omen2
pass: darkomen

I typed it in exactly and I got this error: This network appears to be full. Click here for details!

What does this mean? Does this mean that only 2 people can be on this channel at a time? Can you please assist olly? Thanks a lot for your help dude. You guys just earned yourselves 2 new generals! And I would have to say my abilites are pretty damn good! I finished that game after all and I think DO was one of the hardest games to finish of all time.

http://forum.dark-omen.org/help-section/ultimate-multiplayer-connection-fixes-t110.0.html (http://forum.dark-omen.org/help-section/ultimate-multiplayer-connection-fixes-t110.0.html)

Thanks for all the help. I got it working and had a test run and it worked fine. Now the next part of my tuning is do you know how I can convert the music files into mp3 format. 1 of the best things about DO was the music especially the one that goes like this ...'dUH DUH - - DUH DUH,,,, DUH DUH ssst .... dUH DUH - - DUH DUH,,,, DUH DUH

Here are some questions:
How do i convert the .sad files into a playable format?
Is there a way to play using the best quality textures and somehow play with 3D settings using 3D?


Cheers
Crix

SAD/MAD audio converter (http://en.dark-omen.org/downloads/view-details/1.-modding-tools/4.-miscellaneous-tools/sad/mad-audio-converter.html)

Hey mate! Thanks for your help as well setting me up. I got a mate who's really into MoC but he never played DO! Guess what? He found that he had a freind who had bought it ages ago and now hes got that and he LOVES it! The only thing better about MoC apart from obviously the graphics is the fact that you can select the whole army and place them as you feel in the game. DO was a bit dodgy when it came to selecting units I thought. That was the weakest part of the game. The fact you couldn't customize and select units based on numbers ....

Anyways thanks for the help. My next goal is to try to get the best graphical settings out of this as possible. I really hate the software graphics and gonna fiddle around and see if i can somehow use 3D options!!

Cheers
Crix

see the sticky topics for 3D options (http://forum.dark-omen.org/help-section-b7.0/)

If you have an Nvidia Graphics Card and an old Stlye CRT monitor (or possibly very new TFT)

then I have Developed a Guide that will allow Full 3d Mode on XP/Vista and Im confident with Radeon.
 

http://forum.dark-omen.org/help-section/dark-omen-in-full-3d-mode-high-res-xp-and-no-flicker-t248.0.html (http://forum.dark-omen.org/help-section/dark-omen-in-full-3d-mode-high-res-xp-and-no-flicker-t248.0.html)


I also suggest the possible improvement of the CPU water Texture if possible

and please check out my Guide to Rob's Audio converter  http://wiki.dark-omen.org/do/DO/Audio (http://wiki.dark-omen.org/do/DO/Audio)

:)

Yea im doing that guide but I have an Ati Radeon Card so i set my options as close to the ones you listed in your briliant guide for the Nvidia card but it doesn't work!

However the game runs with my registry change in hardware options being 252. Hmm I am going to experiment and see what else I can do.

Sorry can some1 link me how to host using hamachi?

sure,

http://forum.dark-omen.org/help-section/ultimate-multiplayer-connection-fixes-t110.0.html (http://forum.dark-omen.org/help-section/ultimate-multiplayer-connection-fixes-t110.0.html)

:)

Yea Ive tried everything from that thread already and no go. I was able to join a game no problem and when my friend hosted, I was able to see his game online but I couldn't host. I need to setup a static ip, I know that, but still at the moment I even tried to join his game adding that ForceBindIP program to no avail. I am in Melbourne Australia +10GMT so can someone please make an arrangement say at 10pm tommorrow or anytime during the day to fix my problem please?

Cheers
Crix

Yes, i will be online at that time to assist you but first,

please confirm for my benefit -

1) You sucessfully joined your friend's game, when he Hosted.

So you both joined a Hamachi Channel and as Host he started Dark Omen up and went to Multiplayer-> PlayTCP/IP Connection for DirectPlay and Connect but as Host he left the next box blank/empty and then choose to Create a Game.

(For Host = TCP/IP Box Blank or Empty but to Join a Game = Insert Host IP)

Then u started your game and chose Multiplayer-> PlayTCP/IP-Connection for DirectPlay and Connect but then pasted in his Hamachi IP (since he is the Host you want to Join) and Successfully Joined his Game.


2) However, when you try and Host a Game there is problem?

Please also Confirm how you Host by -

Starting Dark Omen -> Multiplayer-> PlayTCP/IP Connection for DirectPlay and Connect but as Host you leave the next box blank/empty and then choose to Create a Game. Then your friend starts his game and choses Multiplayer-> PlayTCP/IP-Connection for DirectPlay and Connect but then pastes in your Hamachi IP, since you are now the Host, he wants to Join.


If this is all confirmed to be True then it implies that your Friend is fine but you still have something preventing him Joining, therefore you must follow the Guide and do Steps 1, 2 and 3. If you can confirm that you already have, then recheck, otherwise He must use Step 5 Forcebindip (starts Game with new Icon) to Force Join to your Game, remembering, DO NOT use Forcebindip to Host games, only to Join.

Again, if you both have already tried this then Provide your friend with your Public Router IP in Step 4, to use when Joining your Hosted Game, instead of your Hamachi IP.

If he still has trouble connecting to your Hosted Game then You should try Step 6 and Promote your Hamachi Network and then restart your PC and re -Host, remembering to Leave the TCP/IP Box Blank when Hosting and only the opponent has to paste in the Host's IP to Join.


Please also confirm your Hamachi Status and Version 1.0.3.0, hopefully you see each other as Green Stars in Hamachi (Good Connection) and not Blue Arrows (Bad Connection/Relay Server 8kbps). However, since you say You can Join His Game then it sounds like You need to do Step 1,2,3,4 and 6, else he has to try Step 5 to Force Join to your Hosted Games.

Please be patient and test, as it is always worth it in the End and I always get it to work, incase you meet other members who also have trouble Joining your Hosted Games. Simply advise them to use Forcebindip, if you can confirm that you, as Host have already done Step 1 -Firewall/AV, Step 2-Open Hamachi Ports, Step 3-Open Router Ports, Step 4-Provide him your Public Router Ip and Step 6-Promoted Hamachi.


:)

 
ps. There is always GameRanger Lobby to try, that has proved to work fine for most
http://forum.dark-omen.org/multiplayer/gameranger-a-new-place-to-play-dark-omen-online-t157.0.html (http://forum.dark-omen.org/multiplayer/gameranger-a-new-place-to-play-dark-omen-online-t157.0.html)

Yes, i will be online at that time to assist further... since Dark Omen  Multiplayer connections can be Random
between members, as you both may be able to play everyone else, except yourselves until completing my Guide

http://forum.dark-omen.org/index.php/topic,110.msg309.html#msg309 (http://forum.dark-omen.org/index.php/topic,110.msg309.html#msg309)