[Warhammer Dark Omen Forum]

Warhammer Dark Omen Forum

Cool, let me know. It will be worth it once you are happily playing. Also confirm your version of windows and if I get tired of repeating each step of the guide, then I usually remote in using Teamviewer 11, only to discover they have missed a vital step etc. There hasn't been a single case in the last 12 years that I haven't fixed, as it's never the computer so keep the faith, hehe.

Yep check your antivirus isn't blocking the dark patch.dll or the dgvoodoo2 control panel. The guide also states to check your are starting the game from the new PRG_ENG folder within your Dark Omen but I'm not going to repeat every step. Have you watched the video guide?

Hi and welcome, the guide suggests you install the registry fixes. Please confirm with screenshots that you have followed the steps, if you have already tried the registry fixes.

Great, will try it out. Thanks

Cool, will check it out  thanks

You list some great classic games and glad to hear there are still fans playing them.

Sounds like you haven't fully followed the 5 steps of the guide, so please post evidence of each step to see what you may have missed. Did you try installing the registry fixes, such as the VirtualStore?

I've uploaded a new Help Fix Guide 2020 YouTube video to follow

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

Hi,

great timing as I was just uploading a newer Mod Pack Jan 2020! Thanks to Dege's excellent dgVoodoo software and his recent Dark Omen graphical fixes, that Ghabry kindly applied into his darkpatch.dll, it now makes Dark Omen look even more amazing. So please now follow the new help fix guide

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

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Looking good, well done.

Dark Omen running at 2560x1440 no shimmering of trees so looks amazing. Watch in the youtube's highest quality setting to see how beautiful it really is

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p455XLNjOj8

Cool find, can't wait to test it thanks, as always seen it but never knew we could interact with it.

Hi and welcome, glad you're enjoying the mods.

I do like the idea of a readme file that describes each mod and will create it based on their forum posts

http://forum.dark-omen.org/campaigns-b36.0/

I love the interactive strength button that can sway the outcome of melee and makes Dark Omen unique. It presents the player the decision to either micro manage each unit  to boost them but doing so takes their eye off the bigger battle, at their peril.

I miss the strength button in games like total war and feel redundant once each unit is engaged in combat. However, at least warhammer total war has spells to keep you busy.

Great will test it tonight, many thanks.

**works perfectly and will add into the latest mod pack and create a new Help fix guide and video.

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I followed Aqrit's advice and examined Dege's DARKOMEN.exe with an original EngRel.exe and noted the 7 changes, then applied those changes into our latest Mod Pack EngRel.exe and it worked. Then downloaded Dege's latest dgVoodoo-v2.63 and copied dgVoodooCpl, DDraw.dll & D3DImm.dll into Dark Omen PRG_ENG folder and used the following settings

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http://dege.freeweb.hu/dgVoodoo2/dgVoodoo2.html

Dark Omen has never looked so good, running at 2560x1440 and the textures don't shimmer as much, even with the extreme camera zoom out and the 3d talking head portraits also look amazing. It also uses coloured cursors. The only slight issue is with the text writing that I'm not sure how to correct.  

Eternal thanks to Dege and of course Ghabry/Aqrit for the Mod Pack advanced features and deffnator for alerting the Dark Omen community to this latest dgVoodoo patch. So will combine into latest Mod Pack.



Dege dgVoodoo
https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?p=803101#p803101

Dege kindly explains his fix ->

1. If the resolution is forced then the initial mouse cursor counter is a large negative number (I don't have a clue why) and the game gets stuck into a
for (; ShowCursor (TRUE) <= 0; )
cycle to make the cursor visible. I modified the cycle to run at most once. When resolution is forced then dgVoodoo draws its own cursor so the physical one shouldn't be visible anyway, while in unforced res case 1 ShowCursor is enough to make it visible.
2. When the game starts then it does a little test drawing by the 3D device to check out if it really works (and not some garbage driver is behind the scene [early 3D days with a lof of very buggy unusable drivers when the game was written...]).
It draws a simple white triangle or something then reads back one of its pixel by the CPU. If the readback pixel is not white then 3D is disabled in the options menu. With forced resolution the drawn (and downscaled) stuff gets offseted by a pixel so the pixel read back is black. I simply forced the pixel read back to (be thinked to be) white.
Btw, what's the problem with the menu text? What I can see is it's upscaled by a pointsampled filter (pixelated text) but that's normal.

****Just tested multiplayer via GameRanger still works with my Dark Omen 2 mod which reuses the Mark of Chaos & Battle March maps
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High Elves and Skaven armies due soon and then can get back into adding new scenery for new maps.