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ThirteenAG
[NFSU2] Windows 11 24H2 Update breaks widescreen fix
The NFSU2 widescreen fix works fine in Windows 23H2, but after updating to 24H2, the game launches with a prolonged black screen. Once in the main menu, all sounds, including background music, lag and repeat. However, removing dinput8.dll from the game folder allows it to run normally. Rolling back to 23H2 resolves the issue, enabling the widescreen fix to function properly.
Kind of a duplicate of #1573
Wish I could help, but I can't reproduce any of this.
Good to know, but please compare with this build as well, does it still work?
NFSUnderground2.WidescreenFix.zip
Good to know, but please compare with this build as well, does it still work?
Yes, still works!
@bscout9956 The previous builds are incorrect, this one should be, please also check this one.
NFSUnderground2.WidescreenFix.zip
Well, in that case I'll just go with Silent's implementation instead. Lmk if that works.
NFSUnderground2.WidescreenFix.zip
Well, in that case I'll just go with Silent's implementation instead. Lmk if that works.
Nope, in fact I had quite a struggle to force close the game this time around.
To be clear, this one works:
File: NFSUnderground2.WidescreenFix.asi SHA-1: b58ac3b8b0c74af84312dcadb54d51d86b569635 SHA-256: 42f7661b47ff19f286fa73e47c989285f6fac3b0282e9deca742cbdd4c2da431
It's this line of code that's causing it:
https://github.com/ThirteenAG/WidescreenFixesPack/blob/8932d30f211ff738c0d860213d4e61f8123a43f8/source/NFSUnderground2.WidescreenFix/dllmain.cpp#L905
Now the question is, is it even needed? I would say it can be safely deleted, but maybe I can ping @CookiePLMonster and see what he has to say.
Meanwhile, @bscout9956, any chance you could test Scarface with https://github.com/CookiePLMonster/SilentPatchScarface and see if it has the same issue?
It's this line of code that's causing it:
https://github.com/ThirteenAG/WidescreenFixesPack/blob/8932d30f211ff738c0d860213d4e61f8123a43f8/source/NFSUnderground2.WidescreenFix/dllmain.cpp#L905
Now the question is, is it even needed? I would say it can be safely deleted, but maybe I can ping @CookiePLMonster and see what he has to say.
Without this call you're not constraining affinity of the game thread so yes, it's likely needed.
It's this line of code that's causing it: https://github.com/ThirteenAG/WidescreenFixesPack/blob/8932d30f211ff738c0d860213d4e61f8123a43f8/source/NFSUnderground2.WidescreenFix/dllmain.cpp#L905
Now the question is, is it even needed? I would say it can be safely deleted, but maybe I can ping @CookiePLMonster and see what he has to say.
Without this call you're not constraining affinity of the game thread so yes, it's likely needed.
Any other ideas then what might be breaking here? After all, it used to work fine, and still works for me, even on 24h2.
No idea - has the DLL patching been delegated to another thread maybe? Or some third party code injected into the thread?
No clue, asi wasn't updated in a long time, so it's unlikely dependencies or my code changes broke it.
@bscout9956
NFSUnderground2.WidescreenFix.zip
Check this one too, I doubt it fixed the issue, but who knows.
No clue, asi wasn't updated in a long time, so it's unlikely dependencies or my code changes broke it.
@bscout9956
NFSUnderground2.WidescreenFix.zip
Check this one too, I doubt it fixed the issue, but who knows.
Nope.
Your code is fine I believe. Unsure about dependencies. It's really Windows (mis)behaving weirdly, as I tested the game under Arch Linux (Wine) with the same files, mods and everything and it works just fine.
Hold on... I just tried launching it again to see if this option was causing issues:
Then I checked taskmgr
Suspended? That makes no sense.
Hold on... I just tried launching it again to see if this option was causing issues:
Then I checked taskmgr
Suspended? That makes no sense.
And what if you resume manually, will it continue working then?
Do you have this setting in windows defender enabled by any chance?
Nope.
Also, worth noting this reply to my original issue:
I'm also playing at 1440p (in my case I have set 125% scaling). Though I just tried 1080p and got nothing lol.
Nope, but I just tested 60hz.
And it worked.
It doesn't seem to like my monitor's 180hz, nor 120hz mode.
It does fine with 75hz!
Oh god. I tried to take a screenshot but the indicator changed to 180hz. But it also worked at 100hz.
Now I don't know if it's running at 180hz in game or 100hz. :l
Ok. It seems the game runs fine if the receiving signal is a proper 60hz signal or so.
Sometimes when I set it to 60hz the signal is still a 120hz signal. 59.95 doesn't seem to suffer from this issue.
Can you reinstall the currently released version, then launch the game, and when the issue appears, just make a dump of the process via the task manager. Upload somewhere like easyupload and post the link here.
Can you reinstall the currently released version, then launch the game, and when the issue appears, just make a dump of the process via the task manager. Upload somewhere like easyupload and post the link here.
Done! https://easyupload.io/60ns5w