Hi Jelly,

still having problems with jerked briefing maps using 1.28C (running with ATI card under Win XP) and there's no way SPAW will work with 1.28d.

You say it works under 1.28e, so can you kindly give me a link to this patch? Wasn't able to find any. Thanks!!

XenonS

1.28E has not been released. One of the key features is the end of those 30 plane files like "planes.dat", but that means a lot of work for us in splitting them to have individual skin and FM folders. My report re SPAW was just to indicate that I had done that successfully, and was able to use SPAW with 1.28E.

Anyhow, back to solutions.
Have you tried the d3d windower? It usually fixes the map problems, and if it works for you it will be the easiest solution. It works fine with my ATI HD4670, and the driver that Vista installed.

If not we will take the 1.28D path, with a workaround that uses the 1024x768 1.28D screens and menu files in place of the 640x480 SPAW ones.

Jel

Thx very much for your proposal, Jelly. In fact, I've overcome the map problems using 1.28D for the stock campaign, not installing any furhter mods and campaigns until now.
I will try out your solution immediately, would be very nice it this works.
Will let you know.

Thanks!

XenonS

Have installed and played with some settings of D3D Windower 1.88 (English);
Also hook.ini is pointing to the right path.
Have put all the files in the main SPAW directory, so dll's should be read fine.

- chosing a resolution 1x inferior to desktop resolution (1280x960 against 1280x1024).
- chosing "DDraw Emulate" in the Window Mode tab.

After starting with this configuration, all screens & briefing maps appear great, BUT:

eaw CTD when you try entering 3D world (Fly or Quick Mission).

Thanks for any help!

XenonS

My hook.ini reads as follows:

[KnownProgram]
G:\EAWGameranger\eaw.exe=eaw

No other settings just the path.
It then uses the window sizes of the various screens (640x480 or 1024x768) and hthe game screen itself is 1440x900 which is my eaw.ini setting.

The CTD could be due to several things.
Try deleting any "defaultxx.msn" files in the the savedata folder inside the SPAW folder, and from the savedata folder inside the EAW folder.

Then try flying a single mission.

Cheers

Jel

Have just taken out the defaultxx.msn in the EAW folder, no one in the SPAW.
I've then removed all entries in the hook.ini, except the path entries.
EAW will then launch, but with a jerked menu screen (only color lines to recognize).

Any time when i chose "DDraw Emulate" EAW starts fine - at any resolution i chose.
But still the CTD with the error message: "Pic not Found alcty6.ter !" after i chose Fly.
Do you start EAW with the default settings of the Windower, or have you changed any?

Also with some settings of the Windower EAW will lauch fullscreen, but then, the maps are jerky as without the Windower.
I wonder if there is some key command to tell the Windower to go fullscreen. If there is such one, it may work. ALT+Enter doesn't do it. Too bad that the readme is in japanese...
So, still no go.

[Update]:
I have some damn spaces in my directory names. Will change that and try again !!! no, No, nO...

XenonS

Hi Xenon.

Welcome to this forum.

You need to go into Config game screen and alter your graphics setting to either D3D or Glide.

You get that pic missing error in software mode.

Thanks a lot, Gibbon, but I have already Direct3D in the config screen.
Also, I tryed with Zeckensack's Glide Wrapper and switching to Glide, but this is useless for the GUI, only for the 3D world.

Thx anyway!

XenonS

...tribulations....Success !!!

Using Zeckensack's Glide Wrapper
Configured D3D Windower successfully

Will post results separately. Anyone who has problems: Don't miss it!

Finally I can concentrate on flying again after a EAW pause of 6 years.

XenonS

Is SPAW working OK?
If not let me know, and remind me whether or not you are using OAW128.