Olsenbanden jr. i Vikingenes Fotspor

Anyone else gets this corruption with this game (see video)? I believe a combination of Windows 10 updates and Nvidia drivers bricked the game. On my 4790k/1080 system the game worked fine in Windows 7, but not 10/11. The game also work properly on an intel laptop with HD5500 IGP in Windows 11, so I dont think it is strictly a Windows OS issue.

Since it is a macromedia title you may also run into an issues with the game not launching at all due to the IML32 library. If that is the issue you could try disabling your GPU first in devide manager and the game should boot.

The mdf/mds image needs to mounted in WinCDemu to bypass Safedisc protection, wont work with Daemon Tools in a modern OS. The .iso which i also provided should bypass the Safedisc protection when mounted with the built in Windows Explorer mounting tool.

I couldnt get any wrappers to work with the game.

https://www.legendsworld.net/adventure/game/23656

 

I have tried WineD3D, ‎dgvoodoo 2 and DDrawCompat just now, none of which fix the graphical issue.

 

Do you have any suggetion for settings? DxWnd dont seem to actually hook into the game though.

The system req from the manual may give you some idea of what fixes to apply. I could have translated it, but it shouldnt be that hard to guess what they mean...

Minimumskrav PC • OS: Windows® XP, Windows Me, Windows 2000, Windows 98 • CPU:800 MHz Intel® Pentium® III eller AMD® Athlon™ prosessor • RAM: 256 MB RAM. • Grafikkort: 64 MB nVidia GeForce2 eller ATI Radeon 7500 eller nyere chip-sett og DirectX 9.0 kompatibel driver. • Harddisk plass: 200 MB Anbefalt PC • OS: Windows® XP, Windows Me, Windows 2000, Windows 98 • CPU: 1.4 GHz Intel® Pentium® III eller AMD® Athlon™ prosessor • RAM: 512 MB • Grafikkort: 64 MB nVidia GeForce3, ATI Radeon 8500 eller nyere chipsett og DirectX 9.0 kompatibel driver. • Harddisk plass: 1 GB

 

The game decided to work today with the 456.71 drivers and DDraw from Dgvoodo 2.76.1. I dont see the dgvoodo2 watermark, so I dont know if it is using it or not... I did leave it in the gamefolder when I tried to troubleshoot the game.

I didnt make any changes myself at least. So I really dont know what excatly caused the bug. I believe I did test earlier with the same drivers and wrapper. I did however play that Flunkerne game in the meantime, which is also using a Macromedia Projector executable, so maybe that fixed a configuration issue.

The error returned after launching the game a few times. I dont get what is wrong... After a launch in Windows 7 and a restart the game worked in Windows 11 again witn no issues. it seems that i wont always start from the image. Launching Safedisc images with WinCEemu is kind of a workaround anyway, so it not guarented to work every time.. It could be that Safedisc DRM is indirectly causing the graphical issue.

Converting the MDF/MDS to .iso and mounting the image with windows explorer, seems to be more reliable than WinCDemu for this title in particular. Once you somehow get the game working without graphical artifacts it seems to stay this way if you use Windows Explorer. When mounted with Windows Explorer i'm also able to use a wrapper. Nah, the error returned...

Windows 11 21H2 20200.282.
A NOCD for the game is still highly appreciated.

In Windows 7 the dgvoodo2 wrapper gets applied to the game, but not in Windows 10 or 11.. The same wrapper does work with other games in Windows 10/11.

Update

I noticed that one of the modules to the game kept crashing in the eventlog. This lead me to this

• Shockwave 3D Asset.x32 was hacked to fix the Shockwave 3D Bad Driver List Bug. See this page for more info: How can I play .dcr Shockwave games?

Sadly just replacing that Shockwave 3D asset.x32, didnt do much since it is a different version... Game said shockwave flash was not installed.


There is a bug with Shockwave 3D which Adobe has not created any official fix for. If you try and play 3D content on a Windows 10 PC with newer Nvidia graphics drivers, the plugin will crash and become non-interactable. This happens because of a change in the specification, which causes a buffer overflow.

flash - How can I play .dcr Shockwave games? - Arqade (stackexchange.com)

It is a rather manual process, unless someone is able to apply the same hack to the Shockwave 3D asset.x32 the game shipped with.

Shockwave Xtras - Flashpoint Database (bluemaxima.org)

I would need to do some testing to see if this actually fixed anything or not...