I'm amazed you can deal with that without source. That was a huge pain in the ass in the dx9 days. Had to release all rendertargets and textures and reupload them all.
The Al`kabor Project (EQMac) - PoP 1/5
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It's almost the same as with working with source. Used this as a reference for a lack of DX8 libraries:
http://www.unknowncheats.me/forum/425262-post2.html
The issue was less of the reset failing but the code path it was taking was rendering even if the D3D8 call to IDirect3DDevice::Reset failed. In this case, it was reset/present failing with D3DERR_INVALIDCALL, which upon further investigation was just because the old eqgfx_dx8.dll was not passing windowed mode to the presentation params. Upon further investigation reset calls work if the device is available AND we passed the windowed mode flag. It was a multi-layer problem.
That would have worked to just call reset at the appropriate time, but then you have the issue of the client releasing textures etc as you mentioned. So what I did is called the 'resolution change' function used for restoring the 'old' resolution on a time on the game's main loop, NOP'd the check where it checks to see your resolution is the same as the old, NOP'd the deinit/reactivation of the UI in the call itself in eqgame.exe, and then called the function on the game's main thread after the HWND receives WM_ACTIVATE. This makes the device reset never called except when the reset is actually allowed via user input, and fixes the crash.
Code looks horrible but it's something like:
It also helps that the EQMac client has debugging symbols in it (the OSX Intel one), it helped with making this for sure.
yamikazo
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Is this a patch, or is this an entirely new client?
Or, can I use those files to copy/paste into my existing game that has my settings and such, or do I need to back those up and drop them into a new install?
Just a patch. Place it over your existing install if you had one with my client.
I gave a 180MB logfile from Al'kabor to... Surron / Geom on the p99 forums... to give to Torven.
Hope they made it there, if not will link to the google drive location.
I have another log from my cleric about the same size if anyone is interested in it.
Hope they made it there, if not will link to the google drive location.
I have another log from my cleric about the same size if anyone is interested in it.
He sent it to me. Thanks for this.
I got logs from a bunch of users recently so I'm pretty happy with my logs situation now. (more is always better however) Only thing I'm really missing is a good Ring of Fire (Acrylia Caverns) log.
I got logs from a bunch of users recently so I'm pretty happy with my logs situation now. (more is always better however) Only thing I'm really missing is a good Ring of Fire (Acrylia Caverns) log.
Lenas
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This server is meant to be a complete recreation of EQMac, Al`kabor, and supports both a PC client and the official Intel Mac client. This server has been going strong since late 2014.
VELIOUS RELEASE DATE -- SEPTEMBER 21, 2016
Links:
• Boards
• Account Creation (forum login req.)
• Server Progress Tracker
• Everything you need to start
• Wiki
• Al'Kabor Spell Data
• Character Browser
• AllaClone (server db search)
• Alla'Kabor (original EQMac fan db)
What's this about?
Please sign up and help out, the project needs a bigger population to help test out higher level content, find bugs, compete quests, etc etc. All of the necessary instructions can be found on the boards and wiki.
VELIOUS RELEASE DATE -- SEPTEMBER 21, 2016
Links:
• Boards
• Account Creation (forum login req.)
• Server Progress Tracker
• Everything you need to start
• Wiki
• Al'Kabor Spell Data
• Character Browser
• AllaClone (server db search)
• Alla'Kabor (original EQMac fan db)
What's this about?
Please sign up and help out, the project needs a bigger population to help test out higher level content, find bugs, compete quests, etc etc. All of the necessary instructions can be found on the boards and wiki.
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The Mac client is the real client used to play on Sony's defunct server. The PC client could be considered a hack job of sorts, but the complaints people have about that client are mostly because of its age and not because it's hacked together. Our PC client is pre-Direct X 9 and was current in the days when EQ took control of your machine and disallowed multi-tasking, so EQW or an EQW-like wrapper is required.
Secrets and Haynar have been working on custom DLL client improvements and had much success. Right now it's a pain in the ass to set up their custom DLLs since they're still working on them, but eventually a polished single click download will be made available somewhere. Mousewheel camera zoom-out will not be made available however. (try top down F9 view, it's really not bad)
Secrets and Haynar have been working on custom DLL client improvements and had much success. Right now it's a pain in the ass to set up their custom DLLs since they're still working on them, but eventually a polished single click download will be made available somewhere. Mousewheel camera zoom-out will not be made available however. (try top down F9 view, it's really not bad)
Lenas
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Fifey
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I started in this server back in like March and I've yet to experience a single client related issue.
Stoked for Velious coming out though, I'm so tired of Kunark.
Lenas
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This is probably the most stable and fastest loading emu server you can play on. Any crash issues are usually recent patch related on the server side and get handled pretty quickly. Actually they just had a contest to find a crash bug in sebilis and rewarded the group that crashed the zone so they could identify it through logs. Turns out it had to do with gravity flux.
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