Hex editing

Red_5 · Post by **Red_5** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 7:21 pm

I was wondering...

I'm trying to get D3 to run windowed. I have a hex editor called XVI32 and I'm wondering what I do to make it run in a window. Yes, I've seen all the other threads concerning this, but seen nothing pertaining to hex editors.

Thanks,

Red_5

heftig · Post by **heftig** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 11:32 pm

Isn't there a command line option -windowed?

Aus-RED-5 · Post by **Aus-RED-5** » Wed Dec 05, 2007 12:54 am

Not for windows OS.

Red_5 · Post by **Red_5** » Wed Dec 05, 2007 10:23 pm

What string(s) would I look for to change the windowed property? If that's even how to do it...

heftig · Post by **heftig** » Wed Dec 05, 2007 10:37 pm

My guess is you would need to change the flags passed to a function, which would be an integer and not a string.

Red_5 · Post by **Red_5** » Wed Dec 05, 2007 10:39 pm

Are there some instructions somewhere, orcan I email you my main.exe and have you jack it up and send it back?

heftig · Post by **heftig** » Wed Dec 05, 2007 11:37 pm

I don't know anything specific, sorry.

Red_5 · Post by **Red_5** » Thu Dec 06, 2007 4:35 pm

Hmm. I'll look up fullscreen hex editing keys on google or something similar. Do you know anyone that hex edits a lot?

Foil · Post by **Foil** » Thu Dec 06, 2007 4:51 pm

As someone who has started working with Windows/MFC coding, I can tell you that it's probably not going to be anywhere near as simple as changing a flag on a function. At least for OpenGL and Direct3D draw functions, there's often difference between the functions for drawing in a window and full-screen.

Krom · Post by **Krom** » Thu Dec 06, 2007 6:54 pm

About the only way to pull it off would be with virtualization, fooling the program into thinking it is still running full screen.

Red_5 · Post by **Red_5** » Thu Dec 06, 2007 8:52 pm

Owch. Can I send someone my main.exe and have them look at it?

fliptw · Post by **fliptw** » Fri Dec 07, 2007 12:08 am

we'd need the source of the game.

You'd need to redo a bunch of stuff to get it to work.

The Lion · Post by **The Lion** » Fri Dec 07, 2007 12:09 pm

With wine you can also make it run in a window, but yeah that's not windows...

Red_5 · Post by **Red_5** » Fri Dec 07, 2007 5:12 pm

Ok, new approach. I've found a program that should force it into windowed mode, but I have to get main.exe to run outside of the Descent 3 launcher. How can I do that?

Foil · Post by **Foil** » Fri Dec 07, 2007 5:15 pm

Try:

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C:\\Games\\Descent3\\MAIN.EXE -launched -setdir C:\\Games\\Descent3 (+whatever other switches you want)

Red_5 · Post by **Red_5** » Fri Dec 07, 2007 6:28 pm

Where do I put this command line? It doesn't work in the launcher.

Just for reference, the program I found is called DxWnd.

(I am such an amateur...)

Krom · Post by **Krom** » Fri Dec 07, 2007 6:57 pm

Right click the desktop ---> new ---> shortcut ---> \"Type the location of the item\".

Red_5 · Post by **Red_5** » Fri Dec 07, 2007 6:59 pm

Done.

Aus-RED-5 · Post by **Aus-RED-5** » Fri Dec 07, 2007 9:51 pm

Let us know if it works and what you did.

Krom · Post by **Krom** » Fri Dec 07, 2007 10:39 pm

It works as long as you have the recent version that can also supply command line options and you set D3 to Direct3D renderer. Of course you can't get the window out of the upper left corner of the screen and the gamma setting quits working...

So why do you want to run D3 in a window anyway?

Red_5 · Post by **Red_5** » Sun Dec 09, 2007 5:25 pm

Krom wrote:
So why do you want to run D3 in a window anyway?

If I task switch (to check email etc), it changes screen resolution and the whole thing crashes. Plus it's just a little more convenient.

Red_5 · Post by **Red_5** » Sun Dec 09, 2007 5:37 pm

Aus-RED-5 wrote:Let us know if it works and what you did.

I tried combining command lines with DxWnd and main.exe. I'm sure I did something wrong. Can Diedel help at all? If there's anyone who knows this kind of stuff, it's him.

I'm so bad at doing stuff like this....

Krom · Post by **Krom** » Sun Dec 09, 2007 7:13 pm

Red_5 · Post by **Red_5** » Sun Dec 09, 2007 7:15 pm

Ooh... where did you get that version? I don't have that!

Krom · Post by **Krom** » Sun Dec 09, 2007 7:21 pm

Google: DXWnd 1.21A
http://www.mpcdownloads.com/forums/down ... /6967.html

Red_5 · Post by **Red_5** » Mon Dec 10, 2007 8:26 am

thanks. I have this dinky little version that doesn't work.

Red_5 · Post by **Red_5** » Mon Dec 10, 2007 5:26 pm

If I use anything more than the -launched command line, it won't run. If I don't, it says it can't set the temporary directory.

Krom · Post by **Krom** » Mon Dec 10, 2007 6:32 pm

do NOT use \"-setdir C:\\Games\\Descent3\"

Red_5 · Post by **Red_5** » Mon Dec 10, 2007 6:33 pm

I didn't. The only way I can get it to do anything is use nothing but the -launched line, but it says \"cannot set temp directory!\"

Krom · Post by **Krom** » Mon Dec 10, 2007 6:37 pm

If it doesn't already exist, make a folder named \"temp\" on C:
then use \"-tempdir C:\\temp\"

Red_5 · Post by **Red_5** » Mon Dec 10, 2007 6:41 pm

Done. When I click on it in DxWnd, it dings at me and doesn't do anything.

Blast I gotta get this to work, I have screencapturing to do!

Krom · Post by **Krom** » Mon Dec 10, 2007 6:43 pm

The most likely possible cause of D3 throwing an error about the temp directory is if a copy of D3 is already running, open task manager and look for copies of main.exe that might still be running, or reboot.

Red_5 · Post by **Red_5** » Mon Dec 10, 2007 6:46 pm

Done and done. Still no result. I'll try on a different computer tomorrow and see what I can come up with.

Know what... I'll talk to the D2X-XL man and see if he has any nifty hacks to pull while I try to get this piece of crap to DO WHAT I WANT! Waaaaaa!

Red_5 · Post by **Red_5** » Tue Dec 11, 2007 11:01 am

Ha ha haaaaa! It worketh!

Now the last thing I need to figure out is why my menus are all glitchty with Direct 3D.

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