Re: NFS: Porsche Unleashed

just a wild stab in the dark here but if you are using a nocd crack, it 
might be the version of the crack thats screwing up something.. i know 
the game runs perfectly in WinXP, but if you try the nocd crack thats 
widely available, you need to turn on compatibility mode, and then 
theres some weird thing that makes your hard drive load like crazy as 
soon as the splash screen loads, and that continues until you quit

Rob Crittenden wrote:
> Hi, I'm working on NFS: Porsche Unleashed again. The problems I was having
> before were related to the fact that I hadn't imported the registry properly.
> 
> Now I'm seeing more identifiable problems, specifically the app is calling
> DirectDraw_CreateSurface without setting DDSD_PIXELFORMAT. This is causing
> bpp to be 0 and was generating an assert() in ddraw/main.c:549. I removed
> the assert and defaulted to bpp=16 in order to get the app running. I get
> an EA intro screen and then a short video gets played fine (although
> sometimes at hyper speed, but that's another story). It then goes to a
> splash screen for a while, then crashes, I believe when the game main menu
> is to be displayed.
> 
> I goofed around setting random bits in the structure but I'm really just
> shooting in the dark.
> 
> I'm using a nearly up-to-date CVS pull (from yesterday).
> 
> I've attached a trace with +ddraw,+bitmap,+seh.
> 
> cheers
> 
> rob
> 
> BTW: I applied a few minor, goofball traces to get more info, the diff is:
> 
> Index: main.c
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvsroot/winex/dlls/ddraw/main.c,v
> retrieving revision 1.25
> diff -u -r1.25 main.c
> --- main.c      25 Jul 2003 21:44:54 -0000      1.25
> +++ main.c      29 Jan 2004 01:29:58 -0000
> @@ -546,7 +546,12 @@
>  {
>      LONG pitch;
>  
> -    assert(bpp != 0); /* keeps happening... */
> +    TRACE("(%08lx, %08lx)\n", width, bpp);
> +    if (bpp == 0) {
> +        WARN("bpp == 0, defaulting to 16\n");
> +        bpp = 16;
> +    }
> +//    assert(bpp != 0); /* keeps happening... */
>  
>      if (bpp == 15) bpp = 16;
>      pitch = width * (bpp / 8);
> Index: ddraw/main.c
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvsroot/winex/dlls/ddraw/ddraw/main.c,v
> retrieving revision 1.76
> diff -u -r1.76 main.c
> --- ddraw/main.c        4 Jan 2004 16:49:47 -0000       1.76
> +++ ddraw/main.c        29 Jan 2004 01:30:02 -0000
> @@ -680,6 +680,10 @@
>         }
>         if (pf->dwFlags & DDPF_ALPHAPIXELS)
>             TRACE(" pf-ALPHA-BitMask: %08lx\n", pf->u5.dwRGBAlphaBitMask);
> +    } else {
> +       LPDDPIXELFORMAT pf = &pDDSD->u4.ddpfPixelFormat;
> +        TRACE(" No bpp, defaulting to 16\n");
> +        pf->u1.dwRGBBitCount = 16; // this is bad
>      }
>  
>      if (pUnkOuter != NULL) {
> 
> 
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