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Originally Posted by Mobhack
The DirectX calls are all in the third-party graphics library, WinVFX, which we cannot recompile. So anything to do with palette trickery etc is not doable.
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I think you misunderstood what I was saying. I was talking about hooking the DirectX .dll's, intercepting certain function calls and replacing with your own code. I know it would be quite a bit of work and you all are probably too busy to worry about it. Was just a suggestion... Just out of curiosity, is that WinVFX library written in Asm or C?
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Full screen mode:
Works perfectly, even on the full screen mode of my new 22 inch1680x1080 or whatever wide screen monitor. But since Microsoft have that bug with palletised modes in Vista/Windows 7, then you may have to use trickery to get round the problem. Killing off the explorer.exe process and restarting it again after the game is over is not really recommended since explorer.exe is your desktop process and is thus a windows core process! - strange things may therefore happen.
see e.g: http://windows7forums.com/windows-7-...te-issues.html
So if you do want to use full-screen palettised mode in Vista/W7 then you are on your own. Microsoft have decided for you that that mode is obsolete in their new operating systems.
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Naw, explorer.exe isn't a core process, it's a user shell. You can stop and start it as many times as you'd like. Hell, you can replace it with another shell if you want or if you're really hard core, you can get rid of it altogether and manage your computer using nothing more than task manager. I wouldn't recommend that though.
I don't think that the mode is obsolete it's just that the new Win7 shell does funny things with the palette when it is running. Probably has something to do with the new Aero theme or the way that the shell handles multiple windows...
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Edit: nevermind the question about what WinVFX was written in as it appears that WinVFX is an open source project that SSI used. Here is the authors website:
http://www.thegleam.com/ke5fx/ - latest version is 1.19