PRACX v1.10 Release

[fuzion2100]

im a bit lost i tried down loading the prax 1.10 exe but it wanted to start the game when i open it. how do i get it to go over the yitzi patch?

[vygov]

Hi!
1. The patch 1.10 shows the version 1.06 in the settings.
2. It is not installed under XP.

[Dewbacca]

Installed, can open SMAC but SMAX only tries, no black screen or anything, just swirling cursor, then nothing.

edit:
Seems SMAC did not change, no new graphics options, no option to window game.

Good news though, uninstaller worked perfectly!

[Induktio]

Installed, can open SMAC but SMAX only tries, no black screen or anything, just swirling cursor, then nothing.

Not sure if this software is being maintained. The last commit was almost a year ago. There's some troubleshooting tips on the first post, but other than that, can't comment on those issues.

[Dewbacca]

That would be a real shame, one of my biggest gripes about SMAC/SMAX is that it consumes the entire window and alt/tab still has it's screwed resolution.

I hate to think I missed the opportunity to enjoy the patch that corrected that, but thank you for the reply.

[Induktio]

This has probably been mentioned earlier here but it's useful to know.

You can play Alpha Centauri in the native desktop resolution without problems in alt-tabbing if you open Alpha Centauri.Ini and enter these lines there:

Code: [Select]

[Preferences]
ForceOldVoxelAlgorithm=1

[Alpha Centauri]
DirectDraw=0

[Dewbacca]

Playing back to back shows this weekend, will probably be Monday before I get around to test that, but

*says in a sinister voice*
Very Interesting...

[Dewbacca]

Added and no change. Alt/ tabbing to find 800 x 600 still rules the desktop.

wait... does that file govern SMAX as well? Because that is what I am testing it under.

[Induktio]

Edited to include the other line too. I think ForceOldVoxelAlgorithm is required for this to work. Works for me both in SMAC/SMACX with the GOG version.

[DrazharLn]

The code isn't maintained, but it works fine.

As explained earlier the installer just extracts the dll, image resources and a readme and runs pracxpatch.exe. If it does anything else that's a bug. In particular, the installer should not try to launch the game.

If there's some kind of issue with the code you can try extracting from the installer manually or using a previous release.

[vygov]

This has probably been mentioned earlier here but it's useful to know.
You can play Alpha Centauri in the native desktop resolution without problems in alt-tabbing if you open Alpha Centauri.Ini and enter these lines there:

Code: [Select]

[Preferences]
ForceOldVoxelAlgorithm=1
[Alpha Centauri]
DirectDraw=0

No, not right. There is a native permission, but for alt + tab it does not collapse.

[vygov]

It can be installed over Yitzi's patch--the installation will just change a few bytes of terran.exe and terranx.exe to load my dll's.

After patching with version 1.10 - terran.exe and terranx.exe remain unchanged (Yitzi). That is, they are similar to those in the _backup_v1.10 folder. So it should be?

[DrazharLn]

If you're using Yitzi's 3.5 patch then the .exes are already patched and the patcher doesn't need to do anything. So don't worry.

I forgot that the installer does re-enable alt-tab on windows. It's just a couple of commands to sdbinst. Have a look in the InstallScript nsi file on GitHub for the particular commands (link on first page of this thread).

[vygov]

In the Yitzi 3.5d version, prax.dll is 211 kb in weight, and in PRACX 1.10 it is prax.dll in 298 kb. 

[DrazharLn]

terran.exe and terranx.exe are already patched. The prac/prax DLLs are older versions. Probably Pracx 1.9 or something.