Wc4 Dvd Movie playback pb

T

toto666

Spaceman
Hello Everyone.
I'm having a liitle bit of trouble whith my Wc IV Dvd edition
on Movie playback.

The game works fine, the movies are fine except
they are the size of about a quarter of the screen
in the bottom left hand corner.

My screen resolution was 1024x768x32
but i got the same pb in 640x480x(8 or 16 or 32).
I have win98se and a dxr2.

When i play the movies with the creative player,
they are ok sized ????

Any help is welcome.
Thank you guys for supporting this great series of games

see ya ;)
 
First if you haven't already done so go to CL's web site and download the dvdewup.exe for the Dxr2 card. The DXR3 drivers won't work for the DRX2 card. Read the readme file. The installation of this file is done in two steps. First in the Device Manager you'll need to update the DXR2 card drivers. After you done that next run the setup.exe

With/without a DVD movie in your drive manually launch the PC-DVD program. If the auto-configure program launches this should fix the problem, if not you'll need to do it yourself. On the PC-DVD player control you'll see a button that looks like a gear. This is the Configuration button. Now choose the Video tab then the Advance button. click in Auto-config button. This should fix it. If you still having a problem then again into the configuration program and manaully figure it by using the arrows button instead of pushing the Auto-config button.
 
Thanks for your help.

I solved it myself.

There are 2 different drivers for the Dxr2 working on win98 Se.
One is the "regular" for win95, win98 et win98 Se,
composed of a .vxd and a .inf files.
The second is a WDM driver for win98 Se and win Me
composed of a .sys and a .inf files plus a ct....exe.

I was using the second one.
I noticed something interesting while switching to the 1st,
it was configuring 2 screens, one "purple" and one "blue".
The blue is used by the player while watching Dvd's.
The purple is used by Wc4 Dvd.

The WDM driver does only set the blue screen, which is why i had
a small video.
Now everything is fine and i don't have to bother what my desktop resolution is, as the game auto-switch it.

I posted the solution as the WDM driver might be the root for
the XP driver (if there's any) and other people might have the same PB.

See ya.

PS: English is not my mother language, forgive me any errors.
:)
 
a different video problem

Does the WCIV dvd only werk on dxr2 or will it work on other roms? I can play the game just fine but the video keeps saying missing x file
 
I only know for sure it will work with Dxr2, Dxr3 and the Hollywood Plus decoder cards. The Dxr3 and the Hollywood Plus decoder cards are the same card. Only the logo is difference.

Now Maarak claims if your DVD program has "mcicinem.drv: driver on your system you only need to follow these steps.

"Try this:
This worked for me...

Go into your system.ini, to the mci section, and add:
wc4=c:\windows\system\mcicinem.drv

Then, go into your win.ini to the mci extensions area and add:
vob=wc4

Try it out. If it worked for me it may work for you too. See, the newer games don't use MCI extensions much anymore; they all use DirectShow. This way uses an old MCI MPEG driver to decode the VOB files."
http://www.crius.net/zone/showthread.php?s=&threadid=4483&perpage=10&pagenumber=2

I believe he is using WinDVD 2000. I have not been able to verifly this since my graphic card does not support DVD; I have a Dxr3 card to handle my DVD. But I do believe him. So if your system does support DVD try his steps.

This link provides basic info on Hardware vs. Software DVD Decoders
http://www.pioneeraus.com.au/multimedia/dvd/dvd_decoders.htm
 
I tried his approach but no dice, I have the driver required and a DVD ROM drive (not sure wich right now). Its odd since the game works just fine except no playbacks....If I hadn't read the novel I'd have zero chance of guessing the plot.
 
Originally posted by Johnl12

Now Maarak claims if your DVD program has "mcicinem.drv: driver on your system you only need to follow these steps.

I believe he is using WinDVD 2000. I have not been able to verifly this since my graphic card does not support DVD; I have a Dxr3 card to handle my DVD. But I do believe him. So if your system does support DVD try his steps.
Click to expand...

mcicinem.drv is the Cinemaster driver (delivered with ATI cards and such IIRC)
WinDVD 2000 uses ivimci32.drv or something like that - cannot check right now.
From personal experience mcicinem does not work at all, while Windvd does work, but jerky and without sound. But it might be different on your system.

I currently use the standard win thing "mpg'something'.drv" which at least does the first part of every movie right, but breaks on the first decision.
 
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