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Re: Finally - Everyone can now play Dark Side of the Moon in XP [Re: BubbaJake] #707638
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Hi everybody. I have Win XP and I finally got DSOM to work correctly on my PC. Here's how:
I installed the TEXT PATCH as mentioned. I also went to DXDIAG>Display, and disabled DIRECT DRAW. Also, I went to COMPATIBILITY mode where I right clicked on the LAUNCH.EXE icon, chose PROPERTIES>COMPATABILITY, UN-checked the top selection, CHECKED 256 colors,checked 640X480, checked all the remaining items. After doing all of that, I returned to the game, and I'm enjoying playing it.
NOTE: When you are finished playing a game session, don't forget to RE-ENABLE DIRECT DRAW in DXDIAG.
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Re: Finally - Everyone can now play Dark Side of the Moon in XP [Re: sanford] #707757
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Re: Finally - Everyone can now play Dark Side of the Moon in XP [Re: Becky] #708610
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Hi Sanford. I knew I couldn't be the only one unable to get this patch to simply work. I just saw this today and I've still got DSOM up here so I will try it your way. Thank you for posting your fix whether it works or not, but I think it will.

Oh well, I guess I have another place I can play the game, and it's not that important for me to get it to play properly on my XP. I did everything mentioned two or three times and absolutely nothing worked. Picture and sound are excellent, but still nothing helped with the dialog part. It's a great game and worth it for others to try getting it to work for them!

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Re: Finally - Everyone can now play Dark Side of the Moon in XP [Re: BubbaJake] #709604
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WinterFury has developed an addition fix for those who had a little trouble getting the game to run and had to disable video acceleration...

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For those of you who have to disable video acceleration to make DSOM work, I've made a small patch which forces the game to use hardware emulation only, preventing it from using any hardware-supported features. The result should be exactly the same as disabling hardware acceleration, only the patch won't affect any global settings in your system (so you don't have to restore anything after playing the game).

The patched game dll is in this archive . Open your DSOM\Bin folder, find the file named xvideoio.dll and make a backup copy of it. Then copy the patched xvideoio.dll from the downloaded archive to DSOM\Bin

I recommend you use the patch only if the game doesn't work properly on your system unless hardware acceleration is disabled completely. Don't use it otherwise.

Last edited by GreyFuss; 03/21/11 10:58 PM.

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Re: Finally - Everyone can now play Dark Side of the Moon in XP [Re: GreyFuss] #709628
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Re: Finally - Everyone can now play Dark Side of the Moon in XP [Re: BrownEyedTigre] #712390
03/31/11 05:19 PM
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Thanks Greyfuss for the info.

Works great on my old XP computer. I just dumped both of those DLLs into the bin folder, didn't have to mess with compatibility or acceleration. Played for almost a half hour with no problems. Saved games work fine.

Uncle Reg

Re: Finally - Everyone can now play Dark Side of the Moon in XP [Re: GreyFuss] #787555
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I apologize for resurrecting what is, by all accounts, a dead, year-old thread, but I wanted to thank Greyfuss for this post, which I just discovered.

I have been wanting to play Dark Side of the Moon for over ten years. By all accounts, it sounds like it has the potential to be one of my favorite adventures. I purchased the game when it first came out, but never got around to playing it. By the time I did, I had Windows XP and discovered the text issue.

I had lost all hope of ever playing the game, but now it seems that I have a new opportunity. So, THANK YOU, Greyfuss! You just made my month! laugh


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Re: Finally - Everyone can now play Dark Side of the Moon in XP [Re: GreyFuss] #787562
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Its a great game in my book CB. I find that it looks better on a CRT Monitor rather than an LCD. If you have one see if you can notice the difference.

Oh...and you should be thanking Winterfury at AG for this as it is he that after all these years solved this problem

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Re: Finally - Everyone can now play Dark Side of the Moon in XP [Re: GreyFuss] #787642
02/13/12 08:54 AM
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Doesn't seem like the link is working anymore?


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Re: Finally - Everyone can now play Dark Side of the Moon in XP [Re: GreyFuss] #787651
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Hi Winfrey

The link to riched.dll file needed to see the text and play the game on XP still works but, you are right, the patched one he made for those who have this problem has been removed...I don't know why. I would hope that anyone that does have this additional problem could contact Winterfury at Adventure Gamers and they could help.

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For those of you who have to disable video acceleration to make DSOM work, I've made a small patch which forces the game to use hardware emulation only, preventing it from using any hardware-supported features. The result should be exactly the same as disabling hardware acceleration, only the patch won't affect any global settings in your system (so you don't have to restore anything after playing the game).

The patched game dll is in this archive. Open your DSOM\Bin folder, find the file named xvideoio.dll and make a backup copy of it. Then copy the patched xvideoio.dll from the downloaded archive to DSOM\Bin

I recommend you use the patch only if the game doesn't work properly on your system unless hardware acceleration is disabled completely. Don't use it otherwise.



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Re: Finally - Everyone can now play Dark Side of the Moon in XP [Re: GreyFuss] #787730
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Worse than not being able to find this game, I know where it is ...I sold it years ago!! And I no longer have XP moved on win 7.

I REALLY want to play this game and I remember being really upset that it would not play..boo hoo.. I reckon GOG should do a purchasable download for it, I expect it is quite hard to find nowadays.


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Re: Finally - Everyone can now play Dark Side of the Moon in XP [Re: GreyFuss] #787863
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Vic, I feel for you. Literally ONE WEEK before this initial post was made, I gave my original copy of the game away, assuming I'd never get to play it. I've now had to re-buy the game so that I can play it! laugh


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Re: Finally - Everyone can now play Dark Side of the Moon in XP [Re: GreyFuss] #787868
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The DVD version is the way to go.


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Re: Finally - Everyone can now play Dark Side of the Moon in XP [Re: GreyFuss] #787913
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Yup, that's what I purchased! The first time, I just had the regular CDs, but I read about all the disc swapping, and the DVD version wasn't that expensive on Amazon Marketplace, so I nabbed it.


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Re: Finally - Everyone can now play Dark Side of the Moon in XP [Re: GreyFuss] #1077031
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Does anyone know where I can get the download mentioned in the first post?
The link seems to be dead...
Thanks, caz

Re: Finally - Everyone can now play Dark Side of the Moon in XP [Re: cazziejoe] #1077033
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You can find it here.

Re: Finally - Everyone can now play Dark Side of the Moon in XP [Re: GreyFuss] #1077034
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Thanks Marian!

Re: Finally - Everyone can now play Dark Side of the Moon in XP [Re: cazziejoe] #1077035
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You're welcome - it did require some hunting on my part. sherlock grin

Re: Finally - Everyone can now play Dark Side of the Moon in XP [Re: GreyFuss] #1077243
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Didn''t work.
Game runs but no text.
Sad......

Re: Finally - Everyone can now play Dark Side of the Moon in XP [Re: cazziejoe] #1077546
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Maybe the fix only works for XP. If you post over in Glitches, someone else might have some ideas/information for you. wave

Re: Finally - Everyone can now play Dark Side of the Moon in XP [Re: GreyFuss] #1077613
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Someone at the GOG forum named "lugum" got it running on Windows 7 x64.
https://www.gog.com/forum/general_archive/dark_side_of_the_moon_suggestionrequest

That was back in 2014.

Make sure you have the correct riched.dll file.
There are several riched.dll files and they don't all work for this game.

I don't know if the riched.dll file included in the DSOM_text_fix.zip that Marian found is the correct riched.dll file.

And I don't know if Windows updates have disabled the fix.

Re: Finally - Everyone can now play Dark Side of the Moon in XP [Re: GreyFuss] #1227818
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Does anyone know how to run this with Windows 10 64bit?


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Re: Finally - Everyone can now play Dark Side of the Moon in XP [Re: GreyFuss] #1227819
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Someone on a GOG discussion forum said they got it running with Windows 10, but unfortunately they did not provide any specifics, so I don't know if they were using an emulator.

For any further technical questions about the game, please post in Glitches. wave

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