Eternal Darkness question

Catcher37 · June 13th, 2009

Hi everyone i know this game doesnt work and i'm not asking you to to sort it or even moaning about it i just wondered why it didnt boot, i heard it was a game issue and was just wondering what type of issue, is it an unimplemented opcode or a something thats not been added to the graphics plugin yet or even a disk i/o problem, sorry to be such a pain but i used to be a programmer back in the late 80's early 90's and even though i've forgotten a good 95% of it now i'm still interested and like to try and understand the problem. btw can you recommend any good books to help me learn about programming windows software, delving into graphics etc, i thought i would ask here as your the professionals and thought you could give me some ideas, also i just wanted to say thanks for all your hard work on developing such an amazing piece of software.

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Operating System : Windows Vista™ Ultimate x86
System Manufacturer : MSI MS-7250
Processor : AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 6000+ (2 CPUs), ~3.0GHz
Memory : 4 Gigs
DirectX Version : DirectX 10
Card name : NVIDIA GT260 896mb
Sound : Realtek 7.1 Onboard
Power supply : 700w

Ashok · June 14th, 2009

Actually, believe it or not... Eternal Darkness DID boot in a very old revision. Unfortunately, I cannot remember which SVN booted the game but the menu used to load with sound. I'd also be curious which recent changes broke the game.

June 13th, 2009	#1 (permalink)
Catcher37 Registered User Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Nottingham, UK Posts: 14	Eternal Darkness question Hi everyone i know this game doesnt work and i'm not asking you to to sort it or even moaning about it i just wondered why it didnt boot, i heard it was a game issue and was just wondering what type of issue, is it an unimplemented opcode or a something thats not been added to the graphics plugin yet or even a disk i/o problem, sorry to be such a pain but i used to be a programmer back in the late 80's early 90's and even though i've forgotten a good 95% of it now i'm still interested and like to try and understand the problem. btw can you recommend any good books to help me learn about programming windows software, delving into graphics etc, i thought i would ask here as your the professionals and thought you could give me some ideas, also i just wanted to say thanks for all your hard work on developing such an amazing piece of software. __________________ Operating System : Windows Vista™ Ultimate x86 System Manufacturer : MSI MS-7250 Processor : AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 6000+ (2 CPUs), ~3.0GHz Memory : 4 Gigs DirectX Version : DirectX 10 Card name : NVIDIA GT260 896mb Sound : Realtek 7.1 Onboard Power supply : 700w

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June 14th, 2009	#2 (permalink)
Ashok Registered User Join Date: Aug 2001 Posts: 85	Actually, believe it or not... Eternal Darkness DID boot in a very old revision. Unfortunately, I cannot remember which SVN booted the game but the menu used to load with sound. I'd also be curious which recent changes broke the game.