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I attempted to re-encode the videos but this only caused them to instantly crash on playback in-game, however there are still some more tricks for me to try. I'm able to watch these videos using Media Player Classic running with older Cinepak codecs, but dgVoodoo 2 apparently still has issues with certain video formats.
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Right now when I run them with the dgVoodoo 2 ddraw drivers, the videos are blacked out with only sound being provided. I attempted to use Narzoul's suggested trick of including a manifest file to force the usage of ddraw.dll from the local directory but it didn't work, however I have yet to try his suggested registry trick which I will be testing shortly.Īssuming I can get the Steam version of Cossacks: Back to War to use the local ddraw.dll file from dgVoodoo 2, the only remaining issue would be getting proper intro video playback for American Conquest and American Conquest: Fight Back.
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I did however find that it works if I used the dgVoodoo 2 driver to replace ddraw.dll in the Windows\SysWOW64 directory. With Cossacks: Back to War for Steam, there is no mdraw.dll file to replace, and putting ddraw.dll from dgVoodoo 2 in the game directory is not having any effect.
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For all of these games except the Steam version of Cossacks: Back to War, the trick that seems to work best for me is to replace mdraw.dll with the ddraw.dll file from dgVoodoo 2 inside the game directories, and configuring dgVoodoo to run with scaling set to "Stretched, keep Aspect Ratio". I now have all three original Cossacks games and both American Conquest games working almost perfectly both on GOG and Steam.