A permanent fix to get the Steam overlay working AND run fullscreen at your native resolution!

[Vault 69 Overseer]

Hello everyone,

I found a fix for Abe's Exoddus and figure I'd share to save you all the frustration.
I was having the normal but annoying problem of no Steam overlay and black borders.
This will fix it for good.

All you need to do is download DXGL. See here:

http://www.williamfeely.info/wiki/DXGL#Downloads

When installed, select "stretch to screen" and that's it. Your game should now be at your native resolution, with no borders, and a working Steam overlay. I currently have it running at 1920x1080 with no issues, or "squished" textures. You can also add more filtering to enhance the graphics a bit.

For those looking for a more technical explanation on how this works, this tiny program takes legacy DirectX versions 1-7 and makes them run in OpenGL. Most modern GPUs have trouble with legacy DX versions (from what I understand), and Exoddus is a DX6 game.

Also, this app *should* fix start-up and in-game crashes some people were having, but I can not confirm as I was not having crashing issues. This app should theroretically work with many legacy games. I have confirmed this works with Abe's Oddysee with the native resolution part - I still can't get the overlay to work however. Lastly, this app has no performance decreases that I have noticed, unlike the DDhack mod. Game runs 100%. All this was performed on W7 Ultimate x64.

Enjoy :)

[Vault 69 Overseer]

Interlaced lines? That's unusual, I haven't experienced that issue. What version of Windows are you running?

[Dan]

works nicely

being used in windows 8 x64

[Vault 69 Overseer]

Open DXGL, and select add, navigate through that windows to the oddworld install folder in the steam folder (typically C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\Common\Oddworld Abes Exoddus), select Exoddus.exe and select OK. Then you will see oddworld in the left pane of DXGL. Select it, and on the right under "video mode" select "stretch to screen" and hit apply/ok. You should be set from there.

[Koppnasty]

Thanks

[Soup can is a see]

love this, thanks

[gugenheim tuning fork]

Sweeeeet! Thanks

[Vault 69 Overseer]

Awesome. Now I know that this has worked for everybody (so far).

[The Wolf]

Thanks! :)

[Mrbud420 💩]

I have a problem after I used your solution. Game ran fine untill I installed and used the DXGL program and only changed the video to "stretch to screen" option. Now in game at the main menu the screen is frozen but when I use the steam overlay I can see Abes little head start moving. If i leave the overlay back to main menu the screen freezes again.

[a B1 Battle Droid]

Thanks, this worked perfectly for me -- But there's one thing I'm wondering...

Is there a way to get this to work for the first game, Abe's Oddysee? I did the same exact thing for it but I still don't get Steam's overlay. And that's the real thing I wanted to do here for both games.

[Dissection_Br]

Thanks

[Skoppter]

Program crashes when I add either exe file in windows 7

[Minxtrosity]

Hey, I tried using the software you suggested. The issue I had before the software was that there was sound, but the image froze in the first frame of the game (while videos played normally). If I pressed Alt + F4, the portion of the screen from the top to the bottom edge of the "Do you want to quit Abe's Exoddus?" message stopped being frozen, that is, a middle portion of the screen. When I installed the software, all I saw was black screen even though there was sound. Note that the Alt + F4 thing doesn't work in this case, and I can see the Steam overlay.

[Deggial]

This program broke the game for me. I uninstalled it because it gave me the interlaced lines someone was talking about in here and made it look worse than before after selecting "stretch to screen". Now I get 3 errors when I try to open the game, even after verifying integrity of game cache.

Edit: reinstalling it did the trick. Thank goodness.

[Badtaz]

downloads on the site no longer works :(