Unofficial Max Pack 95 Restoration Project Pack

[rc2sm]

Unofficial Max Pack 95 Restoration Project Pack[qtz.toshiba-3.com]
It replace "GOG Win 95 experimental patch" and can be installed to GOG or Steam.

- It restore Win 95 game files
- Add / extract other necessary files
- Fix critical crash issues
- Add related options
- Setup all to play
- Add launcher
- Add new DOSBox config
- Make all execs playable
- Allow to disable CD Audio

You can customize options installing this pack over previous installation.
More details is included in rtf/txt file - read it before install!

Big thanks to Toshiba-3 who helped me very much with this project.

Discussion which started this project. This project using method which I described there.

Please leave you feedback: problems, questions or thanks. Thank you!
Note: It's unofficial, so not supported by GOG and Steam (Valve).

[RaVen]

Ok. After i bought new pc. My problem disappear completly. After instaling this patch game works like a storm as it should be. Thank you for taking your time to do this patch and for every single post trying to help me about this issue. Maybe game just dont like AMD phenom processors or just my prevous pc specs. Its really hard to tell. Works flawless now. Cheers

[rc2sm]

Thank you for feedback and for motivation :) I'm glad it work for you :) Cheers!

[Sciemniak ツ]

This is fricking awesome. Thanks You very much

Also is sad, that we need someone to fix game which we pay for.

[Malm]

So i can't run this unless i install carmageddon to C drive? Because my carmageddon which is installed at D: crashes at launch. Is it enough to copy the whole folder to c:/carmageddon and repatch it? Does is still track my gametime and so forth, or is it same as playing without steam?

[rc2sm]

:D

You don't have to copy the game (it will not work with Steam then)... maybe just for the backup purpose. The tool make a junction folder on drive C: "C:\MAX_PACK.W95" instead (and create a folder "C:\MAX_PACK.BAK" for save game backup). This trick allow to run game from Steam. When you will run game from Steam (or Steam shortcut) it will count game play time, otherwise run it with DOSBox.exe directly (when 95RPP is installed it's launcher, real DOSBox is renamed to BoxDOS.exe). Don't know if overlay working, since no one reported. On my PC overlay starting in background but it's not available in game, but same is when running without the 95RPP. If you are using "modern" Windows do not install additional wrappers (optional), those can crash at start.

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works well, otherthan it just plays in a wondow now? how do i play full screen and adjust resolution?

[rc2sm]

When you are installing this pack you can select some options. Like "Reset to full screen (OpenGL)", it reset ddraw.ini (both) to full screen with OpenGL set, which allow to run Steam overlay (reported by Slipgate Tourist). It's disabled by default because it may cause graphics glitches in some cases. You can also try HD Test which run race (only) in HD (real bigger game resolution). You can also set the custom resolution in ddraw.ini (both), however it just upscale the selected resolution (lo, hi, hd1, hd2) to resolution from ddraw.ini, so default 0 x 0 is recommended to keep the native resolution of the game. For other options read included documentation.

[Drowning witch]

can we please get some better installation info? I picked the folder the installer asks, etc, installation goes fine, but when i try to play, it said something like "incorrect location of max"

[rc2sm]

Check C:\MAX_PACK.W95 size if it equal 0 just delete the folder and reinstall 95RPP.

(when it size it's bigger it should be safety to remove it either since it's only link not real folder, however we can only delete the MAX_PACK.W95 NOT the files / folders inside, since deleting the files will wipe the whole game with savegames, so for non advanced user more safety is to rename it).

This is probably rare situation when launcher trying to run game when 95RPP is not installed properly (Steam installation or linked folder moved or removed). Launcher try to run game, but when folder is missing, it create empty folders which cause it to stuck. I will fix that later...

The message is "Can't find the $Exe95 in expected location!", where "$Exe95" is exec name.

Please confirm if this help.

[Drowning witch]

hi, i deleted everything, reinstalled the game and your patch. dosbox version works fine, but win95 not. it starts up a tiny window, and then it says has stopped responding.

tried gog version, same issue.

win10
gtx970 latest drivers
intel i5 4670k

played tomb rider win95 version on this same pc no issues, just a few days ago.

[rc2sm]

I don't have Win 10. Also don't know what you mean by "tiny window".
I guess launcher-setup now show up without errors.

During 95RPP installation you have options to install 3 wrappers, first two are known to possibly crash under Windows 10, so those are disabled by default, only ddraw wrapper working and as far as I know it is required, however I think D3DWindower can be used instead (can't test it under Win 10).

So if you have installed default options (no IPX and CD wrappers) I think you can try to switch ddraw wrapper to OpenGL or GDI. Or disable it and try D3DWindower instead, however I not guarantee this will help.

(You can disable wrappers manually - just rename the wsock32.dll and winmm.dll if those are not renamed already, ddraw.dll can be replaced with D3DWindower [make backup]).

You can also try to run game exec directly (outside Steam) from:
C:\MAX_PACK.W95\CARMA\CARM95.EXE (C1)
C:\MAX_PACK.W95\CARSPLAT\CARM95.EXE (SP)

But note that when wrappers are present they are in use no matter how 95 version is started.

Other thing, maybe Tomb Raider have different version of wrapper/s included? Since now we have more versions where some work under XP, Vista, but the other under 8 and 10 (AFAIK).

Another thing... the 95RPP can be installed only for one version of game on one PC, so if you installed it for both versions only last installation will work correctly!

[Drowning witch]

nah, i only had one installation at a time, gog or steam. i tried both opengl and gdi, tried windowed, fullscreeen, many different resolutions.

tried running from steam, from folder, etc, always the same. Basically, i've exhausted all the basic troubleshooting and it doesn't work.

so obviously it doesn't work on win10 or there is some conflict with drivers from nvidia.

this is what tomb raider 1996 uses for win95 version on modern hardware.

tried d3dwindower as well, same exact error.

https://github.com/ata4/glrage

works fine here. so I guess yours needs more testing on win10. hopefully some other win10 user can chime in with his experience.

If you have ways of me sending you a log file or something so you can fix it for win10, i'd be glad to help.

[rc2sm]

Have you tried to disable cutscenes? (you can disable it from my launcher) I'm not sure if this help in this case but for some reason game stuck on video on some configurations (but not crash). Also you can try to switch resolution to lores.

In my opinion problem is caused by the wrapper/s... or/and there is something wrong with the installation...

Try to install 95RPP again, but leave all options as they are, just uncheck "Disable C1 Password..." (the default password for Steam/GOG version is "gog"). That option will enable password screen (as is in original version) which should show up when 95 version is launched (maybe it not crash at least at this point).

I'm glad you want help :), but I have no idea which log may help me. You can try to debug it by your self - there is great tool that allow to trace which files (registry keys, etc.) are accessed. I usually using it to see on which file C1 (or other prog) crash, so this eventually may tell you something. On win XP something like dr Watson is starting after crash.

Warning: Log from that tool may be very big and may contains sensitive data, so do not post it anywhere!

The older version was Filemon (only for file access; for registry was Regmon), current we have ProcMon which integrate previous tools into one. Since sysinternals.com page is currently down (?), the exe file need to be downloaded from live source[live.sysinternals.com].

[Drowning witch]

thanks, will check it out later with the password and procmon.

[RenegadeReturn]

My question is not really with this topic but I wanted to know what are the files to delete in Carma Splat Pack installation folder, to use my latest version of nGlide and not this included with the game on Steam because "a little outdated". lol. Thanks in advance.