Quick Setup Guide - Overseer - Steam

[Juravis]

This game needs a lot of manual fixing for it to work properly.

- First, turn OFF the FXAA setting in the nVidia control panel, fixes blurring.

- Then you'll need to install CoolSoft VirtualMidiSynth to fix the music issues. See link below.

- Fix the video problems with ffdshow 32 bit, also below.

- Unzip the entire dgVoodoo package found below into the Steam directory for the game. Go into that directory and run the dgVoodoo setup. Click add above (top), then point to the Overseer directory. Uncheck the Watermarks checkboxes from both tabs below it (DirectX being the most important). Save and apply. The game now runs a better renderer.

- If the video scaling isn't correct, go in the nVidia control pannel and check "Override the scaling mode set by games and programs". Also, pick "Aspect Ratio" and let your display do the scaling.

All the info/packages:

http://pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Tex_Murphy:_Overseer

All in all if you're not technically inclined i strongly suggest watching someone play on Youtube instead.

[Below Zero]

Really useful post. A couple of other things I had to do:

Launch the game once. If the mouse pointer keeps flickering or disappearing edit the tex.ini file in the game folder and change the line LockVideo=-1 to LockVideo=1 and try again.

If the game launches only very occasionally and mostly crashes before displaying anything, check the Application event log in Windows. If the faulting module is nvd3d9wrap.dll then I managed to get past that by changing that file's extension (something like .old will do, no reboot required). I'll rename it back when I've finished playing Overseer. The location is C:\Program Files (x86)\NVIDIA Corporation\coprocmanager

This was all on Win 8.1 on an old MSI gaming laptop. I've also tried in a VirtualBox VM running either XP or 95 without much success. This game as distributed on Steam really is far too fussy and not at all happy on modern hardware.

[icemann]

Advent: On the page you link above, it says to only put everything inside the "MS" folder into the games install folder. Should we just do that, or do what you said in the first post of putting everything from the zip?

[Juravis]

Doesnt hurt to put more into the folder.

[icemann]

Well I put all of the folders in there (keeping those folders intact), ran dgVoodooCpl.exe, pointed it to the Overseer folder, applied.

Ran the game and it looks exactly the same. See through objects and textures still.

Or should I be taking the files out of the folders (in the dgVoodoo package) and then putting them in the Overseer folder?

[Juravis]

Cant help you there. Just put the files everywhere hehe

[icemann]

I tried taking the files out of the folders and putting them into the Overseer folder directly and the game locks up on all attempts. So maybe that's not the right way to do it.

[Below Zero]

I downloaded the package dgVoodoo2_54.zip, the extracted the following files into the root of the Overseer folder from the MS folder. I did NOT create an MS folder in the Overseer folder.

D3D8.dll
D3Dlmm.dll
DDraw.dll

and from the root of the zip:
dgVoodooCpl.exe

Putting the 3dfx (glide.dll) files in there as well seemed to break things, so I didn't.

[elmo]

Used the same as Below Zero using dgvoodoo great tool for classic games and it works a charm (great for preventing second monitor distruption by forcing 1920x1200) also....

I used Stinky's Mpeg2 Codec( a very light mpeg 2 codec with just two ax files and has option to uninstall and install using the EXE, works a charm)

Link to stinky's Mpeg2 Codec: https://www.videohelp.com/software/Stinkys-MPEG2-Codec

Link to dgvoodoo: http://dege.freeweb.hu/

I am using Windows 10 64bit with a 1080gtx etc.....

[KeyG]

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1299432181

thanx elmo

[elmo]

no problem KeyG :)

[flarefan]

Thanks for this post. Unfortunately, I've already hit two problems:

1.My copy of the game doesn't seem to have an nVidia control panel. I looked through all the files and found nothing.

2.The "melodymachine" site which hosts SFArk seems to have been taken over by adware or something. Instead of SFArk, the given link downloaded an addon to my browser whose sole function is to make Yahoo the default search engine. Assuming the link was bad, I used a search engine to find another link, but it instead goes to the store page for a one-piece bathing suit.

[Juravis]

Nvidia control panel is part of your video drivers, not the game. Also note if you have an AMD card its Catalyst. Dont know about the website however.

[flarefan]

I had a look at melodymachine with the Wayback Machine. Apparently the domain name was sold over a year ago (to be exact, sometime between November 11, 2017 and January 11, 2018), and the SFArk download went away at that time. So, no more way to get the music for the game working.

Moving on, I continue to hit problems:

3.The wiki's directions state "Set ffdshow as default MPEG-2 codec backed by 'libavcodec'". I haven't the slightest clue what that means.

[Juravis]

Ffdshow is part of a codec pack such as the Klite codec pack. Its used to decode audio video. Libavcodec is probably a library that ffdshow should use to perform its job well with this game.

[flarefan]

Yeah, but where do I go to set it as the default MPEG-2 codec?