Missing Textures/Transparent Objects

[SR212787]

Win 8.1 - Nvidia GTX 970
Finally, after many hours I got the game to work. Now I have transparent objects.
Only thing I've found was to download dgVooDoo but the DDraw.dll makes the game not open and the other .dlls that come with do nothing.
Ideas?

[Juravis]

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

[Teotihuacan]

Try to use previous version of dgVoodoo. For me version 2.53 works fiine.

[Bobby]

Ursprungligen skrivet av MichMir:

Try to use previous version of dgVoodoo. For me version 2.53 works fiine.

That sorted it for me, thanks! I ws going through them ... all at this rate. Also, trying the FFDS i found that running it's setup there was a box that was ticked 'Run FFDS with these .exe files' Tex Murphy Overseer wasn't in there, so i added it and it worked! Before i was getting green video and double pictures.

[davemay135]

Hopefully someone is sill seeing this thread. So I have installed dgVoodoo2 just like everyone has said, just copying glide and MS dlls into the Overseer folder. Without those files, my game is starting normally, it just has transparent objects in Tex's office. The same if I only copy glide dlls into the folder. However, with the MS dlls, the game crashes right after I tell the software deconflictor screen to continue. I'm running Win 10 64 bit on a laptop with Intel HD Graphics 520 graphics card.

[Bobby]

Download the 2.53 Voodoo files here. http://dege.freeweb.hu/dgVoodoo2/dgVoodoo2.html Extract the .zip to a folder, you will see the 'MS' folder? Just copy the three .dll files within the 'MS' folder into the main (nothing more) Tex game DIR. Run the game in hardware mode.
If you have a sound issue, when FFDS runs, tell it to run always. (or Always just this once -that way it will re-run when you launch the game again)
I'm running it on a laptop, but using the onboard dedicated graphics card.

I suggest installing the game afresh and trying the above.
https://pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Tex_Murphy:_Overseer#Video_settings

This may help
https://www.gog.com/forum/tex_murphy_series/tex_murphy_overseer_my_long_path_to_getting_this_game_fully_working

[davemay135]

Zoo, thanks for the help. I uninstalled Overseer, deleted the folder, reinstalled it, redownloaded the dgVoodoo2 files like you said, copied only the 3 dll files in the MS folder and dropped them in the Overseer folder, and the game behaved exactly as I said before. I tried looking for how to run it in hardware mode. I didn't find that, but I did look in the .exe properties and found that it was checked to run in Windows 95 compatibility. I set it for Windows 8 but did not have better results. Do you have any other ideas?

[davemay135]

On launch, I get a Windows User Account message asking me if it's ok for this 3rd party app to make changes to my computer. If I say no it stops launching, when I say yes, that's when it crashes.

[Hiei-]

Not working here either. And the game detect the file as I see the dgvoodoo watermark on the bottom right corner but game doesn't boot.

Does dgvoodoo require ffdshow? As I don't use ffdshow, I directly use DVD Express codec for the videos.

[Bobby]

Yes it does. You can configure it to launch with an acceptance message to 'use once,all the time or never' with games that use it -older predominantly.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/ffdshow-tryout/files/Official%20releases/64-bit/

Use 'King MpegII' and Display device is 'Display/dgVoodoo DirectX Wrapper'. Preferences are 800x600 all and use Hardware not software.

The game will launch with a small check box, sometimes you have to minimise other backgrounds to see it. If any are 'red' in the box close them and launch it, then you will get a prompt to increase your screensaver to 20 mins or more.

[Hiei-]

Okay thanks, I'll try then to see if dgvoodo works once I use ffdshow.

[Hiei-]

Game is crashing to desktop a few second (with some sound problems) after I launch it once ffdshow is installed but well, I'll leave the game as it, it's not really a game-breaker problem.

(Even tried the 32-bit version of ffdshow and same problem. I might test it on Windows 7 later, to double check).

[Bobby]

shame about that... I bought it at GoG and other than the Voodoo files in and the config i showed you above, it works
https://www.gog.com/game/tex_murphy_overseer

You can try this;

From the link i posted above in my previous help


No Sound in FMVs

Note that this one was not an issue for me with the GOG version of the game. Only the Steam version. To fix:

1. Download and install ffdshow
2. Run the game and a pop up should appear. Give permission for ffdshow to be used with the game always.
3. All FMV's should now have sound. If you don't hear it right away, quit then re-run the game.

No Music

To fix:

1. Install VirtualMidiSynth
2. Download the required soundfont
3. Install SFArk which is needed to unzip the .sfArk file
4. Open SFArk and go to file > Open, then open up the FluidR3_GM.sfArk file you downloaded, then click Start. This will unzip the .sfArk file into a .sf2 file that we need.
5. Open 'Configure VirtualMidiSynth' and on the Soundfonts tab, press the green + icon. Select the FluidR3_GM.sf2 file.
6. Launch Tex Murphy: Overseer, go to settings, audio, and then change the MIDI device to "Microsoft MIDI Mapper", make sure that MUTE is not checked.

You should hear music straight away after completing the last step in-game. If you don't hear anything, quit out then re run the game.

[Hiei-]

I already have the music and videos working (ffdshow is not required to have the videos working). Maybe I'll try on Windows XP to see if the textures problem is present, I have a triple boot on my computer (10 x64, 7 x64, XP x86).

[Bobby]

Ursprungligen skrivet av Hiei-:

I already have the music and videos working (ffdshow is not required to have the videos working). Maybe I'll try on Windows XP to see if the textures problem is present, I have a triple boot on my computer (10 x64, 7 x64, XP x86).

Is it this?

Transparent / invisible textures

This out of the all the issues was the most important to fix, as without it the game is completely unplayable. When looking up the issue online, suggestions from here and elsewhere were to download "dgvoodoo2" from it's website, then to copy all dll's from it's "MS" folder into the "Overseer" folder.

I did this and immediately got a black frozen game screen. At first I thought I needed further dll's from the website but nope same issue. Initially I gave up and assumed I was just screwed and would have to wait until the "Poisoned Pawn" fan remake was released to be able to play the game properly.

But me being the stubborn person that I am, I thought I'd give the GOG version a try (I was using the Steam version up until this point). On purchasing the GOG version I immediately noticed that the FMVs worked fine in this version, but it still had the music and invisible texture issues. It then occurred to me to try using an earlier version of dgvoodoo2, and this fixed the issue. So, to fix:

1. Download any version of dgvoodoo2 before v2.54
2. Copy over the dll's from the "MS" folder to your "Overseer" folder. You should notice an immediate effect on the game after doing this. If the game freezes up when you try this, then try an earlier version. For me v2.53 worked fine. I should also note that v2.54 of dgvoodoo2 set off my virus scanner for some odd reason. In Chrome I couldn't even download it.

If you notice any visual issues when turning around in the game, that's a vsync issue. Run "dgVoodooSetup.exe" that comes with dgvoodoo2 and be sure to switch off VSYNC in all tabs, and make sure that your graphics card isn't forcing it on. That fixed it for me. You may need to experiment. Don't stop till you have movement completely fixed.

[Hiei-]

Tried lot of versions of DGvoodoo, no success. I might try the GOG version because I also have it, but it seems the same version (except a few tweaks, game files are the same).

Only get a black screen with the watermark dgvoodoo on the bottom right corner, but nothing more.

I even forced the installation of DirectX9 (because Windows 10 use DX11 which is backwards compatible), changed nothing.

Not that I don't have invisible objets or full textures missing, just a few textures missing, so I don't think it would render the game unplayable. For example, in Tex office, items are displayed fine. Only the vertical part of one furniture is see-through (edge of it) but I can see it and interact with it without any problems (even tried savegames I found on internet to check several places and everything seems fine) Or maybe the furtnite I'm talking about is planned to be like that? I mean, it doesn't prevent me to take the mouse toy for example.