SOLVED: Movies Upside-Down/Black & White

[Skating Zebra]

SOLUTION: When I first ran Sniper: Ghost Warrior, the developer video, intro video, and menu videos were all upside-down and black & white instead of color. I re-created the videos in a more up-to-date format, and they now work fine. If anyone knows of a place I can post these new video files I'll put them out there for all to use.

[Hylie Pistof]

If the game is still working in MP (anti cheat) cause you changed files, you may try a mod site like nexusmods.com
I uploaded an ENB Preset there (and some other games mods). Dont know how and if steam workshop works.

BTW nice that you took care of that and proved how easy a Dev could update his product ^^

[medvesajt1989]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2005173607

[sad1011™]

Thank you. They work great on my Windows 10 latest updates and video drivers (nvidia).

I had to retry the downloads a bunch of times before I got both files to download without failing (firefox).

You could put in the instructions that you have to combine them with 'copy /b sniperghostwarrior_videofix.7z.001+sniperghostwarrior_videofix.7z.002 sniperghostwarrior_videofix.7z' before you try to unzip.

[Mötley]

Originally posted by sad1011™:

Thank you. They work great on my Windows 10 latest updates and video drivers (nvidia).

I had to retry the downloads a bunch of times before I got both files to download without failing (firefox).

You could put in the instructions that you have to combine them with 'copy /b sniperghostwarrior_videofix.7z.001+sniperghostwarrior_videofix.7z.002 sniperghostwarrior_videofix.7z' before you try to unzip.

this is neither useful, where to enter this command to Combine?

[sad1011™]

Ah, you're correct.

I download both files to a directory on my computer, 'd:\temp'. You will have to choose a location on your computer (if you don't have a d:\temp). It's likely on windows you would use your users\yourusername\download directory.

Then open a command prompt window, cmd.exe -- use Windows key or click on start menu and type 'cmd' to find 'Command Prompt'.

In command prompt change from c: drive to d: drive with 'd:' enter (without the quotes). Then change directory to d:\temp with 'cd d:\temp' (or the directory you chose).

Now run the copy command to combine the two files into one valid 7z.zip file. 'copy /b sniperghostwarrior_videofix.7z.001+sniperghostwarrior_videofix.7z.002 sniperghostwarrior_videofix.7z'.

Now use 7-Zip to extract the video files from the archive and copy them to your 'sgw\ ...\movies' folder. You will need to download (www.7-zip.org) and install 7-Zip for this.

[Mötley]

Originally posted by sad1011™:

Ah, you're correct.

I download both files to a directory on my computer, 'd:\temp'. You will have to choose a location on your computer (if you don't have a d:\temp). It's likely on windows you would use your users\yourusername\download directory.

Then open a command prompt window, cmd.exe -- use Windows key or click on start menu and type 'cmd' to find 'Command Prompt'.

In command prompt change from c: drive to d: drive with 'd:' enter (without the quotes). Then change directory to d:\temp with 'cd d:\temp' (or the directory you chose).

Now run the copy command to combine the two files into one valid 7z.zip file. 'copy /b sniperghostwarrior_videofix.7z.001+sniperghostwarrior_videofix.7z.002 sniperghostwarrior_videofix.7z'.

Now use 7-Zip to extract the video files from the archive and copy them to your 'sgw\ ...\movies' folder. You will need to download (www.7-zip.org) and install 7-Zip for this.

thx !

[Cutlass_Stallion]

Almost worked for me. It corrects the upside down/black and white issues, but when the intro video gets to the part where the camera zooms over the POW camp, the sound cuts out. Is there any fix for that?

[sad1011™]

The file, 'intro.wmv', in the 'sgw\ ...\movies' folder has audio during the entire clip on my updated installation. Play the file standalone in your folder by double clicking on it. That should play it using Windows Media Player. If that file is missing the audio, try downloading it and reassembling it. If it has the complete audio, maybe an audio driver update will help. And/or Verify cache files for the game.

[Cutlass_Stallion]

Originally posted by sad1011™:

The file, 'intro.wmv', in the 'sgw\ ...\movies' folder has audio during the entire clip on my updated installation. Play the file standalone in your folder by double clicking on it. That should play it using Windows Media Player. If that file is missing the audio, try downloading it and reassembling it. If it has the complete audio, maybe an audio driver update will help. And/or Verify cache files for the game.

I just tried troubleshooting now. Playing the .wmv file on its own works flawlessly (audio and video), and playing it in-game upside down in black and white (pre-patch) plays the audio flawlessly. Only when patched does the sound cut out right in that exact same spot during the intro movie. I believe I applied the patch correctly; I simply copied/pasted the "Game" folder, which overwrote 7 files. I'm running the latest version of Windows 10 and my graphics card is a RTX 2070 Super, if those variables make any kind of difference (all drivers updated).

[sad1011™]

I just checked my files and the in-game intro playback and I have the same thing you describe. The intro.wmv with windows media player has audio till the end, but when SGW starts up and plays that file, the audio drops out when the camera is at the middle of the camp. I don't know why or it there's a way to fix it. It would be nice if the audio worked too.

[Sha]

Originally posted by Cutlass_Stallion:

Almost worked for me. It corrects the upside down/black and white issues, but when the intro video gets to the part where the camera zooms over the POW camp, the sound cuts out. Is there any fix for that?

Try out my guide for the Intro sound cuts out:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2405189601

[Cutlass_Stallion]

Originally posted by Sha:

Originally posted by Cutlass_Stallion:

Almost worked for me. It corrects the upside down/black and white issues, but when the intro video gets to the part where the camera zooms over the POW camp, the sound cuts out. Is there any fix for that?

Try out my guide for the Intro sound cuts out:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2405189601

Well, I got a little further than before! Using your method and going through the intro movie, it plays right side up with sound, but I can only make it up to the part where it shows the sniper on the hill aiming his gun (i.e., just after the part where it shows the guy in the helicopter smoking his cigarette); shortly after that it suddenly cuts to the "press start" screen. The movie otherwise plays all the way through in black/white/upside mode. Also, the "mini movie" at the very beginning shortly after boot that displays "Chrome Engine 4" seems to lightly glitch out, so not sure if that means anything. Are you perhaps using a different version of ffmpeg.exe that may be processing the movies differently?