Hogs of War / Frontschweine | Play on Windows 11

[WhizKey]

Guide in English

It's time to briefly explain how you can play Hogs of War, also known as “Front Pigs”, on your PC with Windows 11.

Note: I play the game myself with the included patch on Windows 11 x64. My system is an RTX 4080 with an i5 13600k and 32GB RAM the game runs without problems in full screen mode at 1024x786p (more is not possible)

First of all, what do you need?

1. you need the GOG version, you have to buy it on the GOG page whether you like it or not. I have NOT tried it with the Steam version, because it is only in English, but you can give it a try

2. the enclosed patch and the files as well as the innm you know because of the music has been adapted by me, but I assume no liability for any damage.

3. download the patch files, replace it in your main directory and that's it for now...

4. you have to set the compatibility mode of the warhogs.exe & warhogs_.exe to “Windows 7” and deactivate the “full screen optimization”, just right click on the .exe and go to properties, the easiest step.

If you want to use the music in the game and the battle music from the opponents, carry out the following additional steps, these instructions are not mandatory to start Hogs of War!

5. run the “_inmm238.exe” and install it in your Warhogs installation folder (exactly where you installed the patch)

6. download Winamp, you can get it via Google because the sounds only work properly with Winamp

7. double-click to open the inmm.exe that was created on the desktop, a window will open with the following information:

“method”
- *.wav
- *.mp3
- *.midj*.rmi

-> .wav must be set to mute
-> .mp3 must be set to “Winamp
-> midj must be set to mute

Click on “default = Winamp” and “CD-DA = Winamp” at the bottom.)

8. click on “player” at the top and select there: Winamp and the installation location of Winamp where you have installed it, then select the .exe of winamp.

9. click on “General” and make sure that it is set to “normal”.

10. that's it. Now start Winamp so that it is on in the background, set the volume to 50% if necessary so that the music is not too loud, start Hogs of War as specified above in compatibility mode and enjoy Hogs of War on Windows 11 x64

**PLEASE NOTE**:

- There must be no recording program running in the background that could access the game, with “medal” there are still problems
- Disable all overlays that are placed over your games e.g. MSI AfterBurner otherwise it will not start
- If necessary, close Logitech G-Hub, Razer Central and Co. if it does not start beforehand



If the game does not start properly, you will no longer be able to use the desktop, the only thing that helps is ALT+ENTF and click on Logout -> Logon

Have fun!

Tutorial in Deutsch

Es wird Zeit euch ganz kurz zu erklären, wie Ihr Hogs of War oder auch genannt als "Frontschweine" auf eurem PC mit Windows 11 Spielen könnt.

Hinweis: Ich selber spiele das Spiel mit dem beigelegten Patch auf Windows 11 x64. Mein System ist eine RTX 4080 mit einem i5 13600k und 32GB RAM das Spiel läuft ohne Probleme im Vollbildmodus auf 1024x786p (mehr geht da auch nicht)

Als aller erstes was benötigt Ihr?

1. Ihr benötigt die GOG Version, diese müsst Ihr euch auf der GOG Seite kaufen ob ihr wollt oder nicht. Mit der Steam Version habe Ich es NICHT probiert, da es nur auf Englisch ist aber Ihr könnt es mal versuchen

2. Der beigelegte Patch und die Dateien sowie die innm die man so kennt wegen der Musik ist angepasst worden von mir, Ich übernehme allerdings keinerlei Haftung für irgendwelche schäden.

3. Ladet euch die Patchfiles runter, ersetzt es in eurem Hauptverzeichnis und das war's vorerst...

4. Ihr müsst den Kompatibilitätsmodus von der warhogs.exe & warhogs_.exe auf "Windows 7" einstellen und die "Vollbildoptimierung" deaktiviert, dazu einfach dann Rechtsklick auf die .exe und auf Eigenschaften gehen, der einfachste Schritt.

Sofern Ihr die Musik im Spiel nutzen wollt und die Kampfmusik von den Gegner führt folgende Schritte noch zusätzlich aus, diese Anleitung ist nicht pflichtend um Hogs of War zu starten!:

5. Die "_inmm238.exe" ausführen und in eurem Warhogs Installationsordner Installieren (genau da wo Ihr den Patch Installiert habt)

6. Ladet euch Winamp herunter, Ihr bekommt es via Google denn nur mit Winamp funktionieren die Sounds richtig

7. Öffne mit einem Doppelklick die inmm.exe die auf dem Desktop angelegt wurde, dort öffnet sich ein Fenster mit folgenden Infos:

"method"
- *.wav
- *.mp3
- *.midj*.rmi

-> .wav muss auf Mute gestellt werden
-> .mp3 muss auf "Winamp" eingestellt werden
-> midj muss auf Mute eingestellt werden

ganz unten auf "default = Winamp" und "CD-DA = Winamp)

8. Klicke oben auf "player" und wähle dort: Winamp aus sowie die Installationslokation von Winamp wo Du es Installiert hast dort muss dann die .exe von winamp ausgewählt werden.

9. Klicke auf "General" und stelle sicher das es auf "normal" eingestellt ist.

10. Das war's. Starte nun Winamp das es im hintergrund an ist, stelle die Lautstärke bei bedarf auf 50% damit die Musik nicht zu laut ist, starte Hogs of War wie oben angegeben in dem Kompatibilitätsmodus und genieße Hogs of War auf Windows 11 x64

**BITTE BEACHTEN**:

- Es darf im Hintergrund kein Aufnahme Programm laufen das auf das Spiel zugreifen könnte, mit "medal" gibt's da noch probleme
- Deaktiviere alle Overlays die über deine Spiele gelegt werden bsp. von MSI AfterBurner sonst startet es nicht
- Schließe bei bedarf Logitech G-Hub, Razer Central und Co. falls es vorher nicht startet



Sollte das Spiel bei dir nicht richtig gestartet sein wirst Du den Desktop nicht mehr nutzen können, da hilft nur ALT+ENTF und auf Abmelden -> Anmelden

Viel Spaß!

Hogs of War / Frontschweine FIX Windows 11 X64 Download

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[lurchi]

when game crashes you can also open taskmanager -> right click "explorer.exe" -> restart. but this works only if the taskmanager was closed when game crashes. otherwise it will be inaccessible too.

[aqqelx]

Ich weiß nicht, ob ich alle Schritte richtig angegangen bin. Ich würde das Spiel super gern auf dem PC spielen, allerdings crashed es bei mir und auch die Grafikfehler sind nach wie vor vorhanden. Kann mir jemand direkt helfen?

[✞ Your Mom Loves Me ✞]

bei mir läuft es zwar, hab dein guide befolgt ist aber immer noch auf english.

[QWEEDDY2]

GOG/ZOOM/Steam already included working music as well as few elze improvements got downgraded by downloading excesive files.

Use regular DirectX wrappers to restore broken Windows compatibility. File inside subj link are dll by Narzoul. Its all you need to play on Win11 and what can be done by any relations with game files. Actually no files of game related. Just put ddraw.dll into game root folder.

[QWEEDDY2]

PC version music is worze than PS1. Those lack of loop both of disc versions on modern Win by "security" updates or by UrbanScan disabled it intentionally for Digital release...

... Are actually improvement. Now music will play only one next random music track.

PC version hasn't proper loop music Turn theme. Although maybe it possible to grab from PS1 PAL or NTSC disc and convert to Digital version ogg files. There is track32 which is dublicate of track31 file. One can be replaced.

But still this is original PC port design - random music will play. Force to Loop force random music to play.

Understand the basis of what fixes are shared online (shared for 15 years and only for disc version) and basis of PC port design. Before going to modify Digital updated patched fixed releases. UrbanScan, Alternative Software and GOG/ZOOM stores really did good job here.

Dont make it going back to worse stage of original PC port and 1.0(cr@ck) exe bugs (there is). Dont downgrade your game experience!

[QWEEDDY2]

Also last time (looong ago) i check inmm it didnt support original Windows music volume slider feature (last time available in WinXP).
Same for winmmdll used in Digital re-release.

!!! If inmm now support music level it is surely better. !!!
Probably better go some official auther web page to find. Suggested in OP post way probably work too if inmm respect WinAmp music volume slider.

I know another Dmusic/Dmedia/Dsound supported DirectX wrapper - DxWnd. But its complicated tool and kinda buggy (laggy) itself. Require add and launch game from its own menu.

Theoretically Microsoft ADK-ACT (App Compat Toolkit) are better. But no suggestion in tool what to do to restore proper music functionality. There is arguments to manually find.

Just like single dll (or dll+ini for alternate variant) Ddraw wrapper by Narzoul. Single Dmusic wrapper inmm are best solution. If it did support it properly.
If not. Maybe there is another fork of it? Ddraw/d3d/dinput have a lot and a lot of forks of each others.

After all. Digital release already come with same fork of Dmusic wrapper and already pfe-set properly. Except volume support. For such basic functionality no 3rd party downloads needed.

[QWEEDDY2]

Using EVERY wrappers, fix-mods and tweaks are

....require. Disabling. Most. Of. Regular. Compatibility. Tweaks.
Required. Every single one of them. By logic and by direct instructions their authors provide.

Keep as experiment only the
Disable Fullscreen optimisation, DPI scale by app and Run as Admin.

Beware! ⚠️ Digital releases are pre-set hidden compatibility tweaks!
For subj game Steam has not set to do that, for GOG and ZOOM rename game exe to something like game2.exe or game99.exe.

Also Windows (7 do for sure) sometimes apply own tweaks for known exe's. Renaming is solution (and only after set DPI/optimisation/Admin).

Windows 7 itself not require any tweaks (Nvidia do for flickering issues)... except Disabling Dezktop Themes /DWM THEMES in exe properties.
(and few else not in exe properties, and better do same for Win10+, easier is set Steam/etc exe for that as one for them all).

[QWEEDDY2]

Steam are not good indeed as OP said for custom content and customisation. Although if its just the DirectX Music/Draw/Input i think it's OK to use Steam version.

But better not for custom localisation packs.

There is interesting thing in Digital releases differences.
There is leftovers of GOG or GOG-Galaxy build in Steam build (Steam have new Pre-Launcher launcher before regular Launcher). All are DRM-free, new Steam additional Pre-Launcher are tied to steamclient.dll DRM file.

Steam are last one come an year after GOG and ZOOM-Platform store's ('14-'15). Disc Retail are reauire Windows REGEDIT entries HKLM-Software-Infogrames-InstallPath= (emty is ok). Steam are Portable. GOG otherwise still require that string. But released at same time ZOOM portable as well.

So initially Hogs of War rarest non-poftable game and in case of GOG builds (and you need them for MULTI3 localisations plus Italian missed and are only Disc version non-Portable)
there is a chance you got error message in game Launcher asking to reinstall the game.

Just put Software Infogrames InstallPath= into Registry (keep in mind all possible location, both wow64node in HKLM and VirtualStore in HKCU).

[QWEEDDY2]

Chinese PC are missing online.
Italian PC are available on one Italian game fanat website and on I ternet Archive as same MDS(+MDF) image and as part of Redump-PC set - H in bin(+cue) image. On Internet Archive.

French disc are part of Redump-PC set - L.

There was French and German retail 1.1 patches. Probably Italian too. There was hogspatch exe and hogspatch2 exe (for Italian?). Seems no for Spanish.

Original Retail discs are in hardly to copy Disc DRM. With a lot of messed secotrs on disc and errors of reading. Best of Infogrames(GreenPapper etc) got regular easier SafeDisc.

Game also has bonus minigame (archived by Pinstripe website).

For localisations reaaally better go to PS1 PAL version.

Another interesting case of the game. Just like initial PC edition, PS1 PAL discs mastered in strange messy way of having a lot lf "errors" sectors (not really), having in-game bug-o-feature DRM, anti-modchip Sony DRM not detected by 3rd party tools as anti-modchip.

And above all that mess is kinda messy itself LibCrypt. English version have bug with second medal in Geneva Convention.
Or supposedly bugged.

DuckStation (and uptodate ePSXs) can deal with DRMs but bug remain. Real bug or still bug-o-featured DRM?

Im never tried so far localised PS1 versions (did for PC GOG MULTI4+Italian). Did they have the same issue?

PS1 disc image in bin from Internet Archive Redump-PS1 set - H (L/F/M for MULTi5) required downloading cue, sbi and lsd from Redump DB website
As for German PS1 disc...

[QWEEDDY2]

http://redump.org/disc/19539

[QWEEDDY2]

Sbi file also should be in downloaded archive. Double check CRC(CRC32) checksums for all files and compare what sbi are on Redump.
cue file can be alternatively erased and regenerated by CDMage. Also using CDMage it is better to combine 3-4 bin files into 2 (.cda in one rest in another).
Also better rename image files (and edit cue file for proper names) to shorter and VolumeLabel depresent names.

DuckStation are probably best way to play PS1 on PC(-Win?). Fast, and even faster. Fast in visual enhancements and switching them on/off at once. Fast and fast in switching for Widescreen hack. Good wlrking pause menu.

Why so strict for PS1 for localisations?

PC version are improved in many aspects. But downgraded in few. There is NO mhsic loop theme as i said above. No file for it on disc. There is NO SECOND OUTRO video for beating NewGame+ and so no localisation for it.
There is no Sergeant/Mayor(?) voice lines during campaign except Medal Promote tutorial and post Finale speech whcih is a bit shorter altered.

So. PC ver localisations are just not full ones.

PC version also have no NewGame+ mode (Harder +1 levelup for enemy) Its just NewGame mode. So that why no second video for complete NewGame+ mode.

Still first regular NewGame are MUCH better in PC and so Multiplayer online/hotseat (without AI). Just as trainig ok for AI skirmish.
PS1 vsrsion are for NewGame+ and skirmish. As alteration as emulated online multiplayer.

Each are unique/unique gameplay role in conclusion.

[cihad.aslanpence]

@whizhy ich brauche bitte Hilfe, kenne mich mit dem ganzen null aus... Habe es bei GOG runtergeladen kann es weder als exe datei finden irgendwo noch weiß ich wo ich die patches finde etc. bitte kontaktiere mich :(

[WhizKey]

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