Longcat Posted February 11, 2009 Share Posted February 11, 2009 I still can't guarantee that it will work, but I can say with some certainty that this will work on 95-99% of Windows platforms. Make a full install to HD, download this archive: http://maybe.means.no/grim/GRIMDATA.rar and extract it to your game folder. Overwrite all files when prompted. Enjoy. NB! Note that this will change the games written language to english! I don't own other language editions. The trick is to make a full install to hd, apply the patch from LucasArts yourself and replace the main executable with the one from my archive. The aforementioned can all be done with bgbennyboys installer for Grim Fandango: http://quick.mixnmojo.com/grim-fandango-setup Note!: This does not fix compatibility issues with newer Nvidia cards. edit: post updated with new download link 05.07.2010. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thrik Posted February 11, 2009 Share Posted February 11, 2009 Any info on what exactly this does? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Longcat Posted February 11, 2009 Author Share Posted February 11, 2009 Patches the game, disables hyperthreading and problems on dualcore systems. I might have changed more, but it's been so long since I made these that I can't really remember:P I have the changelog somewhere, I'll dig it up tomorrow. Tested on XP, Vista 32 & 64 bit and on other Windows platforms by other users. I haven't met anyone who had problems running GF after applying this, but by all means, prove me wrong and I'll try to fix it. Edit; oh, and I think there's a registry patch in there to enable the good_times key(debug mode) but you can already do that manually or through bgbennyboys installer methinks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thrik Posted February 12, 2009 Share Posted February 12, 2009 OK, excellent. Stickied it, btw. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grim Paranoid Posted February 25, 2009 Share Posted February 25, 2009 Any chance to apply those fixes to the german version without changing the language to english? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Longcat Posted March 1, 2009 Author Share Posted March 1, 2009 I don't know, I don't think it should affect the language at all? Have you tried it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spektor Posted March 5, 2009 Share Posted March 5, 2009 It definitely changes the language. Mine was in Spanish and after this all the written text (dialoge options and subtitles) changed to English. Any chance of releasing this in spanish or without changing the original language? Maybe is an .exe thing or something? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Longcat Posted March 6, 2009 Author Share Posted March 6, 2009 That is possible but unlikely. I don't have the spanish or german editions so it's hard for me to test, but if any of you are able to send it to me(the main executable) I could fix it. It's been a while since I messed around with these so I don't really remember what's what but I'll have a looksee:) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr.Reaper Posted March 8, 2009 Share Posted March 8, 2009 brilliant patch! not only did it fix all my voice, music and cutscene launching problems but i can now play without the disk and have no freezes. thank you so m uch!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Longcat Posted March 8, 2009 Author Share Posted March 8, 2009 np. Nice to hear it works for you;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spektor Posted March 9, 2009 Share Posted March 9, 2009 I'm going to upload my main exe in a while. I'll edit here. EDIT: Here it is, my EXE, spanish version with patch. http://www.mediafire.com/?jwtmznwmd30 (RAR version) http://www.mediafire.com/?kwyxtyrzyjl (EXE version) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spektor Posted March 12, 2009 Share Posted March 12, 2009 I think I found the problem...all the menu, subtitles and everything are in the GRIM.TAB file. I'll try without it now. Is it necesary for any of the advantages given in the first post? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Longcat Posted March 14, 2009 Author Share Posted March 14, 2009 dude, sorry for the late reply. that's actually what I thought... No, the grim.tab file is only affected/updated by LucasArts own patch. Which means, if you leave it intact it will not be patched but this has nothing to do with hyperthreading issues. One solution would be to install the game, patch it and then simply replace the main executable with the one from my archive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spektor Posted March 19, 2009 Share Posted March 19, 2009 That's what I did, I have my game in spanish but graphics errors everywhere. I'm on a 9500GT. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Longcat Posted March 19, 2009 Author Share Posted March 19, 2009 Well, that is because of your graphics card then, I am sorry but there is currently no fix for newer Nvidia cards. The only advise I can give you is either to try software mode or Residual. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paal Posted March 30, 2009 Share Posted March 30, 2009 Thanks for the great fix, Jona Og.. Er du norsk? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Longcat Posted March 31, 2009 Author Share Posted March 31, 2009 You are welcome;) Og ja. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
d777 Posted May 20, 2009 Share Posted May 20, 2009 hi the game runs okay with me but when i hit F1 there's no menu show up or save game please please help me i cant save the game my system is vista Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MeddlingMonk Posted May 20, 2009 Share Posted May 20, 2009 More than likely the source of your trouble is that on your computer F1 is bound to some other action. I'm not a user of Vista but I'm betting it's similar to the situation with OSX: on a Mac, F1 is bound to dimming the display. If I need to use F1 for a program-specific function (like bringing up a game menu in Residual or ScummVM) I have to press a key labeled fn along with F1 to override the OS keybinding. If there is some symbol on or above the F1 key on your keyboard, then I must be right in thinking it's basically the same on your computer. But I have no idea what other key you would need to press along with F1. It could be a special key like fn, whatever it's Vista label actually is, or it could something standard like ctrl, alt or the Windows key. You could check your OS documentation or just experiment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
d777 Posted May 21, 2009 Share Posted May 21, 2009 More than likely the source of your trouble is that on your computer F1 is bound to some other action. I'm not a user of Vista but I'm betting it's similar to the situation with OSX: on a Mac, F1 is bound to dimming the display. If I need to use F1 for a program-specific function (like bringing up a game menu in Residual or ScummVM) I have to press a key labeled fn along with F1 to override the OS keybinding. If there is some symbol on or above the F1 key on your keyboard, then I must be right in thinking it's basically the same on your computer. But I have no idea what other key you would need to press along with F1. It could be a special key like fn, whatever it's Vista label actually is, or it could something standard like ctrl, alt or the Windows key. You could check your OS documentation or just experiment. thanks that helped me:thmbup1: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kloppstock Posted September 13, 2009 Share Posted September 13, 2009 I still can't guarantee that it will work, but I can say with some certainty that this will work on 95-99% of Windows platforms. Make a full install to HD, download this archive: http://folk.ntnu.no/bjarner/Grim/GRIMDATA.rar and extract it to your game folder. Overwrite all files when prompted. Enjoy. NB! Note that this will change the games written language to english! I don't own other language editions. The trick is to make a full install to hd, apply the patch from LucasArts yourself and replace the main executable with the one from my archive. The aforementioned can all be done with bgbennyboys installer for Grim Fandango: http://quick.mixnmojo.com/grim-fandango-setup Note!: This does not fix compatibility issues with newer Nvidia cards. Im using that modified setup, and it gives me the alternative to atleast play grim in windowed mode, cause choosing fullscreen causes game crasch directley ..i suppose my global destop resolution 1680X1050 can affect a bit so if i want to play in fullscreen what is the right resolution i must sett desktop to? it thou troubles me to see that enabling 3d accelerator ingame causes some small pixel looses, on the other hand i have setted my ATI with 8x anti aliasing and 16X anisotropic filtering, will that create same effect as the ingame graphic accelerator would have made? so is there any one in here who plays with both 3d accelerator and it who can compare them? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Longcat Posted September 27, 2009 Author Share Posted September 27, 2009 GF runs with a native resolution of 640x480. The game should switch to that mode when you start it up anyway. Please post a screenshot of what you mean by 'pixel losses'. GF runs fine on my ATi Radeon 4850 HD on an iMac with full hardware acceleration. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kloppstock Posted October 19, 2009 Share Posted October 19, 2009 GF runs with a native resolution of 640x480. The game should switch to that mode when you start it up anyway. Please post a screenshot of what you mean by 'pixel losses'. GF runs fine on my ATi Radeon 4850 HD on an iMac with full hardware acceleration. Free Image Hosting by ImageBam.com I posted this pics in another thread here earlier this year, you there replied on them that you think its caused by my graphic driver i have tested alot of latest catalyst versions since i took this pics, it simply doenst wanna work on any of them Perhaps if it exist some special inofficial radeon driver optimized to solve game troubles? when i still hade Geforce i know it existed such drivers atleast or i must have some direction how to sett the latest catalyst drive right for Grim, there are tripple buffering, advanced AI etc, as we all know, perhaps thei can screw it up, but in my opinion i have tested all kinds of setting combinations, still i wouldnt trust on myself here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MeddlingMonk Posted October 20, 2009 Share Posted October 20, 2009 OK. The cause for this is your anti-aliasing setting, most likely. Do you know what you have FSAA set to currently? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kloppstock Posted October 20, 2009 Share Posted October 20, 2009 OK. The cause for this is your anti-aliasing setting, most likely. Do you know what you have FSAA set to currently? This days i have ticked "application controlled" in catalyst, but i dont have Grim fandango installed now but if i do it, i take that as you would recommend keep having "application controlled"=0? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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