SpellForce 2 Hardware Patch

[NeoX]

hi,

It opens to the choice screen but when I tri to run the editor its closes just like the game does.
No error message pops up.
A dos looking black box opens for 1-3 sec before it just closes.

Ok can you give me a "System-Report" via the System-Meeter-Bar with your installed software in the scan please?
http://smb.it-huskys.com/index.html

Either you are missing a key-runtime or something is killing the process.
Also your monitor, is it connected to the motherboard or your nvidia gpu?

Greetings: NeoX

Here is the report.

thx, but i specificly asked for one with "Software" tagged in the report, but i need to see what runtimes may be missing at your end.

EDIT:
I see you have a quite strange desktop resolution: 1536 x 864
Do you have it zoomed in/scaled up? Could you set your desktop to 100% rendering and try again?

Greetings: NeoX

[a1fox3]

Could not figure out how to edit my post.

My monitor is connected to the GPU.

[NeoX]

hey,

Could not figure out how to edit my post.

My monitor is connected to the GPU.

hi,
Ok can you give me a "System-Report" via the System-Meeter-Bar with your installed software in the scan please?
http://smb.it-huskys.com/index.html

Either you are missing a key-runtime or something is killing the process.
Also your monitor, is it connected to the motherboard or your nvidia gpu?

Greetings: NeoX

Here is the report.

thx, but i specificly asked for one with "Software" tagged in the report, but i need to see what runtimes may be missing at your end.

EDIT:
I see you have a quite strange desktop resolution: 1536 x 864
Do you have it zoomed in/scaled up? Could you set your desktop to 100% rendering and try again?

Greetings: NeoX

Greetings: NeoX

[a1fox3]

hey,

Could not figure out how to edit my post.

My monitor is connected to the GPU.

Here is the report.

thx, but i specificly asked for one with "Software" tagged in the report, but i need to see what runtimes may be missing at your end.

EDIT:
I see you have a quite strange desktop resolution: 1536 x 864
Do you have it zoomed in/scaled up? Could you set your desktop to 100% rendering and try again?

Greetings: NeoX

Greetings: NeoX

Don't know why its saying 1536x864 because the sys setting says its 1920x1080.

I think I got what you wanted, here is the report.

[NeoX]

hi,

hey,

Could not figure out how to edit my post.

My monitor is connected to the GPU.

thx, but i specificly asked for one with "Software" tagged in the report, but i need to see what runtimes may be missing at your end.

EDIT:
I see you have a quite strange desktop resolution: 1536 x 864
Do you have it zoomed in/scaled up? Could you set your desktop to 100% rendering and try again?

Greetings: NeoX

Greetings: NeoX

Don't know why its saying 1536x864 because the sys setting says its 1920x1080.

I think I got what you wanted, here is the report.

Have you tried installing Direct X 9.0c? Its the only thing i can see "missing" on your system.
Also the resolution is that low, because you seem to have it massively zoomed in/scaled up. The readout resolution is the one that is actualy used by windows. You can change that in your screen-setting in your windows settings. Set Scaling to 100%.

Well your issues could be connected to missing DirectX 9.0 or an incompatible GPU driver. Install the missing Direct X version and see if it solves it for you.

Also your DxDiag shows something strange:

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<WER5>Fault bucket , type 0
Event Name: APPCRASH
Response: Not available
Cab Id: 0

Problem signature:
P1: SMB_3_4_EXT.exe
P2: 3.4.0.0
P3: 67d4ec07
P4: KERNELBASE.dll
P5: 10.0.26100.4061
P6: e6128e90
P7: e0434352
P8: 00000000000c9f0a
P9: 
P10: 

</WER5>
<WER6>Fault bucket 2163685975181516313, type 1
Event Name: APPCRASH
Response: Not available
Cab Id: 0

Problem signature:
P1: ED.datago.exe
P2: 0.0.0.0
P3: 00002138
P4: ED.datago.exe
P5: 0.0.0.0
P6: 00002138
P7: c0000005
P8: 012fc600
P9: 
P10: 

</WER6>
<WER7>Fault bucket , type 0
Event Name: APPCRASH
Response: Not available
Cab Id: 0

Problem signature:
P1: ED.datago.exe
P2: 0.0.0.0
P3: 00002138
P4: ED.datago.exe
P5: 0.0.0.0
P6: 00002138
P7: c0000005
P8: 012fc600
P9: 
P10: 

</WER7>

Even the SMB did crash on your end? Are you sure its not something on your end blocking it? Since there is no crash-log, it seems like something has killed the process. What are your Security settings? Also i hope you run a local Administrator account not a Microsoft Cloud account. That one blocks a lot of apps and older legacy games from running.

We had cases here where using Windows 11 with a microsoft cloud account and no local administrator account, from running the game and its patches over all. Only a local administrator account solved the permission start issue.

Greetings: NeoX

[a1fox3]

What does it mean "Even the SMB did crash"?

Yes I have a local admin account for me.

Installed Dx9 but still the same it tries to start then closes after 4-7 sec.

[NeoX]

hey,

What does it mean "Even the SMB did crash"?

Yes I have a local admin account for me.

Installed Dx9 but still the same it tries to start then closes after 4-7 sec.

In the System-Report and Dxdiag it shows that the SMB and the editor crashed. I even quoted the code-section of it.
Are you sure you have everything correctly installed? Can you run the Hardware Patch with admin permissions and post the log here for me please? I want to check something.

Greetings: NeoX

[a1fox3]

hey,

What does it mean "Even the SMB did crash"?

Yes I have a local admin account for me.

Installed Dx9 but still the same it tries to start then closes after 4-7 sec.

In the System-Report and Dxdiag it shows that the SMB and the editor crashed. I even quoted the code-section of it.
Are you sure you have everything correctly installed? Can you run the Hardware Patch with admin permissions and post the log here for me please? I want to check something.

Greetings: NeoX

Here is the report, just ran it.

[a1fox3]

Okay after running the patch with the scale set to 100% the game runs now.

Thank you for your time and your help with this.