Has anyone successfully gotten Entomorph to work with DxWnd?

I'd love to be able to scale the output to something more appropriate on my 1920x1080 monitor and without causing it to flicker to a nasty stretched low resolution like so. If all else fails I could always get it up and running in a Win9x DOSbox environment, but I was hoping for a more lightweight solution if possible.

Hello,

i used DxWnd to start entomorph. Seems to work. Here is the *.dxw i imported through the DxWnd.exe:

[target]
title0=entomorph
path0=G:\GOG Games\Entomorph\plague.exe
module0=
opengllib0=
ver0=0
coord0=0
flag0=201392162
flagg0=1476919296
flagh0=41943580
flagi0=0
tflag0=275
initx0=0
inity0=0
minx0=0
miny0=0
maxx0=0
maxy0=0
posx0=50
posy0=50
sizx0=800
sizy0=600
maxfps0=0
initts0=0

Save it in editor as *.dxw. You can change the resolution sizx=800 sizy?600 to your liking.

Have a nice day

Unfortunately, that still exhibits the same problems I've been having with DxWnd. The fullscreen resolution on my primary (16:9) monitor still drops down to a lower, stretched 4:3 resolution instead of maintaining the 4:3 aspect ratio in 16:9 (pillarboxed) and scaling to the desktop resolution.

Have you set the "keep aspect ratio" flag?
Does it work with "bilinear filtering" on?
I'm caring much about this game that I own in the original CD format .....

Can't the game just be set not to run in fullscreen?

I ran it in DxWnd today setting the display mode to 2560 x 1440 in windowed mode and it covers almost all the screen (I still have my taskbar at bottom and about 1/16" desktop on the left and right edges. It still freezes at the start if you let it try to run to the intro movie so I just hit esc at the screen that opens that says World of Aden and the rest works fine so far. I only went to meet his sister the saved the game. It restarted and the load game worked no problems.. Note! form another posting I saw somewhere, I also renamed the winmm.dll file to old_winmm,dll as I was getting an error tryin to start the game.

I take it DxWnd is your project? Thank you very much for such an amazing program!

Only just started playing Entomorph (GOG), but with using DxWnd it seems to be working great so far with Windows 10. Movies appear to run properly too. Music seems messed up in that it always plays the starting song before it goes to the track it's likely supposed to be playing. I was additionally able to get it run fullscreen-ish without the taskbar

In case anyone else feels like trying to recreate my partial success....

Start by renaming winmm.dll to winmm.dll.old in the GOG\Entomorph Folder.

Download the DxWnd v2_05_58_build, putting it into it's own folder. (In my case I did GOG\Entomorph\DxWnd)

Run DxWnd. Import "Entomorph Plague of the Darkfall.dxw" from the DxWnd\exports folder.
Modify the profile with the following:

[Main]
Path: To the GOG\Entomorph\PLAGUE.EXE

[Video]
"Thin Frame" selected (Got rid of the always appearing Taskbar on my machine)
"Max Resolution" selected
"Initial Resolution" Unselected (May not be necessary to unselect)

Choice time (Or create 2 different profiles):

For stretched fullscreen
[Main]
"Desktop" selected

For proper fullscreen in 4:3
[Main]
"Hide desktop background" selected
"Keep aspect ratio" selected
"Desktop" selected

*There seems to be a 1.1 patch that isn't included in the GOG version, it does fix some issues. Thankfully you can still find it on Google.

**On my current playthrough, I just found another issue which you can use DxWnd to fix. There's a certain location with BEEs that'll destroy you almost instantly. That's because of timing issues (A much weaker CPU is expected). To fix, do a temporary change to your DxWnd profiel. Go to the "Timing" tab and under "Frame per Second" select "Limit" and set "Delay (msec)" to "15" (or a bigger number, if needed). Disable when past the bug.

***For whatever reason, I found that the "Try" option did not work with my machine as it caused all sorts of pop-up errors. However, running the created "Entomorph Plague of the Darkfall" link worked with no issues once configured as above

****If one would like to run the game straight from a shortcut without having to run the DxWnd frontend each time do the following: Go into the DxWnd folder and right click on dxwnd.exe and select "Create shortcut"

Now right click the newly created "dxwnd.exe - Shortcut" and select "properties".

Put quotes around the "Target" (e.g. D:\Games\GOG\Entomorph\DXWND\dxwnd.exe becomes "D:\Games\GOG\Entomorph\DXWND\dxwnd.exe")

Add " /R:1" to the Target (e.g. "D:\Games\GOG\Entomorph\DXWND\dxwnd.exe" /R:1) (Note that "1" can be replaced with a different number if you want to use another sequential created profile from DxWnd Frontend). Apply the settings

Now you can rename the shorcut whatever you'd like, as well as move it to the main Entomorph folder