djkurzman: I disabled every HID-compliant vendor-defined device and still no dice. I don't think I missed any of the steps mentioned here. Still getting the instant close after the little black box. Any other suggestions?
DetsEightyOne: Ok, so i brought shogo and got it working, I had the same black box issue. My solution is as follows:
1. Go to this comment (
https://github.com/elishacloud/dxwrapper/issues/54#issuecomment-537794922 ) and download the dinput.dll and put it in the main directory. This will allow the game to launch and stop the black box crash issue.
2. Download and run this exe (
https://www.moddb.com/downloads/shogo-fix )
your browser might flag it as unsafe but i had no issues running it with defender, it's a false positive anyway the file is safe.
3. Download the Shogo_21-9.rar file from Attachments on this page (
https://www.wsgf.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=95&t=28031 ) and ONLY extract the D3DIM.DLL file to your main directory.
4. Run Shogo.exe and choose Display, it should be set on dgVoodoo and now you can also set the resolution to over 1080p without it going back to 640x480.
5. Choose Customize from the launcher and make sure the widescreen patch is under "Rez files to load" and "Always load these rez files" is ticked
6. Go to Advanced and make sure the only boxes ticked are "Enable Poly Gap Fixing" and "Enable Triple Buffering"
7. Launch the game and (hopefully) enjoy!
Just wanted to bump this. Step one with the dll was enough to make the game run for me after getting dgVoodoo.