- THE GODFATHER 1 REDDIT MOVIE
- THE GODFATHER 1 REDDIT ARCHIVE
- THE GODFATHER 1 REDDIT FULL
- THE GODFATHER 1 REDDIT SOFTWARE
- THE GODFATHER 1 REDDIT CODE
THE GODFATHER 1 REDDIT CODE
Maybe a memory corruption which remained undetected on older systems? Or maybe game is exploiting some undocumented feature which got changed in a new OS and code started failing? That’s where things are getting interesting - it’s obviously game’s own code, why would it suddenly stop working on Vista? REAL_abortmessage triggers a breakpoint internally, which means the “crash” we have been encountering is a controlled “something is wrong, you need to investigate asap”ĭebug measure which somehow found its way into the shipping build.
THE GODFATHER 1 REDDIT SOFTWARE
With this info applied, it is obvious that the crash is actually a software triggered breakpoint coming from an assertion: These days we have symbols for huge parts of their binaries (thanks to mobile ports leaving them over), so literally any RW function used in Godfather can be indexed and properly named. This is actually very good info, since all RW experience I have gained throughout the years of working with GTA III, Vice City and San Andreas could be useful at a later point (spoiler: it was crucial).
Having a well documented database is crucial for efficient debugging when source code is not available, so at this point it was worth spending some time gathering known information about game’s internals.
Thus, files themselves are not the issue - the issue lies somewhere else. Other games using VP6 also play Godfather’s movies fine, while Godfather still crashes when trying to play their movies. External media players can play them just fine: No point in dragging this topic further, so let’s just say movies themselves turned out to be just fine.
THE GODFATHER 1 REDDIT MOVIE
However, there is one important difference between GF and all those other titles - their VP6 movie players work just fine! The Godfather is not the only game to use this format - several Need for Speed titles, as well as The Godfather II and Dead Space (both developed by the same studio) also use VP6. While this is not relevant for further analysis, a few pieces of information regarding the format specs can be found here: All clips in the game are stored as VP6 files, a proprietary format which seemed to have been EA’s format of choice for videos in their mid-2000’s games. What is going on with movies anyway?įirst off, let’s see what kind of movies game uses. So proper research and debugging can be performed. However, we have a key to a successful fix - issue is totally reproducible, We don’t have too much information about the issue - we know it’s movies causing the crash, but that’s about it. So, looks like there is no win-win situation.
THE GODFATHER 1 REDDIT FULL
With movies removed, game works just fine but you get to lose FMVs and clips for good - surely you are missing out parts of the full experience. So how have people been dealing with this issue until now? Look no further than game’s article on : While the crash is gone and audio works fine, there is absolutely no video output, ever. Well, it is possible to enable a certain compatibility shim to prevent the crash - however,
This is Windows 10, but I assure it’s just the same on Vista, 7, 8 and 8.1.īasing on countless workarounds and compatibility shims people attempted to use, all of which unsuccessful, there is absolutely no way to get movies to work, at all.įorced compatibility modes, windowed modes, D3D wrappers - nothing fixes the issue. …while on Windows Vista or any newer system (including Windows 10, of course) movies look more like this: Upon launching the game, users are greeted with a copyright screen, followed by two movies. (though the game is said to support Windows 2000 too), with Windows Vista not reaching its public release until nine months later, in January 2007. At that time, the most popular Windows version was Windows XP However, PC version of the game has one major flaw which surfaced only several months after game’s debut in March 2006. The game is designed as an open world action-adventure around the plot of The Godfather movie. It initially released on PC, Xbox and PlayStation 2, later followed with additional releases on PlayStation Portable, Xbox 360, The Godfather: The Game is a 2006 game developed by EA Redwood Shores (Visceral Games).
THE GODFATHER 1 REDDIT ARCHIVE
Upon downloading, all you need to do is to extract the archive to game’s directory and that’s it! If you have movies removed or renamed, don’t forget to restore them, since they will work just fine now. TL DR - if you are not interested in an in-depth overview of what was wrong with the game and how it was fixed, just go here to grab SilentPatch for The Godfather: Fixing game-breaking issues in The Godfather: The Game - Part 1
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