The Godfather Pc Game Download Windows 10
Marika Posley
Hi, I would like to play this game in windowed mode but when I start with dxwnd it always stays in full screen, the game also has a known problem with the cutscenes, I would like to know if dxwnd can fix this too, thanks.
Curious game, I got it working but with some warnings.
1) the game is protected so it can't run without a proper crack. Of course, the following instruction may also depend on the selected crack, there could be more than one ...
2) early injection ("Hook / Inject suspended process") alone is not enough. I had to add "Hook / Hot patch" to force the game in window
3) following the crack instructions you need to rename the movies folder (for instance as _movies) or the game will hang at startup
Once done this the game works though with some problems. I list the ones I noticed, but there could be others
a) the game doesn't like "Main / Hide desktop background", it locks
b) the game prevents print-screen functionalities
Nice reading there. And the silent patch reveals that DxWnd could try to apply a similar approach to fix the game movies without need to patch the game engine.
Things that seems relevant for the patch are the following:* emulation of DirectDraw OVERLAY capabilities* decoding of YUY2 format* wrapping of DirectDraw7 methods
So, while the combination of silent patch + DxWnd may provide a fully working and windowed game, I will try to make an integrated patch in DxWnd as well. Who knows that it may be useful in some other game?
I have known since long overlays aren't supported anynore, but never saw a game fail because of it. I sometimes thought Overlay issues are fixed by the SETEXCLNOCOOPLEVEL tweak, but maybe I was wrong. I will test this game at home.
I believe that even in WinXP the overlay features are not for granted, so in theory a well-coded game should check for the OVERLAY capabilities before using them, and this is proably the reason why not many games are impacted by this change on Vista+.
I got an archive org ISO too (probably the same one, there's no much choice) but there was no mention to a fixed installer and the installer in the DVD doesn't work. Where did you get the EA installer?
Well, I have to say that the installation in Win10 was a bit strange. First I set all the exe's in root CD to WinXP compatibility (just to be sure). I ran autorun.exe and entered the required information that was listed on the game page in the web archive. Then the installer wanted to restart PC. Still not installed. After restart I ran command line as administrator and started autorun.exe, without this procedure the game could not access the folder I chose. Then the game installed. If I interrupted the installer in the folder selection, I had to repeat the entire process, including restarting the PC.
i use daemon tools to avoid those windows issues where shims don't activate, I don't know if this is the case here, that was and is still happening in ULTRAISO, with Ultraiso I can't install a single InstallShield game without heavy property changes in file.
That's strange because here (on Win11) everything worked almost all right and with DxWnd default configuration.
I used the lonebullet crack (I'm not sure he's the author, but I found the crack on the lonebullet website) plus the silent patch (that is an injection through the dinput8.dll proxy) and it worked. Did you unpack also the files in the silent patch subfolder? I suppose so ...
The only trouble is that the movie player doesn't handle correctly the windowed mode and when you minimize/restore the game window the player may not recover and stops working.
OK, it seems my patched exe was completely different. However, the game still doesn't work here with DxWnd. Either the game doesn't run at all, or it's not hooked up.
Hmm I see it. The game has an entry in the Ms shim database here in Win7, but NoSHIMs only partially helps.
Either the game starts in a window and then switches to fullscreen and starts constantly switching between this two states (then the system crashes) or it silently quits.
To be continued tomorrow.
The game is now using D3D9 instead of D3D7 in the videos. To be honest, D3D7 has caused DxWnd the most issues, and without hardware overlay support in Windows or DxWnd, you probably have to tweak his modded (or Renderware D3D9) Direct3D9, which may deviate a lot form the traditional one.
sorry for my inactivity but i didn't receive the notifications, anyway i was already aware of the patch but unfortunately i get strange behavior when i run the game with the patch like the crash when changing the resolution or when i try to create a new character.
I had to recreate the key from Direct3D because it was completely non-existent (probably deprecated) so the problem hasn't been solved, I have the Italian version of the game and I think the problem comes from the crack, with the cracked executable I can't enter the name while with a "maxi mini image backup" mounted with daemon tools i can insert the character name but i get the crash problem when i try to change the video settings with the silentpatch, so when i want to change the options i have to start the game without silentpatch.
The reason the SilentPatch was made is because the game uses a feature called "Hardware overlay", which was very well supported until Windows XP and ran on the old DirectDraw techniques such as DirectDraw7.
Since Windows Vista, the support of Hardware overlay became problematic; to my understanding, the people thought that Vista depreciated overlay while I believe the problem was because of badly supported DirectDraw drivers. In fact, Windows 10 still supports overlays on a Nvidia 900 series card as see in the thread:
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The registry key doesn't exist because Windows doesn't do anything about hardware overlays anymore on its own. On Windows Vista/7, the key isn't present, but the applications still run when HW overlay is supported by the driver.
Your result could be a key to some facts, if it works then Windows 10 supports HW overlays while Windows 11 doesn't, and if your test fails, Nvidia since GF 10 series don't support HW overlay in drivers anymore. In case of failure (which I hope doesn't happen), if you want to help us, you can back your result with some screenshots of where you put the key and the game directory so that any mistake can be rectified.
thank you for sending me the stuff you used, to test on my windows 10 system i uninstalled my italian version and used your same stuff and unfortunately it keeps crashing without silentpatch during the movie, the difference is that in the american version the movie starts playing the initial sound compared to the Italian one, but with the same result, here I attach a backtrace from dxwnd that maybe could be useful in some way and a picture of how I set the key to activate the overlays:
You need to download the executable, and then create the registry key linked to the executable just like you did with godfather.exe. Even after doing that, if you get an error saying that hardware overlay isn't supported, you got your answer.
I've been trying feverishly to get The Godfather running on Windows 7 in light of the various problems that people have been having with it. My research has led me find that the problem is the same with Vista.
Now, I've been busy and tried my level best to try and fix this. The common knowledge solution has been to delete or rename the "movies" directory, which effectively denies the game any access to the video files. This works, but it also removes all the FMV cutscenes from the game. The solution has led me to believe that there is some kind of codec problem.
There are no dynamic video codec libraries in the game directory. Opening godfather.exe in a hex editor has revealed that the codec is STATICALLY LINKED (urgh!) with a reference to VP6_CODEC_INTERNAL.
And this is where I'm stuck. I'd ideally like to be able to re-code the VP6 files into MP4 and get the game executable to use Windows' native MP4 decoder in place of its own internal codec (through hex-editing of course!), but I'm not sure if or how this is possible.
As for the Dead Space engine - that was an interesting piece of information and it might have been useful, but the Dead Space engine has no reference to the VP6 codec (no wonder - there aren't any video files in there, it's all in-engine).
I realize this thread is pretty old, but I found out something interesting. If I replace the intro movie with a file from Wii version then it plays for a sec and then crashes as opposed to crashing outright. Maybe replacing the files with newer version of them could work. IDK.
Based upon the 1972 film The Godfather, the game follows a non-canon character, Aldo Trapani, who is recruited into the Corleone family and works his way up its ranks while seeking revenge against his father's killers. The story of the game intersects with the film on numerous occasions, depicting major events from Aldo's perspective, or showing him perform actions that happened off-screen; for example, he avenges Bonasera's daughter, kills Luca Brasi's assassin, drives Vito Corleone to the hospital after he is shot, plants the gun for Michael Corleone to kill Sollozzo and Captain McCluskey, and places the horse's head in Jack Woltz's bed. Although the game was condemned by Francis Ford Coppola, who claimed Paramount never told him about its development or asked for his input, it does feature voice acting from several stars of the film, including James Caan as Sonny Corleone, Robert Duvall as Tom Hagen and Abe Vigoda as Salvatore Tessio. Marlon Brando also recorded dialogue for Vito Corleone, in what would be his final acting job, but his ill health made most of his recordings unusable.
The Godfather received generally positive reviews across most systems, although the PlayStation Portable version was commonly seen as inferior to the others. The game was a commercial success, selling over two million units. A sequel, based on the 1974 film, The Godfather Part II, was released for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Microsoft Windows in 2009, but it received mixed reviews and did not sell as well as the first game, causing EA to scrap plans for an adaptation of the third film.[15]
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