I tried with a Diamond Stealth ii s220 (Rendition Vérité V2100) in Windows 95b on a Pentium 2 350 Mhz. I didn't install the driver from the cd because it looks like it is for the V1000.

The game opens a small window and I get an error message, saying "The instruction at 00000007 referenced memory at 00400000 The memory could not be written".

Then the crash report says things, I took a screenshot. It says F1RED caused a page failure in the module <unknown> at 0000:00000007
Registres -> Registers
Octets à -> Bytes at
Etat de la pile -> State of the stack

Then there's a crash report for kernel32 but I didn't take a screenshot.

Without your wrapper, if I try running F1red.exe (without the V1000 drivers included) it just tries to create the small games window but it closes immediately without any message.

Thanks for trying.

Many many bugs in the code. Could you try these DLLs:

DLLs
https://1drv.ms/u/s!As-dKk-N73dSlidg2T5X4H0z1RzG?e=SYKbp3
MD5: 2f6dc1a5eb62745aea8293a391ea548e

Source:
https://1drv.ms/u/s!As-dKk-N73dSliikPqL9am9TepUl?e=UTgbP6
MD5: 1cdcc9fd988483d6322060901edc8b62

(Once again, the DLLs go in the Formula 1 folder and not Windows\system).

Now it opens the small window and waits 1 second before crashing. I forgot to put the cd and it didn't ask for it, so it still crashes before checking for the cd.

Here's the error : "The instruction at 0194163a referenced memory at ffffffff The memory could not be read from"
Then there are crash reports.

chuky wrote on 2023-10-14, 20:20:

Now it opens the small window and waits 1 second before crashing. I forgot to put the cd and it didn't ask for it, so it still crashes before checking for the cd.

Here's the error : "The instruction at 0194163a referenced memory at ffffffff The memory could not be read from"
Then there are crash reports.

That's a bit better. Found another bug:

https://1drv.ms/u/s!As-dKk-N73dSlilBAAKx5l37XzkS?e=1xTkCx
MD5: d446780a430b7bb2bad553282ab59555

Source:
https://1drv.ms/u/s!As-dKk-N73dSlilBAAKx5l37XzkS?e=ndd1aT

MD5: f42f1262eed7764fa7b3a6e1226cf793

With the previous versions the error was always the same, but with this one the error is different every time. It seems to look at different places in memory. Sometimes it's ffffffff, sometimes it's the same address it comes from, sometimes it's somewhere else. All errors happen before it checks for the cd.

I made a zip with screenshots and the crash report. They're in the chronological order where I got them, but some of them are not from the same session.
<inconnu> means <unknown>

I'm not a programmer but it looks like the address is random and the error happens before the address itself. If you want, maybe you could tell me how to use something like windbg. I don't have it installed, but it could be the occasion for me to learn something. edit: or maybe I should start compiling myself and look at instructions 1 by 1 as they run ?

chuky wrote on 2023-10-15, 15:11:

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With the previous versions the error was always the same, but with this one the error is different every time. It seems to look at different places in memory. Sometimes it's ffffffff, sometimes it's the same address it comes from, sometimes it's somewhere else. All errors happen before it checks for the cd.

I made a zip with screenshots and the crash report. They're in the chronological order where I got them, but some of them are not from the same session.
<inconnu> means <unknown>

I'm not a programmer but it looks like the address is random and the error happens before the address itself. If you want, maybe you could tell me how to use something like windbg. I don't have it installed, but it could be the occasion for me to learn something. edit: or maybe I should start compiling myself and look at instructions 1 by 1 as they run ?

If you've got a copy of visual studio 6.0 you might be able to, unless the app checks for a debugger. Let me add some logging to it, so we can see where it fails. That will take me some time but I can probably get it done before tomorrow evening for you to test.

You can probably enable crash dump logging for the app. Not sure how you do it in win98.

Dr. Watson logs will probably help, but that's a text log, not a crash dump.

I think it's best to wait for logging.

Could you try this:

https://1drv.ms/u/s!As-dKk-N73dSlisipNv39IecSz9Y?e=hAYUhg
MD5: 9dbfe71b86407ec665f3525bff023871

Source:
https://1drv.ms/u/s!As-dKk-N73dSliw0DPac298u22FC?e=erxl8H
MD5: 22a42b01e6dae8d6e773c3c9e0b8a610

There'll be a log file after it runs in the game folder.

I don't get a Windows crash error. The log is created but I get a message saying "Logging function missing in V2k. Rready's Redline..DLL" (with "..DLL" instead of ".DLL") the title of the message bos is "C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\Verite.dll"

The log file V2k.RReady.LogFile.txt says:

1Loaded system\redline.DLL library
2VL_OpenVerite_
3

It'll take a bit of time for me to install what's needed to help debugging. I'm still in Windows 95b, maybe the dlls are too old for the function you wanted to use.

edit: It's the same if I make a copy of redline.dll and call it redline..dll.

The extra . is a typo in the message.

Are you sure you have the right verite.dll in the F1 folder?

The two wrapper zip files needs to be unzipped into the F1 folder, no system32.

It's entirely possible Win95 the wrapper's verite.dll is looking for the logging function in the system redline.dll. Let me fix that. Give me 10 mins.

Try these (should definitely log the sequence of calls, it uses full paths for DLL loads.):

https://1drv.ms/u/s!As-dKk-N73dSli1jifQQpfdUT8Br?e=eneOvY
MD5: 09f901f47b86fca4d02685668511b9bc

Source:
https://1drv.ms/u/s!As-dKk-N73dSli6K33EgjNmkxRCj?e=JWYyla
MD5 : 14d74c8c5e5339872f50355b47c3430c

I'll be around tonight to help or provide updated libraries.

This time I get a Windows crash error like before with a random address. The log file is created but it's empty.
I'm copying dlls in the Fomula 1 directory.

I think I'll install Windows 98 next time because I have trouble installing my usb card in Windows 95.

chuky wrote on 2023-10-16, 15:18:

This time I get a Windows crash error like before with a random address. The log file is created but it's empty.
I'm copying dlls in the Fomula 1 directory.

I think I'll install Windows 98 next time because I have trouble installing my usb card in Windows 95.

One final build for tonight, if you're still around. This should produce 2 log files, one for each DLL, timestamped. This should definitely produce logs.

https://1drv.ms/u/s!As-dKk-N73dSli_rOUgLWtbNGx4_?e=GHwY9N

MD5: fdc3b6ddd8315c9328e33def2d788d4e
Another build with unified logging with a separate file fallback. This shouldn't crash without logging:

https://1drv.ms/u/s!As-dKk-N73dSljArfLHEG04M4lLy?e=RhV595
MD5: e32ddd87ea222219437910f6c5441ca0

The wrapper appears to have issues loading the same DLL from multiple folders (current and windows\system). Probably because of bugs in my code. It does appear to work on Win11, well the logging anyway.

It makes 2 logs files but they're empty.

I'll try compiling the version of your code that outputs something in the log (version 2023-10-16.001), and see if I can output some text in many places and get rid of the message.

I'm in Windows 98 1st edition at the moment but I'll install 2nd edition.

chuky wrote on 2023-10-16, 22:31:

It makes 2 logs files but they're empty.

I'll try compiling the version of your code that outputs something in the log (version 2023-10-16.001), and see if I can output some text in many places and get rid of the message.

I'm in Windows 98 1st edition at the moment but I'll install 2nd edition.

One more:
https://1drv.ms/u/s!As-dKk-N73dSljG8hGo_erD_SSz-?e=K58jN3
MD5: 49cab3e7b18f87e31c75893c6b7a5a84

This is based of the last version that had working logging but with 2 log files.

Source:
https://1drv.ms/u/s!As-dKk-N73dSljK2QaCLiHHyZq-w?e=z5L2bF
MD5: 1601f7f2ee3504638ed429b80ab2970a

It's still the same with this one, I get 2 empty log files.

chuky wrote on 2023-10-16, 23:23:

It's still the same with this one, I get 2 empty log files.

If you try an older version, like this one which produced 1 line of log output before do you get anything?

https://1drv.ms/u/s!As-dKk-N73dSlisipNv39IecSz9Y?e=hAYUhg

MD5: 9dbfe71b86407ec665f3525bff023871

Before this produced one line of output with an error dialog.

Btw have you got rendition drivers installed? Without them there won't be any output at all.

If I try this older version, I still get 1 log file with the 2 lines inside that I posted and the error message box, but I don't get the crash error message from Windows. I guess everything happens very early when the game is launched.

I have the rendition drivers installed, the last version available, I think it's 1.10. I have the game Subculture installed which works fine both in the Rendition mode and in Direct3d. Formula 1 works in d3d, although it doesn't have texture filtering.

This Windows install is pretty dirty anyways. I don't have many things installed but some previous drivers remain, S3 Virge, PowerVR, Nvidia Tnt. I also had an installation failure when installing the rendition incontrol thing that you can install with the drivers that's supposed to allow to change settings, because only english files were included and it was looking for french files which weren't included, but I uninstalled it and there's no trace of it. Subculture works fine anyways. I know I should format it and do a clean install, but I'll look at your code a bit first to see if I can get more things to log.

Then the problem is purely with the wrapper.

I'll do some quick tests with x86 box (the wrapper won't be fully functional), but the startup logic can be tested. Just as soon as I figure out how to copy files to it.