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Article #282183Re: "function pointers have moved" - SOLVED for XP
From: Allannon
Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2004 01:04
Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2004 01:04
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I have tried to locate the offset hex strings with several hex editors
with no avail. What are the exact hex strings I should be looking for?
On Thu, 9 Sep 2004 23:58:35 +0100, "Stephen Howe"
<sjhoweATdialDOTpipexDOTcom> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Nothing on the "function pointers have moved" for Windows XP Professional
>seem to work.
>Now that I have seen the code, I think rebasing the DLLs should work.
>
>I had hoped that XP Service Pack 2 would cure this as reading the Microsoft
>small print said that it would make XP more like Windows 2000 which AFAIK,
>has no problem running Quake2.
>
>But no such luck.
>
>What I found was a Russian post where changing the offset's and bytes for
>version 3.20 in gamex86.dll gets round the problem.
>
>For offsets for
>
> Offset in Hex Change Hex byte
>1 to byte 2
>baseq2\gamex86.dll: 11E3F 74->EB
>xatrix\gamex86.dll: 1346A 74->EB
>rogue\gamex86.dll: 1DABD 74->EB
>
>Stephen Howe
>
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