So how have people been dealing with this issue until now? Look no further than game’s article on : Well, it is possible to enable a certain compatibility shim to prevent the crash - however,while the crash is gone and audio works fine, there is absolutely no video output, ever.
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, looks like there is no win-win situation. We don’t have too much information about the issue - we know it’s movies causing the crash, but that’s about it. 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.However, there is one important difference between GF and all those other titles - their VP6 movie players work just fine! 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.While this is not relevant for further analysis, a few pieces of information regarding the format specs can be found here: However, we have a key to a successful fix - issue is totally reproducible,so proper research and debugging can be performed.įirst off, let’s see what kind of movies game uses. 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. Other games using VP6 also play Godfather’s movies fine, while Godfather still crashes when trying to play their movies.
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.Two important key points were quickly identified: Thus, files themselves are not the issue - the issue lies somewhere else.
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