I've been using 1.45.20 and for the few games I use it on (Condemned, Max Payne 2 etc) it's been fine.You may need to download and update Creative sound, speaker or headphone drivers to make it be compatible with Windows 10, it is known to us all that updating Creative sound drivers can not only make the sound be high-quality, but also solve the Creative driver issues. Is there any reason to use a version like "1.45.03 Universal" over just using the latest version (as of right now 1.45.20)? Just wondering what "Universal" means really.
(also on 32-bit windows it might need to go inside System32 instead of SysWOW64) I'm not completely sure this backdoor code actually gets used or not though, don't have a way to test it out right now, would appreciate if anyone can try it and see if it works with a non-patched ALchemy. In 1.45.20 both ALchemy.exe & dsound.dll have checks for that file, in 1.43.20 I only saw it mentioned inside dsound.dll though, not sure about ALchemy.exe, but could have just been obfuscated somehow.
Maybe copying a small DLL like "C:\Windows\SysWOW64\Version.dll" and naming it that could work, doesn't seem like it does any other checks on the file, just need to make sure it's the same kind of CPU as ALchemy itself (only ever 32-bit I think?) Good thing they stopped using it for 1.45.xx 🙂Į: hmm looking into it more, it kinda looks like ALchemy has a backdoor of sorts, if it's able to load the file "C:\Windows\SysWOW64\CTMBHA.dll" then it seems to skip a bunch of HW checks. Not really sure how to get around something like that, I guess it'd need a SafeDisc/SafeCast 2.80.012 unpacker, but haven't been able to find one yet. Oh wow, nice collection, had a quick look at an older version, seems 1.43.20 at least uses some kind of protection on both dsound.dll & Alchemy.exe, PEiD says that it's SafeDisc/SafeCast 2.80.012, seems the code for checking HW which we have to patch over is all obfuscated/encrypted in some way, can find some strings used by that func, but no idea about the func itself 😞 Infograms' generic patcher seems to only work with 1.45.xx versions. What version of ALchemy are you using? If you can't add a game, it might be because you have selected Registry Path instead of Game Path.īy the way, I've uploaded all of the publicly available versions of Creative ALchemy I could find:
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