the1812/Popcap-Patches

Popcap Patches

A tool for fixing 3D acceleration of Popcap games in Windows 10, based on cheez3d/popcap-patches.

This tool only help you make patched game file. For the full process, please refer to the original repo.

Games Support

* stands for not perfectly supported, see Known issues below for more info.

• Bejeweled 2 Deluxe
• Bejeweled 3
• Bejeweled Blitz
• Bejeweled Twist
• Zuma Deluxe *
• Zuma's Revenge *
• Peggle Deluxe *
• Peggle Nights *

Known issues

• Peggle Deluxe needs extra configuring, see issue #1 for details.
• For Peggle series and Zuma Deluxe, run patch only if you don't need full screen. These games cannot be both full screen and 3D accelerated.
• In Zuma's Revenge, if your screen aspect ratio is different than the game, game area may get clipped when running in full screen mode. (expected "contain" filling mode but actually get "cover")
• May not work with Origin version, or languages other than English.

Download

Please visit Releases page.

Usage

Make patch file

• Open PopcapPatches.exe
• Backup original game exe file
• Click Open file to select the game file
• Click Patch to get a patched file
• Replace original game file with patched file

Clean up registry

• Open Windows Registry Editor, navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\PopCap\<Game Name>
• Remove Test3D key

Modify config

• Backup compat.cfg in game folder (if there is, or you can skip this step)
• Open it with any text editor
• Find all functions about 3D and resolution, like Is3DSupported, Is3DRecommended, IsHighResSupported or IsUltraResSupported
• Let them just return true

Example:

function(bool) Is3DSupported
{
	if ((compat_D3DVendorID == VENDOR_SIS) || (compat_D3DVendorID == VENDOR_MATROX))
	{
		log("Returning Is3DSupported false due to SIS or Matrox hardware");
		return false;
	}

	// Nowadays any other hardware within our minspec range should be okay for 3D
	return true;
}

will become:

function(bool) Is3DSupported
{
	return true;
}

• Finally save the config file and run game

Other info

Built with Visual Studio 2019, .NET Framework 4.7.2