DisciplesGL Modern

Modern maintenance build of DisciplesGL for Disciples II.

• Separate speed settings for map and battle (menu options).
• WASD map scrolling, with a menu option to toggle it.
• Window maximizes on game start.
• Autosave archive: keeps the last 15 turns as rolling saves.
• Filtered (smooth) background rendering in HD and wide modes.
• Fixed filtered transition artifacts.
• Fixed fullscreen and hotkey handling.
• Fixed saving under the Rise of the Elves expansion.

• Restored the project so it builds cleanly with Visual Studio 2022.
• Fixed include and library paths in the Visual Studio project.
• Added the missing libpng and zlib headers required by the source tree.
• Fixed the DLL base address so C4dll-R.dll does not collide with Disciples II runtime DLLs.
• Added build.bat for one-command build and copy into the game folders.
• Verified the bundled CB63.LIB, SHW32.LIB, and hooker.lib match the expected runtime DLL exports.
• Added runtime debug logging to help trace future crashes.
• Fixed guarded game-speed hook behavior that could crash during play.
• Kept HD mode working with full hooks enabled.
• Disabled only the unstable trans_npc transition-speed hook to prevent post-battle map crashes while keeping the rest of the deep hooks enabled.
• Confirmed all other deep hooks can stay enabled.

• src - DisciplesGL source.
• HookerLib - matching HookerLib source and bundled hooker artifacts.
• dist - ready-to-use runtime files (C4dll-R.dll, CB63.dll, SHW32.dll, Imgs, Mods).

Run:

build.bat

The script builds src\DisciplesGL\DisciplesGL.vcxproj as Release Win32 and copies C4dll-R.dll to:

G:\games\Disciples 2
G:\games\Disciples 2 - Rise of the Elves

Edit the paths at the top of build.bat for your install.

• CB63.dll and SHW32.dll are game runtime dependencies and should stay in the game folder.
• Import libraries are kept under src\lib.
• The unstable trans_npc transition-speed hook is disabled to prevent post-battle map crashes; all other deep hooks remain enabled.

Copy the contents of dist into the Disciples II game folder. C4dll-R.dll is the wrapper; Imgs and Mods are optional extras.