bugs in the intro and first cutscene

[staticz97]

Happens in the game vanilla and with the silent patch, started after the April update of Windows 10.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBsJ6bxEoJs&feature=youtu.be

[Pamnki]

I also have this bug. I have sounds working on the intro and the first cutscene but no video.

[StefanArmand]

Same problem, the intro video doesn't work.

[CookiePLMonster]

I quickly gave this a try and couldn't reproduce. For starters, MiniDumper shipped with a current release is kind of over-reactive (has been throwing all sorts of .dmp files during movies for some people), can you try again with the one from #4?

[staticz97]

Same issue with MiniDumper from #4 .

[Trium565]

I am also having this issue, I haven't tried it with the other cutscenes in the game but my guess is it would be the same.

[CookiePLMonster]

Build 2 is now out and Windows 10 received an update since the time of the last post - I assume this is still a problem, though?

For the record, I can't reproduce this (so far) on my Win10 rig.

[staticz97]

still having this problem , your windows 10 is in build 1803?

[CookiePLMonster]

Yep. If I recall correctly, movie player relies on wmvcore.dll - maybe you don't have it? If you are using Windows 10 in N or KN edition, that could be the case.

EDIT:
I see that wmvcore.dll is indeed one of the DLLs missing from an N Windows - good to know.

[staticz97]

I'm using windows 10 pro , I will try to test on another computer with the same windows build and see if the problem happens.
edit : tested on a notebook with i5 and hd graphics, worked perfectly :v , main pc have a gtx 1070 .

[CookiePLMonster]

I also have a GTX 1070 here, so it's definitely not related to the GPU.

I'm pretty sure it's related to some specific combination of software or system settings - but not yet sure what.

[Trium565]

Yea Im sure it isnt a hardware issue. I have an i7-8700k, GTX 1080Ti and 32Gb of RAM. It must be something to do with the system settings but I cant figue out what. Ill take another look later on to see if I can find anything.

[CookiePLMonster]

DPI scaling maybe? Some overlay software, like MSI Afterburner?

[staticz97]

I already tested with the pc newly formatted only drivers and steam installed and it happened the same thing (silent patch build 1), only difference of my notebook is that it is windows home not the pro .

[CookiePLMonster]

Test with Build 2 please - it has some new fixes and a better MiniDumper.

[staticz97]

I formatted the pc, I just downloaded the drivers through windows update (installed an old nvidia driver from 2017) game worked perfectly ,
then installed the latest drivers from nvidia, , and the bug came back , so I'm pretty sure the problem is the current drivers for nvidia.

[CookiePLMonster]

I'm on 397.64 at the moment, is this old/new enough?

[staticz97]

It's kind of new, about 2 months ago.
edit: I installed the version that you use, for me the game bugged , then I went back to the version that windows installs and returned to work .... :S

[Trium565]

Yea I am also using both MSI Afterburner and the latest Nvidia Drivers. Although I doubt MSI Afterburner would be causing any problems. It must be the drivers, although I havent managed to test it on other versions as of yet.

[Trium565]

Ok so I have just had a look and I have Windows 10 Home Edition (2018), the latest Nvidia Drivers and The latest release of this patch. It is still happening, even after not using MSI Afterburner, but I dont want to have to downgrade my drivers because of the new patches with the latest games that I use. I am honestly so stuck right now. I have even tried running it in Compatibility mode but to no avail.

[Pamnki]

@Trium565 This bug only affects intro and the first cutscene all other cutscenes after that are fine so why don't you just ignore this bug and play the game? I've played about half of game with this bug and all other cutscenes are fine.

[Trium565]

@PWnk Thanks for letting me know. I didn't know whether it just affected the first cutscene or every cutscene as I didnt test it (I didnt want to F*** up my game lol). But thanks dude, I hope they fix it soon though. It is weird I gotta admit.

[CookiePLMonster]

I'm really unsure on what causes that - I haven't upgraded my drivers to the newest yet, but 397.xx should be new enough for this bug to also surface if it was caused by that.

Then again, we are talking about a movie player - they are notoriously bad in older games, and Bully is one of them. GTA III/VC/SA are even worse when it comes to that.

My advice would be to just use --skipMoviesASAP commandline option until this is resolved - you'll save on startup times and also won't have to look at broken movies :)

[Silanda]

I just thought I'd comment on this because I found a solution on my system (Windows 10, GTX 1080). This is not the only game I've had this problem with. I don't know the cause, but all I know is that it didn't used to happen, and the videos very rarely play without any fix.

The other game I had this problem with was Onechanbara Z2: Chaos, and I found that if I turned 4x DSR on in the Nvidia control panel and then set my desktop resolution to 3840x2160 (i.e. the 4x DSR res on my system) the videos would be displayed. I don't need to do that for Bully, all I need to do is select 3840x2160 as the resolution in game and everything is fine. Onechanbara is another DirectX 9 game if that could mean anything.

Here's a curious thing though: it only works if I use DSR. If I turn DSR off and create a identical custom resolution, at the same refresh rate, and select that, the videos are still MIA.

[CookiePLMonster]

Interesting... I don't know why enabling DSR would change anything here. When using 1080p (and DSR off) they do not show up?

[Silanda]

No they don't, but it gets a bit stranger. They don't work properly with the Steam version, but since I last posted I got hold of a physical disc copy. The videos in the 1.2 patched disc version work just fine at any resolution, so the problem on my system only affects the Steam version.

All Steam overlays are turned off too, so I'm a little puzzled.

[poohlya]

If I use this parameter "SkipIntroSplashes=1" in GTA: SA Silent Patch ini videos show up... But with Bully only helps ALT+TAB (sometimes)...

No they don't, but it gets a bit stranger. They don't work properly with the Steam version, but since I last posted I got hold of a physical disc copy. The videos in the 1.2 patched disc version work just fine at any resolution, so the problem on my system only affects the Steam version.

Tried DSR - it helped! but then I have small glitches with clothes of Main character (like shadow shaking effect, idk)

[Shadic93nh]

I tried DSR but no luck on my end. It only opened movies after first fresh install then it messes up. I hope one day we will get cutscenes to play normally