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@anishchandra24 anishchandra24 released this 07 Nov 20:02
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v0.2.0
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Updating from v0.1.0: download MaddenNFL08-Recompiled-Setup.exe below, run it and click Install. It finds your existing install and your game folder, downloads the changes and rebuilds. Your saves are kept. This first update rebuilds the SDK, so allow 15 to 30 minutes.

New install: see Setup in the README.

Fixed

  • The franchise draft no longer gets stuck after "sim to user pick" (the game's cache drive now works).
  • Halftime and postgame highlights now show the key plays.
  • Single-digit jersey numbers no longer show an extra 0 (for example 4 showed as 40).
  • The field no longer stays brown or black on the first launch on a PC.
  • Graphics speed-ups, and a fix in the generated code for a cache-clearing instruction.

New

  • Clear messages instead of the game closing silently: when default.xex is not the supported version, when the graphics card lacks a feature the game needs, and when the game closes before it starts.
  • If the first graphics card lacks rasterizer-ordered views but another card in the PC has them, the game switches to that card by itself.
  • If the game crashes, it writes a crash report to dist\logs in the install folder and shows where it is. Every run also writes a log there. Please attach both to bug reports.
  • madden08.exe now also works when started directly or from a launcher, without the shortcut's arguments.
  • Setup program 1.5: fills in your game folder when updating, and shows version details in the file's Properties.

Known issues

  • Graphics cards without rasterizer-ordered views (for example AMD Radeon RX 400 and RX 500 series and older) show a black screen with sound.
  • The 40-yard-dash countdown beeps do not play.
  • Small white flicker lines can appear before the snap.
  • Online features do not work (they needed EA's servers).
  • Low-end PCs (for example 4-thread CPUs with integrated graphics) run too slowly to play.

Antivirus warnings

A few antivirus programs flag MaddenNFL08-Recompiled-Setup.exe on VirusTotal (at release: Bkav, McAfee, Palo Alto Networks and SecureAge; Microsoft Defender does not). These are false positives: the detections are machine-learning guesses, not known viruses. The program is new, is not code-signed, and does what an installer does, starting PowerShell, Git and Windows' package installer to download the tools and build the game. Its complete source code is in the installer folder of this repository, and the SHA-256 below lets you check that your download is the published file. If you would rather not run it, use the manual install described in the README, which does not use the setup program at all.

Download check

SHA-256 of MaddenNFL08-Recompiled-Setup.exe:
1C839F5660B21FE90F95175F25D99E645FC91929DCFD13466807AAC0381F84B1

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