Hearthstone: The Bitchwood (7 Viewers)

[bissniss]

What I do is just go in the Hearthstone folder and rename the 'SK_Res' folder to 'SK_Re' to disable it, then add the 's' back when I want to enable it again. Game restart required.

That works, thx.

 

[faker46]

Voyage to the Sunken City

Demon hunter/Druid cards

 

[TNet]

Small updates.

 

[Sandfalcon]

There are my texture swaps so far for Voyage.

 

[BaneCorrupt]

If it doesn't crash you can just continue with the guide using the SKIF launcher.

the SKIF launcher does crash

 

[Velika]

the SKIF launcher does crash

Follow this new guide.

 

[TNet]

Happy new year; here's my status now, restructured for new core, consuming others.

 

[kamodami]

Sadly I reasearched the way SKIF works and there is no way of correlating card name with the picture ID unless there is some sort of hidden blizz database, Ill keep looking into it cuz I had like 2 GB worth of swaps and its sad to see them go....

 

[kamodami]

On the Topic does anyone have one massive file I could Download instead of a million tiny ones?

 

[Velika]

On the Topic does anyone have one massive file I could Download instead of a million tiny ones?

TNt's post #707 has pretty much everything you could need. The site limits file size so its broken up into four.

 

[TNet]

On the Topic does anyone have one massive file I could Download instead of a million tiny ones?

TNt's post #707 has pretty much everything you could need. The site limits file size so its broken up into four.

We are working as Build-Your-Own-Porn, and mine is just an example; afaik there are several different homebrews in this thread.
For the best experience it would be better to reference the other colleagues too.
(I have a twisted taste with 1) male voiced character as male, monsters as monster, good boys with dick 2) no guro no vore 3) minimize change to recognize the original. Thus my pack leaves a lot of cards unmodded.)

 

[Wille12chill]

Okay, I think using the old method should work for everyone still having trouble getting the mod to work. I just tested this on windows 10 and it was actually easier than my previous guide and should work well for older operating systems (windows 7 and newer). I will try to be as thorough as possible and try to use simple language for translators. I'm really sorry I don't have an older machine to test this on but in theory, If you can get the installer to launch it shouldn't have any problem running.

1. PLEASE make sure you dont have any remnants of old SKIF or SKIM on your machine or everything below may not work. To make sure your system is clean go to My Documents and delete your My Mods folder. If other games use that folder for mods, open it and delete the SpecialK folder. If a window says it is in use you need to restart your computer and then delete it. If it still says in use you need to remove SpecialK Install Manager and(or) SpecialK Injection Frontend from your startup programs, restart and then delete the folder.

2. Download the attached zip and run SKIM64.exe and click install. Bars will turn green and fill then a new window will popup, click yes. Click finish install then click ok.

3. Go to My Documents>My Mods>SpecialK Right click the file called SpecialK32.dll and then rename it to dxgi.dll Right click that file and select cut. Then open your Program Files(x86) and open your Hearthstone folder. Right click a blank space in the folder and select paste as seen below.

Spoiler: dxgi.dll

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4. Launch Hearthstone. you should see an overlay at this point. hit Ctrl+Shift+Backspace to open a menu. Click accept agreement. Then click the red button that says Render Mod Tools shown below

Spoiler: Render Mod Tools

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5. Resize the new window so its a little bigger. Then click Refresh Textures. Then click one of the strings of numbers and letters below the Refresh Textures button. Then click Dump Texture to Disk as shown below

Spoiler: Dump to Disk

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6. Close Hearthstone and open your Hearthstone folder in your Program files. There should now be a document called dxgi.ini or it may have no extension name. either way, use notepad to open it. Scroll down until you see the heading [Textures.Cache] below that you will see IgnoreNonMipmapped=false change this to say IgnoreNonMipmapped=true Then, save the document and close it.

7. Open your Blizzard launcher and click the cog next to your play button. Then click game settings as shown below

Spoiler: Game Settings

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Click the check box for additional command line arguments then paste -force-dxd11 into the box as shown below. Then click done.

Spoiler: Command Line Arguments

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8. Go back to your Hearthstone folder and open the SK_Res folder. You should see a folder called Dump. Create a folder *next to it not inside it* called inject as seen below.

Spoiler: Inject

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Open the inject folder and add a folder called textures. This textures folder is where your folders from other peoples packs will go. *you do not need a hearthstone.exe folder here.*

9. Check my signature for all the current packs, *extract* one of Tnet's most recent big packs to the inject folder so you can check to see if its working. *a zipped folder will not work. Its contents must be extracted into the inject folder.*

10. Launch hearthstone and pray. Hopefully there are beautiful naked people covering your screen.

Troubleshooting:
There may be some issues you run into. If your card or menu text is not readable then you may need to go back to your dxgi.ini and find the heading [Textures.D3D11] below that you will change Cache=true to Cache=false This may make all your textures in game turn black, if that happens change it back.

If you get a warning that your graphics engine isn't correctly loading textures do this:
Open your dxgi.ini file and find the heading [Textures.Cache] below that change AllowUnsafeRefCounting=false to AllowUnsafeRefCounting=true

If you have any issues please let me know and I will try my best to help.

Thanks to user: amazing for having that old SKIM zip, I couldn't find that exact version anywhere and it seems to be the only old version that actually still works.

I got an interesting problem around step 3 or 4
I made the SpecialK32.dll file into dxgi.dll like you said, and then put in the file into the hearthstone folder in my filesx86. When I launched the game, it gave me the metal gear solid alert noise and closed the game before I could press ctrl+shift+backspace. I moved the file out and back into "My mods" folder and hearthstone opened up fine without any changes. Any ideas? I might just retry all the steps back from one, but I know I triple checked for any previous SKIM/SKIF files.

 

[Velika]

I got an interesting problem around step 3 or 4
I made the SpecialK32.dll file into dxgi.dll like you said, and then put in the file into the hearthstone folder in my filesx86. When I launched the game, it gave me the metal gear solid alert noise and closed the game before I could press ctrl+shift+backspace. I moved the file out and back into "My mods" folder and hearthstone opened up fine without any changes. Any ideas? I might just retry all the steps back from one, but I know I triple checked for any previous SKIM/SKIF files.

That sound plays when special k crashes. Now that you have that file i would suggest going to step 6 and 7 where you change the config settings of the file and input -forcedxd11. I remember getting that a long time ago and I think this fixed it. If that doesn't work let me know. Make sure once you do step 6 and 7 you go back to where you were before and continue on from there.

 

[TNet]

I think most of them are from Velika's brew.

 

[Sandfalcon]

Update for my Voyage cards. Added more and golden ones

 

[Velika]

I think most of them are from Velika's brew.

Yeah looks like he's going through my old preview folder. Hopefully he brings in a few more users and not the long arm of the law.

 

[Wille12chill]

That sound plays when special k crashes. Now that you have that file i would suggest going to step 6 and 7 where you change the config settings of the file and input -forcedxd11. I remember getting that a long time ago and I think this fixed it. If that doesn't work let me know. Make sure once you do step 6 and 7 you go back to where you were before and continue on from there.

i had it on -force-d5d11 before to a previous version but I changed it to -forcedxd11 and tried -force-dxd and it still didnt work. I tried restarting from step one and the same problem happened. I also forgot to mention that I have another card viewer called firestone. It might be the thing causing all the issue, but I would like a second opinion since the app itself is not attached to hearthstone but is looking at my data within hearthstone.

 

[Velika]

i had it on -force-d5d11 before to a previous version but I changed it to -forcedxd11 and tried -force-dxd and it still didnt work. I tried restarting from step one and the same problem happened. I also forgot to mention that I have another card viewer called firestone. It might be the thing causing all the issue, but I would like a second opinion since the app itself is not attached to hearthstone but is looking at my data within hearthstone.

Crashes with special k are most common when you're running other third party programs but Firestone shouldn't be a problem. You could try disabling it but I highly doubt it, I've used a few different trackers without issue. If it is the issue you can try another tracker.

Did it generate an SK_Res folder in your Hearthstone folder? If it did, you may be able to greate the injection path manually.

If that doesn't work let me know but I will have more time this weekend to actually troubleshoot with you.

 

[faker46]

Voyage Update

Hunter/Mage/Paladin

 

[Wille12chill]

Crashes with special k are most common when you're running other third party programs but Firestone shouldn't be a problem. You could try disabling it but I highly doubt it, I've used a few different trackers without issue. If it is the issue you can try another tracker.

Did it generate an SK_Res folder in your Hearthstone folder? If it did, you may be able to greate the injection path manually.

If that doesn't work let me know but I will have more time this weekend to actually troubleshoot with you.

i got it to work. the issue was something that i probably should have caught immediately. when i unzipped the file, it created two copies of SK, one in my documents and the other in my downloads. i was using the one in my documents and i think it tried to run the same application twice, which caused it to crash. i got rid of the one in my downloads and it worked like a charm. Thank you so much for the help Velika!