Splinter Cell Conviction Fusion Mod - Not appearing to work

[cloister56]

Thank you for your work on all the mods you have done.
I have been trying to get this mod to work on Splinter Cell Conviction. I got some advice from author of the steam guide but still cannot get the mod to have effect. If you have the time if you can offer some help please.

I have extracted the zip so dinput8, version and xidi files and the two folders scripts and update are in the same directory as conviction_game.exe.
I have deleted the programdata/ubisoft/conviction/convictionuserpc file after installing the mod. The settings in the game reset but no mod effects occur.
I have tried changing settings in the mod ini file in scripts to see if any of the effects turn on but I still get the system validation each time, the intro and nothing is unlocked regardless of what I change things too.
I reinstalled the redist packages as suggested by the guide writer, restarting the computer after.
I've tried changing the conviction_game.exe to windows 7 and administrator and then back to all compatibility off but no change.
I'm not sure what else to try, if you have any advice or maybe if a windows update or game update has broken the mod I can help with info to fix it.
The game is via steam, installed on a different drive from windows so not the default location.
I have the most recent ubisoft connects, steam client and your mod.
Specs:
Windows 11 Home, Version 10.0.26100
CPU - Intel 13th Gen i9-13900K
NVIDIA Geforce RTX 4090 drivers 566.36

If there is more info you require please let me know.

[ThirteenAG]

https://github.com/lucasg/Dependencies/releases/download/v1.11.1/Dependencies_x64_Release.zip

Try opening dll and asi with this program, and see if any dependencies are missing.
If not, try putting this asi
https://github.com/ThirteenAG/Ultimate-ASI-Loader/releases/download/demo-plugins/MessageBox-Win32.zip
To scripts, see if you have a message box on startup, to determine if asi loader is working at all.

[cloister56]

Thank you for your reply.
I tried the three files splintercellconviction.fusionmod.asi, version.dll and dinput8.dll with the dependenciesGUI program. They all show correct for all entries in the checksum column. If I should be looking somewhere else for a result please let me know.
I tried the messagebox.asi in the scripts folder and launched the game. I didn't see any message box or any difference.

[ThirteenAG]

That means asi loader is not loaded by the game, I'm not sure why. Open game exe in dependencies, which dlls are listed there for you? And another thing you can do, launch the game and dump the process with task manager, then upload on any file hosting and post the link here, it will be quite large.

[cloister56]

Ok I ran the dependencies on the game.exe.
The entry for version.dll in the system folder does show as Checksum 0x00000000 (incorrect)

I tried your fusion mod for blacklist and that runs with no issue if that is helpful to know.

[ThirteenAG]

It should not be that way though. You can try to rename to e.g., dinput8.dll, d3d9.dll and see if that works, but ideally you'd want to fix what prevents version.dll from loading. I don't know what that might be.

[cloister56]

Ah success, renaming the version.dll to d3d9.dll worked and the mod is having effect.
I'm happy to keep trying things if you would like to find out why the default setup wasn't working for me.

[ThirteenAG]

It's something on your end, either original version.dll in system folder is corrupted, missing, or path to it is broken, I really can't tell. There was an issue reported before similar to this, what helped is that I sent an original dll from my pc to replace, and it worked after that.

[cloister56]

Would that not also affect the blacklist mod? I did run windows file integrity checker in case there was some corrupt file but it didn't pick anything up. Anything else you can suggest I can do to look for it?

[ThirteenAG]

The fact that blacklist works doesn't make much sense btw, because it would load version.dll the same way as conviction. Perhaps your compatibility mode settings broke something, no idea.

[cloister56]

Ok, well you've given me a work around which is great. Thank you so much for all your help and for all the other mods you have created. I was browsing through the list and I think there must be at least 10 games your mods have fixed for me.

[ThirteenAG]

No problem.