Hearthstone: The Bitchwood (12 Viewers)

Tapok1 · Apr 6, 2022

Velika said:
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UPDATE 3/30/2022

Looks like its getting kind of busy in here. The old system was indeed broken so don't worry, you guys aren't dum dums. This should work but remember to use the latest packs.
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Hey Guys :)

Here is my official idiot proof guide to getting this mod to work. I've tested it running windows 10 with no problems. Please follow the instructions exactly.

Step 1: We need a clean install of hearthstone so uninstall Hearthstone if you have already tried to get Special K working. If you have a clean install skip to step 5.

Step 2: Delete your hearthstone folder from your drive to remove any old Special K remnants.

Step 3: Delete your Special K folder from user/documents/my mods folder. If it says a program is running, restart your computer and then delete it. If it still says program is running type startup in your windows search bar to get to your system settings startup programs. turn specialk install manager off so it doesn't start automatically and then restart and delete it.

Step 4: Reinstall Hearthstone.

Step 5: Run Hearthstone. Change your graphics to High. Close Hearthstone.

Step 6: In Battle.net click the settings cog next to the play button. click game settings. Click the check box for [Additional command line arguments] and copy paste -force-d3d11 into the field. It should look like this:

Step 7: Go here and click the blue installer button it may have you install additional windows packages, these are not malicious just click next and yes through the process. I think that page may be updated regularly though so you may end up with a different version than me if you're from the future. I've included the .exe in a zip file just as a backup.

Step 8: Run SKIF (should be in documents>mymods>specialK>SKIF. In the library tab on the bottom right there is a checkbox that says Stop Automatically, uncheck it. Then go to settings tab at top. Near the bottom there is a box that says Whitelist patterns, paste Hearthstone\\ into the box. click save changes

Step 9: Launch Hearthstone again from battle.net launcher, there should be an overlay now, but your text on screen is probably jumbled so close Hearthstone. this step is just to make sure there is an overlay, if there isn't, recheck above steps.

Step 10: Bottom left corner of SKIF is a button called add game, click it. Click browse and find your hearthstone launcher (should be local disk>program files>Hearthstone>Hearthstone. make sure you choose the Hearthstone with an icon not just the folder.) then click open. Click add game.

Step 11: Go to the library tab in SKIF. Hearthstone should now be on your list. click it. below the list there is an option that says Injection strategy:global if it says stopped click the word stopped and it should change to say running. below that is a button that says launch, click it.

Step 12: The game should launch and then crash immediately. Make sure hearthstone has fully closed and then launch the game from battle.net.

Step 13: Launch Hearthstone from battle.net and open the Special K menu in game by hitting Ctrl+Shift+Backspace. Click the red button called Render Mod Tools to open a new window. Click Refresh textures and then select the first texture and click dump to disk: Here's a picture: View attachment 133462 this will create the SK_Res folder and allow you to create the file path for your injected textures.

Step 14: Go back to your Documents>mymods>specialk folder. open the Profiles folder then SK_Res folder. There should be a folder called Dump, add an additional folder next to Dump called Inject and open it. In the inject folder create another folder called Textures and open it ****This is where mods go****.

Step 15: grab a RECENT pack someone has uploaded (The pack in my signature is currently only a preview, I'll update this when I fix my textures.) and extract it into the textures folder you just made. !!make sure you actually pull the files out of the zip or it wont work!!

Step 16: Read the notes below and then Launch Hearthstone and be happy.

Note* There is an options in the settings tab of SKIF called start SKIF with windows and then one right below it called Start global injection service as well. Select both of these if you're playing a lot of hearthstone so you don't have to turn it on every time.

Double Note* if you are having trouble AFTER doing all of this, try turning everything off and back on again.

If you get an error or something doesn't look right let me know and PLEASE include a picture of whats going on.

Much love
-Vel

I'm stuck at step 12, after running game from battle.net it always crush after few seconds. I did everything like you said

Velika · Apr 7, 2022

Tapok1 said:
I'm stuck at step 12, after running game from battle.net it always crush after few seconds. I did everything like you said

Are you running windows 10 or 11?

Either way make sure your framework is up to date here.

Make sure you don't have any remnants of an old SKIF SKIM or Special K anywhere on your computer. Check your documents and Hearthstone folder.

Recheck every step just to be sure.

Triple check your whitelist box, male sure to save changes after you add Hearthstone.

Restart computer, launch SKIF, launch hearthstone from launcher.

If that doesn't work undo the work you did in step 6 and launch from launcher.

If that doesn't work disable SKIF and make sure HS will launch without SKIF. If it crashes without SKIF, reinstall or repair install in the launcher. Then try again.

If that doesn't work try one of the older guides in this thread. Some of those guides will still work on some machines.

Special K is kind of a mean to some people for no reason, sometimes you have to fiddle with it.

I tested this guide twice with clean installs on windows 10 and it worked on both machines but I don't know the ins and outs of the program enough to troubleshoot on a per machine basis.

You may be able to find some help on the Special K forum as well.

Keep me updated and I will try to help with what I can.

If you find a solution please post it so I can add it to the guide.

BaneCorrupt · Apr 7, 2022

Velika said:
*******
UPDATE 3/30/2022

Looks like its getting kind of busy in here. The old system was indeed broken so don't worry, you guys aren't dum dums. This should work but remember to use the latest packs.
*******

Hey Guys :)

Here is my official idiot proof guide to getting this mod to work. I've tested it running windows 10 with no problems. Please follow the instructions exactly.

Step 1: We need a clean install of hearthstone so uninstall Hearthstone if you have already tried to get Special K working. If you have a clean install skip to step 5.

Step 2: Delete your hearthstone folder from your drive to remove any old Special K remnants.

Step 3: Delete your Special K folder from user/documents/my mods folder. If it says a program is running, restart your computer and then delete it. If it still says program is running type startup in your windows search bar to get to your system settings startup programs. turn specialk install manager off so it doesn't start automatically and then restart and delete it.

Step 4: Reinstall Hearthstone.

Step 5: Run Hearthstone. Change your graphics to High. Close Hearthstone.

Step 6: In Battle.net click the settings cog next to the play button. click game settings. Click the check box for [Additional command line arguments] and copy paste -force-d3d11 into the field. It should look like this:

Step 7: Go here and click the blue installer button it may have you install additional windows packages, these are not malicious just click next and yes through the process. I think that page may be updated regularly though so you may end up with a different version than me if you're from the future. I've included the .exe in a zip file just as a backup.

Step 8: Run SKIF (should be in documents>mymods>specialK>SKIF. In the library tab on the bottom right there is a checkbox that says Stop Automatically, uncheck it. Then go to settings tab at top. Near the bottom there is a box that says Whitelist patterns, paste Hearthstone\\ into the box. click save changes

Step 9: Launch Hearthstone again from battle.net launcher, there should be an overlay now, but your text on screen is probably jumbled so close Hearthstone. this step is just to make sure there is an overlay, if there isn't, recheck above steps.

Step 10: Bottom left corner of SKIF is a button called add game, click it. Click browse and find your hearthstone launcher (should be local disk>program files>Hearthstone>Hearthstone. make sure you choose the Hearthstone with an icon not just the folder.) then click open. Click add game.

Step 11: Go to the library tab in SKIF. Hearthstone should now be on your list. click it. below the list there is an option that says Injection strategy:global if it says stopped click the word stopped and it should change to say running. below that is a button that says launch, click it.

Step 12: The game should launch and then crash immediately. Make sure hearthstone has fully closed and then launch the game from battle.net.

Step 13: Launch Hearthstone from battle.net and open the Special K menu in game by hitting Ctrl+Shift+Backspace. Click the red button called Render Mod Tools to open a new window. Click Refresh textures and then select the first texture and click dump to disk: Here's a picture: View attachment 133462 this will create the SK_Res folder and allow you to create the file path for your injected textures.

Step 14: Go back to your Documents>mymods>specialk folder. open the Profiles folder then SK_Res folder. There should be a folder called Dump, add an additional folder next to Dump called Inject and open it. In the inject folder create another folder called Textures and open it ****This is where mods go****.

Step 15: grab a RECENT pack someone has uploaded (The pack in my signature is currently only a preview, I'll update this when I fix my textures.) and extract it into the textures folder you just made. !!make sure you actually pull the files out of the zip or it wont work!!

Step 16: Read the notes below and then Launch Hearthstone and be happy.

Note* There is an options in the settings tab of SKIF called start SKIF with windows and then one right below it called Start global injection service as well. Select both of these if you're playing a lot of hearthstone so you don't have to turn it on every time.

Double Note* if you are having trouble AFTER doing all of this, try turning everything off and back on again.

If you get an error or something doesn't look right let me know and PLEASE include a picture of whats going on.

Much love
-Vel

I get the overlay when im using the SKIF but not when im opening with battle.net

Tapok1 · Apr 7, 2022

Velika said:
Are you running windows 10 or 11?

Either way make sure your framework is up to date here.

Make sure you don't have any remnants of an old SKIF SKIM or Special K anywhere on your computer. Check your documents and Hearthstone folder.

Recheck every step just to be sure.

Triple check your whitelist box, male sure to save changes after you add Hearthstone.

Restart computer, launch SKIF, launch hearthstone from launcher.

If that doesn't work undo the work you did in step 6 and launch from launcher.

If that doesn't work disable SKIF and make sure HS will launch without SKIF. If it crashes without SKIF, reinstall or repair install in the launcher. Then try again.

If that doesn't work try one of the older guides in this thread. Some of those guides will still work on some machines.

Special K is kind of a mean to some people for no reason, sometimes you have to fiddle with it.

I tested this guide twice with clean installs on windows 10 and it worked on both machines but I don't know the ins and outs of the program enough to troubleshoot on a per machine basis.

You may be able to find some help on the Special K forum as well.

Keep me updated and I will try to help with what I can.

If you find a solution please post it so I can add it to the guide.

did as you said, nothing. My friend trying do it too, but he using Windows 7, what to do?

amazing · Apr 7, 2022

Hey you can try downloading this, Pick and Rename SpecialK32.dll to dxgi.dll and put only that file into
C:\Program Files (x86)\Hearthstone

Tapok1 said:
did as you said, nothing. My friend trying do it too, but he using Windows 7, what to do?

edit: Well that solved my problem, but you can try deleting diffrent files and run the game to see what works. You can also just go back and try out diffrent tutorials,
Now one thing you can try is to disable Special K until hearthstone is up and running and then start it.
you can try removing dxgi.dll and see if you can launch the game and just trial and error until it works :)
but yeah im not an expert so this is as far as i can help.

Tapok1 · Apr 7, 2022

amazing said:
Hey you can try downloading this, Pick and Rename SpecialK32.dll to dxgi.dll and put only that file into
C:\Program Files (x86)\Hearthstone

Nothing

Velika · Apr 8, 2022

BaneCorrupt said:
I get the overlay when im using the SKIF but not when im opening with battle.net

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

Velika · Apr 8, 2022

I feel like the forum is getting a little messy with the mod help and the card packs might be getting lost or hard to dig for so I'm updating my signature with a document with all the current card packs and some useful links. Hopefully this will help some people save some time if they are just looking for specific content. I'll make sure to add the most recent packs as often as I can. Hopefully the new expansion doesn't wipe us out again.

You wont be able to see signatures if you don't have an account on the forum so here's a link to the doc for the lurkers, but it might be worth getting a username so you can just reference my sig for the most recent packs in the future.

I've also added the guides we have on the forum for getting the mod to work. For those of you not able to get the mod to work keep trying different versions of special k and different variations of the guides already posted. It will work eventually.

kisses

Kira_7 · Apr 8, 2022

Good afternoon, everyone! I've been trying to make this mod work for more than a week, but nothing comes out. All the guides just stop at the fact that either the programs don't work for me, or nothing happens at all. The latest versions of the SpecialK program just don't work for me (because I have Windows 7, not 8, not 10 and not 11, namely 7) but the old version works (v 0.7.5.14).

I can't understand how it works, because everyone here writes only about new versions of the program. Please help me, a stupid person, to deal with all this! Tell me what to do! Show it in stages on the screenshots, explaining EVERYTHING in detail, because I don't fumble in these programs, in the files of the game itself, in anything! Thank you in advance for your understanding and help!

(I apologize for my "English", I have to translate everything through a translator, since I don't know this language well. Well, for the emotionality in the end, I just don't know what to do anymore, but I want to play with beautiful ladies with Hearthstone)))

Velika · Apr 8, 2022

Kira_7 said:
Good afternoon, everyone! I've been trying to make this mod work for more than a week, but nothing comes out. All the guides just stop at the fact that either the programs don't work for me, or nothing happens at all. The latest versions of the SpecialK program just don't work for me (because I have Windows 7, not 8, not 10 and not 11, namely 7) but the old version works (v 0.7.5.14)...

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

Kira_7 · Apr 8, 2022

Velika said:
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.

View attachment 133716

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

View attachment 133711

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

View attachment 133712

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

View attachment 133713

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

View attachment 133714

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.

View attachment 133715

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 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.

Great, the program has loaded, but there is a problem with point 5. How do I change the size? I have a maximum of 1366x768. And when I try to click "Refresh Textures", nothing appears...

Maybe it's all because of this...

Velika · Apr 8, 2022

Kira_7 said:
Great, the program has loaded, but there is a problem with point 5. How do I change the size? I have a maximum of 1366x768. And when I try to click "Refresh Textures", nothing appears...
View attachment 133717

Maybe it's all because of this...
View attachment 133718

Try changing your graphics to high in game and then click and drag the bottom right corner of the window to resize.

Let me know what happens

Kira_7 · Apr 8, 2022

Velika said:
Try changing your graphics to high in game and then click and drag the bottom right corner of the window to resize.

Let me know what happens

Nothing has changed...

TNet · Apr 8, 2022

Can I ask for the support for sharing your Sunken City raw sprites? I pulled some of the cards in the fireside gathering but I'm still missing for a lot of epic / legendary cards. Especially I want Queen Azshara sprites, if possible.

amazing · Apr 8, 2022

TNet said:
Can I ask for the support for sharing your Sunken City raw sprites? I pulled some of the cards in the fireside gathering but I'm still missing for a lot of epic / legendary cards. Especially I want Queen Azshara sprites, if possible.

Heres the legendary's and a map

TNet · Apr 8, 2022

amazing said:
Heres the legendary's and a map

Thanks. Helped a lot.

Here's my quick potato fries for today.

Velika · Apr 8, 2022

Kira_7 said:
Nothing has changed...
View attachment 133722

Open your dxgi.ini file and find the heading [Textures.Cache] below that change AllowUnsafeRefCounting=false to AllowUnsafeRefCounting=true

let me know what happens

Edit: also just to be clear, click and drag the corner shown below to resize the mod tool window

Kira_7 · Apr 9, 2022

Velika said:
Open your dxgi.ini file and find the heading [Textures.Cache] below that change AllowUnsafeRefCounting=false to AllowUnsafeRefCounting=true

let me know what happens

Edit: also just to be clear, click and drag the corner shown below to resize the mod tool window

View attachment 133738

Great! Everything worked! Thank you very much! Now I will continue to follow your next points ...)

bissniss · Apr 9, 2022

Hello, I have everything set up and running, thx for the detailed step by step guide.
Can I switch between mod and vanilla in Special K or have i to uninstall to do this?

Netty · Apr 9, 2022

bissniss said:
Hello, I have everything set up and running, thx for the detailed step by step guide.
Can I switch between mod and vanilla in Special K or have i to uninstall to do this?

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.

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