Timestamps Introduction: 0:00 How to launch the game on PC's with Windows 7-11/Fixing the startup in small box issue: 0:26 4K Resolution: 1:26 Find the My Documents, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, hppoa.ini file and edit the following: Search for [WinDrv.WindowsClient] and edit the lines: FullscreenViewPortX = 640, FullscreenViewPortY = 480 change to FullscreenViewPortX = Your resolution e.g for 4K its 3840 FullscreenViewPortY = Your resolution e.g for 4K its 2160 Also edit MenuViewportX= 640, MenuViewportY= 480 change to MenuViewportX= Your resolution e.g for 4K its 3840 MenuViewportY= Your resolution e.g for 4K its 2160 Frame Rate Change: 3:14 / 4:42 Find the My Documents, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, hppoa.ini file and edit the following: Search for [WinDrv.WindowsClient] and edit the lines: MinDesiredFrameRate = 30.000000, MinReinstateDetailFrameRate=30.000000 change to MinDesiredFrameRate = What Frame Rate your PC supports e.g 60 or 120 (DO NOT GO ABOVE 120.000000) MinReinstateDetailFrameRate= What Frame Rate your PC supports e.g 60 or 120 (DO NOT GO ABOVE 120.000000)
Search for [D3DDrv.D3DRenderDevice] and edit the lines: DesiredRefreshRate=30, UseVSync=False change to DesiredRefreshRate= What Frame Rate your PC supports e.g 60 or 120 (DO NOT GO ABOVE 120.000000) UseVSync=true FOV (Field of view): 5:24 If you are a user who does not have the below appear in your user.ini file then just copy and paste what I have written below into the correct area (watch video) of your user.ini file: [Engine.PlayerController] DesiredFOV= DefaultFOV= Find the My Documents, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, user.ini file and edit the following: Search for [Engine.PlayerController] and edit the lines DesiredFOV= 90, DefaultFOV= 90 change to DesiredFOV= 115.260002 DefaultFOV= 115.260002 (these are my setting for fov you can choose what ever number you wish here.) Game Breaking Bugs Fix for casual players (credit to crosire for creating this): 6:21 Download this file and place into the games System folder: github.com/crosire/d3d8to9/releases FOR SPEEDRUNNERS ONLY: Download this file and place the file into the games System folder replacing the file already there: drive.google.com/file/d/1JVyS7fbzOAf1I5OKXeWvDw0GS6Oicvz9/view Why the Fire Crabs might look strange sometimes on a level (credit to Metallicafan212): 7:48 Debug Mode: 8:41 Find the My Documents, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, user.ini file and edit the following: Under [Engine.Input] add the following lines: 1=ghost 2=walk 3=set KWVersion bDebugEnabled true | set windowconsole bshowconsole true Extra Info: 10:03 Outro: 10:19 Video Game Fixes/Upgrades: ruclips.net/p/PLIkBjPwB07CTqLWUmpo1Pel6p7Pc4RlOZ Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban PC 4K Walkthrough: ruclips.net/p/PLIkBjPwB07CQFXLs5yq1DHrtY2CQn3pmm Harry Potter Video Games 4K 60fps Full Playlist: ruclips.net/p/PLIkBjPwB07CQLpIoxvWPsPAN_ZE64HDaR
Hi im going through all of your Harry Potter fixing videos and can't find The Scorerers Stone am i missing something ? or is that modded the same as another game in the series. Thanks for these well made Tutorials BTW much appreciated.
@@danielrencontre5097 You are looking for Philosopher's Stone in this case. I have a playlist with all HP game fixes so far with others being made. Its here: ruclips.net/p/PLIkBjPwB07CTqLWUmpo1Pel6p7Pc4RlOZ
@@danielrencontre5097 Those 2 games are currently work in progress. Lots has been achieved on them so far but they are not fully ready to be made into guides yet. Currently no eta on them atm especially as they are very messy ports compared to others in the series. An updated guide for HP4 is coming before them as far more has been sorted out on HP4 so its now a fully fixed game on PC.
U sir, are my new hero. Thanks alot, been trying to make this game work for close to 2 years now from time to time and have failed at the IMP section untill now, cheers. :)
_ Not only did you help me fix the Imp issue on which I spent so many hours researching and trying so many failed fixes but I got to play this game in fullscreen and 4K also! This made me so happy, thank you! Also, I feel the camera during the Carpem Retractum Challenge is a bit too zoomed-in? Could that be the FOV? I set the values exactly as you did 115.260002. Any way to zoom out the camera a bit out so that I can see the NPC full body and not just the top of Ron's head?
Those values are meant to show the characters full body. This means when you make the edit to the user ini file right click it then properties then tick read only so the game can't reset the values you have set back to default.
Thank you! Sadly no but you could use xpadder to map all the keyboard and mouse controls to a controller. I personally just use mouse and keyboard for these early HP games.
I followed all the recommendations from the video, but there is still one unexpected problem. During dialogues, my FPS drops to 10, or rather, as I found out, because of the HUD. During dialogues or cutscenes, two bars appear at the top and bottom and subtitles, and at this time the FPS begins to drop significantly. I tried installing different versions of the game, the original English version and different localization versions, setting the minimum resolution, but there is no difference at all. The only solution that I found was to simply deactivate the HUD in the .ini files. Then bars and subtitles do not appear and the game does not slow down. Although, playing without HUD is a very dubious pleasure and you have to play without translation. I’ve never had this problem before, I don’t really understand what to do about it : ( Does anyone know anything else about this?
Never seen this issue before for HP3 only on HP1/2 PC and for those that was an issue on certain languages. I guess what would be interesting is if this happen with v-sync on and off. But this is the 1st time I've ever heard anyone have this problem on HP3 PC.
@@JokerAlex21 Oh yes, you were right, apparently it happens because of the language. I tried to install another English language version and there were no problems with the FPS, but as soon as I try to install the official localized version or put the localization on the original (I tried 3 different translations), I immediately experience freezes... I didn’t expect this, it seemed to me that I had never had such a problem before in this game, besides, there were no problems at all with the first two games, and judging by the walkthroughs on youtube, everything works well for everyone : D
Firat off, thanks for your videos - I was able to get HP 2 + 3 to run on my laptop and am beyond excited! I was wondering if you know how to get more language files for these games? I am looking for the ENG files for HP 3
Glad they helped! From my understanding with HP1+2 they all had different releases for each language. I am not too sure on how it was done with HP3 but I own the English version which only had that language so you might find its the same in HP3 as it was for HP1/2.
Sir, other than using the steam big picture mode to pretend my controller is the mouse and keyboard, how can I play with a controller ? I want to play this PC version not the PS2 one. Any mod or script or anything for what I want ?
The game doesn't have any controller support built into it. The only way to do so is to use 3rd party software such as Xpadder for example to map the keyboard and mouse controls to your controller.
do you know how to play it in vr? i know its ue2 and uevr doesnt work with games unless they are bulit with ue4 and upove but do u have any solution for it
Hey, do you know how I can change the language of the game? I have the corresponding .zip file for my language (de_compressed) but I don't know where to put it into my game files. I'm also not 100% sure if the .zip even works since I can't open it but yeah, knowing where to put it would help ^-^"
I am struggling with the imp glitch during Carpe Retractum, nothing I have tried has worked so far, is there any advice?? I managed to get HP1 and HP2 running fine, but this imp glitch is stumping me! I've done the whole set it to X ratio and run as admin, I've changed the default.ini ReduceMouseLag from true to false, is there something I'm missing?
Did you use the dll file I have linked below in the description which you put into the games system folder? It fixes the Imp issue as well as many other issues.
I tried to download it last night but it kept popping up with an error message saying I dont have the application to run it, then when I downloaded the app it just kept going in a loop asking for permissions to open the app?
Hi! The DLL is not an a file you need to open, just copy and paste it into the HPOA System folder where the exe for the game is located. I can confirm this fixed the Imp issue for me.@@sneakypenguin2861
@@sneakypenguin2861 You don't need an app to run it as its just a dll file. You just go to the github site then click on the d3d8 dll file and download that. Once it downloads go to the games install area and place it into the games system folder then just run the game and it sorts the rest out.
and then a Critical Error message appears saying this (I copied and pasted it) No Label OS: Windows NT 6.2 (Build: 9200) CPU: GenuineIntel PentiumPro-class processor @ 3092 MHz with 2047MB RAM Video: NVIDIA GeForce GT 430 (9135) CreatePixelShader failed(8007007E). History: CreateShader
After removing the d3d8 file from the system folder i was able to leave the castle out the main entrance without a problem. I guess ill copy the file back in to the system folder when im sure there will be imps appearing
No this can not ever be changed sadly. Its a price you will have to pay by using higher resolutions which is the same with all older games unless someone redesigns the text to fit higher aspect ratios.
I did everything you said in the video and wanted to change the resolution to 2560x1440 but the game set it automatically to 1920x1080 after starting it. I even tried to set the file to read-only but the game keeps changing it back to 1920x1080. Any ideas what might cause this?
Did you edit the file in your Documents folder? Not in the game install area. Also when you edit it once the game changes it to 1920x1080 again if you quit the game and look at the ini file has it reset it in there to 1920x1080? You might need to delete the hppoa ini file fully then launch the game to allow it to create a fresh one and after that make the edits you want to the new ini file and make sure its set to readonly. If it then still launches at 1920x1080 then I am not sure what is making it reset all the time.
Timestamps
Introduction: 0:00
How to launch the game on PC's with Windows 7-11/Fixing the startup in small box issue: 0:26
4K Resolution: 1:26
Find the My Documents, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, hppoa.ini file and edit the following:
Search for [WinDrv.WindowsClient] and edit the lines:
FullscreenViewPortX = 640, FullscreenViewPortY = 480 change to
FullscreenViewPortX = Your resolution e.g for 4K its 3840
FullscreenViewPortY = Your resolution e.g for 4K its 2160
Also edit MenuViewportX= 640, MenuViewportY= 480 change to
MenuViewportX= Your resolution e.g for 4K its 3840
MenuViewportY= Your resolution e.g for 4K its 2160
Frame Rate Change: 3:14 / 4:42
Find the My Documents, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, hppoa.ini file and edit the following:
Search for [WinDrv.WindowsClient] and edit the lines:
MinDesiredFrameRate = 30.000000, MinReinstateDetailFrameRate=30.000000 change to
MinDesiredFrameRate = What Frame Rate your PC supports e.g 60 or 120 (DO NOT GO ABOVE 120.000000)
MinReinstateDetailFrameRate= What Frame Rate your PC supports e.g 60 or 120 (DO NOT GO ABOVE 120.000000)
Search for [D3DDrv.D3DRenderDevice] and edit the lines:
DesiredRefreshRate=30, UseVSync=False change to
DesiredRefreshRate= What Frame Rate your PC supports e.g 60 or 120 (DO NOT GO ABOVE 120.000000)
UseVSync=true
FOV (Field of view): 5:24
If you are a user who does not have the below appear in your user.ini file then just copy and paste what I have written below into the correct area (watch video) of your user.ini file:
[Engine.PlayerController]
DesiredFOV=
DefaultFOV=
Find the My Documents, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, user.ini file and edit the following:
Search for [Engine.PlayerController] and edit the lines
DesiredFOV= 90, DefaultFOV= 90 change to
DesiredFOV= 115.260002 DefaultFOV= 115.260002 (these are my setting for fov you can choose what ever number you wish here.)
Game Breaking Bugs Fix for casual players (credit to crosire for creating this): 6:21
Download this file and place into the games System folder: github.com/crosire/d3d8to9/releases
FOR SPEEDRUNNERS ONLY:
Download this file and place the file into the games System folder replacing the file already there: drive.google.com/file/d/1JVyS7fbzOAf1I5OKXeWvDw0GS6Oicvz9/view
Why the Fire Crabs might look strange sometimes on a level (credit to Metallicafan212): 7:48
Debug Mode: 8:41
Find the My Documents, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, user.ini file and edit the following:
Under [Engine.Input] add the following lines:
1=ghost
2=walk
3=set KWVersion bDebugEnabled true | set windowconsole bshowconsole true
Extra Info: 10:03
Outro: 10:19
Video Game Fixes/Upgrades: ruclips.net/p/PLIkBjPwB07CTqLWUmpo1Pel6p7Pc4RlOZ
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban PC 4K Walkthrough: ruclips.net/p/PLIkBjPwB07CQFXLs5yq1DHrtY2CQn3pmm
Harry Potter Video Games 4K 60fps Full Playlist: ruclips.net/p/PLIkBjPwB07CQLpIoxvWPsPAN_ZE64HDaR
Hi im going through all of your Harry Potter fixing videos and can't find The Scorerers Stone am i missing something ? or is that modded the same as another game in the series. Thanks for these well made Tutorials BTW much appreciated.
@@danielrencontre5097 You are looking for Philosopher's Stone in this case. I have a playlist with all HP game fixes so far with others being made. Its here: ruclips.net/p/PLIkBjPwB07CTqLWUmpo1Pel6p7Pc4RlOZ
@@JokerAlex21Hi what about the Deathly Hallows fixes videos i can't find those either ?
@@danielrencontre5097 Those 2 games are currently work in progress. Lots has been achieved on them so far but they are not fully ready to be made into guides yet. Currently no eta on them atm especially as they are very messy ports compared to others in the series. An updated guide for HP4 is coming before them as far more has been sorted out on HP4 so its now a fully fixed game on PC.
U sir, are my new hero. Thanks alot, been trying to make this game work for close to 2 years now from time to time and have failed at the IMP section untill now, cheers. :)
Wasn't expecting this to work, but it worked on the first try! Thanks for making something on a niche game
Even with meticulous guides my games never seem to work even with tampering. This however seems to be a noble exception, thank you so much!
_ Not only did you help me fix the Imp issue on which I spent so many hours researching and trying so many failed fixes but I got to play this game in fullscreen and 4K also! This made me so happy, thank you! Also, I feel the camera during the Carpem Retractum Challenge is a bit too zoomed-in? Could that be the FOV? I set the values exactly as you did 115.260002. Any way to zoom out the camera a bit out so that I can see the NPC full body and not just the top of Ron's head?
Those values are meant to show the characters full body. This means when you make the edit to the user ini file right click it then properties then tick read only so the game can't reset the values you have set back to default.
Should i delete my previous save for the changes to work? i downloaded the file and put it in but when i enter the game the stupid imp is still frozen
Another amazing guide, thank you. Sadly no controller support for this game.
Thank you! Sadly no but you could use xpadder to map all the keyboard and mouse controls to a controller. I personally just use mouse and keyboard for these early HP games.
hm i installed the dll but the imp still dont want to work, i limited the fps and i just dont know what else to do now
I followed all the recommendations from the video, but there is still one unexpected problem. During dialogues, my FPS drops to 10, or rather, as I found out, because of the HUD. During dialogues or cutscenes, two bars appear at the top and bottom and subtitles, and at this time the FPS begins to drop significantly. I tried installing different versions of the game, the original English version and different localization versions, setting the minimum resolution, but there is no difference at all. The only solution that I found was to simply deactivate the HUD in the .ini files. Then bars and subtitles do not appear and the game does not slow down. Although, playing without HUD is a very dubious pleasure and you have to play without translation. I’ve never had this problem before, I don’t really understand what to do about it : (
Does anyone know anything else about this?
Never seen this issue before for HP3 only on HP1/2 PC and for those that was an issue on certain languages. I guess what would be interesting is if this happen with v-sync on and off. But this is the 1st time I've ever heard anyone have this problem on HP3 PC.
@@JokerAlex21 Oh yes, you were right, apparently it happens because of the language. I tried to install another English language version and there were no problems with the FPS, but as soon as I try to install the official localized version or put the localization on the original (I tried 3 different translations), I immediately experience freezes... I didn’t expect this, it seemed to me that I had never had such a problem before in this game, besides, there were no problems at all with the first two games, and judging by the walkthroughs on youtube, everything works well for everyone : D
Firat off, thanks for your videos - I was able to get HP 2 + 3 to run on my laptop and am beyond excited!
I was wondering if you know how to get more language files for these games? I am looking for the ENG files for HP 3
Glad they helped! From my understanding with HP1+2 they all had different releases for each language. I am not too sure on how it was done with HP3 but I own the English version which only had that language so you might find its the same in HP3 as it was for HP1/2.
Hi, do you know how do fix bug that makes game not play music at all? All I can hear are sound effects.
I have applied all the settings properly, and also moved the dll file to the system folder yet the imp isn't moving.😴
Sir, other than using the steam big picture mode to pretend my controller is the mouse and keyboard, how can I play with a controller ? I want to play this PC version not the PS2 one. Any mod or script or anything for what I want ?
The game doesn't have any controller support built into it. The only way to do so is to use 3rd party software such as Xpadder for example to map the keyboard and mouse controls to your controller.
@@JokerAlex21 Thank you for the reply sir, you're awesome.
i don't have the system folder when i go into the games files
i installed the d3d dll file and my game isnt running anymore ( i did it to fix the frozen imp glitch )
Hello, Did not understand how you show the option menu bar in the menu
How is that taken?
do you know how to play it in vr? i know its ue2 and uevr doesnt work with games unless they are bulit with ue4 and upove but do u have any solution for it
Hey, do you know how I can change the language of the game? I have the corresponding .zip file for my language (de_compressed) but I don't know where to put it into my game files. I'm also not 100% sure if the .zip even works since I can't open it but yeah, knowing where to put it would help ^-^"
Did anybody face the "critical error" problem?
I am struggling with the imp glitch during Carpe Retractum, nothing I have tried has worked so far, is there any advice?? I managed to get HP1 and HP2 running fine, but this imp glitch is stumping me! I've done the whole set it to X ratio and run as admin, I've changed the default.ini ReduceMouseLag from true to false, is there something I'm missing?
Did you use the dll file I have linked below in the description which you put into the games system folder? It fixes the Imp issue as well as many other issues.
I tried to download it last night but it kept popping up with an error message saying I dont have the application to run it, then when I downloaded the app it just kept going in a loop asking for permissions to open the app?
Hi! The DLL is not an a file you need to open, just copy and paste it into the HPOA System folder where the exe for the game is located. I can confirm this fixed the Imp issue for me.@@sneakypenguin2861
@@sneakypenguin2861 You don't need an app to run it as its just a dll file. You just go to the github site then click on the d3d8 dll file and download that. Once it downloads go to the games install area and place it into the games system folder then just run the game and it sorts the rest out.
@@JokerAlex21 Thank you so much for explaining that, I was MASSIVELY overcomplicating it in my head! It's working, now. Massively grateful!
When I try to walk out the castle's main entrance the game quits. That happen to anyone too?
and then a Critical Error message appears saying this (I copied and pasted it)
No Label
OS: Windows NT 6.2 (Build: 9200)
CPU: GenuineIntel PentiumPro-class processor @ 3092 MHz with 2047MB RAM
Video: NVIDIA GeForce GT 430 (9135)
CreatePixelShader failed(8007007E).
History: CreateShader
After removing the d3d8 file from the system folder i was able to leave the castle out the main entrance without a problem. I guess ill copy the file back in to the system folder when im sure there will be imps appearing
Hi, how to add a language patch to the game? I have the file)
Even with using x360 the game doesnt even recognize my controller. any clues?
Is there a way to change the text size? I followed all the steps , but now text is extremely small
No this can not ever be changed sadly. Its a price you will have to pay by using higher resolutions which is the same with all older games unless someone redesigns the text to fit higher aspect ratios.
I did everything you said in the video and wanted to change the resolution to 2560x1440 but the game set it automatically to 1920x1080 after starting it. I even tried to set the file to read-only but the game keeps changing it back to 1920x1080. Any ideas what might cause this?
Did you edit the file in your Documents folder? Not in the game install area. Also when you edit it once the game changes it to 1920x1080 again if you quit the game and look at the ini file has it reset it in there to 1920x1080?
You might need to delete the hppoa ini file fully then launch the game to allow it to create a fresh one and after that make the edits you want to the new ini file and make sure its set to readonly. If it then still launches at 1920x1080 then I am not sure what is making it reset all the time.
@@JokerAlex21 deleting it and letting it create a fresh one did the trick. Thank you very much, also for the fast response :)
@@RetroGamer99999 Yep so a bugged ini file which can be common on this game especially. Anyway glad its sorted out now!
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