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 ===Ian's patch===
-Ian Patterson (a profesional coder, and the creator of OniTools, among other stuff) located the routine that writes to fixed-size text buffers (in '''startup.txt''' and elsewhere). Rather than making the problematic buffers larger or dynamic (adjusted at runtime), he completely disabled them. Thus he made the English version of Oni run without a "Blam" on startup on Windows XP with the most common GFX hardware/drivers.
+Ian Patterson (a professional coder, and the creator of OniTools, among other stuff) located the routine that writes to fixed-size text buffers (in '''startup.txt''' and elsewhere). Rather than making the problematic buffers larger or dynamic (adjusted at runtime), he completely disabled them. Thus he made the English version of Oni run without a "Blam" on startup on Windows XP with the most common GFX hardware/drivers.
 Then he proceeded with creating a universal patch that makes the appropriate changes not only to the English Oni.exe, but also to the executables of a number of other releases (German, Spanish...). For all those versions, the patch completely disables the problematic fixed-size buffers, making it possible to run Oni on XP with "those recent GFX cards that have too many OpenGL extensions".
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 :reenable the needed buffers (except the GL extension buffer)
 :make them larger, or dynamic, to avoid overflow
 ===Recent drivers===
 The present status of Ian's patch is unofficial. Although Ian suggested to Take2 and Godgames to release an official patch, there was no response.