Engine:Adobe AIR

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Adobe AIR

Developers
Adobe
Website
https://airsdk.harman.com/

Adobe AIR is developed by Adobe based on Flash. After Flash end of life, AIR is maintenanced by HARMAN.

General information

ADOBE® AIR® SDK from HARMAN

HARMAN version of AIR will show a splash for free license users.

Videos

DirectX Version on Windows

Adobe AIR use DX11, DX9 and software fallback render on Windows.

To use DX11, the game must:

• Embedded with Runtime version 27 or higher (or using shared runtime 27 or higher from system)
• Run on Windows 8.0 or higher
• Have DX11 capable hardware and driver
• SWF version >= 38

Modify SWF version with JPEXS FFDec

Open the main SWF file (usually the largest one in <path-to-game>) with JPEXS FFDec Click "header" in left panel Click "Edit" button in bottom of right panel Change "SWF Version" to new value Click "Save" button in bottom of right panel Click "Save" button in top ribbon toolbar or use "Save as..." button in top-left menu Change SWF version to 38 or higher works on most games to active DX11 render mode (if runtime version is higher than 27) without negative impact.

Issues fixed

Some games packed with outdated AIR Runtime

Instructions

Download latest version of AIR SDK from website Extract runtimes\air\win64(64bit) or runtimes\air\win(32bit) from downloaded SDK archive file Replace <path-to-game>\Adobe AIR with extracted version If the game has native plugins in <path-to-game>\META-INF\AIR\extensions and you have replaced AIR Runtime with a different architecture (32bit to 64bit or reversely), replace them with the right architecture version Copy <path-to-game>\Adobe AIR\Versions\1.0\Resources\CaptiveAppEntry.exe to <path-to-game> and rename it to the original game executable file name (delete original one first) If the game rely Steamworks SDK, you may also need to grab a new steam_api.dll(32bit) or steam_api64.dll(64bit) for the right architecture, these dll can get from Steam Developer website Now the game can be launched, it should work with performance and compatibility improvements Don't forget to backup original game in case the game cannot run on updated runtime. Or use verify installed files to restore.

Issues unresolved

No DXGI Flip Model or Exclusive Fullscreen

Currently Adobe AIR doesn't support exclusive fullscreen natively and the fullscreen mode is actually borderless windowed. It also doesn't support DXGI Flip Model so all games run under Copy widh DWM. This brings awful performance and latency even on powerful devices.

Instructions

Ensure the game is under DX11 render mode Copy SpecialK32.dll(32bit) or SpecialK64.dll(64bit) to <path-to-game> as d3d11.dll Press Ctrl+⇧ Shift+← Backspace to show SpecialK GUI Under "Display" menu, change "Windowed Mode" to "Fullscreen Mode", some games also need to check "Force Override" Switch window with Alt+Tab ↹ will change it back to borderless windowed Don't use dxgi.dll for Adobe AIR or the game freeze at startup SpecialK's Flip Model feature doesn't work for Adobe AIR

Games use Adobe AIR

See List of games that use Adobe AIR