DirectDraw emulation still broken in Windows 10

Hello Kevin,

on my end, Jagged Alliance 2 iterations (Vanilla, Gold, Unfinished Business and Wildfire) have not worked properly under Win10. This is another game that utilizes DirectDraw. The framerate is very choppy, unlike any other OS up to 7 (I never used 8).

If there were to be a fix to this, I would be very grateful as Jagged Alliance 2, albeit old, is easily one of my favorite games of all time, and I would love to be able to play it again without having to set aside a partition for WinXP or the likes.

Thank you in advance.

hi Kevin,

about Panzer General 3SE: there must still be tens of thousands discs hanging around: for their owners it could come in handy to have an adapted direct draw file, although with my limited technical knowledge I wouldn't know if that would solve all compatibility problems.

Then people from the community of players ( http://panzercentral.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=101 ) made new campaigns, new equipment files and the way to do that and a few extras and all the campaigns from Panzer General 3d available in a single download.

Even somebody made a 'wrapper' to improve readability, called ddraw.dll , which works very well in Windows 7. This file and some added equipment files have not yet been put in an update (version 2.2) of the single download of PG3SE.

I will ask the last 'technician' involved to do that, although that post is vacant and the PG3SE community dissolved. I post here what his reply is and will then update the latest version (either 2.0 or 2.2) for public download. 

I think this excellent turn based game, with all its work being done on it by its lovers, deserves an accessible place in the digital cultural heritage. You have my appreciation already for taking this serious.

Hi Kevin, please add Midtown Madness 1 & 2 to your list. I have crazy frame rate issues on Windows 10. I play from disc or using the no disc launcher. The only workaround I found is using a 3rd party program called D3DWindower that runs the game in window mode, and, I believe uses an older emulated version of DirectDraw.

I'm trying to put together a list of games here that are thought to be ddraw performance issue that worked fine on WIndows 7 but not WIndows 8/10. I'm not looking for other issues, just this one. If you have a non-related issue to ddraw, start a new post to address.

So far:

Age of Empires I

Age of Empires II -> I'm not seeing an issue on the AOE II HD version from steam, is this from disc version?

Panzer General 3SE -> Where are you playing from? a disc. I see a gog version but it might not be the same, please confirm.

Sims 4? -> This is a dx9c game I believe

Commandos 3 -> I'll give the steam version a try.

more? please add to my list with details to where you are playing from, steam, origin, disc, gog etc..

Thanks.

What is a mission with the sniper rifle? How far into the game? Thanks.