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Hello, Microsoft, please fix DirectDraw, considering Windows 10 is your last OS, and loads of people have complained about this in Windows 8, and it's STILL NOT FIXED IN 10. most games DX8 and below run horrible thanks to this, either screwed up colours and/or a very bad framerate to other problems such as sprites not loading. This is odd considering it was fine in Windows 7.
An example is Red Alert 2, it's unplayable unless you use a 3rd party directdraw emulation such as WineD3D.
Another example is Commandos 3, the graphics are corrupted and it crashes on some missions making it unplayable.
And no compatibility settings don't fix any of this.
All we need is Windows 7's DirectDraw emulation back since that was fine.
Cmon microsoft fix this!
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this is a missundestand. You dont run those games (ra2 specially) propely. You "guess" that you run it.
Please, install the windows 7 and just simple install de multiplayer Red Alert 2 from xwis.net (original server - http://xwis.net/downloads/Red-Alert-2-Multiplayer.exe) and compare the peformance with Ra2 Origin version from Windows 10.
The mouse laggy so much and The game is useless and unfair when you simple put it on windows 7.
Hello, Microsoft, please fix DirectDraw, considering Windows 10 is your last OS, and loads of people have complained about this in Windows 8, and it's STILL NOT FIXED IN 10. most games DX8 and below run horrible thanks to this, either screwed up colours and/or a very bad framerate to other problems such as sprites not loading. This is odd considering it was fine in Windows 7.
An example is Red Alert 2, it's unplayable unless you use a 3rd party directdraw emulation such as WineD3D.
Another example is Commandos 3, the graphics are corrupted and it crashes on some missions making it unplayable.
And no compatibility settings don't fix any of this.
All we need is Windows 7's DirectDraw emulation back since that was fine.
Cmon microsoft fix this!
I have those games in Origin and they work fine with Windows 10. The old disk versions do not work properly and of you install Origin they may give you a key for the Origin version if you are legit.
How else do we get Microsoft's attention on this issue?
Microsoft. Never again. They're forcing us to switch to Windows 10 but it's far from perfect.
Gonna ask the Linux Mint community. Eventually we'll find a workaround.
We want old ddraw compatibility because of we can't play old games anymore!
Why did you break something that used to work like a charm?
