DirectDraw emulation still broken in Windows 10

Anonymous
2015-08-17T12:32:58+00:00

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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  1. Anonymous
    2016-11-03T12:56:37+00:00

    One of the machine ^ has the P67 chipset which is a known defective Cougar Point problem which affects the SATA ports

    https://hardcoregames.azurewebsites.net/intel-i3-2100-cpu/

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  2. Anonymous
    2016-11-03T14:36:24+00:00

    That's interesting to know. The ASUS machine is also an H67.

    However, these machines are not afflicted with this particular issue.

    They can both load much heavier games than this old RTS.

    Thank you for your concern though. :)

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  3. Anonymous
    2016-11-03T17:25:46+00:00

    Cougar Point was a problem for Sandy Bridge, Ivy Bridge can use the older CPU as both are LGA1155 for desktop machines. Mobile machines are unrepairable.

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  4. Anonymous
    2016-11-05T23:31:48+00:00

    I also have issues with a specific DX9 game since redstone (4Story, lower than 1 fps when any 3D is shown), even after the last cumulative update that updated that dll didn't solve anything.

    I can play it with normal fps by changing the d3d9.dll in c:\windows\syswow64 to a pre-anniversary-update version of it, that dll should be checked and fixed, something was broken...

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  5. Anonymous
    2016-12-02T19:24:33+00:00

    Hi,

    Please be informed that our Support Engineer is already working for a fix for the issue.

    Let's wait for next update to be released and let's see if it will fix the issue.

    Your Patience is highly appreciated.

    Let us know if you have any other concern.

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