Come on Microsoft... Community dying here. All we need is Windows 7 direct draw emulation which was fine
DirectDraw emulation still broken in Windows 10
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Anonymous
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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Anonymous
2017-03-13T22:28:56+00:00 -
Anonymous
2017-04-07T20:25:03+00:00 Man.. I created an community account just to ask about this:
I don't understand why it is so difficult to get DirectX 7- 11 working on window 10; clearly your software engineers designed this perfectly on Window 7. So why is it that on Window 10 it simply does not work? can't you guys just port it over? Because from what I'm looking on this forum it seems like you guys are starting over from scratch again!
I understand that Window 10 is now a quote on quote "service platform", but right now you guys are offering pretty bad "service" due to the fact that there is quite literally just the bare minimum support for backward compatibility on games and (other) software.
No wonder many people are still sticking with Window 7. Come on guys... is this going to be a repeat of Window 8 or Window 8.1???
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Anonymous
2017-06-08T18:35:04+00:00 Still no response. Cheers microsoft!
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Anonymous
2017-06-08T18:42:00+00:00 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?
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Anonymous
2017-07-26T12:45:12+00:00 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.