DirectDraw emulation still broken in Windows 10

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

2017-11-22T18:41:37+00:00

So this request was started in 2015 and its now 2017 and still nothing? I say we all go on twitter and start a storm. This is irresponsible. #WTFMicrosoft
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Anonymous

2017-11-22T18:43:14+00:00

Being patient for 1.5 years....are you really appreciating it?
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Anonymous

2017-11-22T18:45:02+00:00

I doubt they'd lie, should be any day now surely!
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Anonymous

2018-01-07T15:01:44+00:00

this sucks we need a direct draw download to turn on the windows 7 direct draw
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Anonymous

2018-03-16T19:34:09+00:00

Still waiting Microsoft! Do the right thing
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