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
    2017-07-26T23:26:03+00:00

    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.

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  2. Anonymous
    2017-07-26T16:01:42+00:00

    How else do we get Microsoft's attention on this issue?

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  3. 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.

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  4. 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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  5. Anonymous
    2017-06-08T18:35:04+00:00

    Still no response. Cheers microsoft!

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