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
    2018-04-03T05:27:01+00:00

    Haha. I think now they do not even know what direct draw is.

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  2. Anonymous
    2018-03-16T19:46:07+00:00

    Please upvote and get all your friends to upvote this Feedback item in Windows 10 and let them know we want this fixed!

    DirectX 8 and DirectX 7 games do not work

    https://aka.ms/Suxxel

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  3. 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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