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
    2016-01-11T22:39:24+00:00

    I'm trying to put together a list of games here that are thought to be ddraw performance issue that worked fine on WIndows 7 but not WIndows 8/10. I'm not looking for other issues, just this one. If you have a non-related issue to ddraw, start a new post to address.

    So far:

    Age of Empires I

    Age of Empires II -> I'm not seeing an issue on the AOE II HD version from steam, is this from disc version?

    Panzer General 3SE -> Where are you playing from? a disc. I see a gog version but it might not be the same, please confirm.

    Sims 4? -> This is a dx9c game I believe

    Commandos 3 -> I'll give the steam version a try.

    more? please add to my list with details to where you are playing from, steam, origin, disc, gog etc..

    Thanks.

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  2. Anonymous
    2016-01-11T22:34:29+00:00

    What is a mission with the sniper rifle? How far into the game? Thanks.

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  3. Anonymous
    2016-01-08T01:34:54+00:00

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  4. Anonymous
    2016-01-07T21:53:49+00:00

    Yes list all the games you feel have really poor performance that use ddraw and that were playing fine on WIndows 7.

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  5. Anonymous
    2016-01-07T20:39:18+00:00

    Hi Kevin,

    To add a game to your list: Panzer General 3SE (Scorched Earth) does not work properly on Windows 10. When I updated from Windows 7 to Windows 10 the day before yesterday, my game didn't work properly anymore: the land units showed only a black shadow, but the air units were fine, and the rest of the game also. I downloaded a program that was suggested in a pop-up by Windows 10 (think it was an update of DirectX), but that didn´t help. Probably, if you can fix Panzer General 3d the problem is also fixed in 3SE, since these games are very, very close related. In the meantime I put an old computer with XP on the side to be able to play my all time favourite :).

    If you need to have a free download of PG3SE, please let me know, I will provide it.

    Thanks for taking this serious (it is the only game I play on computer) and my compliments for Windows 10 so far, I am quite impressed how well it works, even my printer works as perfect as ever, without additional work to connect it. Seeing the scope of changes Windows 10 brings, and the way you can easily update or even downgrade from it, this is to me the best achievement of Windows so far.

    regards,

    Herman.

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