First post, by tgomola
I have a problem with DirectX 8 games on my laptop (NFS Hot Pursuit 2 and World Racing 2). It seems that Nvidia Optimus is not working correctly with them - the games run in a window (that appears on a black background) and they don't use my GeForce 755M GPU. I've found a temporary solution by installing latest Wine libraries in NFS HP2 directory and by using a DirectX 8 to 9 wrapper on World Racing 2, but Wine slows the game down noticeably and the 8 to 9 wrapper makes WR2's HUD stretch outside of the screen. Both games are set in Nvidia Control Panel to use GeForce, but they completely ignore that setting and still run on Intel.
Does anyone know how to fix that issue?
The problem has appeared after I upgraded my system to Windows 10. The games worked fine on Windows 8.1.