You could ask gho, as far as I remember the proxy hooks are still very primitive and it may be possible to hook gdi for the color modes which the games use. I can redirect this to them but it's generally better to ask in the SF discussion

I couldn't find a proxy mode for GDI, only DirectDraw, D3D and WinG, along with others unrelated to graphics.

filipetolhuizen wrote on 2026-01-05, 13:52:

I couldn't find a proxy mode for GDI, only DirectDraw, D3D and WinG, along with others unrelated to graphics.

What do you mean by "proxy mode"? Do you mean copying a gdi/gdiplus.dll?

The dlls are just entry points, the function is performed by dxwnd.dll majorly

Proxy mode is a seamless mode of DxWnd that launches the game with the fixes applied without having to run it through DxWnd launcher.

filipetolhuizen wrote:

I couldn't find a proxy mode for GDI, only DirectDraw, D3D and WinG, along with others unrelated to graphics.

It does not matter what dll file Dxwnd uses to hook in proxy mode. It only matters that the dll is used by the game program. You could think that winmm is realted to sound and dinput is related to input devices but these are simply stub dll files that Dxwnd uses in order to gain access to further hooking of the game processes. They are not related to anything specific as such. So go ahead and try winmm for example and see if it works.

Of course it is worth noting here that the winmm.dll in Dxwnd/proxy folder is a completely different dll file than for example ogg-winmm emulators winmm.dll. The Dwnd hooking proxy is simply a stub that redirects calls and allows Dxwnd to hook the game process where as the ogg-winmm dll file is a complete re-implementation of the MCI cdaudio driver for the sole purpose of emulating the music playback. Same dll file name but completely different purpose/behaviour. Understandably this can lead to confusion.