NVIDIA has deprecated support for certain DirectX features, but it is mainly due to Windows 10 not having 16-bit support and bad/non-existent pre-DirectX 8 support. There is still a clear need for pieces of software like dgVoodoo, and there are tons of 32-bit old games still played nowadays. What …

Dear forum readers, While some pre-DX9 games need wrappers such as the excellent dgVoodoo 2 to work properly, some still work out of the box nowadays. However, on Nvidia-equipped laptops (maybe AMD is concerned too, I don't know), it has become impossible to have them running on the dedicated GPU. …

Thanks for having tried ! Stricly speaking that doesn't mean admin privileges aren't the cause of my problems since running it once as admin could have enabled something, but I doubt it's the case. I performed a hash check on the files in the game root directory for people who have time to lose …

The only difference I can see between you and me is that for me it doesn't work with dgVoodoo. Everything else looks the same. Btw, it doesn't seem to work for Dégé either... I suppose you're running a Steam version of the game, while I run a Securom PA-protected one. Could that explain things ? I'm …

Now if that's not an informed reply... However, considering there are 7 years between 0.74 and the current SVN, I'm not sure "impatient" is the best adjective :lol: Having read this earlier, maybe I would have sticked to 0.74, but then I would not have the "pixel-perfect" renderer, which is not in …

The watermark is a proof enough ! I notice on your screenshot that the color banding problem is still present. I was secretly hoping dgVoodoo would solve this too ! So finally I tried, and it didn't work. First I wanted to put dgd8.dll in a non-system directory, setting the Path environment variable …

Okay, I'm going to try this and come back here. Btw, are you sure it really worked for you, for example by activating the dgVoodoo watermark, and that it didn't just simply find its way directly to the DX interface, bypassing Dégé's wrapper ?

I made my tests with the game directory being user-writeable, and as I said it "works" with the fix, and quits silently with dgVoodoo. Maybe we're using different parameters on the game and/or dgVoodoo. Here are my dgVoodoo parameters : dgv1.PNG dgv2.PNG And my game parameters : dangerouswaters.ini

Aha, the unreachable 1.0 ! :lol: That's the same with teachers, some will never give the best mark because they consider it should be perfection, and perfection is unreachable. On the other hand, I've seen teachers give marks over the best one. I'm happy with my freshly installed DosBOX ECE and its …

Win10 v1703 here. Didn't you install the creators update yet ? I never run games as admin (never), and they still work. DW used to work with no problem on my Vista computer, running as non-admin, and it works on my Win10 with the fix (but with slowdowns on the integrated GPU). There are indeed games …

Thanks ZellSF, very interesting indeed ! I didn't even try windowed but that's better than nothing... EDIT : Finally, it doesn't work. Trying windowed with dgVoodoo, the program just quits silently. When I use the other fix, it tells me "You must be in 16-bit color depth to run in a window.". When I …

Thank you for your replies ! While they do not exactly answer my question as to why there's been no release, they've helped me decide on whether I would stick to old 0.74 or go SVN : I will go SVN or more precisely get DOSBox ECE. Considering I'm interested in gaming applications (currently The …

Dear forum readers, I reinstalled recently this old game (2004), but it doesn't work on Windows 10. Eventually, a fix is available here which works well, but then since I have an NV Optimus laptop and since the game is pre-DX9.0c, it's forced to run on the integrated GPU and not running as smooth as …

Dear forum readers, and especially developers, The last release of DOSBox dates back to 2010 now, but many patches have been applied since then... So I'm wondering, is it really that these changes aren't considered stable enough compared to 0.74, or is it just that nobody's thinking about it any …