First post, by Khorney
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Hey guys, I've loaded up win8 on an old laptop of mine. Really nice speed upgrade, but unfortunately having some compatibility issues, particularly with win95/98 games (ra2/midtown madness2 spring to mind). Today's query focuses mainly on Dark Omen though.
I'll start by saying I've already tried all the traditional fixes for win7/vista. the bug is slightly different from normal for those in the know. the issue is a constant flickering on the screen, between normal/working and half resized. This screen demonstrates the bugged frames that flicker in:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/55188626/Untitled.png
In terms of solutions I've mainly been focusing on directX, specifically ddraw.dll. Dark Omen uses Dx5, so was probably the most obvious cause of faults. I've tried a few things, wined3d causes a straight up crash on start, DxGL causes an error saying my DX is out of date.
My current solution I'm working on is trying to fake a win98 environment through application virtualisation (eg. thinapp), but unfortunately the VM's I'm using to create a setup to extract arn't playing ball with my underpowered machine.
Any ideas? Might be a useful to come up with some solutions for the new operating system