dgVoodoo control panel 2.86.2 being flagged as a "Severe threat" by Windows 11 antivirus \ VOGONS

Reply 1 of 5, by mitradis

Posted on 2025-07-24, 14:08

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classic. Ignore it. Or just use dgVoodoo.conf for edit settings without CP. One way or another, but the panel does not have all the wrapper settings. Better way use dgVoodoo.conf directly. You can remove from dgVoodoo.conf some blocks. For example i use default my shorted config version:

Details

1[General]
2; d3d11warp, d3d11_fl10_0, d3d11_fl10_1, d3d11_fl11_0, d3d12_fl11_0, d3d12_fl12_0, bestavailable
3OutputAPI                           = d3d11_fl11_0
4; all or ID
5Adapters                            = all
6; default or ID
7FullScreenOutput                    = default
8FullScreenMode                      = true
9; unspecified, centered, stretched, centered_ar, stretched_ar, stretched_4_3
10ScalingMode                         = unspecified
11ProgressiveScanlineOrder            = false
12; if need select custom refresh rate for custom resolution
13EnumerateRefreshRates               = true
14Brightness                          = 100
15Color                               = 100
16Contrast                            = 100
17; can be disabled only for D3D11
18InheritColorProfileInFullScreenMode = true
19KeepWindowAspectRatio               = true
20CaptureMouse                        = true
21CenterAppWindow                     = false
22DisableScreenSaver                  = false
23
24[GeneralExt]
25; 1024x768, 1024x768@60
26DesktopResolution    = 
27; 8, 16, 32
28DesktopBitDepth      = 
29; when resolution is forced to other than the app default (0-16)
30DeframerSize         = 1
31; int or x:3, y:2
32ImageScaleFactor     = 1
33; 0=automatic, 1=no scale or int
34CursorScaleFactor    = 0
35; display region of interest: 16_9, pos:centered or (1024|768), pos:(10|10)
36DisplayROI           = 
37; pointsampled, bilinear, bicubic, lanczos-2, lanczos-3
38Resampling           = bilinear
39; auto, discard, seq, flip_discard, flip_seq
40PresentationModel    = auto
41; appdriven, argb8888_srgb, argb2101010_sdr, argb2101010_sdr_wcg, argb16161616_hdr
42ColorSpace           = appdriven
43FreeMouse            = false
44; alwaysontop, borderless, fullscreensize
45WindowedAttributes   = 
46; fake
47FullscreenAttributes = 
48FPSLimit             = 60
49; DosBox, QEmu
50Environment          = 
51; gdi, cursor
52SystemHookFlags      = 
53
54[DirectX]
55DisableAndPassThru                = false
56; svga (128MB), internal3D (4096MB), geforce_ti_4800 (256MB), ati_radeon_8500 (256MB), matrox_parhelia-512 (256MB), geforce_fx_5700_ultra (256MB), geforce_9800_gt (1024MB)
57VideoCard                         = geforce_9800_gt
58VRAM                              = 512
59; appdriven, pointsampled, bilinear, linearmip, trilinear, 1-16=anisotropic
60Filtering                         = 8

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61; appdriven, disabled, autogen_point, autogen_bilinear
62Mipmapping                        = appdriven
63KeepFilterIfPointSampled          = true
64; unforced, 1024x768, 1024x768@60 or h:1024, v:768, refrate:59
65Resolution                        = refrate:60
66; off, appdriven, 2x, 4x, 8x
67Antialiasing                      = 4x
68; false if need windowed mode
69AppControlledScreenMode           = true
70DisableAltEnterToToggleScreenMode = true
71Bilinear2DOperations              = false
72PhongShadingWhenPossible          = false
73ForceVerticalSync                 = true
74dgVoodooWatermark                 = false
75FastVideoMemoryAccess             = false
76DisableD3DTnLDevice               = false
77
78[DirectXExt]
79; nvidia, amd, intel
80AdapterIDType                 = nvidia
81VendorID                      = 
82DeviceID                      = 
83SubsystemID                   = 
84RevisionID                    = 
85; all, classics, none
86DefaultEnumeratedResolutions  = all
87; max, max@refrate, max_16_9, max_16_9@refrate
88ExtraEnumeratedResolutions    = 
89; 8, 16, 32, all
90EnumeratedResolutionBitdepths = all
91; high_quality, ordered2x2, ordered4x4
92DitheringEffect               = high_quality
93; appdriven, forcealways, forceon16bit, disabled
94Dithering                     = forcealways
95; 0=automatic, 1=normal or int                           
96DitherOrderedMatrixSizeScale  = 0
97; appdriven, forcemin24bit, force32bit
98DepthBuffersBitDepth          = appdriven
99; auto, argb8888, argb2101010, argb16161616
100Default3DRenderFormat         = auto
101; 256, 512, 1024
102MaxVSConstRegisters           = 256
103D3D12BoundsChecking           = false
104; 0=app driven, 1=disable, 2-8=tesselation level
105NPatchTesselationLevel        = 0
106DisplayOutputEnableMask       = 0xffffffff
107MSD3DDeviceNames              = false
108RTTexturesForceScaleAndMSAA   = true
109SmoothedDepthSampling         = true
110DeferredScreenModeSwitch      = false
111PrimarySurfaceBatchedUpdate   = false
112SuppressAMDBlacklist          = false
113
114[Debug]
115Info          = enable
116Warning       = enable
117Error         = enable
118MaxTraceLevel = 0
119LogToFile     = false

for some games need change VideoCard or Antialiasing or Filtering. Or FPSLimit and Resolution if you need more FPS (but most games better work on 60).

Reply 2 of 5, by sndwv

Posted on 2025-07-25, 10:37

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Have the same issue from Win10 since weeks. Submitted it as false positive from 2 different PC's / accounts, but still setting off alarms...

This has happened before of course, but usually that resolved in a couple of days?

Reply 3 of 5, by TheDeeGee

Posted on 2025-08-30, 18:47

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mitradis wrote on 2025-07-24, 14:08:

classic. Ignore it. Or just use dgVoodoo.conf for edit settings without CP. One way or another, but the panel does not have all the wrapper settings. Better way use dgVoodoo.conf directly. You can remove from dgVoodoo.conf some blocks. For example i use default my shorted config version:

Details

1[General]
2; d3d11warp, d3d11_fl10_0, d3d11_fl10_1, d3d11_fl11_0, d3d12_fl11_0, d3d12_fl12_0, bestavailable
3OutputAPI                           = d3d11_fl11_0
4; all or ID
5Adapters                            = all
6; default or ID
7FullScreenOutput                    = default
8FullScreenMode                      = true
9; unspecified, centered, stretched, centered_ar, stretched_ar, stretched_4_3
10ScalingMode                         = unspecified
11ProgressiveScanlineOrder            = false
12; if need select custom refresh rate for custom resolution
13EnumerateRefreshRates               = true
14Brightness                          = 100
15Color                               = 100
16Contrast                            = 100
17; can be disabled only for D3D11
18InheritColorProfileInFullScreenMode = true
19KeepWindowAspectRatio               = true
20CaptureMouse                        = true
21CenterAppWindow                     = false
22DisableScreenSaver                  = false
23
24[GeneralExt]
25; 1024x768, 1024x768@60
26DesktopResolution    = 
27; 8, 16, 32
28DesktopBitDepth      = 
29; when resolution is forced to other than the app default (0-16)
30DeframerSize         = 1
31; int or x:3, y:2
32ImageScaleFactor     = 1
33; 0=automatic, 1=no scale or int
34CursorScaleFactor    = 0
35; display region of interest: 16_9, pos:centered or (1024|768), pos:(10|10)
36DisplayROI           = 
37; pointsampled, bilinear, bicubic, lanczos-2, lanczos-3
38Resampling           = bilinear
39; auto, discard, seq, flip_discard, flip_seq
40PresentationModel    = auto
41; appdriven, argb8888_srgb, argb2101010_sdr, argb2101010_sdr_wcg, argb16161616_hdr
42ColorSpace           = appdriven
43FreeMouse            = false
44; alwaysontop, borderless, fullscreensize
45WindowedAttributes   = 
46; fake
47FullscreenAttributes = 
48FPSLimit             = 60
49; DosBox, QEmu
50Environment          = 
51; gdi, cursor
52SystemHookFlags      = 
53
54[DirectX]
55DisableAndPassThru                = false
56; svga (128MB), internal3D (4096MB), geforce_ti_4800 (256MB), ati_radeon_8500 (256MB), matrox_parhelia-512 (256MB), geforce_fx_5700_ultra (256MB), geforce_9800_gt (1024MB)
57VideoCard                         = geforce_9800_gt
58VRAM                              = 512
59; appdriven, pointsampled, bilinear, linearmip, trilinear, 1-16=anisotropic
60Filtering                         = 8

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61; appdriven, disabled, autogen_point, autogen_bilinear
62Mipmapping                        = appdriven
63KeepFilterIfPointSampled          = true
64; unforced, 1024x768, 1024x768@60 or h:1024, v:768, refrate:59
65Resolution                        = refrate:60
66; off, appdriven, 2x, 4x, 8x
67Antialiasing                      = 4x
68; false if need windowed mode
69AppControlledScreenMode           = true
70DisableAltEnterToToggleScreenMode = true
71Bilinear2DOperations              = false
72PhongShadingWhenPossible          = false
73ForceVerticalSync                 = true
74dgVoodooWatermark                 = false
75FastVideoMemoryAccess             = false
76DisableD3DTnLDevice               = false
77
78[DirectXExt]
79; nvidia, amd, intel
80AdapterIDType                 = nvidia
81VendorID                      = 
82DeviceID                      = 
83SubsystemID                   = 
84RevisionID                    = 
85; all, classics, none
86DefaultEnumeratedResolutions  = all
87; max, max@refrate, max_16_9, max_16_9@refrate
88ExtraEnumeratedResolutions    = 
89; 8, 16, 32, all
90EnumeratedResolutionBitdepths = all
91; high_quality, ordered2x2, ordered4x4
92DitheringEffect               = high_quality
93; appdriven, forcealways, forceon16bit, disabled
94Dithering                     = forcealways
95; 0=automatic, 1=normal or int                           
96DitherOrderedMatrixSizeScale  = 0
97; appdriven, forcemin24bit, force32bit
98DepthBuffersBitDepth          = appdriven
99; auto, argb8888, argb2101010, argb16161616
100Default3DRenderFormat         = auto
101; 256, 512, 1024
102MaxVSConstRegisters           = 256
103D3D12BoundsChecking           = false
104; 0=app driven, 1=disable, 2-8=tesselation level
105NPatchTesselationLevel        = 0
106DisplayOutputEnableMask       = 0xffffffff
107MSD3DDeviceNames              = false
108RTTexturesForceScaleAndMSAA   = true
109SmoothedDepthSampling         = true
110DeferredScreenModeSwitch      = false
111PrimarySurfaceBatchedUpdate   = false
112SuppressAMDBlacklist          = false
113
114[Debug]
115Info          = enable
116Warning       = enable
117Error         = enable
118MaxTraceLevel = 0
119LogToFile     = false

for some games need change VideoCard or Antialiasing or Filtering. Or FPSLimit and Resolution if you need more FPS (but most games better work on 60).

You can right click in dgVoodoo to open up the hidden options, such at the FPS Limiter.

Reply 4 of 5, by mitradis

Posted on 2025-09-05, 14:34

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It's a matter of taste. I prefer to see all the values in the config file directly. I don't think wrappers need any applications to manage them.

Reply 5 of 5, by Kenshiro3

Posted on 2025-09-27, 04:14

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mitradis wrote on 2025-07-24, 14:08:

classic. Ignore it. Or just use dgVoodoo.conf for edit settings without CP. One way or another, but the panel does not have all the wrapper settings. Better way use dgVoodoo.conf directly. You can remove from dgVoodoo.conf some blocks. For example i use default my shorted config version:

Details

1[General]
2; d3d11warp, d3d11_fl10_0, d3d11_fl10_1, d3d11_fl11_0, d3d12_fl11_0, d3d12_fl12_0, bestavailable
3OutputAPI                           = d3d11_fl11_0
4; all or ID
5Adapters                            = all
6; default or ID
7FullScreenOutput                    = default
8FullScreenMode                      = true
9; unspecified, centered, stretched, centered_ar, stretched_ar, stretched_4_3
10ScalingMode                         = unspecified
11ProgressiveScanlineOrder            = false
12; if need select custom refresh rate for custom resolution
13EnumerateRefreshRates               = true
14Brightness                          = 100
15Color                               = 100
16Contrast                            = 100
17; can be disabled only for D3D11
18InheritColorProfileInFullScreenMode = true
19KeepWindowAspectRatio               = true
20CaptureMouse                        = true
21CenterAppWindow                     = false
22DisableScreenSaver                  = false
23
24[GeneralExt]
25; 1024x768, 1024x768@60
26DesktopResolution    = 
27; 8, 16, 32
28DesktopBitDepth      = 
29; when resolution is forced to other than the app default (0-16)
30DeframerSize         = 1
31; int or x:3, y:2
32ImageScaleFactor     = 1
33; 0=automatic, 1=no scale or int
34CursorScaleFactor    = 0
35; display region of interest: 16_9, pos:centered or (1024|768), pos:(10|10)
36DisplayROI           = 
37; pointsampled, bilinear, bicubic, lanczos-2, lanczos-3
38Resampling           = bilinear
39; auto, discard, seq, flip_discard, flip_seq
40PresentationModel    = auto
41; appdriven, argb8888_srgb, argb2101010_sdr, argb2101010_sdr_wcg, argb16161616_hdr
42ColorSpace           = appdriven
43FreeMouse            = false
44; alwaysontop, borderless, fullscreensize
45WindowedAttributes   = 
46; fake
47FullscreenAttributes = 
48FPSLimit             = 60
49; DosBox, QEmu
50Environment          = 
51; gdi, cursor
52SystemHookFlags      = 
53
54[DirectX]
55DisableAndPassThru                = false
56; svga (128MB), internal3D (4096MB), geforce_ti_4800 (256MB), ati_radeon_8500 (256MB), matrox_parhelia-512 (256MB), geforce_fx_5700_ultra (256MB), geforce_9800_gt (1024MB)
57VideoCard                         = geforce_9800_gt
58VRAM                              = 512
59; appdriven, pointsampled, bilinear, linearmip, trilinear, 1-16=anisotropic
60Filtering                         = 8

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61; appdriven, disabled, autogen_point, autogen_bilinear
62Mipmapping                        = appdriven
63KeepFilterIfPointSampled          = true
64; unforced, 1024x768, 1024x768@60 or h:1024, v:768, refrate:59
65Resolution                        = refrate:60
66; off, appdriven, 2x, 4x, 8x
67Antialiasing                      = 4x
68; false if need windowed mode
69AppControlledScreenMode           = true
70DisableAltEnterToToggleScreenMode = true
71Bilinear2DOperations              = false
72PhongShadingWhenPossible          = false
73ForceVerticalSync                 = true
74dgVoodooWatermark                 = false
75FastVideoMemoryAccess             = false
76DisableD3DTnLDevice               = false
77
78[DirectXExt]
79; nvidia, amd, intel
80AdapterIDType                 = nvidia
81VendorID                      = 
82DeviceID                      = 
83SubsystemID                   = 
84RevisionID                    = 
85; all, classics, none
86DefaultEnumeratedResolutions  = all
87; max, max@refrate, max_16_9, max_16_9@refrate
88ExtraEnumeratedResolutions    = 
89; 8, 16, 32, all
90EnumeratedResolutionBitdepths = all
91; high_quality, ordered2x2, ordered4x4
92DitheringEffect               = high_quality
93; appdriven, forcealways, forceon16bit, disabled
94Dithering                     = forcealways
95; 0=automatic, 1=normal or int                           
96DitherOrderedMatrixSizeScale  = 0
97; appdriven, forcemin24bit, force32bit
98DepthBuffersBitDepth          = appdriven
99; auto, argb8888, argb2101010, argb16161616
100Default3DRenderFormat         = auto
101; 256, 512, 1024
102MaxVSConstRegisters           = 256
103D3D12BoundsChecking           = false
104; 0=app driven, 1=disable, 2-8=tesselation level
105NPatchTesselationLevel        = 0
106DisplayOutputEnableMask       = 0xffffffff
107MSD3DDeviceNames              = false
108RTTexturesForceScaleAndMSAA   = true
109SmoothedDepthSampling         = true
110DeferredScreenModeSwitch      = false
111PrimarySurfaceBatchedUpdate   = false
112SuppressAMDBlacklist          = false
113
114[Debug]
115Info          = enable
116Warning       = enable
117Error         = enable
118MaxTraceLevel = 0
119LogToFile     = false

for some games need change VideoCard or Antialiasing or Filtering. Or FPSLimit and Resolution if you need more FPS (but most games better work on 60).

I tried. Windows defender overruled me and removed it anyway… even after whitelisting and allowing it.

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