In Space Rangers 2 (not HD) planet battles not loading. This game use botch ddraw.dll for space and d3d9.dll for planets. Possible fix it?

In Battle for Middle-earth 1\2\addon have bug (green screen border) with Antialiasing.

Hello everyone! I found bugs when trying to use ddraw wrapper in Terminus (2000) game.
1) In the menu there are sliders for volume, quality level, mouse sensitivity, etc. With this wrapper, the sliders become transparent in the middle and the bar on which the slider moves disappears.
2) In the game itself, the effect of glare from the sun on the lens. With the wrapper, these sprites lose their transparency and turn into white squares with colored circles inside.

In other wrappers, such as dxwrapper or dxgl, everything works fine. In DdrawCompat I could reproduce the bug after enabling the PalettizedTextures parameter - I assume dgvoodoo2 does the same.

Why window mode completely NOT work for some games? This mode completely useless.
https://youtu.be/F8YDLy6Q-4Y

And CnC Tiberium Wars crash on minimize with wrapper, but without can. It needed for LosslessScaling set fps 30>60. Battle for Middle-earth 1\2\addon cant be minimize with wrapper, but without can. Pls can you check all this games with same engine?

LEGO Rock Raiders: version 2.86 introduces a lighting bug where the direction is inverted on certain objects, especially noticable with the advisor model (seen in the lower right corner in the images)

It also brings back an issue where pausing while in first person view would cause all the models in the world to disappear; they remain invisible after unpausing until returning to overhead view.

Ringtail wrote on 2025-04-16, 09:45:

LEGO Rock Raiders: version 2.86 introduces a lighting bug where the direction is inverted on certain objects, especially noticab […]
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LEGO Rock Raiders: version 2.86 introduces a lighting bug where the direction is inverted on certain objects, especially noticable with the advisor model (seen in the lower right corner in the images)

lighting bug in 2.86

how it looked in 2.85

It also brings back an issue where pausing while in first person view would cause all the models in the world to disappear; they remain invisible after unpausing until returning to overhead view.

models disappearing when paused

The lighting is ok, I've already run into it with other stuffs and fixed it. But the menu thing... It does not work for me with any dgv version. NaN values in the projection matrix coming from the game through D3DRm. It can even occur natively, but I don't know, because the rendering is broken as hell natively.

There is a regression in the current version 2.86 when using Classic Rebirth patch with Resident Evil 1. The game crashes upon start. Last working version that I have is 2.74.1

Heroes of Might and Magic V not support?
answer: Heroes of Might and Magic V startup problem

Hello, I would like to report something about the using dx12 API issue i'm having. There some glitches showing using dx12 while it works fine with dx11.

Hi Dege,

I think I found a regression starting with 2.85 regarding Direct3D7 with the game Zanzarah where a IDirectDraw7::GetGDISurface call returns a null pointer causing a consistent crash on startup.
I have tested with 2.84.1, 2.85 and 2.86.2 spec versions where only 2.84.1 works (also previous versions known to be working are 2.82.3 and 2.54).

I have attached a complete trace from a Visual Studio Debugger. The trace was recorded with another, custom program attached (WindowedZanzarah) but the crash is reproducible with only the original executables as well.
Could this be a regression in dgVoodoo?

Thanks and best regards,
Helco

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Hi Dege,

I think I found a regression starting with 2.85 regarding Direct3D7 with the game Zanzarah where a IDirectDraw7::GetGDISurface call returns a null pointer causing a consistent crash on startup.
I have tested with 2.84.1, 2.85 and 2.86.2 spec versions where only 2.84.1 works (also previous versions known to be working are 2.82.3 and 2.54).

I have attached a complete trace from a Visual Studio Debugger. The trace was recorded with another, custom program attached (WindowedZanzarah) but the crash is reproducible with only the original executables as well.
Could this be a regression in dgVoodoo?

Thanks and best regards,
Helco

Hi,

Is there anything special about reproducing this case (given location on some level, entering a certain menu item or sg like that)?
I gave it a quick go (vanilla game install) with 2.86.2 but it did not crash.
It's weird becaue GetGDISurface shouldn't return null, except if you have no primary surface allocated but it's obviously not the case here.

Lock an unlockable surface error in Splinter Cell Conviction (D3D9->11) so the game crashes @start

Borderlands 1 or 2 (not enhaced edition) regression bug with description card:
https://freeimage.host/i/F47QHvf
https://freeimage.host/i/F4Y1iqg
i ask about this game in 2024.05 and then everything was fine.

Hello, in F.E.A.R., after changing the resolution, the cursor disappears until pressing Alt+Tab. I've tried different settings, nothing helps. Please fix it.

I tried to get voodoo to work with Way of Samurai 4 for borderless, but it did not work. Is there a work around with this?

the Gog version of blitzkrieg installs with Windows 7 compatibility set, without removing this compatibility setting the game freezes with an hour glass when opening the Settings panels

Thread cleanup.
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MechCommander Gold used to work with the D3D11 hardware renderer in earlier versions, the dgVoodoo2 version that I have that works is version 2.8.1. Now it crashes on start up if I use anything but the D3D11 WARP renderer, the earliest version I have with this issue is 2.82.3.

EDIT: Additional findings: The crash occurs in Windows 10 but doesn't in Windows 8.1. I've tried playing around with the compatibility settings and disabling fullscreen optimization, but it still crashes. The game runs without dgVoodoo2 on Windows 10 with no further configuration necessary, but I really prefer to use dgVoodoo2 for the game to make use of its scaling options. DDrawCompat also crashes the game, and cnc-ddraw's scaling options fail to work properly with the game.

EDIT 2: Turns out the older version, 2.8.1, only works in Windows 10 because it successfully falls back to the WARP renderer. So it's possible that the game just hasn't worked properly at all with the hardware renderers in Windows 10. I really hope that this can be addressed in future versions of dgVoodoo2 because I can't find a DDraw wrapper that works properly with the game in Windows 10.

VicRattlehead wrote on 2026-02-17, 21:29:

MechCommander Gold used to work with the D3D11 hardware renderer in earlier versions, the dgVoodoo2 version that I have that works is version 2.8.1. Now it crashes on start up if I use anything but the D3D11 WARP renderer, the earliest version I have with this issue is 2.82.3.

EDIT: Additional findings: The crash occurs in Windows 10 but doesn't in Windows 8.1. I've tried playing around with the compatibility settings and disabling fullscreen optimization, but it still crashes. The game runs without dgVoodoo2 on Windows 10 with no further configuration necessary, but I really prefer to use dgVoodoo2 for the game to make use of its scaling options. DDrawCompat also crashes the game, and cnc-ddraw's scaling options fail to work properly with the game.

EDIT 2: Turns out the older version, 2.8.1, only works in Windows 10 because it successfully falls back to the WARP renderer. So it's possible that the game just hasn't worked properly at all with the hardware renderers in Windows 10. I really hope that this can be addressed in future versions of dgVoodoo2 because I can't find a DDraw wrapper that works properly with the game in Windows 10.

Isn't it the same problem as with Mech Commander 2?
Re: dgVoodoo not work for MechCommander 2(win10)

Oh wow, it is the exact the same problem. The first MechCommander game also has an IMAGEHLP.DLL file. I renamed that and now the game works beautifully. Thanks!

I especially like using dgVoodoo2 for this game because the color and contrast options of the wrapper lets me tweak the game to look closer to its appearance in promotional screenshots, which doesn't look washed out like its release version.