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Program that Allowed You to Simulate a Video Card for IE Games?

Chippy

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A poster linked to this program months ago, and I've gone through 20 pages in two thread trying to find it, and I've lost it on my hard drive.

But it essentially mimicked an old schoold video card with full compatiblilty for the IE games. Meaning arrows didn't fly at 90 degrees to targets and such.

Help would be much appreciated. An I suppose a thread like this would be handy to promote the thing since even if you've got an old Win98 PC like me sitting under your monitor, you can't really be bothered to connect it to play BG, and then reconnect your old one when you want to browse porn the Codex.
 

Chippy

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Found it; it's called 'DGVoodoo2'. I can't find a web link that looks trustworthy, but can validate the program working for the arrows and ammo on Nvidia cards.
 

Chippy

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Only problem is I'm getting cursor flickering in the game and in the inventory. :argh:I don't get it with my standard NVidia card.

Tried the DDraw fix found here: http://www.shsforums.net/topic/43616-how-to-deal-with-the-ddraw-problems-of-pst-and-other-ie-games/ Don't know why they said there's x4 option because there's only x2. And the readme specifically mentions cursor flickering on the second component: http://bitpatch.com/ie_ddrawfix.html

So am gonna try the D3DWindower program mentioned on the first page.

Edit: All of that stuff was shit. I just turned off all graphics settings on my vidoe card (the hardware one) and it fixed the flickering. I had already done that really, and only had a few things on, so susect it might have been Vsync. So everything is now off on both hardware and sftware cards and the game runs great.
 
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Azdul

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From my experience - cnc-ddraw works quite well for Icewind Dale and Baldur's Gate 1, and also quite a few other 2D games, like Arcanum or real time strategies.

The problem with other wrappers is that they support specific game or specific DirectX version, while cnc-draw supports all older graphics APIs - on all Windows versions and on Wine.
 

Sunsetspawn

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https://github.com/narzoul/DDrawCompat

There's a ddraw.dll that you drop into the main folder next to the exe. Makes shit right as rain. For now, I actually just fixed the problem and I think I'm awesome; I may change my tune after I've played it for awhile.

I did this for OG Baldur's Gate, and I hope I remember it if I play Icewind Dale again.
 
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Absinthe

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For what it's worth, it's usually easy enough to get these games running well under Linux, UNIX, or probably even Mac by using WINE. Windows is pretty much the worst OS to run old Windows games, funnily enough.
 
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