Using CnC DDraw with Seven Years War

[TaxOwlbear]

I know that CnC DDraw isn't designed to work with any game, but I gave it a shot to run Seven Years War in windowed mode. It actually works perfectly... except that the screen is all black. However, FMVs play and are visible, and the menus and the game as such work fine - but I can't see anything.

 

Is there a way to configure this for SYW?

[Nyerguds]

Not sure... did hifi ever release the code of that? Fairly sure "configure" would mean "debug and fix in code"

[TaxOwlbear]

Possibly. I checked the website, but found no mention of the code or anything.

[Tore]

The github for cnc-ddraw is linked on cnc-ddraw site.

 

https://github.com/hifi/cnc-ddraw

 

It works partially for many games. I have even used it for StarCraft in fullscreen mode with the mouse hacks disabled.

[TaxOwlbear]

Thanks for the link. I think that's way above my current tech knowledge, though.

[FunkyFr3sh]

try DxWnd https://sourceforge.net/projects/dxwnd/

 

Maybe it works with the default settings, if not, then try to tweak them a bit or ask in the forums if you can't figure it out

[TaxOwlbear]

Will do. Thanks for the help, everyone.

[TaxOwlbear]

Wow, that's an amazing little piece of software. Fifteen minutes and all issues (windowed mode, colours, game speed) have been fixed. Thanks again!