dgVoodoo2 VS Borderless-Gaming

Parts of DX5 and previous, such as the "retained mode", are missing from current versions of Windows entirely. Much of the remaining implementation is buggy and introduces render artifacts.

Open source projects such as dgVoodoo offer a solution to run old games, by re-implementing old DirectX and Glide on top of current DirectX [1], similar to how Wine runs DX games on Linux on top of OpenGL or Vulkan.

[1]: https://github.com/dege-diosg/dgVoodoo2

I have not tried this myself, but there are two compatibility wrappers that implement old graphic APIs for modern systems - nGlide and dgVoodoo2.

Voodoo2 for added stability in old games

It's a wrapper for old DirectX 7/8/9 games that makes them use DirectX 11/12/Vulkan instead: https://github.com/dege-diosg/dgVoodoo2

This... here's a link to the github. Click on Releases to get the latest build (it'll be the first zip file without _dbg (debug) in the title).

Try using dgVoodoo2. https://github.com/dege-diosg/dgVoodoo2/releases

You can always use dgVooDoo [0] to translate Glide to DirectX. With great performance, too.

[0] https://github.com/dege-diosg/dgVoodoo2

How to install DGVoodoo2 for use with Windower: download the latest non-dbg, non-api, non-source-code: .zip https://github.com/dege-diosg/dgVoodoo2/releases Unzip it. Move dgvoodoocpl.exe and MS\(x86)\d3d8.dll (just the d3d8) into -- playonlineviewer folder for retail or the same folder that your loader exe is in for private server (you can overwrite any old one in there if you like). Right click on dgvoodoocpl.exe and run as administrator. At the top right press Add and select the same folder as you selected earlier (playonlineviewer folder for retail and/or the folder of the private server loader). On the General tab, set your Adapter(s) to use / enable to your graphics card (note that, if the game won't launch after these steps, then try going back, selecting the same folder again in the dropdown menu at the top, and change it back to All, but it should work most of the time with your graphics card selected and will make sure that graphics card gets used. -- known to be necessary with SurfaceBook laptops, and maybe with external graphics card enclosures as well (untested)) On the DirectX tab, set VRAM to 512 MB (higher if you're using HD textures) and unckeck dgVoodoo Watermark at the bottom.

You can. I use it to persist settings in my app Borderless Gaming https://github.com/Codeusa/Borderless-Gaming

This and this work, but they mess up OBS recordings so I stopped using them

Yes you can do that with any ultrawide. Simplest way is to just play windowed mode with a 16:9 resolution. If you want it to be 16:9 borderless windowed in the center of the screen you can use BorderlessGaming with a "Set window size" config, though that approach can be a bit inconsistent sometimes.

I don't know if its a fix, but Try grabbing Borderless Gaming. See if you can force it into a resolution you want. I would try it myself but...

Turn off screen rotation lock and rotate the display so it's portrait. This allows us to launch the game without issue into windowed mode (it's full screen landscape that's the problem). Now rotate the screen back to landscape, game will still be running in a window. Now use Borderless Gaming (or your favorite borderless window full screen app) to make the window into full screen. https://github.com/Codeusa/Borderless-Gaming/releases/tag/9.5.6

You could try Borderless Gaming - Free version BorderlessGaming9.5.6_admin_setup.exe - July 2019: (https://github.com/Codeusa/Borderless-Gaming/releases/tag/9.5.6)

Borderless Gaming is another free alternative that doesn't do anything fancy like improving the image quality but can also do the job of making your games fullscreen: https://github.com/Codeusa/Borderless-Gaming/releases