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The Ddraw.dll file is a dynamic link library for Windows 10, 8.1, 8, 7, Vista and XP (32. Download Price: Free; Dll Description: Microsoft DirectDraw; Versions.

My application was created in 1997/98 and has been run on every Windows/DirectX version ever since then. The last one it worked OK on, was Windows 7/DirextX 11. When trying it on Windows 10 it seemed quite sluggish and close to unusable. I have used Visual Studio 2015 to profile the application in order to locate the bottleneck.

While repeatedly executing an operation consisting of Lock, write to memory and Unlock for aprox 70 seconds, I found that the program spent 80% of its time in Unlock in ddraw.dll. The OS is Windows 10 Pro, version 1511, OS Build 10586.218, 64 bits. Hi pro3 Thanks for posting here. Microsoft DirectDraw has been deprecated and it’s no longer recommended for use. With the release of Direct3D 9.0, all two-dimensional functionality is contained within Direct3D, its associated helper functions in D3DX, and the DirectX 11 technology Direct2D. Try to use method instead of IDirectDrawSurface7::Unlock method.

And I suggest you to use to complete your DirectDraw. 76487 oem 0011903. Best Regards, Sera Yu We are trying to better understand customer views on social support experience, so your participation in this interview project would be greatly appreciated if you have time. Thanks for helping make community forums a great place. Hi pro3 Thanks for posting here. Microsoft DirectDraw has been deprecated and it’s no longer recommended for use. With the release of Direct3D 9.0, all two-dimensional functionality is contained within Direct3D, its associated helper functions in D3DX, and the DirectX 11 technology Direct2D.

Try to use method instead of IDirectDrawSurface7::Unlock method. And I suggest you to use to complete your DirectDraw. Best Regards, Sera Yu We are trying to better understand customer views on social support experience, so your participation in this interview project would be greatly appreciated if you have time.

Thanks for helping make community forums a great place. First of all, have you tried the application with different makes of display adaptors. This could possibly be a display driver issue. Saying that though, I'm actually not surprised that DirectDraw may be suffering now, the entire display driver architecture has been changing underneath it after all. It is also known that some people started to experience slowdown with DirectDraw and older Direct3D with Windows 8 too. Have you tried the obvious option of compatibility mode? Secondly, you are saying that Direct2D is not a 1 to 1 substitute, but what exactly are you missing?

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