EPTOn September 08 2016 12:11 tarpman wrote:
It seems to be well-documented that there is a change to DirectDraw starting in Windows 8 that does cause performance drops in games that use it. Note that I'm coming from Windows 7, I skipped 8 and 8.1 altogether.
But don't get me wrong - I would be happy to be proven wrong about this!
It seems to be well-documented that there is a change to DirectDraw starting in Windows 8 that does cause performance drops in games that use it. Note that I'm coming from Windows 7, I skipped 8 and 8.1 altogether.
- "There seems to be an issue in Windows 8/8.1 with DirectX and its DirectDraw emulation. Certain games which use DirectX9 & older run at very low framerates compared to Windows 7 & Vista which to my understanding also emulate DirectDraw."
- "8-bit and 16-bit screen resolutions are emulated in software, and the DirectDraw used in Windows 8 results in unusual behaviour or poor performance in certain older games, including Worms Armageddon."
- "Apparently DirectDraw games don't run to well on Windows 8. I recently wanted to play a Desperados an old isometric tactics game. But it ran like 10% the speed it's supposed to. So it was unplayable."
But don't get me wrong - I would be happy to be proven wrong about this!
If it were true that the OS is to solely blame for performance issues, then everyone using that OS should be experiencing the same thing, which is definitely not occurring.
So the operating system is ruled out here, the next suspect is usually the graphics card/driver. I don't have much to say about that, but I would encourage you to poke around the settings for your graphics card.
Lastly, I'd like to point out that seemingly innocuous things could cause bugs in programs. From my recent personal experience, after I applied the Windows 10 Anniversary Update, my League of Legends client kept freezing on the loading screen. The fix for that was to go to the xbox app that I've never used before and turn off Game DVR in the settings.
