Back in the innocent days of Windows 98 SE, I nearly switched to Linux on account of how satisfied I was with my Windows experience. This started with the Year of the Linux Desktop in 1999 that ...

Microsoft’s DirectX and Khronos Group’s Vulkan are two popular graphics APIs that most game developers use today. Basically, Vulkan and DirectX facilitate the proper allocation of hardware resources ...

you’re not alone. These errors occur because modern Windows systems no longer natively support some of the legacy DirectDraw and DirectX APIs that older software depends on. The good news is that you ...

Over the past couple of years I have been working on creating a feature to be able to convert ddraw's DirectDraw/Direct3D to Direct3D 9 (d3d9). The goal of this project is to fix compatibility issues ...

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Some Windows 10 users are encountering the DirectDraw error 16385 (or a different error code) when attempting to play legacy games like Diablo, Diablo II, or Age of ...

Abstract: Motion detection plays an important role in Video Surveillance System. This paper analyzes the key technology and needs about it and gives a basic target. Based on analysis, a motion ...

Quite a number of PC gamers are reporting the issue whereby attempting to play games (legacy) like Diablo, or Age of Empires on their Windows 11 or Windows 10 ...