Close Combat IV: Battle of the Bulge - DxWrapper (Windows 10 Fix) v.1.0.6542.21 - Game mod - Download

DxWrapper (Windows 10 Fix) is a mod for Close Combat IV: Battle of the Bulge, created by  Elisha Riedlinger. If you will find this project useful please consider supporting it’s creator through PayPal.

Description:

DxWrapper is a .dll file designed to wrap DirectX files to fix compatibility issues in older games like Close Combat IV: Battle of the Bulge. This project is primarily targeted at fixing issues with running games on Windows 10, by simply dropping .dll and .ini files into the game folder. Its secondary purpose is to offer a single tool combining several projects into one.

Features

DxWrapper has many features including:

1. Integration of DDrawCompat
2. Configuring DDrawCompat options to improve compatibility
3. Proxy for DxWnd
4. Conversion of DirectDraw 1-6 to DirectDraw 7
5. Conversion of Direct3D 1-6 to Direct3D 7
6. Conversion of DirectDraw 1-7 (ddraw.dll) to Direct3D 9 (d3d9.dll) using Dd7to9
7. Conversion of Direct3D 8 (d3d8.dll) to Direct3D 9 (d3d9.dll) using d3d8to9
8. Conversion of DirectInput 1-7 (dinput.dll) to DirectInput 8 (dinput8.dll) using dinputto8
9. Includes LegacyD3DResolutionHack to remove the artificial resolution limit from Direct3D 1-7, which allows DirectDraw games to play at 4K resolution
10. Tweaking of Microsoft DirectSound function calls using DSoundCtrl
11. Can cause Direct3D 8 and Direct3D 9 games to run in windowed mode
12. Can disable Microsoft Game Explorer (GameUX) to prevent rundll32.exe high CPU
13. Can disable High DPI scaling in Windows
14. ASI loader to load custom libraries with the file extension .asi into game processes using Ultimate ASI Loader
15. Supports being loaded as an ASI plug-in
16. Adding AntiAliasing support into DirectX 8 or 9 games even if the game does not support it
17. Hot patch memory support (update game memory at run time, can be used to remove CD/DVD checks or resolve graphics or other glitches)
18. Set single CPU affinity (some games have issues with multi-core CPUs)
19. Disable display scaling on high DPI mode
20. Ability to set all 12 Application Compatibility Toolkit options for DXPrimaryEmulation using SetAppCompatData API
21. Set game window to fullscreen (some games have fullscreen issues)
22. Handling in-game exceptions or crashes
23. Load custom .dll files into games
24. Run custom processes at game start-up

Installation

Download the latest binary release from the repository's Release page and unzip it to a folder.

Determine which .dll file is needed for the game. This depends on many factors which will be explained on page created later. Most commonly it is ddraw.dll, dsound.dll or winmm.dll.

Copy this .dll file from the 'Stub' folder plus the dxwrapper.dll and dxwrapper.ini files into the game's installation directory, next to the main executable file. For some games the main executable is in a subdirectory (like 'Bin', 'Exe' or 'App') so the files will need to be copied it into that directory. Overwriting of any existing game files is not recommended.

Open up the dxwrapper.ini file in a text editor and enable the settings needed for the game.

Do not attempt to overwrite any .dll in a Windows system directory as it is currently not supported and will not work.

Uninstallation

Delete the DxWrapper .dll and .ini files from the game's directory. You can also delete the log file, if there is one.

Configuration

To configure DxWrapper, edit the .ini file and enable the settings wanted. See the Configuration wiki for more details.

Sample configuration file: dxwrapper.ini.

List of all configuration options: allsettings.ini

Logging

The log file will be created in the same folder where the game executable is located. It will be named 'dxwrapper' with the name of the game executable appended to it. So if you are running the file game.exe then the log file will be called dxwrapper-game.log.

Supported DLLs

DxWrapper can wrap the following dlls:

bcrypt.dll

cryptsp.dll

d2d1.dll

d3d8.dll

d3d9.dll

dciman32.dll

ddraw.dll

dinput.dll

dinput8.dll

dplayx.dll

dsound.dll

dwmapi.dll

msacm32.dll

msvfw32.dll

version.dll

wininet.dll

winmm.dll

winmmbase.dll

wsock32.dll

• Last update: Tuesday, November 16, 2021
• Genre: Strategy
• File size: 5.1 MB