DxWnd Game Guides

Per-game settings and fixes for running classic PC games in a window — every guide on this page is built from the DxWnd project’s own forum, where the developer and community testers document what actually works, game by game.

How these guides work

DxWnd has no magic per-game database — it has twenty years of accumulated, per-game knowledge in its SourceForge discussion forum. Each guide below traces to specific threads there: the settings the developer ghotik published, the profiles he and the testers shared, and the problems they openly admit are still open. Where a game is only partly fixed, the guide says so. If your game is not listed, start with the generic workflow in how to use DxWnd and the troubleshooting hub — most titles need nothing more.

Strategy & Simulation

Disciples: Sacred Lands The GOG edition crashes when two wrappers collide — the developer’s Skip FreeLibrary recursion flag is the fix, plus palette and flicker notes. Sid Meier’s SimGolf Ghotik’s own step-by-step setup and corrected profile for Firaxis’ golf-resort sim, including the edge-scroll mouse fix — and what is still broken.

Racing

Need for Speed: High Stakes The black screen is a renderer setting, not a DxWnd fault. The Direct3D switch, the community profile, and the strange second-launch quirk. Carmageddon 1 & 2 Why the sequel is really three programs, why the frontend can mute the game, and the registry entries ghotik configured to run it.

Action & Stealth

Grand Theft Auto 2 One rule decides everything: hook the manager, not gta2.exe. Fixed resolution, the sound-loop glitch, and honest notes on which editions cooperate. Project IGI 2: Covert Strike The Video → Min option DxWnd added for this game, the documented dgVoodoo pairing, and what testers found about frame rates.

Japanese Imports

Princess Maker 3 (Windows 95) Locale emulation for the Japanese text, and the dedicated sound tweaks that stopped voice acting from freezing Gainax’s raising sim.

Profiles make most of this one-click

Several guides above end with “import the profile” — a .dxw file carries a game’s whole DxWnd configuration, so one player’s solved setup becomes everyone’s starting point. How DxWnd profiles work explains creating, exporting, importing and hand-editing profiles, including how to fix the install path stored inside someone else’s .dxw.

New to DxWnd?

Grab the current release, then follow the step-by-step walkthrough — most games need no game-specific guide at all.

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