DirectDraw Issues continue

[H. Verbeet]

On 14/07/06, Stefan Dösinger <stefandoesinger at gmx.at> wrote:
> > > >  * C&C Generals - Fails to run
> > >
> > > Copy protection? Otherwise it has GPU detection problems
> >
> > Looks like GPU issues, I'll try it again.
> The issue is that Generals uses the pci id of the graphics card to find out
> which capatiblities it has. This is completely broken behavior because there
> are capatiblity flags in Direct3D which the game could read with
> IDirect3D9::GetCaps. Henri reported that Generals is broken in windows too
> when you have a shiny new nvidia card because nvidia changed the number
> scheme and Generals thinks it is running on a really ancient card and
> disables vital rendering.
That's copy protection. Generals doesn't run without a proper no-cd.
The issue I mentioned was with newer nVidia card having lower PCI IDs
than the older ones. That's only an issue once you're actually in the
game though.