DirectDraw over Direct3D

[Tim Schmidt]

TA 1.0 (fresh off the CD) also wouldn't start for me, however, after
installing the v3.1c patch (the last one ever released) it started up
just fine.

--tim

On 12/6/05, James Liggett <jrliggett at cox.net> wrote:
> I fired up Total Annihilation just yesterday with Wine 0.9.2 and it
> > was very slow.  TA uses 8bit color and I'm running in 24bit at
> > 3200x1200 (2x 19" CRTs) on a Pentium II 450Mhz with a GeForceFX 5900XT
> > -- a bit of an odd combination... I know.  If you'd like a speed
> > comparison, perhaps with associated CPU usage I may be able to oblige.
> >
> > --tim
> Just curious--how did you get TA to even start? I installed it last week
> to try it out with wine 0.9.2 and it crashes after displaing a blue
> screen for a second or two.
>
> James
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