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RE: DXWnd made easy - 12/5/2020 11:06:11 PM

simovitch

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Download and install v2_05_50_build version of DXWnd. Other versions may not work!

Did you download and install just the v2_05_50_build version of DXWnd? Other versions may not work with the configuration included in the game.

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RE: DXWnd made easy - 12/27/2020 11:17:38 PM

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Great speedup for me.

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RE: DXWnd made easy - 3/2/2021 9:18:14 PM

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Will this make a prformance difference if I am installing the game on an old rig that still has windows 7?

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RE: DXWnd made easy - 3/3/2021 9:51:17 PM

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You are golden with W7, no need to run it through dxwnd, I doubt you will see any performance jump.

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RE: DXWnd made easy - 4/29/2021 10:23:29 AM

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Got all the usual stuff about this game, full screen not working if you tab out or have two monitors etc. Windows mode way to small for default res of computer. Barring this thing the game works find.

What I want to do is simply increase the window size, I'm not talking extremes here, so downloaded DXWnd. OK but how the heck do you install it. Am I being a bit thick, is it obvious? I can find no install exe nor does it say anything in the RAR file to tell you how to do it.

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RE: DXWnd made easy - 4/29/2021 12:22:42 PM

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OK but how the heck do you install it.

I probably shouldn't have used the word "install". Once you unzip the rar file, you have installed it on your machine. It does not create desktop shortcuts and the like so...

Find the folder where "dxwnd.exe" now resides and create a shortcut from that file to your desktop. Of course you can just double left-click dxwnd.exe right there and will start it up as well, but you may get tired of looking for it every time.

Hope this helps.

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RE: DXWnd made easy - 4/29/2021 8:13:55 PM

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OK but how the heck do you install it.

I probably shouldn't have used the word "install". Once you unzip the rar file, you have installed it on your machine. It does not create desktop shortcuts and the like so...

Find the folder where "dxwnd.exe" now resides and create a shortcut from that file to your desktop. Of course you can just double left-click dxwnd.exe right there and will start it up as well, but you may get tired of looking for it every time.

Hope this helps.

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RE: DXWnd made easy - 8/7/2021 2:28:28 PM

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Just a reminder that for dxwnd to work you will need to "clear compatibility flags" from the dxwnd ->tools menu after installing any official patches from Matrix.

I wish I could figure out haw to get this game to work better post-Windows 8 without dxwnd, but I'm just not that savvy.

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RE: DXWnd made easy - 11/17/2021 11:56:54 AM

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Well I bought and installed this game yesterday. Updated and ran it as it came and it was definitely laggy (Windows 10)
It took me a while to figure out how and where to unzip the rar file for dxwnd and then another while to realise that I had to actually put the game in there to open it but that's just me being technologically challenged, as usual and my go to I.T. expert (9 yr old grandchild) wasn't around to "Stop grandad saying naughty words" as she puts it.

Anyway, it's all sorted now and the dxwnd certainly makes a big difference on my machine. The slow, jerky, lagging has gone and the game is plenty big enough to see... Huge thanks, simovitch.

Now I'm off to read the 'destructions' and see how to go about doing a better job of clearing the skies for Sealion than old Herman did back in 1940.

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RE: DXWnd made easy - 11/29/2021 12:51:22 AM

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I used Dxwnd and the game seems to work much better than just right after installed. I am even running Windows 11!

To clarify some points I found unclear in the instructions, if you install the game in a directory than default, after step 4 (importing the EDBTR.dxw file) to change the path right click on the file in dxwnd, and click modify. Then change the path from the default path on the screen that comes up.

If you get "Error 5", right clicking on the dxwnd executable and running as an administrator allows you to clear the compatibility flags.

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RE: DXWnd made easy - 12/19/2021 1:31:07 PM

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So after playing on my laptop I finally loaded the game full screen with dxwnd on my big 42" monitor and yeah... was disappointed with the graphics. So I played around with the Dxwnd settings for EDBTR (rt-click -> modify) and found that checking the "full bilinear filter" under DirectX tab and the "Run in Window" and "keep aspect ratio" on the main tab really helped! and you can access your window side menus. Here is a screen capture from my 42" monitor.