Some applications don't handle certain aspects of hardware acceleration correctly. For example, they may assume that the pitch is always double the width in 16bpp displays, which is not necessarily the case. This compatibility fix forces DirectDraw into emulation mode where the pitch is directly scaled to the width.
Some applications built to use older version of DirectX may encounter problems on Windows XP when they call the LoadLibrary ...
Some applications call obsolete private shell32 API's which are no longer supported. This compatibility fix implements those ...
Some applications call ShellExecute which in turn calls ShellExecuteEx. One of the flags in the SHELLEXECUTEINFO structure ...
Some applications contain corrupted version resources and attempt to read them when run. This compatibility fix hooks the ...
Some applications don't handle certain aspects of hardware acceleration correctly. For example, they may assume that the ...
Some applications execute from sections not marked for execution. This compatibility fix patches the section protection for ...
Some applications execute from sections not marked for execution. This compatibility fix patches the section protection for ...
Some applications expect a call to GetStdHandle to fail. This compatibility fix causes all calls to the GetStdHandle API ...
Some applications free DLLs that are still in use. If this occurs, and the offending application attempts to make a call ...