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Fixes compatibility issues with older games running on Windows 10/11 by wrapping DirectX dlls. Also allows loading custom libraries with the file extension .asi into game processes.

4 mentions on Hacker News by 4 people: 0 stories, 4 comments · first 2020-12-31 · latest 2026-09-15

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  1. …you might also need SafeDiscShim.[3] [1]: https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/The_Settlers_IV [2]: https://github.com/elishacloud/dxwrapper/wiki/The-Settlers-I... [3]: https://github.com/RibShark/SafeDiscShim
    comment by InvisibleUp · 2026-09-15 · in How much of F-Droid is LLM generated?
  2. …or 3x, but this is where Gamescope comes in Also possible using dxwrapper (for DirectX 7-9 games): https://github.com/elishacloud/dxwrapper Similarly to dxvk, you drop a few DLLs into the game directory then edit one config file. No need…
    comment by throwaway2046 · 2025-10-29 · in Nearly 90% of Windows Games Now Run on Linux
  3. …DirectDraw/3D interfaces with newer D3D9 api for better compatibility with newer Windows versions: https://github.com/elishacloud/dxwrapper
    comment by mmozeiko · 2023-06-12 · in Ask HN: Best way to play old games that require Windows 98/XP?
  4. …ttps://fdossena.com/?p=wined3d/index.frag http://dege.freeweb.hu/ https://github.com/CnCNet/cnc-ddraw https://github.com/elishacloud/dxwrapper https://sol.gfxile.net/ddhack/index.html even Win10 ships with own ddraw.dll wrapper.
    comment by rasz · 2020-12-31 · in Flash Player is about to stop working on Windows 10