Patrician III: How to Fix Alt+Tabbing Issues

Visit GitHub webpage

Installation guide page:
https://github.com/elishacloud/dxwrapper/wiki/DirectDraw-to-Direct3D9-Conversion

Where you download the file for dxwrapper releases
https://github.com/elishacloud/dxwrapper/releases

Download the file from https://github.com/elishacloud/dxwrapper/releases

You will arrive to this link, so you can simply click here:

https://github.com/elishacloud/dxwrapper/files/3674094/DxWrapper.zip

Extract ddraw.dll, dxwrapper.dll and dxwrapper.ini files from the release

Copy those 3 files into the game folder

To find your game folder right click p3 in your game list on steam, hover over manage then click browse local files

Open the dxwrapper.ini file and enable the Dd7to9 feature. (delete 0 and put a 1 there)

Also in the dxwrapper.ini change DdrawLimitDisplayModeCount to 145

Disable all application compatibility setting in the application and check run as admin. (make sure compatibility mode is turned off! this one surprised me)

Note: We need to check if disabling compatibility ♥♥♥♥s up with the resolution mod or “parcher”.

Considerations

Not sure if this affects, but this GitHub addition could maybe allow Patrician III to run Direct3D 9 or higher?? Someone help clarify this please! I quote from the webpage:

• “Over the past 12 to 18 months I have been working on creating a feature to be able to convert ddraw’s DirectDraw/Direct3D to Direct3D 9 (d3d9). The goal of this project is to fix compatibility issues with older games that use ddraw, as well allowing these games to use newer tools that require Direct3D 9 or higher.
• The feature is built in dxwrapper and is called Dd7to9. So far most of the DirectDraw APIs have been implemented, while only a handfull of the Direct3D APIs have been implemented.”

The most important step.

Start the game and enjoy 🙂