D3DWindower Alternatives

D3DWindower is described as 'Forced window mode for D3D/DirectDraw applications' and is an app. There are four alternatives to D3DWindower for Windows. The best D3DWindower alternative is DxWnd, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like D3DWindower are WinExplorer, zeckensack's Glide Wrapper and DirectX OpenGL Wrapper.

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Forced window mode for D3D/DirectDraw applications.

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D3DWindower alternatives page was last updated Jun 29, 2019
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  1. DxWnd icon
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    Windows hooker - intercepts system calls to make fullscreen programs running in a window, to support a better compatibility, to enhance video modes and to stretch timing. It is tipically very useful to run old windows games.

    7 DxWnd alternatives

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Windows

    Properties

    1.  Gaming-focused

    Features

    1.  Run Windows Games

    DxWnd VS D3DWindower

     
    • DxWnd is the most popular Windows alternative to D3DWindower.

    • DxWnd is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to D3DWindower.

    • DxWnd is Free and Open SourceD3DWindower is Free and Proprietary
  2. WinExplorer icon
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    For every window in the hierarchy, you can view its properties, like handle, class name, caption, size, position and more. You can also modify some properties, like Caption and Visible/Enabled.

    5 WinExplorer alternatives

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Country of Origin

    • IL flagIsrael

    Platforms

    • Windows

    WinExplorer Features

    1.  Window Resizing

    WinExplorer VS D3DWindower

     
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    It implements and emulates the 3dfx Voodoo cards' native Glide2 and Glide3 APIs on top of OpenGL

    License model

    • FreeProprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    Discontinued

    No longer updated since June 2005

    zeckensack's Glide Wrapper Features

    1.  OPENGL

    zeckensack's Glide Wrapper VS D3DWindower

     
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    DirectX OpenGL Wrapper emulates API calls thru OpenGL commands and other platform specific commands in order to run DirectX 8 application running on other platform than Windows.

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Country of Origin

    • FR flagFrance
    • European Union flagEU

    Platforms

    • Windows

    DirectX OpenGL Wrapper Features

    1.  OPENGL

    DirectX OpenGL Wrapper VS D3DWindower

     
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