DxWnd Alternatives

DxWnd is described as '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' and is an app in the gaming software category. There are six alternatives to DxWnd for Windows. The best DxWnd alternative is D3DWindower, which is free. Other great apps like DxWnd are WinExplorer, 3D Analyze, 3D Ripper DX and DirectX OpenGL Wrapper.

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DxWnd

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Windows hooker - intercepts system calls to make fullscreen programs running in a window, to support a better...

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D3DWindower
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Free • Proprietary
Windows
4 D3DWindower alternatives
Forced window mode for D3D/DirectDraw applications.
- - D3DWindower is the most popular Windows alternative to DxWnd.
- - D3DWindower is the most popular free alternative to DxWnd.
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Discontinued
Untouched since sept 2004, according to the files in the archive.
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WinExplorer
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Free • Open Source
Window Manager
Windows
5 WinExplorer alternatives
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.
- - WinExplorer is the most popular Open Source alternative to DxWnd.
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Window Resizing
3D Analyze
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Free • Proprietary
Windows
3 3D Analyze alternatives
With the help of 3DA you can change different graphic options under DirectX 8 and OpenGL. 3DA changes different CAP-bits for example, if a game requires HW T&L 3DA emulates these bits and the games runs on graphic boards which don't have HW T&L capabilities.
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OPENGL
GPU emulation
Discontinued
The program is no longer updated. Last version, 2.36b, released in December 2004, can be still downloaded from the official website.
3D Ripper DX
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Free • Proprietary
Windows
2 3D Ripper DX alternatives
With 3D Ripper DX you can:
- capture all geometry, textures and shaders, rendered during single frame;
- import captured geometry into 3D Studio Max or Maya;
- see what exactly has been drawn by each individual draw call;
- see renderstate, textures, vertex streams, index stream.
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Import 3D models
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DirectX OpenGL Wrapper
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Free • Open Source
Windows
3 DirectX OpenGL Wrapper alternatives
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.
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OPENGL
Discontinued
No updates since 2003 : https://sourceforge.net/projects/dxglwrap/files/dxglwrap/
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zeckensack's Glide Wrapper
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Free • Proprietary
Windows
5 zeckensack's Glide Wrapper alternatives
It implements and emulates the 3dfx Voodoo cards' native Glide2 and Glide3 APIs on top of OpenGL
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OPENGL
Discontinued
No longer updated since June 2005
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