I played through this game about four years ago using the WineD3D fix.

Same computer four years later, I cannot get this game to run using any of the listed fixes online. WineD3D has missing cursors/text, dgVoodoo chugs at maybe 15fps. No amount of settings tweaking or compatibility modes or core affinity or GPU forcing has gotten me beyond a very stuttery experience.

Edit: more detailed information. I will literally go through every iteration of troubleshooting that I can think of to try and get this game to run, and I will do it publicly so everyone has it as a resource. I am running Win 10 with current updates, EVGA 1080 with latest drivers, Intel 4690k stable OC to 4.4 GHz per core. I do not have any performance issues even running modern games such as Elden Ring or unoptimized disasters like my bloated STALKER Anomaly installation.

With no changes to dracula3.exe: flickering video, very slow framerate, no cursor or menus in-game

With compatibility fixes: flickering video, very slow framerate, no cursor or menu in-game

WineD3D 2.6 d3d9: flickering video, very slow framerate, no cursor or menu in-game.

WineD3d 2.6 all .dll: flickering video, very slow framerate, cursor and menus appear.

WineD3D 2.6, all .dll, fullscreen optimization disabled: very slow framerate

WineD3D 2.6, all .dll, fullscreen and compatibility: very slow framerate

WineD3D 7.8 d3d9: very slow framerate, no text, black screen with 1.04

WineD3D 7.8 d3d9 with fullscreen opt disabled: very slow framerate, no text, black screen with 1.04

WineD3d 7.8 d3d9 with fullscreen and compatibility: slow framerate, no text, black screen with 1.04

dgVoodoo 2.78: very slow framerate

dgVoodoo, fullscreen opt: slow framerate, dropped inputs

dgVoodoo, fullscreen and compatibility: slow framerate, dropped inputs

dgVoodoo, fullscreen and compatibility, alt+enter to go from window to full: slow framerate but the best of the worst

I'll keep messing with it but holy cow this is kind of silly.

UPDATE: It works now. I have absolutely no idea why. The only change I made was removing a system JRE variable for another game, but restoring that variable does not stop the game from running correctly. I don't fuckin know, man.

What trickery is this? I tried the game again today - and it works! Even in fullscreen. There seems to be a very slight decrease in fps but very playable and not comparable to the extremely janky experience before. Very peculiar, I have no explaination for it.

Alas, today the game again has the most terrible framerate... I suppose it has to do with some Windows 10-application running in the background. Some days ago it worked perfectly fluent.

Hi guys
Finally I managed to work D3 on Windows 11. I post below my receipe hoping it can help you too.

Go to Video Card Settings (I use Nvidia Geforce):
Manage 3d settings:
Maximum frame rate -> 28FPS
Maximum application frame rate -> 30FPS
Set Screen Resolution to 1024x768

Set Dracula3.exe Compatibility -> XP S3 and Run As Administrator (for all users)

Extract files in Dracula3 folder from WineD3DForWindows_2.6.zip:
d3d9.dll, libwine.dll and wined3d.dll

Hello! Could you please share wine3D 2.6 files please? The page for dowload is currently down