I have constant flickering on Windows 10 as well.

I had the problem with no movies and no cursor, making the game uplayable on Windows 10. I played around with the program compatibility settings and got it to work.

Go to C:\Program Files (x86)\Dracula...
Right click the Dracula3.exe file
Select the Compatibility tab

I used these setting:

Run as Windows Vista
Reduced color mode to 16-bit
Disable fullscreen optimizations
Run as administrator

I also turned off vertical sync in Nvidia control panel. That can reduce flickering.

The flickering can be reduced a bit by turning off vertical sync in Nvidia control panel.

Some scenes cause flickering in the inventory screen. Fortunately there are enough places where it is stable so you can make progress. I wonder if this will hold until the end. I'm more than half way through now so I suspect it will be OK.

The game is playable but the flickering and other graphic issues drain it of drama. It is a story that depends on atmosphere. How can you believe in it if the images jump around?

Works fine with dgVoodoo WIP56 (only D3D9.dll and D3DImm.dll needed) on Windows 10 x64.

Just to add an update to this topic:

Current dgVoodoo2 version is dgVoodoo v2.55.4.1 - for regular usage (released: 01.03.2019)

To specify:

you need the navigate to the dgVoodoo/MS/x86 (32-bit dll versions(!) even on your 64-bit Win10 OS!) folder and copy

D3D9.dll
D3Dlmm.dll

into your Dracula 3 folder.

Switch to fullscreen by editing

bFullScreen=1

And start the game via GOG Galaxy or GOG Shortcut.

Suddenly, the game logo and intro video will run smooth as butter in fullscreen and the game mouse will become visible in game!

I had the same problems, screen flickering, no cursor etc. For me it works with changing only compatibilty mode for All users to
Windows XP SP3
deactivate full screen optimization
and run the game as administrator.

I have also set NVidia control panel back to default as mentioned in an earlier post and excluded it in the Windows Defender Firewall.

Config needed also to edited to run the game in fullscree mode.

Game seems to run smooth, cursors and fonts are visible.

I have an Intel I5 4670 CPU and a NVidia GTX 1070.

This seems pretty esoteric, but the game ended up working for me, so here is what happened.

When I installed the game, the only way I could get it to work with severe stuttering and slow down was to "deactivate full screen optimization" in the compatibility tab and running the game in fullscreen. Despite trying several of the methods here, I never seemed to be able to get anywhere.

I uninstalled the game, updated my drivers, and set "run as administrator" for GOG Galaxy. The game still had the same issues as before, so I also tried setting affinity for the CPU cores. This time around, when I set the game to fullscreen and deactivated full screen optimization again, the videos would run smoothly, but the game would have issues with ghosting the cursor, not displaying certain UI elements properly, etc. Also, I can't say if CPU affinity was relevant at all, since afterward leaving it as normal still had the game running in the same manner.

Downloading dgvoodWIP again (http://dege.freeweb.hu/) (latest version was 60 at the time of me posting this) I finally managed to get this to work. Worth noting that the config.exe of dgvood was identified as a virus, and I had to manuever around that in order to change some settings to remove the watermark and other stuff.

I would say the most relevant things for me would have to be driver updates and running galaxy as the admin, but I can't say for sure. I hope this can be helpful, at least to some of you guys.

Did NOT do these:
- deactivate full screen optimization
- run the game as administrator
- change compatibilty mode to any non-win10 mode

Did these to run successfully:
1. buckybit's tip: "navigate to the dgVoodoo/MS/x86 (32-bit dll versions(!) even on your 64-bit Win10 OS!) folder and
copy D3D9.dll , D3Dlmm.dll into your Dracula 3 folder.
( the two files were extracted from dgVoodoo v2.7 http://dege.freeweb.hu/dgVoodoo2/dgVoodoo2.html )
2. Switch to fullscreen by editing bFullScreen=1 "
3. force the system to use integrated graphics instead of automatically using display card for running the game.
Enjoy.

https:/ /www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Dracula_3:_The_Path_of_the_Dragon#Fix_Windows_10_issue

Blank screen on Windows 10 and low framerate • Link
Install WineD3D DLLs[2]
Download WineD3D Here.
Extract d3d9.dll, libwine.dll and wined3d.dll into <path-to-game>.
Go to <path-to-game> and find Dracula3.exe
Right click and go into properties
Go to Compatibility and click on Change settings for all users (has to be for all users).
Check "Run this program in compatibility mode for:" and select Windows XP SP3.
Disable full screen performance.
Check "Run this program as an administrator".
Start the game.

Finally. After 3 hours of trying different fixes, I finally managed to get it working flawlessly.

My System is:
Windows 10 20H2 running a NVIDIA Geforce 2070 Super with latest drivers

I actually found out that Vista Compatibility mode + deactivate Fullscreen optimize (all users) works quite well for the videos but has the horrible ingame flickering.
I have tried nearly all compatibility options, different versions of d3dwine but the d3dwine fix didn't work at all on my system, it always started the game but then disappeared.
Finally, I tried the dgVoodoo fix and had the same issue. Game was starting but then disappeared. I followed this tutorial video on youtube but it also didn't work.

"dgVoodoo Tutorial - Play Old game in Windows 10 PC" by "Cap Trong Nam - How To"
sorry, I am apparently not able to post links here.

Then, I was playing a little with the dgVoodoo tool and found my solution.

Just follow the tutorial video above, but instead of "dgVoodoo Virtual SVGA Card" choose "GeForce4 Ti 4800" and it simply works.

I could even crank up the resolution to my native one (1440p) and it still works fine.

good luck :)

edit-the "Geforce Ti 4800" option causes the came to crash after some dialogues. "ATI Radeon 8500" seems to work better. In game for a few hours and no crashes...

edit2-game still crashes quite often. Unplayable.

I got it working "flawlessly" so far. No flickering and completely smooth. (Windows 10 / i5 7400 / AMD Radeon R9 360)

All I did was use dgVoodoo by copying D3D9.dll, D3Dlmm.dll and dgVoodooCpl.exe to the Dracula 3 game folder. I ran dgVoodooCpl and clicked on the "./" button to set the path to the current folder. I did not alter any other settings.
I set the fullscreen flag in the config file (bFullScreen=1) and I set the compatibility in the dracule3.exe to Windows XP SP3. I also clicked "deactivate full screen optimization". I also have vsync turned off in my graphics card control panel.

I have only played a few minutes of it but everything seems to be fine.

2022 year is near and this solution worked for me after an hour of research.
God bless you, kind guy!

My specs:
Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2500 CPU @ 3.30GHz 3.30 GHz
Integrated video
Windows 10 Pro x64

Thank you very much!
This solution worked for me.

This was my second try on another PC with next specs:
Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3570 CPU @ 3.40GHz 3.40 GHz
Radeon HD7790 OC v2
Windows 10 Pro x64

Fixes that didn't work:
1. Color to 8 bit
2. Compatibility mode
3. wine3d (tried from 1.7, 2.6, 2.7, 3.0, 4.5, 6.0 and many-many others)

Partly worked:
1. wine3d latest version (6.21) — fixed everything, but text was missing :(
2. disabling fullscreen optimization — fixed black screen and FPS, but screen is flickering.

Hope this will help to someone.

All right, here's what helped me.

Win 10, Dracula 3 wouldn't even start. Tried fixes that I found here. Found the solution on another forum.

1) change compatibility mode for All users to Windows XP SP3
2) deactivate full screen optimization
3) config.ini edit "fullscreen=1"
4) download wined3d ReactOS 0.4.7, copy all files in Dracula 3 folder
5) run as admin

https://www.filemail.com/d/ykuekiycrmczlcc

Shame on GOG, selling games that require hours of research and tambourine dances. They could have fixed that years ago.

did this and worked, no flicker, no problems, super easy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cAcZO9K5j0&amp;ab_channel=Mar044 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cAcZO9K5j0&amp;ab_channel=Mar044