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.

Thank you for your work. I'm trying to get this game running too at the moment. It's beyond frustrating. If GOG isn't able to keep this game running on modern OSs they should take it down from their shop or at least warn people before they buy it.

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