masterawr: go to this website and use the directdraw.dll method :)
sorry I forgot the link :)
http://pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Rune#Low_frame-rate_on_Windows_8_and_later Wow...just checked this thread again...listen, thanks for the tip--here's what I discovered from your info...The Windows 8 DDraw runs very poorly in Classic with Windows 10x64 14986.1001, R9 380 4GB Crimson ReLive Drivers 16.12.2...the Win8.1 Ddraw.dll doesn't run at all...!...;)
HOWEVER, your post encouraged me to try the new Crimson drivers with the standard system Ddraw.dll (ie, you don't have to do anything to use it because it installed along with your GPUdrivers, etc.) and bingo--for the first time Classic is running
extremely well (so far) in Win10, no custom ddraws in the system dir needed! So thanks for the tip--even though the older ddraw.dlls didn't work, if it hadn't been for your post I doubt I'd have looked at the game again and tried the standard install once more!
Thanks again...I always enjoy when things work as they should...;)