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Developer Narzoul has modified his DDrawCompat ddraw.dll to support anti-aliasing and anisotropic filtering for LS2003. I've successfully tested it on Intel with nVidia hardware using 8x AA and AF using different resolutions, windowed/fullscreen with no artifacts whatsoever.

I'm using W11 with the .exe set to admin rights.

Other wrappers like dgV etc. may cause conflict so disable/remove if so.

Drop the .dll and .ini files into Links main folder.

Start with nVidia's control panel set to defaults and test.

If your'e getting artifacts from anisotropic filtering try reducing it to 2x or 4x in DDrawCompat.ini, look for the line ' TextureFilter = af8x '
To adjust anti-aliasing edit ' Antialiasing = msaa8x ' respectively.
For a full feature list refer to this wiki https://github.com/narzoul/DDrawCompat/ ... iguration

Please test on AMD/Radeon platforms and post your results.

Happy times!

I last tried version 0.6.0 (Mar 2025) of this wrapper, the note I made when testing it was:

"Will load, main menu looks and works fine, course has missing golfer and corrupted pop up menus. This appears to be a common occurrence with wrappers."

I did make a note that there were infrequent releases.

Seems I need to test it again, and especially against the short list of problem course I have identified.

I have not needed to use a wrapper on Windows systems with Nvidia GPUs. So my testing of wrappers has moved to just testing on Windows systems with Intel iGPUs.

Thank you for posting that there has been an update.

It is correct that you cannot have two wrappers installed, for the main DLL the names will clash and I would not leave any other wrapper specific DLLs in the Links folder.

This is initial, very preliminary testing!

I installed the provided wrapper on a Windows 11 system with an i5 Gen 11 processor and embedded Intel Iris XE Graphics.

By the date of the library I conclude that this is a post 0.7.1 build

Links starts correctly, this is expected as previous versions did also. Problems were in game.

I used the Vintage at the Hunter Valley for Initial testing. *Chuckle* whadda ya expect, I'm Australian of course I am going to use an Australian course. This course is known to not have any problems on this hardware configuration with dgVoodoo.

The Golfer displayed correctly (did not before), the pop up menus display correctly (did not before). Also Translucent shadows work as they should (do not under dgVoodoo!!).

Round completed without any issue.

So very positive. I will dig out my list of problem courses on the machine that occur under dgVoodoo and will test those.

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