Drop-in DirectDraw → Direct3D 11 compatibility layer for Ignition (UDS / Virgin Interactive, 1997).
Runs the original Win95 build on 64-bit Windows 11. No DOSBox, no VM, no compatibility mode. The game executable is not modified (MD5 527bc475783319ecdd8adae1f97f6759).
Install
Copy ddraw.dll and ign_compat.ini from the zip into your Ignition folder, next to Ign_win.exe. Run the game normally. To uninstall, delete them.
dplayx.dll is optional — only needed if the game won't start at all because the DirectPlay Windows feature is missing.
This contains no game data. You need your own copy of Ignition.
Fixes
- black screen (8-bit exclusive-fullscreen DirectDraw)
- silent exit at startup (unimplemented
GetDC) - grey / quarter-width image (32bpp mode, 8bpp pixels)
- crash entering a race (legacy joystick API faulting inside
winmmbase.dll) - 100% CPU on one core (main loop spins and never calls
Sleep)
Windowed and borderless fullscreen, aspect/integer scaling, sharp-bilinear filtering.
If fullscreen is stuck small, remove the Windows 640X480 AppCompat shim — see INSTALL.txt.