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I love it when the community does what the #developers / #publishers of #software / #games won't.
Here's an example I ran into last night while figuring out why #Popcap / #EA's #Bejeweled3 claimed I didn't have enough video memory: github.com/cheez3d/popcap-patc

#Cheez3d for example patched the executables to remove the signature, memory and hardware acceleration checks.

A better solution ended up being to drop in the #DirectDraw DLL ddraw.dll from the #WineD3D project though:
fdossena.com/?p=wined3d/index.

github.comcheez3d/popcap-patchesA collection of patched executables for PopCap games along with various bits of information regarding them. Patches include, but might not be limited to fixes for 3D acceleration as well as higher ...