Always "Could not initialize graphics system. Make sure that your video card and driver are compatible with DirectDraw"

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Always "Could not initialize graphics system. Make sure that your video card and driver are compatible with DirectDraw"

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Hello!

I tried to start "Age of Empires II" and got always "Could not initialize graphics system. Make sure that your video card and driver are compatible with DirectDraw".
The game is very old and use 640x480 with 256 colors - I assume it cannot switch to this mode.
However, if I run wine inside Xephyr with e.g. 640x480x8 - it returns the same error message.

There are some hints from M$ about that issue which cannot be applied to wine (see https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/win ... 12b?page=2 )

Furthermore there are several entries in appdb ( e.g. https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager. ... ion&iId=99 ) which have test-results for AoE2. None of them contains the above error message.

What can I do to skip these error message and to run old games with e.g. 640x480x8 ?

Thank you!
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