d3d8to9 inclusion issues in Remix 0.5.0

[anchorlightforge]

I would like to add that including the wrapper is a great idea and a time saver for projects, and greatly appreciated with this update. However, the current implementation has some issues that need to be addressed making it a less reliable option to elishacloud's dxwrapper for Remix projects and somewhat negating its benefits. I have linked to messages within the discussion that highlight the issues present.

Crosire's implementation of d3d8to9 is great for plug-and-play functionality but elishacloud's implementation allows for some finer controls and better debugging options that testers have noted have great impact on their ability to handle certain edge cases.

Issues

• Per discussion today in the Remix Discord, including d3d8to9 by default as has been done in Remix 0.5.0 is a great time-saver but can come with some unintended side-effects.
  • Some configuration utilities and other applications will hook into D3D8 and will fail to start up with a wrapper present
  • Utilities (such as UnrealEd for UE2 titles) will render in Remix, complicating usage when vanilla rendering is more useful and efficient or causing GUI issues that need to be debugged
• Release packaging script has included file as d3d8to9.dll instead of d3d8.dll, must be manually renamed to apply to game EXEs
• Shadow of Destiny/Shadow of Memories (Konami) fails to launch with crosire implementation, works with elishacloud's; this could potentially be due to better error handling but has not been investigated

Requests

• Elishacloud's implementation features more verbose logs for troubleshooting than the crosire d3d8to9 wrapper which is used in Remix
• When using Elishacloud's dxwrapper, processes can be excluded from wrapping; this allows edge cases that perform poorly with wrappers or do not need Remix injection to be ignored safely. Such a feature would significantly improve the included wrapper.

Expected behavior

• When included with correct name d3d8.dll will apply automatically to games that use d3d8.

[NV-LL]

REMIX-3034 for tracking