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Some mental gymnastic is required to figure out the relation between this, "Low frame rate in fullscreen mode" and NoGDIHWAcceleration
https://www.gog.com/forum/general/ddrawcompat_yet_another_directdraw_wrapper/page1
https://sourceforge.net/p/dxwnd/discussion/general/thread/b8aaa6ff/#d506
https://github.com/narzoul/DDrawCompat/issues/28
Namely the literal update from windows 8.0 to 8.1 (which among other thing is not even a normal update, being provided only via the Windows Store - fun fact: you are almost screwed on non-consumer builds/activations)
And what's otherwise simply known as KB2919355
Maybe this difference was obvious for some people.. nonetheless it means we have to be very rigorous and vigilant in mentioning either of them.
Since W8 it's otherwise permanent.
Untested. Breakage expected. V-sync supposedly working again.