My wife is huge fan of the Nancy Drew games, so since we've been playing through them, which has been quite fun for both of us. However, some of them are rather old at this point, which occasionally causes some problems. I recently bought Nancy Drew: Secret of the Old Clock on Steam. We played it for a few hours Friday night, then went to play it again yesterday, only to be greeted by the following error:
So it says "DirectDraw" in there. That's an old graphic API in Microsoft's DirectX. It's what the game uses to draw graphics. I'm not sure why setting the display mode would be unsupported or why anything would be different than the night before, but I set out for a solution.
I found a lot of the typical recommendations about trying the game in Windows Compatibility Mode, which is generally good advice but did nothing here. It was recommended to