DxWnd and Temple of Elemental Evil

[gho]

Here are some hints to manage the CD version of ToEE with DxWnd. The game poses several problems not to DxWnd but rather to simply stay alive: OS evolution, bugs and unsupported copy protections make it quite hard to have it running in native mode.
Here is what I did on Win10:

• Install the CD game
• apply patch 1 (TOEE_PATCH1_ENU.EXE) and 2 (TOEE_USA_ANY-PATCH2.EXE), did NOT apply patch 3 (TOEE_ANY-PATCH3.EXE.exe) that is not compatible with next step
• apply TemplePlus patch (TemplePlusSetup1037.exe)
• run the game and use task manager to discover what executable goes running, since TemplePlus doesn't run TOEE.exe but a patched copy of it. On my pc it was "C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\TemplePlus\app-1.0.37\TemplePlus.exe"
• Configured that pathname as new program with default options in DxWnd
• Configured the game with TemplePlusConfig.exe with a lower resolution, the best should correspond to the window size, like 800 x 600 is you have dxWnd default size. If you keep the default TemplePlus configuration, once windowed the game will be too shrinked to play.

ToEE is quite a nice game, a pure RPG game that probably deserved some more fortune and longevity. Running it with DxWnd was a challenge, but you really needn't to windowize it.