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Directly adds over W8 problems
Possible symptoms of Direct3D8EnableMaximizedWindowedModeShim are:
This is also important to remember
This might simply be the result of a different GPU scaling option being used. I've suggested that possibility in the forum topic.
Houston, we now have a solid explanation (which can be further understood by reading this)
EDIT: I don't really know what I was thinking. Anyhow, it's probably nvidia and whatnot switching their driver to the "harmonized" api microsoft gave them (instead of whatever hack they were doing with older WDDM/Windows).
I recently had a problem related to the Windows 10 Upgrade that was forced... um, enthusiastically offered... on my computer a while back. For months, I've been trying to figure out why my performance spiraled down the drain in many recent games. The ending solution: fresh-installs!
Still, I never actually used this. Instead, I used the "Reset your PC" option in Settings > Recovery. Despite Windows 10 being completely reinstalled and my games working as they used to once again, it allowed me to keep all my data regardless. If this troubleshooting tip were to be mentioned, should the Reset your PC option be the preferred method?
Fresh installing can be a workaround, but an actual solution would be addressing every single issue.
Would almost say that the issues can be so varying and there can be so much, that in this scenario the workaround might be so much easier and faster it's worth it instead of addressing issues coming from upgrade process.
But if talking about fresh install versus reset option, I would say the reset would be preferred option as it's much faster, less things can go wrong and still does the same things fresh install would.
Hard that advice can cope with crap like this.
Where for absolutely no reason, Windows starts to parse EVEN my steam games installed on a secondary hard drive.
EDIT: Funny how not even by stopping every -possible- service running under the svchost process that I can see in Process Explorer launched this rundll32.exe aeinv.dll, I can vanquish the plague (nor understand what triggers it)