Unfortunately, AMAP_3D_TARGET appears to be useless. Internally, surface allocation comes up with the following capabilities for the surface: DDSCAPS_VIDEOMEMORY | DDSCAPS_LOCALVIDMEM | DDSCAPS_OFFSCREENPLAIN | DDSCAPS_3DDEVICE. Sadly, DirectDraw responds (might respond?) with E_NOTIMPL. While one can advance one step further by removing DDSCAPS_VIDEOMEMORY | DDSCAPS_LOCALVIDMEM, another problem is hit that you are no longer able to…