Improving DirectDraw OpenGL renderer for SoC?

[Alexander Nicolaysen Sørnes]

Greetings,

i am thinking about participating in the Summer of Code, and thought it would 
be interesting to improve DirectDraw such that Command & Conquer Tiberian Sun 
& Red Alert 2 run faster.  Currently, they crash once the mouse is moved 
in-game when OpenGL rendering is enabled.  Thus the project would involve 
fixing that bug, and then other performance issues/crashes that occur.
     However, I don't really have much experience with C and Wine.  The 
closest I have gotten is some patches for Wine's WordPad implementation.  
Would it be feasible to acquire the necessary knowledge and fix the bugs 
before the end of summer?

Regards,

Alexander N. Sørnes