ZummiGummi Posted November 27, 2013 Author Share Posted November 27, 2013 I'm sure you know about this one, where the colours of the game get distorted in Windows 7. I was going to suggest adding the old, kill explorer.exe, run game, start explorer.exe solution, but it seems there is a nicer way of doing it, by adding some registry entries. http://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/927140-win7-fixing-old-256-color-games-with-distorted-palettes/ Either way will get the job done, registry entry is the nicer but harder way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted November 27, 2013 Share Posted November 27, 2013 Interesting; actually I haven't heard about/seen that one yet. Can you post a screenshot of the problem maybe? When exactly does it happen? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZummiGummi Posted November 27, 2013 Author Share Posted November 27, 2013 This isn't something I've experienced, since I don't tend to play that era of game. Here are a few links that show the error. http://write-code.blogspot.co.nz/2011/03/solving-old-games-graphics-problem-on.html http://www.aoczone.net/viewtopic.php?f=101&t=33730 http://oldgameslauncher.codeplex.com/ Not something I'm really interested it, but other people might be. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted November 27, 2013 Share Posted November 27, 2013 Oic, so this is something that happens to old games when you play the game on the newer OS, not something that happens to LaunchBox. I get it. Cool. Still, yeah worth adding the "fix" to LaunchBox if it helps make games easier to play. Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZummiGummi Posted October 21, 2015 Author Share Posted October 21, 2015 It's better to fix this problem using something like dgVoodoo2. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
haniobaid Posted October 26, 2015 Share Posted October 26, 2015 Since I play lots of older windows games, I had this happen several times. A good example is Starcraft 1 (the original and also broodwar expansion). Here is a video showing what the corruption looks like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8yBDZJ4FB0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted October 26, 2015 Share Posted October 26, 2015 That does sound like a fairly easy fix; thanks @haniobaid. I'll see if I can't add that soon, assuming that it really is just as easy as killing and restarting Explorer to fix it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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