[Not Required] Feature Request - DirectDraw Fix

[ZummiGummi]

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.

[Jason Carr]

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?

[ZummiGummi]

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.

[Jason Carr]

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.

[ZummiGummi]

It's better to fix this problem using something like dgVoodoo2.

[haniobaid]

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

[Jason Carr]

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.