Installing old games question

[Mizel]

It's useful with other things (like your printer driver), I've never found it to help render a game like an older OS, if it did, I probably would still be playing cs 1.6 (but now CS: GO is out so yay)

Well, that's true. It's useful for anything except games lol Which really sucks.... I don't want to believe that there are games I'll never be able to play again D:

[EpsilonX]

I still have a windows 98 that works fine so I can just play my older games on that haha. I just wanted to put Starcraft on my laptop to play at college....Oh well, I'll just get the second one when I get a new computer

[CraeSC111]

The fix wont work if you run it in compatibility mode. You have to check all of the boxes except for compatibility mode

[EpsilonX]

I did. It did nothing.

[CraeSC111]

-_- I don't have Windows anymore so I cannot check. Try opening your screen resolution window and then play your game. The internet recommended that one

[TheGateKeeper]

The other day I found my Starcraft disc, and today I installed it on my computer...but when I go to play the game, the colors get all messed up, like this:



Anybody know how to fix it?

That's just how old games look :P

[CraeSC111]

Lol NA. I remember I fixed it on my computer when I had Windows 7.
Never had to worry about that on Ubuntu.
also are you running as administrator?

[LiNuX]

Lol NA. I remember I fixed it on my computer when I had Windows 7.
Never had to worry about that on Ubuntu.
also are you running as administrator?

Running as admin doesn't really render your graphics better. Especially on a 14 year old game since they didn't predict where computers and graphics would be now.

[CraeSC111]

Well I was guessing it had something to do with the compatibility settings. The fix I first suggested should've worked, as it did on mine, but it could have something to do with his hardware. Found the official Blizzard fix for the game! I am kind of surprised it does not show up directly on Google. Hope it fixes the problem

[BobTD]

Im running Win7 and get that same problem.

change your window theme to high contrast (black background and stuff) and then run the game. This fixes the colors for some unknown reason but it does require you to go back and forth when you want to play early blizzard games. That will also work for Diablo1.