Fantum1337: Whenever I open RCT 1, I get sound and picture but the colors are not right. I've tried running in different compatibility settings and resolutions, but nothing seems to have worked. Basically, I can play the game just fine, however, everything is this mottled shade of pink and green. Anyone know of a fix for this?
This sounds like a similar issue to that which affects Fallout. There are some things you can try. I'll list them below, so try each in turn and let us know if any of them work.
1) Lower your colour depth in display settings to 16-bit and then launch the game.
2) Kill off the explorer task (using the Task Manager) and then run the game. (You will need to restart explorer from the Task Manager once you quit the game). You can automate this using a batch script such as the following (replace game.exe with the game's executable):
@echo off
taskkill /f /IM explorer.exe
game.exe
Start explorer.exe
This script kills explorer, then runs the game. Once you quit the game (so game.exe has finished) it then restarts explorer.
3) Use a DirectDraw wrapper to run the game. A few of these are:
DDFix
DDHack
DDWrapper
DXWnd
D3DWindower
(These last two actually capture the DirectDraw calls to run the game in a window)
That's all I can think of right now, other than your standard compatibility settings such as using compatibilty mode for different versions of windows, disabling desktop composition, disabling visual themes, etc.
