So I started playing Legacy a bit ago. I immediately noticed resolution issues where the menu bar would get cut off, as would text. There was also a wonky bar at the bottom of the screen. Overlap maybe? I tinkered with the settings in Winsetup, but none of them made it better, they just changed things by degrees. I suppose I could try it in windowed mode, but I don't really enjoy that.

This is the GOG version (obviously), rather than the Steam version. Any ideas? Thanks for your help.

Try to run it in compatibility mode and disable themes and aero if you are using win7 or vista

This could help if you are using win7:
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/316-compatibility-mode.html

You've probably either fixed it or given up by now, but I'm 99% that it's a problem with your monitor not dealing with that resolution properly. My two suggestions are:

1. Calibrate your monitor. Hopefully it has a button marked auto or similarly named option in its menu (the monitor's menu that is). This should fix the problem for all games at this resolution. If this doesn't work, any info about your monitor you can post would be helpful. What's it's native resolution? Is it an HDTV?

2. Changing the options in the winsetup.exe program in the game's directory. The game is probably set to run at 640x480 (2x scaling), try 3x or even 4x scaling (if 4x will fit on your monitor).

Thanks all. I haven't actually gotten time to go back to the Blackwell games since, but I will try these suggestions.

Had a similar-sounding problem with the first Blackwell game. Bought it for my mum (an attempt to get her into gaming, keep the old grey-cells active, etc!) and installed it on her PC. She's still rocking Win XP and integrated graphics on her desktop PC, so this game-series seemed like a safe bet for her PC's capabilities.

On launching the game I got an error saying it couldn't open a 640x480 screen - a resolution that's about as standard as it gets. Got around that by (IIRC) changing the rendering option from DirectX 9 to DirectDraw 5 (or something like that).

The game then worked, but the display was strangely out of whack. I noticed letters cropped from the titles at the extreme left and right of the screen, like a pan & scan copy of a widescreen movie, and the entire (in-game) display was vertically "rolled around" the screen, so the mouse pointer moved off the bottom of the screen and appeared at the top, and the top/bottom "boundary" of the game's display was about a quarter of the way down the screen. Very strange.

The monitor's auto set-up button couldn't resolve it, so I had to manually re-size and re-align the display on the monitor. It was all OK after that, and (on exiting the game) the Windows screen wasn't misaligned due to my manual "tweaking" on the monitor.

Something's definitely a bit odd with the way the game sets up the screen, though.