Posted June 29, 2021
Original post by user "shogunsmurf": https://steamcommunity.com/app/42980/discussions/0/1844693670121082029/
"Color / Black screen fix
So for all of you who get blurred colors and black screens following might help you out.
Open up your notepad and add the following :
taskkill explorer.exe
start [path to game + name.exe] (example : C:\Games\Victoria\Victoria.exe)
start explorer.exe
Save the file as victoriafix.bat
Create shortcut on desktop or in start menu to this bat file.
Use this to start the game, should fix 99% of color issues and 75% of the black screens.
Add /windowed behind the second line with a space behind the path for windowed mode.
Note that this fix will NOT work for Windows 10 and the game cannot be run on anything but DoSBox or any other DoS emulator on Windows 10 as Windows 10 no longer has Directx9 natively available, the game being incapable of running on higher versions. |
For those of you wondering what you just did >
Victoria is a old DoS based game, which means it was based upon the 256 color design the DoS supported at the time. Since then we had giant progress in the colors our PC's are capable of producing which are entire pallets, which we now all 16 or 32 mbit etc etc. Explorer super imposes 16 mbit colors or 32 mbit on everything, thus by killing explorer before we start the game we stop it from super imposing the colors and let the game use it's own pallet which it was designed with. Also since the game is still running, the bat file will not continue to the last line until the game is closed as it considers the task still running, so that's why we can just start up explorer in the same file, as it will only do so after you close the game.
Yes this fix works for about any old dos-game you had color issues with."
"Color / Black screen fix
So for all of you who get blurred colors and black screens following might help you out.
Open up your notepad and add the following :
taskkill explorer.exe
start [path to game + name.exe] (example : C:\Games\Victoria\Victoria.exe)
start explorer.exe
Save the file as victoriafix.bat
Create shortcut on desktop or in start menu to this bat file.
Use this to start the game, should fix 99% of color issues and 75% of the black screens.
Add /windowed behind the second line with a space behind the path for windowed mode.
Note that this fix will NOT work for Windows 10 and the game cannot be run on anything but DoSBox or any other DoS emulator on Windows 10 as Windows 10 no longer has Directx9 natively available, the game being incapable of running on higher versions. |
For those of you wondering what you just did >
Victoria is a old DoS based game, which means it was based upon the 256 color design the DoS supported at the time. Since then we had giant progress in the colors our PC's are capable of producing which are entire pallets, which we now all 16 or 32 mbit etc etc. Explorer super imposes 16 mbit colors or 32 mbit on everything, thus by killing explorer before we start the game we stop it from super imposing the colors and let the game use it's own pallet which it was designed with. Also since the game is still running, the bat file will not continue to the last line until the game is closed as it considers the task still running, so that's why we can just start up explorer in the same file, as it will only do so after you close the game.
Yes this fix works for about any old dos-game you had color issues with."