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Solve : Old game graphics are bad? |
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Answer» Hey, I just tried to run Silver (A game made in 1999) and it's graphics were BAD, I know it's an old game I mean choppy and weird, here's a screenshot terminating explorer.exe, but then when you exit the game, wouldn't you have to reboot your pc to get it back to working again? TASK manager still works, and you can start it from there. For me I usually just leave task manager open when I terminate explorer so I can start it again when I am finished. The only side effect is for badly behaved programs that add notification icons to taskbar, unless they respond to a specific windows message then their icon is lost. I'm not really sure why explorer (and only the one that creates the taskbar, if there are other explorer processes running that display folder windows the palette is unaffected). I think it might simply be that even though the game is in the foreground, somehow explorer is able to realize (MAKE current) some colours on the current palette. 256-colour mode is more or less a "colour by numbers" situation- there are 256 "numbers" and a program can only paint with those numbers- and it can NEVER really be certain what those colours are. OBVIOUSLY, the games themselves usually create a palette and therefore the game "knows" what the colours should be; but if another program is able to somehow realize colours on that same palette then it replaces the colours that the game is using- colour 45, for example, might be set to a blue colour for deep water, or a green, or some other colour by the game, but if another program is somehow able to change it to, say, a bright pink, it's hard not to notice that everywhere there was supposed to be a dark blue or a grass green it is now hot pink. The fact that Vista/7 and the graphics drivers that are used with them SORT of turn up their nose at 256 colour modes doesn't help, either. |
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