Posted December 24, 2009
I was going to play Red Alert again, installed from the C&C First Decade pack I bought several years ago.
However, in-game the colors are pixelated and wrong, like in the movies you'll get plenty of green, pink, purple and so on instead of normal colors. Some of this also carries over to the game, where walls, barriers, and unit / structure outlines have a distinctive cyan-like color.
This happens for both C&C and Red Alert.
A suggestion I found online said to put the resolution to 640x480 instead of 640x400 using the configuration tools that come with the games, but that didn't work.
Running as administrator or in compatibility mode doesn't work either.
The funny thing is that the movies are OK for the first few frames, before the colors become distorted. I also remember playing the games fine on my XP SP2 computer a while ago, so it seems to be a Vista / Win7 issue. Win7 Home Premium 64-bit here.
However, in-game the colors are pixelated and wrong, like in the movies you'll get plenty of green, pink, purple and so on instead of normal colors. Some of this also carries over to the game, where walls, barriers, and unit / structure outlines have a distinctive cyan-like color.
This happens for both C&C and Red Alert.
A suggestion I found online said to put the resolution to 640x480 instead of 640x400 using the configuration tools that come with the games, but that didn't work.
Running as administrator or in compatibility mode doesn't work either.
The funny thing is that the movies are OK for the first few frames, before the colors become distorted. I also remember playing the games fine on my XP SP2 computer a while ago, so it seems to be a Vista / Win7 issue. Win7 Home Premium 64-bit here.
This question / problem has been solved by Namur
