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This works for some games/users, but I don't Themes, Disable desktop composition, Displayĭisplay scaling on high DPI settings and Run asĪdministrator. Options, especially Run in 256 colors, Disable visual Surprisingly, this often worked in Vista with mostĭirectdraw games. My Computer, a random folder,Īnything works. To play on the best resolution possible). Work in Vista, but this solution is not really preferred (you want Switching resolutions, the colors even became worse. Doesn't work in Windows 7 anymore either. This worked in XP (and in Vistaįor some users), and works in some cases in Windows 7. Most of themĪre pretty annoying and/or hard to execute as well. Most methods below are unreliable, or do not work with everyone. Newest and best performing methods come last.

They work next to each number, so you can quickly scan the There are a few different solutions floating around. It's not too bad here though, most of the terrain looks okay. Grass turns red, or green, after playing a few seconds.Running the game on Vista or Windows 7, this is how you could However, with Windows 7 - which I've been running happily for some time now - I stumbled on a roadblock: the colours were all wrong. The game had been running fine all the way from Windows 98 (and NT 4 as well, which was a pain to play games on at the time, but I digress) until Windows Vista. Recently I wanted to play an old favourite of mine: Age Of Kings: The Conquerors. Update (): I've added a new version of the program to fix a minor error which caused an exception to appear when starting the game in some rare cases.Turns out the working directory for the executable should be set to "C:\Install Path\Age Of Empires 2" and not C:\Install Path\Age Of Empires 2\age2_x1". Update (2): I've added a new version of the program which fixes the "CD not found"-issue when using patch 1.0c for The Conquerors.This is useful when using launchers or lobby programs like Garena which start the game for you. This version includes the ability to wait for a game until it is started instead of starting the game itself. Update (1): A new version of the program is up again.Update (0): I've added explanation for the new registry method (seeĬomment).The download link below leads you to the latest version. This release fixes some bugs, and adds the ability to use the program in "batch/console"-mode. Update (2): A new update for my PaletteStealerSuspender program is up.I've restructured the accompanying blog post to move program instructions to a separate page. The tool now loads and saves settings and hides to the notification area so it can run and monitor games in the background.

This release brings some significant UI changes. Update (3): A new update for the Palettestealersuspender program is up.