Hi all,

I'm recently playing with the original Half-Life, its extensions and mods on my retro-hardware and an old annoyance resurfaced:

Half-Life will complain that I have to set my desktop color depth to 16-bit, even when 24/32-bit color is set. This is even if I set the in-game renderer to 32-bit color or specify the -32bpp startup switch as instructed here.

I started looking online and found an obscure reference to a registry hack that would enable this, but sadly not the hack itself.

Does anyone remember solving this problem on Windows 95/98?