Does the game itself actually support running in 32bit color?

This game does run in 32 bit color mode. I have no problem playing it on a Win 98SE machine. I did try it in XP and got nothing so I gave up on it. The machine I play on is a PII 300 MMX with 64 meg RAM and a 8 meg Matrox G100 card.

No, I mean in the in-game menus is there an option to use 32bit color?

IIIRC, this game is from 1997. Most games from around that time didn't use 32bit color by default nor did most games even have the option. Alot of games from that period used 256 colors.

Are you saying that you need to change the desktop color depth to 256 colors to play the game? If so then you can just download a resolution/color depth changer program and put it in a batch file to execute before playing the game.

In Windows XP you can simply use the compatibility mode tab and choose "Run in 256 colors" but Windows 2000 doesn't have this option.

No, i don't need to change my desktop resolution, game runs on my current settings (1280x1024 32bit) number of colors in game are set by adding
"-1 32k" to .exe but it still launch in 256 color mode, and i tried using compatibility mode, but with no sucess

I guess you could try different resolutions and see if 32bit color works.

There is no in-game menu asking you to play in 256 or 32 bit mode. But in the games file, there are two start icons. One will start the game in 256 mode and the other will start the game in 32 bit mode. My pc runs in 32 bit color, so I used the 32 bit mode icon. I never tried the 256 mode icon to see what happens next.

32k colors = 15bit color

^^^^^^^^

Read hal's post. 😀

I finished this beautiful game last year.

Indeed it's not 32 Bit but 32k colours. And it worked fine overall.
Should work on XP and Vista.

My mistake, sorry about that 32bit color 😉 but problem stays, it doesn't look like it should or maybe it's my false memory of this game 😒

Anyway, thanks for all your replys 😀