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Reply 300 of 302, by filipetolhuizen

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That really did the trick with the sound. However, there is an issue regarding 8 bit colour modes, nVidia drivers and Windows 7 which affects the game's menus and everything that uses 8 bit colour modes, making it all appear in black and white/greyscale. This issue is present in all 4xx.xx drivers. During races it's fine because it might use 16 or 32 bit colour mode. Using a ddraw wrapper makes the colours appear again but it crashes S40 when i click on Options.

Reply 301 of 302, by BEEN_Nath_58

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filipetolhuizen wrote on Yesterday, 03:26:

That really did the trick with the sound. However, there is an issue regarding 8 bit colour modes, nVidia drivers and Windows 7 which affects the game's menus and everything that uses 8 bit colour modes, making it all appear in black and white/greyscale. This issue is present in all 4xx.xx drivers. During races it's fine because it might use 16 or 32 bit colour mode. Using a ddraw wrapper makes the colours appear again but it crashes S40 when i click on Options.

Have you tried DxWnd's 8bit color emulation?

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Reply 302 of 302, by filipetolhuizen

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BEEN_Nath_58 wrote on Yesterday, 04:10:
filipetolhuizen wrote on Yesterday, 03:26:

That really did the trick with the sound. However, there is an issue regarding 8 bit colour modes, nVidia drivers and Windows 7 which affects the game's menus and everything that uses 8 bit colour modes, making it all appear in black and white/greyscale. This issue is present in all 4xx.xx drivers. During races it's fine because it might use 16 or 32 bit colour mode. Using a ddraw wrapper makes the colours appear again but it crashes S40 when i click on Options.

Have you tried DxWnd's 8bit color emulation?

Running with DxWnd displays the menus correctly. Is there a way to use it with DxWnd without having to launch the wrapper?