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Posted December 10, 2016
The colors are completely messed up. I have WIn. 7 32 bit. The dark reign page is down, so I cannot find the patch, which supposedly addressed this. Anyone know a fix or work-around? I got it to start ONCE with perfect graphics, I didn't do anything special, so I could never figure out how I did it.
This question / problem has been solved by Strijkboutimage
Posted December 10, 2016
I think it can be solved by killing the explorer process in the taskbar, but I'm not sure.
Posted December 20, 2016
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Strijkbout: I think it can be solved by killing the explorer process in the taskbar, but I'm not sure.
I did read about that one, and it works so far, but I'd prefer NOT to have to kill essential processes. Thank you for taking the time to answer
Posted December 20, 2016
this is a win7 related color palette problem, you can read about it here and try one of the fixes:

http://pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Rainbow_color_problems_in_older_games

I used it for starcraft when i was on win7, it might work for dark reign too

i think there was also the alternative to write a batch file which kills explorer.exe, starts the game and restarts exlorer.exe on leaving the game
Post edited December 20, 2016 by Oedi
Posted September 09, 2017
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Strijkbout: I think it can be solved by killing the explorer process in the taskbar, but I'm not sure.
Can someone tell me (a person with a low tech level) how this is done?
Posted September 09, 2017
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Strijkbout: I think it can be solved by killing the explorer process in the taskbar, but I'm not sure.
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SBBlair: Can someone tell me (a person with a low tech level) how this is done?
Press Ctrl-Alt-Del or rightclick on the taskbar and select the taskmanager, click the process tab and rightclick on explorer.exe and end the process.
If you want to restart explorer.exe, press windows-R and type explorer.
Posted September 09, 2017
Strijkbout - Thanks for the advice and your quick response. Giving it a try now. Will let you know how it goes. Cheers.
Post edited September 09, 2017 by SBBlair
Posted September 10, 2017
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SBBlair: Can someone tell me (a person with a low tech level) how this is done?
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Strijkbout: Press Ctrl-Alt-Del or rightclick on the taskbar and select the taskmanager, click the process tab and rightclick on explorer.exe and end the process.
If you want to restart explorer.exe, press windows-R and type explorer.
I thank you but I fear it's a no go. When I end the explorer.exe my desktop disappears and nothing will work. Have to restart. Man do I miss XP. Only windows ever I never had a problem out of.
Posted September 11, 2017
Strijkbout - Found a way to get it done. I bring up GOG and get Dark Reign ready to launch. At this point, bring up task manager and end the explorer.exe. Launch game. It runs good enough and when I exit game, explorer.exe starts back up and everything is back to normal. Thanks again for your advice. Never would have gotten it working otherwise. Cheers.
Post edited September 11, 2017 by SBBlair
Posted June 09, 2019
The latest community patch (v1.8.1) removes the need to do this and fixes the color palette bug
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