Hey, I just installed this and I get a weird graphics glitch (see attachment)

Basically the game is in sepia tone and the cinematics and loading screens also have weird color problems. I have tried a lot of things but nothing seems to work. I tried alt-tabbing, killing explorer.exe, setting compatibility to Win 95, 256 colours, I tried the HD patcher, everything. Adding the -e parameter gives me an error telling me that this PC does not support directdraw. Alt-tabbing does fix some of the weird purple glitches that appear here and there, mainly around the player character, but I can't get rid of the sepia tone no matter what I do.

My specs are: Win 7 Ultimate SP 1, i5-4570, 8gb RAM, nvidia GTX 760.

https://imgur.com/O292I5A


EDIT: I fixed the issue. I went to the nvidia control panel and turned the scaling off. Now the game runs in a smaller window but at least the colors are back.

Try the Steam version (you could refund this if it will work for you better) or you can wait for ScummVM support that is almost completed.

Cool, that's nice to hear about the ScummVM port.

Anyway I fixed the issue. I went to the nvidia control panel and turned the scaling off. Now the game runs in a smaller window but at least the colors are back.

In case this is useful to anyone.. I got the game to run with normal colors using DgVoodoo. Just copy "DDraw.dll" from the MS\x86 folder along with dgVoodoo.conf and dgVoodooCpl.exe. Open the DgVoodoo conrol panel and select "Bilinear blit strecth" in the DirectX tab.

I haven't fully played through yet but it seems to be working great!

Just to build on what @rowleys84 said -

1. Download the latest DgVoodoo from dege. freeweb. hu/dgVoodoo2 / dgVoodoo2/
2. Extract the contents.
3. Copy ddraw.dll, dgvoodoo.conf, and dgvoodoocpl.exe to the Sanitarium directory - where GoG intalled the game
4. Run dgvoodoocpl.exe. From the DirectX tab, check "Bilinear blit stretch". Click Apply. Click Ok.
5. Start Sanitarium from GoG or by running StartSanitarium from the Sanitarium directory.

This worked great and was pretty easy.