Problem with Colors on KQ1VGA

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Chris · #1 Post by **Chris** » Tue Jun 18, 2002 7:21 pm

Hi, I've searched around for this problem in the FAQs and in these forums but I couldn't find anything on it. I wonder if I'm the only one having this problem? When I run KQ1VGA the colors come out completely wrong. It almost looks as though they are reversed from what they should be or something. I've installed everything and am running the latest version of DirectX Does anyone have any ideas as to why the colors would be so badly off and what I should do to fix it? Thanks, Chris

#2 Post by **Erpy** » Wed Jun 19, 2002 2:30 am

Hmmmm...never heard of it before. Have you tried fiddling with the color modes? (right-click on desktop, properties, settings) I'm not sure what color mode you're using, try 16-bit color mode. <img src="http://httpd.chello.nl/c.vanempel/Nashu ...

Chris Jones · #3 Post by **Chris Jones** » Fri Jun 21, 2002 7:50 am

I have actually had one other report of this problem, and would like to get to the bottom of it. If you wouldn't mind a bit of testing, please mail me at dosuser@bigfoot.com. Thanks.

Chris · #4 Post by **Chris** » Fri Jun 21, 2002 9:38 pm

My brother is much more computer literate then I so I will have him help me this weekend. If I can find what I have wrong on my computer I will email you. I installed the game on my computer at work and my brother's home computer and it worked fine on both. They were both installed from the same version I downloaded so it's obviously something wrong with my home computer. If I can figure it out I'll let you know so anyone wlse with the problem can get it fixed.

Fender178 · #5 Post by **Fender178** » Sun Jun 23, 2002 8:52 am

ok what operating system are you running?

Chris Jones · #6 Post by **Chris Jones** » Sun Jun 23, 2002 5:45 pm

I think the problem is that 99% of graphics cards do hi-color in RGB order, but 1% of cards do it BGR... since AGS just assumes RGB, it's causing inversion of the colours. What graphics card do you have?

Chris Jones · #7 Post by **Chris Jones** » Thu Jun 27, 2002 5:28 am

When you have time, could you download the SQ2VGA demo that was posted in the Tierra General forum, which uses the updated engine, and see if that looks ok for you? Cheers, Chris

#8 Post by **Anonymous Game Creator 2** » Thu Jun 27, 2002 7:22 pm

Here's a direct link: <a href="http://www.you.com.au/sq2demo.zip">SQ2 demo</a>

Chris · #9 Post by **Chris** » Fri Jul 19, 2002 11:02 pm

Hi, Thanks for all the comments. The problem is something to do with my computer. I'm not too worried about it because I'm buying a new one next month. I played through KQ1 on another computer and it works great. I never could get it to run on my computer... that's what I get for buying the cheapest piece of crap I could find.

Chris · #10 Post by **Chris** » Fri Jul 19, 2002 11:05 pm

I'll download the SQ2 demo tonight and let you know how it looks on my machine.

Chris · #11 Post by **Chris** » Sat Jul 20, 2002 8:30 am

I just tried the SQ2 demo. Sure enough the colors are reversed of what they should be. Damn my computer drives me nuts... as I said before I never should have bought the cheapest thing I could find. I'm having this problem with other games too so it's not just you guys.

CJ · #12 Post by CJ » Sun Jul 21, 2002 6:36 am

I've found someone else with the problem and we've traced the problem to some graphics cards which say that they support 16-bit, when in fact they don't and treat it as 15-bit... this loss of 1 bit of colour skews everything and makes it look wrong. I'm afraid it's not viable to fix, but newer versions of AGS will warn you about the problem.

jonathanthe1 · #13 Post by **jonathanthe1** » Tue Sep 24, 2002 12:35 pm

my computer is supposed to support 24-bit color but i still have this color problem. no matter if i change the resolution or the color quality the colors remain reversed.

The Tru Brit · #14 Post by **The Tru Brit** » Tue Sep 24, 2002 4:38 pm

i have the same problem <BODY text="black"><MARQUEE LOOP="infinite">~Scott ~Aka~ Tru_Brit©²°°²</MARQUEE>

jonathanthe1 · #15 Post by **jonathanthe1** » Tue Sep 24, 2002 8:15 pm

i tried to look at the advanced settings, in color management. there are a lot of color profiles you can choose between,and i think that it is probably connected to this problem. as i don't know anything about this stuff i prefer not to touch it without some advice.

#16 Post by **Erpy** » Tue Sep 24, 2002 8:59 pm

If you select a new color setting, the OS will change to that color mode for 15 seconds. If no key is pressed, the settings will be reset. So if you get a black screen, just wait until things fix themselves. <img src="http://httpd.chello.nl/c.vanempel/Nashc ...

jonathanthe1 · #17 Post by **jonathanthe1** » Tue Sep 24, 2002 9:07 pm

i don't know which mode to choose- i tried one called sRGB but it didn't help anything. does the color management has anything to do with that problem?! if it does then which mode should i select?

Scid · #18 Post by **Scid** » Wed Dec 11, 2002 12:31 am

I'm the other guy with the same problem. Make a batchfile that has "kq1vga.exe --15bit" in it. That's probably a very unsupported thing to do, but it worked for me with kq1vga and kq2vga.

Scid · #19 Post by **Scid** » Wed Dec 11, 2002 12:33 am

Oh yeah... and then run that batch file, of course <img src=http://www.ezboard.com/intl/aenglish/im ... /smile.gif ALT=":)">

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