trying to play an old game

Sayuta

Recruit

• May 12, 2014

• #1

Hello, I've decided to post on this forum as i found a person asking a question about it here while looking for my issue, i hope it's a valid topic as i didn't find it anywhere else at all.

So i've installed this zanzarah game developed for Windows up to XP on a Mac (macbook pro 2011) with 64-bit Windows 7 on parallels desktop. The game works perfectly fine and smooth except for one big graphic glitch throughout the whole world and i have no idea how to cure this acid.

(please ignore the message on top of the screen)

Any ideas what could have caused it?

 

Rujasu

Archduke

Old Guard

• May 12, 2014

• #2

Ah, Zanzarah. Reinstalled it last year and noticed that indeed, it's still not a very good game at all. Not sure why I thought time would fix it. I guess I could've had a bias against it back then, but no such luck.

Didn't have that issue, though. Try the basic stuff first. Do you have it running in compatablility mode in your virtualized Windows? That's the first thing you should do. You could also try opening the screen resolution window from the control panel and launch the game while it's open. That's my magic colour fix for Starcraft, but I don't think it's the same kind of issue as this.

 

Sayuta

Recruit

• May 12, 2014

• #3

Yeah, naturally set windows xp compatibility mode first thing after installation, tried older modes too but no change. Second one didn't work either.

 

ancalimon

Baron

Old Guard

• May 12, 2014

• #4

Try this and see if it works.

Right click on desktop and choose "Screen Resolution". Click "Advanced Settings". Select "List All Modes". With that window open try launching the game now. I know this is weird but it worked for me for an old game that was on acid just like this.

 

Rujasu

Archduke

Old Guard

• May 12, 2014

• #5

>_>
Like I already said when suggested more or less the same thing two posts up, it's not the same issue. That's a problem with another application (present in newer versions of Windows) steals the game's palette. Not only is that more or less exclusive to 2D games, you can clearly see the trees are completely unaffected.
Have you tried reinstalling yet?

 

Splintert

Count

Old Guard

• May 12, 2014

• #6

Try ending explorer.exe before launching the game. Be warned, it gets rid of the start/taskbar. To start it back up, press [windows key], run..., "explorer.exe".

 

Rujasu

Archduke

Old Guard

• May 12, 2014

• #7

...Which is another workaround for the palette issue, so if the display settings trick won't work, that's a dead end, too.

 

Jhessail

Panzervixen

Grandmaster Knight

Old Guard

• May 21, 2014

• #8

It could be an driver issue as well. The modern GPU driver is unable to process the graphics properly. You could check here:
http://forum.funatics.de/viewforum.php?f=12

and see what version of drivers they have used. Of course, since you're using a Mac, that's another can of worms.

 

dorhug

Recruit

• Aug 13, 2014

• #9

Ah , I had this errors and stuffs all the time . I am an old game addict but if you want to play old games nicely , you have to install Windows XP or something 

 

The Cow Dude

Baron

Old Guard

• Aug 13, 2014

• #10

A bit of an old thread, but what used to work for me when I used vista was to launch the game and alt tab and open a folder. In Windows 7 I have to run a special program that disables all background apps while playing the games, and that fixes it. Shatari linked me to a program like that a while back, but I can't for the life of me find it.