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Steel Panthers World general ed.
Posted: Wed Dec 11, 2013 10:28 pm
by Sir Walter
I downloaded 12-11 to find it appears in florescent colors? I tried to redownload same thing?
RE: Steel Panthers World general ed.
Posted: Thu Dec 12, 2013 12:42 am
by USS Wyoming
Your facing an issue for which there is a fix and you should be able to find it on the SPWaW thread on this forum.Its called something like "nightcrawlers fix" or something odd like that. I know I had to do that.
Good luck.
RE: Steel Panthers World general ed.
Posted: Thu Dec 12, 2013 4:17 pm
by DoubleDeuce
I believe this is the fix you are looking for:
Windows 7 fix for SPWAW
RE: Steel Panthers World general ed.
Posted: Fri Dec 13, 2013 9:18 pm
by Sir Walter
well I was able to download this fix if I did it correctly but when I press on it it does nothing.
RE: Steel Panthers World general ed.
Posted: Fri Dec 13, 2013 9:19 pm
by Sir Walter
well I think I downloaded the fix it is on desktop but when I open it nothing happens
RE: Steel Panthers World general ed.
Posted: Fri Dec 13, 2013 9:21 pm
by Sir Walter
I think I downloaded the fix but it does nothing to open steel panthers when I open it. the help people sent me here as usual they provide no help at all.
RE: Steel Panthers World general ed.
Posted: Fri Dec 13, 2013 11:11 pm
by rickier65
Try right clicking and then choose to unzip the file. Unzip the file into your game root folder. Which is probably located at: C:\Matrix Games\Steel Panthers World At War
Rick
RE: Steel Panthers World general ed.
Posted: Sat Dec 14, 2013 12:36 am
by Sir Walter
[&[&o]well I think I unzipped it to steel panthers but I still get the muti colored screen. I do thank you for your help though
RE: Steel Panthers World general ed.
Posted: Thu Feb 20, 2014 4:26 pm
by dr. smith
the culprit which screws up the 256-color palette in Windows 7 is explorer.exe. Grab the attached file, win7spwawfix.zip, and unzip it to your SPWAW folder, typically C:\Matrix Games\Steel Panthers World At War", and you're all set! You can now use the file win7spwaw.cmd to start the game rather than the shortcut which comes with the game.
Note the bolded - you need to NOT use the old shortcut in order to use the updated version.
RE: Steel Panthers World general ed.
Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2014 2:43 pm
by Frozen Stiffer
Has anyone found a viable solution for the issue with this error?
DirectDraw Initialization Error #-2147024809
I've tried all compatibility methods to no avail.
RE: Steel Panthers World general ed.
Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2014 8:04 am
by IainMcNeil
Some of these old games require your desktop to be at the right colour depth. You might need to change it to 16 bit if running in a window?
RE: Steel Panthers World general ed.
Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2014 1:20 pm
by Frozen Stiffer
I was running it full-screen.
The weird part is that it works fine on my laptop running Win7, but it gets this error on a different PC also running Win7.
RE: Steel Panthers World general ed.
Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2014 6:29 pm
by VPaulus
Please attach a DxDiag report file.
RE: Steel Panthers World general ed.
Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2014 6:39 pm
by Frozen Stiffer
Hello!
Thank you for your attention, VPaulus. Please see the file attached.
RE: Steel Panthers World general ed.
Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2014 8:12 am
by VPaulus
Please try the following:
Download this file from Microsoft:
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download ... px?id=8109
Run and extract it to a folder of your choice. Open that folder and find a file named "DXSETUP.exe". Run and let it install a full version of DirectX9c.
RE: Steel Panthers World general ed.
Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2014 1:01 pm
by Frozen Stiffer
No luck.
I downloaded the file, installed it, then ran the game.
I get the same error.
RE: Steel Panthers World general ed.
Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2014 2:05 pm
by VPaulus
Try updating the graphic drivers.
Download the Intel Driver Update Utility and update your graphic chip drivers:
http://www.intel.com/p/en_US/support/detect
RE: Steel Panthers World general ed.
Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2014 4:03 pm
by Frozen Stiffer
Just did.
Error persists.
RE: Steel Panthers World general ed.
Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2014 6:21 pm
by VPaulus
Sorry, out of more ideas, Frozen. [:(]
RE: Steel Panthers World general ed.
Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2014 12:27 am
by mkr8683
I have an idea - Slitherine can remake Steel Panthers and we won't have to worry about getting WaW to run on Win8
