Steel Panthers World general ed.

[Sir Walter]

I downloaded 12-11 to find it appears in florescent colors? I tried to redownload same thing?

[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.

[DoubleDeuce]

I believe this is the fix you are looking for: Windows 7 fix for SPWAW

[Sir Walter]

well I was able to download this fix if I did it correctly but when I press on it it does nothing.

[Sir Walter]

well I think I downloaded the fix it is on desktop but when I open it nothing happens

[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.

[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

[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

[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.

[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.

[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?

[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.

[VPaulus]

Please attach a DxDiag report file.

[Frozen Stiffer]

Hello!

Thank you for your attention, VPaulus. Please see the file attached.

[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.

[Frozen Stiffer]

No luck.

I downloaded the file, installed it, then ran the game.

I get the same error.

[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

[Frozen Stiffer]

Just did.

Error persists.

[VPaulus]

Sorry, out of more ideas, Frozen. [:(]

[mkr8683]

I have an idea - Slitherine can remake Steel Panthers and we won't have to worry about getting WaW to run on Win8