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Pink background with white and yellow letters

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Installed WITPAE on new Lenovo gaming computer. In menus, messages at bottom on screen, combat summaries, etc. the letters are white or light yellow on a pink backgrounds. (see attached screenshot) I did a standard unadjusted install of the new Beta. How can this be fixed?

Less important I also need advice on how I should set up switches for the launch (e.g., for full screen). That's always been a painful process for me on new installations and my memories have faded on how to do it, but I've never before had crazy coloration of messages. It's virtually unreadable.
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Re: Pink background with white and yellow letters

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The switches are likely your answer to the pink problem, most likely the -deepColor switch. You can download Seabee Alpha from this forum and you can select your switches without having to know the exact format of the switch or where it goes in the Shortcut properties. I think Seabee also creates a shortcut for you that points to the game executable file rather than the Autorun.exe (a menu program) that the base game still installs on your desktop.

If you really want to understand switches you can read the thread on slow performance in this Forum. It has many posts about switches and lots of screenshots with the explanations.
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Re: Pink background with white and yellow letters

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Thanks. I'll give it a shot.
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Thanks. I'll give it a shot.
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Looks like you posted twice because the forum has been acting up and looking like it didn't accept your first post. In fact, it did accept it but hasn't been refreshing the screen with your post added. Only way to see that is to return to the thread listing for this subforum and then click on your thread again. The reply you posted will then be visible.
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