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Sounds like your graphics card as mine is a similar CPU and works fine.

What are your graphic card specs?

Shared?

Graphics Card is a Sapphire X1950 PRO 512MB.
& for sound a X-FI.

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ORIGINAL: DampSquib

So why if the rest of the game displays fine do i see the colours the way i posted??

I brought the game based on the System Requirements on the home page.
I am over them....but way under the recommended in the manual.
But they are not on the home page.


If i may ask will TOW be any better...or am i going to struggle with that.
As again i see no recommended requirements.

One last try...Please advise.

Your system specification are even better than mine, so this is not the problem. To be honest have no idea why your CPU is 100%. Colors are slightly different, maybe you just don't see them... can you make screenshots when using two different colors, so I can compare if they are displayed properly?

It is possible that you will have those "problems" in TOW. I recommend you to check demo first.

Thanks for the reply....Sorry for being a pain.
I shall give the demo a try.
The colour thing..not the biggest of problems.
But i did think it was odd...or my stupid eyes.

I haven't had time to go into the garage and check my old graphics card. In fact I may not have the box any more, just the card.

I had the same 512 card, possibility a different model but same 512 memory.

Ja, sure it's suppose to be great, but it reacted like a 256mb card.

I replaced it and everything was super fast.

There's all sorts of settings on your graphics card.

I would look up you model on line and see if there are any complaints about failures or performance.

Also, they use the same PC card and just put in different memory chips for different performance.

So either the seller exagerarated the memory on your card and it it 256mb or the factory may have made an error.

It's so easy to have a sale on a 2 gig PC w/512 memory card. It's the same card but has 256mb. Lots of exagertion in the PC industry.

That's another search you have to do to read the memory on your card to see what it really is in capacity.

I thought Diamond was the best, but I had a problem with the last one and won't go back to that type now.

The industry consistently changes. For a few years one manufacturer is on top and then the other is on top.

I have tried different drivers...colours stay the same.
New or old drivers...even lowering Hardware accelaration.
I'm out of ideas at this point so shall do as you say.
I shall see if anything pops up in a search.

I'm not going mad so thats good.

But thank you for the help .

See how i get on with TOW next.

Just a up date really..oh & 1 question.

Brought TOW after playing the demo...runs fine.
Colours are the same as SOP..see pic.
More to the point it doesn't max out my cpu...again see pic.
Has a quick start...lovely..claw back some memory..as it was never about skiping the intro.
But i solved that by making a shortcut for sop's exe.
But that is in vain as it doesn't help.

Anyhoo looks like i might have better luck with running TOW for now.
Thanks for the help once again RAZZ!!!!

I should really of stuck this question in TOW....but hope you don't mind.
Couldn't find the answer there....may have missed it.
Anyway,loaded TOW after install..... all fine nice bullet cursor.
Patched the game to 7 then hot fix..loaded the game cursor has gone.
No bullet cursor in the gfx folder just cur.PNG ???

Rename attached file to cur.zip and unzip it to your gfx folder. You will get a bullet then instead of cursor.

[:D] haha..that's better

Thank you doomtrader!!!![;)]

I tried to mod a few counters.
Thought i would load up the game to see what they look like...(horrid)
All the counters changed..but not Qang-Si.
Qang-Si always shows up as the default counters.
What am i doing wrong....???????

Did you properly named the file?

Yes....saved as units_Qang-Si.png

So, it looks like you have found a bug.
I just checked and it looks like Quang-Si has got an empty space at the end of the line.

Ok....well i haven't lost the plot then.....yet!!!
I didn't try them all so there could be others i guess.

Same thing for : Xibei San Ma,Xinjiang....they have the same colour as each other.
The same default counter colour that is...& didn't change obviously.
So removed the space as you say Doomtrader & all is fine again!!!!

French Indochina & Inner Mongolia + France don't have PNG files in the counters folder.