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hIIPIVAhINDU
Profile Joined June 2011
Finland8 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-10-21 13:04:03
October 20 2013 13:55 GMT
#1
I upgraded my computer a while ago and got this weird color bug to my BW like it was running on 16 colors or something. Tried registry fix, tried the "open windows screen resolution window and then run" fix, tried with no desktop or no desktop compositions, tried with multimonitor and singlemonitor but it still doesn't fix this. I'm guessing that it is a driver problem. I reinstalled my windows so I might have some components missing also since I have another HDD that has everything else than windows so they haven't been reinstalled. I have done this before too so that shouldn't be the problem.

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I wouldn't even be mad if it would be just the menus. This is what it looks like ingame and as you can see, you can't even see that there are numbers in top right. The game is completely unplayable.

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Specs:

Windows Ultimate 64bit

Graphics:
AMD Radeon 7870
Catalyst version 13.9

Motherboard:
M5A97 EVO R2.0

Processor:
AMD FX-6350


EDIT: I downgraded my drivers and now it works. Apparently the 13.9 version AMD driver with HD7870 doesn't like BW.
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=432853#20
Cokefreak
Profile Joined June 2011
Finland8095 Posts
October 20 2013 13:57 GMT
#2
There is nothing wrong, that's how the Koreans play it, they call it 'medium difficulty'.
YouthSC
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
United Kingdom355 Posts
October 20 2013 14:16 GMT
#3
What version of Windows?
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TaShadan
Profile Joined February 2010
Germany1965 Posts
October 20 2013 14:38 GMT
#4
Its the new AMD driver. Try to use 13.3 or earlier.
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goody153
Profile Blog Joined April 2013
44071 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-10-20 16:28:14
October 20 2013 16:27 GMT
#5
idk why .. anything that is running on 64bit always have some weird issue that doesnt pop out on 32 or 86 bit ..

but i think its because of your graphics card or driver of your graphics card ..


and lol to this


On October 20 2013 22:57 Cokefreak wrote:
There is nothing wrong, that's how the Koreans play it, they call it 'medium difficulty'.
this is a quote
xboi209
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
United States1173 Posts
October 20 2013 16:47 GMT
#6
On October 20 2013 23:38 TaShadan wrote:
Its the new AMD driver. Try to use 13.3 or earlier.

This, I use 13.1
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DarkNetHunter
Profile Joined October 2012
1224 Posts
October 20 2013 17:22 GMT
#7
Try the driver suggestion if that doesn't work, what exactly was your upgrade, just new graphics card, or also OS?


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On October 20 2013 22:57 Cokefreak wrote:
There is nothing wrong, that's how the Koreans play it, they call it 'medium difficulty'.

Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself.
riotjune
Profile Blog Joined January 2008
United States3392 Posts
October 20 2013 18:12 GMT
#8
So pretty
arb
Profile Blog Joined April 2008
Noobville17920 Posts
October 20 2013 18:16 GMT
#9
I've had the first 2 happen with just regular windows if you tab or something somtimes, the 3rd ive never seen before
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Kal_rA
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
United States2925 Posts
October 20 2013 19:55 GMT
#10
I get the third one when I play sometimes.... mid game itll just go apeshit on me. If I alt+tab and come back in it fixes it.. but sometimes it happens in the worst fucking moments possible.

Only happens once every 5-6 games though for me. No idea why
Jaedong.
Falydoor
Profile Joined November 2011
10 Posts
October 20 2013 20:00 GMT
#11
Did you try to patch the exe with this one http://www.mediafire.com/download/y8dxglthtxfu3uf/w7ddpatcher.exe ?

It worked for me and now I have no more color problem .
red_hq
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Canada450 Posts
October 20 2013 21:17 GMT
#12
I had this problem a while back A quick work around could be to windows+d to go to desktop and then open a browser and alt tab back into game usually fixes it.
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invisible.terran
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
United States280 Posts
October 20 2013 21:56 GMT
#13
What fixes it for me is to run in window mode with the desktop automatically changed into 640x480 every time iccup launcher starts. You could give that a try
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jurch
Profile Joined December 2009
Slovenia60 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-10-21 02:50:53
October 21 2013 02:50 GMT
#14
I'm on 13.4 version of catalyst drivers and what worked for me is: compatibility for win95 and windows resolution screen open
while playing. One without the other resulted in same color problem but together they work... And it has to be win95, it does not work if u set it to win98 or any other version
Antisocialmunky
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
United States5912 Posts
October 21 2013 02:53 GMT
#15
I guess that means hard mode is playing with the monitor off.
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Zero[1159]
Profile Joined April 2011
Brazil101 Posts
October 21 2013 03:21 GMT
#16
I have the same problem. Try this:

go to your computer properties > advaced settings > performance > choose best performance.

My windows is in Portuguese-BR, so the menus are probably not written this way. I had this problem every time my wallpapers changed while playing. But when I'm using this setting, starcraft works just fine.
Glioburd
Profile Joined April 2008
France1911 Posts
October 21 2013 07:55 GMT
#17
By the way, windowed mode fix it. (If playing in window mode doesn't matter for you).
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v1
Profile Blog Joined January 2007
Estonia783 Posts
October 21 2013 07:59 GMT
#18
Other workaround is to kill explorer.exe process
Graphics
Piste
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
6169 Posts
October 21 2013 08:18 GMT
#19
On October 20 2013 22:57 Cokefreak wrote:
There is nothing wrong, that's how the Koreans play it, they call it 'medium difficulty'.

hahah :D

that same bug happens to me too every once in a while. but restarting works for me.
hIIPIVAhINDU
Profile Joined June 2011
Finland8 Posts
October 21 2013 13:02 GMT
#20
On October 20 2013 23:38 TaShadan wrote:
Its the new AMD driver. Try to use 13.3 or earlier.


Yes it was. I downgraded to 13.3 and now the color bug is gone and my windowed mode works again too.

On October 21 2013 16:59 v1 wrote:
Other workaround is to kill explorer.exe process


Didn't work, tested it.

On October 21 2013 16:55 Glioburd wrote:
By the way, windowed mode fix it. (If playing in window mode doesn't matter for you).


Windowed mode gave some "RT error" or something. Now it works too though.

Also, I like keeping my desktop resolution as FullHD since I have 3 screens and when the windowed screen is in "2x" mode the mouse lags quite a bit.

Although, just tested it again. Apparently it doesn't lag anymore in windowed mode :D

On October 21 2013 11:50 jurch wrote:
I'm on 13.4 version of catalyst drivers and what worked for me is: compatibility for win95 and windows resolution screen open
while playing. One without the other resulted in same color problem but together they work... And it has to be win95, it does not work if u set it to win98 or any other version


Install the 13.3 version, it works perfectly for me.

On October 21 2013 02:22 DarkNetHunter wrote:
Try the driver suggestion if that doesn't work, what exactly was your upgrade, just new graphics card, or also OS?


Driver suggestion worked. I upgraded my motherboard, graphics card, processor and my windows hard drive. So I reinstalled my OS from scratch, but it was the same OS installation media that I had earlier.
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