Color Issues with Ancient Games (Help me out please)

So I was trying to play some old favorites (Sanitarium, Diablo) and I get this grotesque and anoying graphical glitch where the colors get distorded in all sorts of rainbow-ish patterns and I can't seen to finda way to make it go away. It is,I think, a compatibility problem with Windows 7 (32bit). Anyway, does someone here know how to get rid of this crap?

So I was trying to play some old favorites (Sanitarium, Diablo) and I get this grotesque and anoying graphical glitch where the colors get distorded in all sorts of rainbow-ish patterns and I can't seen to finda way to make it go away. It is,I think, a compatibility problem with Windows 7 (32bit). Anyway, does someone here know how to get rid of this crap?

Masculus

[QUOTE="Masculus"]

So I was trying to play some old favorites (Sanitarium, Diablo) and I get this grotesque and anoying graphical glitch where the colors get distorded in all sorts of rainbow-ish patterns and I can't seen to finda way to make it go away. It is,I think, a compatibility problem with Windows 7 (32bit). Anyway, does someone here know how to get rid of this crap?

cluclap

Tried that, didn't work.

try running in win 98 compatability mode, usualy fixes it, also try minimizing the games and getthem back up (alt+tab) also seems to do the trick from time to time.

I had the same problem with Starcraft but after a day of work I manage to have it work on win 7 64 bits.Try this for Diablo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YB7KmgeJ9WU

I had the same problem with Starcraft but after a day of work I manage to have it work on win 7 64 bits.Try this for Diablo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YB7KmgeJ9WU

fbidog

Hmm... didn't work for me.

I had the same problem with Starcraft but after a day of work I manage to have it work on win 7 64 bits.Try this for Diablo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YB7KmgeJ9WU

fbidog

first change the desktop into a classic one (none transparent), then you can right click it and force it to run without all the fancy stuff that windows 7 have. Some times doing a alt tab while in game will fix the issue also.

Not sure if the topic is still around but on the Diablo 1 forum (here on GS/GFAQ) there was a huge topic about this with lots of solutions that worked.