I got a bit of a problem with my old school games. Manny of the games won't launch and others launches, but with fucked up colors. I've tried every thing... Compatbility settings, run as admin, disable desktop composition etc. What should i do?
Pc specs: AMD radeon 7990 gpu, AMD fx8320 cpu, 8gb crucial ram
Maybe the dual gpu's is the problem, I don't know:( Any suggestions?
i have xp on my laptop, but i wonder if you can run it in win 7...
Also there's various ways to fix older games. Starcraft: Brood War, for example, has color issues in windows 7 and 8 that you can fix by ending explorer .exe when playing. Also, older games that ran in DOS or Windows 3.1 you can run in Dosbox or by installing an old copy of windows in Dosbox. Perhaps not the most elegant solution for those games, but it's worked well for me so far.
My best subjection: Virtual Machines!!!! Install Windows XP or something older and BAM your golden. Thats what I do with the Rollercoaster Tycoon games before 3. Im not sure though how to fix the weird scaling issues like running a game in 640x480 the VM will shrink the window down to nothing. I have to figure that out.