its verified across my own circle to occur in Age of Empires series, War2 BNE, Starcraft, Diablo, Worms Armageddon, Pharaoh, Majesty, HoMM, Simtunes and Fallout. I've verified the first 3 so far and a friend who was creating a app to automatically fix the colour issue by pausing explorer on the launch of a ddraw app has verified it with others.
Its a display and input freeze, while background tasks continue to work fine.
Accordingly, you can find plenty of info on it around the web by googling Starcraft Windows 7, or Age of empires windows 7.
Ah well, I've a contact that will notify the Nvidia driver team, who will work with the MSFT guys if they can't find a fix.
Bitch is its a random thing. Starcraft can freeze either at start, or 15 minutes into a mission. Age of empires doesn't freeze once you're in a mission, and Pharaoh is able to be closed without taking the system with it.
Dx10 is not fixed function. 32bit Z is available to Shader targets
Dx7 is. 32bit Z is not available to Fixed targets. They restricted it to 24bit precision (reason why NFS4 runs slow, but the Porsche unleashed Dx7a file fixes it)
Diablo does not use DX10 regardless of the os you are using having it. Actually, the majority of Dx below 8 are emulated via Dx9 ever since XP, which is why Fixed targets lost the ability to use 32b Z with XP SP1.
Its not Nvidia specific, it occurs on both ATI, Intel and Nvidia due to changes in the Sys palette.
You can fix the colours by killing explorer.exe, or using process explorer to suspend the explorer process.
Though i don't like your chances for playing it to much anyway as Windows 7 and DirectDraw have a freezing issue that occurs on pretty much any game at random.
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its verified across my own circle to occur in Age of Empires series, War2 BNE, Starcraft, Diablo, Worms Armageddon, Pharaoh, Majesty, HoMM, Simtunes and Fallout. I've verified the first 3 so far and a friend who was creating a app to automatically fix the colour issue by pausing explorer on the launch of a ddraw app has verified it with others.
Its a display and input freeze, while background tasks continue to work fine.
Accordingly, you can find plenty of info on it around the web by googling Starcraft Windows 7, or Age of empires windows 7.
Ah well, I've a contact that will notify the Nvidia driver team, who will work with the MSFT guys if they can't find a fix.
Bitch is its a random thing. Starcraft can freeze either at start, or 15 minutes into a mission. Age of empires doesn't freeze once you're in a mission, and Pharaoh is able to be closed without taking the system with it.
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Dx7 is. 32bit Z is not available to Fixed targets. They restricted it to 24bit precision (reason why NFS4 runs slow, but the Porsche unleashed Dx7a file fixes it)
Diablo does not use DX10 regardless of the os you are using having it. Actually, the majority of Dx below 8 are emulated via Dx9 ever since XP, which is why Fixed targets lost the ability to use 32b Z with XP SP1.
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DirectX7 lost 32bit Zbuffer in Windows XP, which is why many Dx7 games run so much slower.
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You can fix the colours by killing explorer.exe, or using process explorer to suspend the explorer process.
Though i don't like your chances for playing it to much anyway as Windows 7 and DirectDraw have a freezing issue that occurs on pretty much any game at random.