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--- en:games:explorer_hack [2020-12-28-10-29] – [Explorer hack] 7saturn
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 ====== Explorer Hack ======
-Especially under Win 7 several games show wrong colors. The problem can be solved by quitting the explorer.exe before playing. As long as it is running or restarted, the color errors occur. Therefore it makes sense to point to a batch file instead of the usual program shortcut, which first closes the Explorer, starts the game, and after finishing the game starts the Explorer again. In this way it is relatively convenient to start the game without getting the color problems. A generic variant would look like this:
+Especially under Win 7 several games show wrong colors. This may look like this:
+{{ :en:games:palette_problem_windows.png |}}
+You can clearly see how the palette of the game [[Starcraft Broodwar]] does not appear to be set correctly in its main campaign menu of version 1.16.1. Also the rest of the game shows similar problems.
+The problem can be solved for most games by stopping the explorer.exe before playing. As long as it is running or restarted, the color errors occur. Therefore it makes sense to point to a batch file instead of the usual program shortcut, which first closes the Explorer, starts the game, and after finishing the game starts the Explorer again. In this way it is relatively convenient to start the game without getting the color problems. A generic variant would look like this:
 ===== Example Script =====
 For example, an init script can have the following structure: