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- | 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: | + | |
- | ===== example script ===== | + | |
- | For example, an init script can have the following structure: | + | |
- | <code batch starter.bat> | + | |
- | echo off | + | |
- | cls | + | |
- | echo Killing explorer.exe... | + | |
- | rem ping 127.0.0.1 -n 2 | + | |
- | taskkill /f /IM explorer.exe | + | |
- | pause | + | |
- | rem ping 127.0.0.1 -n 2 | + | |
- | echo Starting <game name> ... | + | |
- | cmd.exe /C start /affinity 1 <game executable> | + | |
- | rem <Press Enter to restart Explorer> | + | |
- | pause | + | |
- | cls | + | |
- | echo Restarting explorer.exe... | + | |
- | start explorer.exe | + | |
- | exit | + | |
- | </ | + | |
- | The ''< | + | |
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