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Posted: Tue Nov 06, 2012 9:32 pm |
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Posts: 2 | I'm not sure if anyone has tried to get Rebellion to work on WIN8 yet. While I've managed to get it to work, it doesn't work very well graphically. All the pictures and icons are upside down and the colors look as though they are reversed. Has anyone experienced something similar on WIN8 or WIN7 x64? I've tried compatibility modes, making changes to the registry, and altering graphic card settings but it always looks wrong. I followed the instructions for the Vista x64/WIN7 install from this forum multiple times with no success. Anyone with any ideas would be great, I really want to make this work without having to dual boot XP or something like that on my new laptop.
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The Star Wars Rebellion game is displaying things backwards and upside down. I was thinking it had something to do with video card drivers. After all of the updates recently and in the past year this is the only game that I have this problem with. Jim Stratus Server Admin Ryan, things in here do not react well to bullets. Star Wars Gamers Association - NAVCOM Computing, LLC- Register a domain and get webhosting for your Star Wars community/website/blog, etc. (hosting free from us, yearly domain charge from the domain registry applies) or get cheap web hosting and other web services through one of our resellers above. Back in April our living situation had turned upside down. Our family of four has been staying in a relative's spare bedroom. After months in storage today is the day I can finally take my games to our new home! I sat just staring at the boxes for a while, so excited to game with the family again! Now, we could discuss the units symbols, which are upside down for the Rebel, and might as well have been printed upside down on the Rebel player's mat. 2 Last edited Sun Jul 2, 2017 9:37 pm (Total Number of Edits: 1).
Posted: Mon Nov 12, 2012 10:24 pm |
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Posts: 481 | Same thing here. I really start to hate Windows 8! My computer isn't some frigging iPhone, bring back the start button and please stop messing around with backward compatibility! Now, rebellion is screwed on my laptop. They do piss me off!
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Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2012 7:34 pm |
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Posts: 481 | Evader99, do you have an idea on how to get around this? Is there a virtual machine that is recent enough (and free, if possible) and could be used to circumvent this issue?
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Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2012 11:35 pm |
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Post subject: Re: Problems with Rebellion on WIN8 |
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Joined: Wed Jul 04, 2007 12:00 am
Posts: 14
Location: Denmark | Hi!
I have samt issue on win 8 x64. Game launches fine but the icons are up side down and
colors blurred. (+ long droid talk)
Any assistance would be greatly appreciated!!!
It would be great playing this game again!! Used a lot of hours in the 90's .
Best Wishes
Peter
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Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2012 7:09 pm |
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Joined: Tue Nov 06, 2012 9:27 pm
Posts: 2 | This is definitely a WIN8 issue. I took my laptop back to WIN7 and setup Rebellion on a x64 version. It works perfectly under WIN7. I played with it for a long time on WIN8 to try to make it work but it always comes up with the off colors and upside-down graphics. I don't know at this point what causes it, but I wonder if Microsoft took something out of WIN8 in regard to the DLL files necessary to run the graphics properly. I'll continue to play with it when I have the time, but at this point I'm keeping my laptop on WIN7 until a full resolution of the issue can be found.
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Posted: Mon Nov 19, 2012 9:39 pm |
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Joined: Mon Oct 13, 2008 1:14 am
Posts: 481 | Install OracleVM virtualbox (free)
https://www.virtualbox.org/
Dig-out your install CD from a previous version of windows.
Find your CD key
Install your windows through virtualbox.
Use a USB drive to transfer whatever files you want or a CD to install Rebellion on-it. It does work!
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Star Wars Rebellion Icons Upside Down Display
Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2012 11:38 am |
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Joined: Wed Jul 04, 2007 12:00 am
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Location: Denmark | Hi again!
I was more hoping there was a solution to the 'graphical' glitch in Rebellion under Win 8.
Everything else seems to work ok.
Just not fun playing with icons up side down and fuzzy colors.
Best wishes
Peter
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Star Wars Rebellion Icons Upside Down Exclamation
Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2012 9:04 pm |
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Joined: Mon Oct 13, 2008 1:14 am
Posts: 481 | Until somebody more knowledgable finds the source for this glitch, you'd better try my solution, that's all that worked for me anyway.
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Posted: Thu Nov 22, 2012 9:45 am |
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Joined: Wed Jul 04, 2007 12:00 am
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Location: Denmark | Tx for assistance MrPhildevil, but i think ill wait for a win 8 solution.
Best wishes
Peter
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Posted: Fri Nov 23, 2012 12:29 am |
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Joined: Mon Oct 13, 2008 1:14 am
Posts: 481 | Where do you expect to get support for this 1998 unsupported game anywhere except from here? If you have a clue where this miracle solution is going to come from, would you mind sharing with-us? Till then, I'm enjoying a flawless playthrough within my virtual computer installed on Win8
Best regards,
Phil
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Posted: Sun Dec 02, 2012 9:43 pm |
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Joined: Sat Apr 07, 2007 12:00 am
Posts: 18 | This is a DirectDraw problem, similar to the problems we were having when we first got it running on Windows 7. There is a hack available that fixes everything, but you are pretty much restricted to running it in a window for now. I havent figured out how to get full screen going just yet.
Check out this page: http://sol.gfxile.net/ddhack/
just extract the ddraw.dll and the ddraw.cfg into your rebellion folder, and it should run just fine. you may play with the config file to see if you get a better result, but I didn't have much luck.
To make the game run in a window, just create a shortcut to the exe, and add a '-w' after the quotes. (but without the quotes, check the picture)
http://darthcircuit.files.wordpress.com ... onwin8.png
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Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2012 11:31 am |
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Location: Death Stars are out at night, big and bright, deep in the heart of Texas. | Maybe you could replace your screenshot with a 'thumbnail link' so it doesn't take up several screens to see?
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Star Wars Rebellion Icons Upside Down
Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2012 3:40 pm |
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Joined: Thu Dec 06, 2012 11:12 pm
Posts: 3 | This is a DirectDraw problem, similar to the problems we were having when we first got it running on Windows 7. There is a hack available that fixes everything, but you are pretty much restricted to running it in a window for now. I havent figured out how to get full screen going just yet.
Check out this page: http://sol.gfxile.net/ddhack/
just extract the ddraw.dll and the ddraw.cfg into your rebellion folder, and it should run just fine. you may play with the config file to see if you get a better result, but I didn't have much luck.
To make the game run in a window, just create a shortcut to the exe, and add a '-w' after the quotes. (but without the quotes, check the picture)
http://darthcircuit.files.wordpress.com ... onwin8.png So I didn't notice this thread when I made the other win8 thread last week, but since then I've tried one of the fixes from win7 which got me to the problem described in this thread, and the patch above fixed the icons and some sound; I still get the 'path to video manager unknown', and as soon as I get to the actual game screen I get this error, 'Star Wars Rebellion Refresh has stopped working' and the game closes, any ideas where I'm screwing up at?
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Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2012 3:45 pm |
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Joined: Thu Dec 06, 2012 11:12 pm
Posts: 3 | This is a DirectDraw problem, similar to the problems we were having when we first got it running on Windows 7. There is a hack available that fixes everything, but you are pretty much restricted to running it in a window for now. I havent figured out how to get full screen going just yet.
Check out this page: http://sol.gfxile.net/ddhack/
just extract the ddraw.dll and the ddraw.cfg into your rebellion folder, and it should run just fine. you may play with the config file to see if you get a better result, but I didn't have much luck.
To make the game run in a window, just create a shortcut to the exe, and add a '-w' after the quotes. (but without the quotes, check the picture)
http://darthcircuit.files.wordpress.com ... onwin8.png So I didn't notice this thread when I made the other win8 thread last week, but since then I've tried one of the fixes from win7 which got me to the problem described in this thread, and the patch above fixed the icons and some sound; I still get the 'path to video manager unknown', and as soon as I get to the actual game screen I get this error, 'Star Wars Rebellion Refresh has stopped working' and the game closes, any ideas where I'm screwing up at? correction the video error says 'PathName to VideoManager unknown' Sorry if the large font takes up too much space, its just much easier on my eyes, I'll post in smaller font next time, if its a problem.
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