How do i change the screen colors to 16 bit?

With The Bob's newest version you don't need to set compatibility mode or run registry patches or use imageCFG or worry about core affiliation or .. well, any of that stuff.

The only thing you really need to do is copy in the 3 WINE DLL's which are in the \Docs\Windows Compatibility Fixes folder.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 
 
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\AppCompatFlags\Layers] 
"E:\\ja2\\ja2.exe"="~ DWM8And16BitMitigation 16BITCOLOR HIGHDPIAWARE Layer_ForceDirectDrawEmulation 8And16BitAggregateBlts"

Thank you for the reply. That resolution is truly better for the eyes compared to what I used before.

But after copying the dll's Starchris mentioned I see a flashing white small box near the right corner of the screen for some reason. Its flashing often enough to be distracting. I think I will try to play without any of these dll's and see what happens.

Edit: When copying the original dll's the white box is gone. But when I am not using any dll the white box appears again. Did anyone else encounter this problem?

dreamer2008 wrote on Mon, 24 April 2017 13:39

Thank you for the reply. That resolution is truly better for the eyes compared to what I used before.

But after copying the dll's Starchris mentioned I see a flashing white small box near the right corner of the screen for some reason. Its flashing often enough to be distracting. I think I will try to play without any of these dll's and see what happens.

Edit: When copying the original dll's the white box is gone. But when I am not using any dll the white box appears again. Did anyone else encounter this problem?

The only time I see little glitches is when running full screen, upon startup, sometimes certain windows OS things will stay on top of the game. Hitting the windows key to bring up the taskbar, then clicking the game again, sorts those out for me.

I've been running without random freezes for a long time now with Bob's exe. I have the 3 wine DLL's in the game directory and I applied the registry fix (note you need to change the game path in the .reg file to match your install directory, before you import it.)

I run the game on custom resolution 1400x1050 on a Surface Pro 4, works great and I can see / read everything. 1920x1080 is way too small and the display's native 2736x1824 is riiiiiight the hell out.

TrentL wrote on Sun, 23 April 2017 18:37

With The Bob's newest version you don't need to set compatibility mode or run registry patches or use imageCFG or worry about core affiliation or .. well, any of that stuff.

The only thing you really need to do is copy in the 3 WINE DLL's which are in the \Docs\Windows Compatibility Fixes folder.

This is not exactly true. Bob's fixes help against the lockups which is a great boon. They don't help against the poor performance of JA2 1.13 on Windows 10 especially in higher resolutions.

There are three fixes against performance problems that I am aware of:

1. The 3 WINE Dlls from the "Docs\Windows Compatibility Fixes" folder. They make the game run fast but they also lead to the garbled air/mobile militia view in strategic screen. I cannot recommend these Dlls.

2. The registry fixes from "Docs\Windows Compatibility Fixes". They also fix the performance problems. Downside is that there is one fix for full screen and one for windowed mode which are mutually exclusive.

I don't know why they were done this way and I won't replace those .reg files at the moment but if you want to have a fix for both full screen and windowed mode at the same time use this as the reg file (adjust the path before importing into your registry!)

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Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\AppCompatFlags\Layers]
"E:\\ja2\\ja2.exe"="~ DWM8And16BitMitigation 16BITCOLOR HIGHDPIAWARE Layer_ForceDirectDrawEmulation 8And16BitAggregateBlts"
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This is a merge of the options from both .reg files and my preferred solution as it works without additional software.

3. The WINE Dlls that Starchris linked. Those were unknown to me so far but they help as well as the Dlls from solution 1 BUT they do NOT cause the garbled view.

Man, since I didn't had the CD-ROM anymore I decided to don't crack the game and bought it on Steam. But I bought JA2-Wildfire with Classic JA2 has a DLC. I already had 1.13 all set up with Arulco Vacantion in the Classic JA2 from Wildfire until I realized my mistake (there is JA2 Gold on sell). Thing is... I'm running the game on Win10 with absolutely 0 problems without patching anything for compability (not even on the Properties 16-bits/WinXP). No red errors, no graphic glitches, no freezes or lags... just perfect. It made me curious and I downloaded a JA2 Gold cracked just to test out with the same 1.13+AV, and I did get some red errors and the game runs wonky, kinda laggy. I didn't pushed it foward and kept playing JA2WF-JA2classic. I don't know if Steam version of JA2Gold is the same I downloaded and if it works good, but for me the JA2Classic dlc from Wildfire is not only cheaper than the Gold version but also seens to run better.

Am I missing something here from not using Gold with 1.13? It seens everything is all right to the point I do recommend to buy Wilfire+JA2Classic for a Win10 run instead of JA2Gold.

As best as I can tell, JA2 Gold isn't on gog.com

a fix for both full screen and windowed mode at the same time use this as the reg file (adjust the path before importing into your registry!)

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Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\AppCompatFlags\Layers]
"E:\\ja2\\ja2.exe"="~ DWM8And16BitMitigation 16BITCOLOR HIGHDPIAWARE Layer_ForceDirectDrawEmulation 8And16BitAggregateBlts"
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This is a merge of the options from both .reg files and my preferred solution as it works without additional software.