Just finished installing and running both to verify correct installation. Used latest possible examples of both publicly obtainable, and followed directions explicitly. Full Install of both.

Both run very well on my far-from-new computer, with no wrapper used. nGlide installed on computer.

They are both magnificent, each in their own way. I enjoy them both.

To the authors; Please accept my thanks for your efforts.

If the menu screens are messed up in Win7.

When I had Win7 I dropped the use of the D3DWindower and used a directdraw reg fix that windows recognizes. The program that makes the reg entiry is on my site and is mentioned a few times.

Its in mediafire under regfixes or something.

If possible, can you be more specific? There's lots of files on your site, many of which with similar names.

Sorry to be so ignorant, and thus so demanding.

RiBob, with nGlide installed you may have the option to select either D3D or Glide mode for EAWPRO. This can be done either in the configurationscreen or by editing the EAW.INI value DisplayDevice=1 which sets D3D mode, 0 sets software mode and -1 sets Glide mode. There may be a difference in how the game works when you try both -1 and 1. Thx for your heads up.

VonBeerhofen

Hey mMark could use a link to the file to try it out..menues are my only gripe with EAW been trying different fixes a long time thanks M8

I pretty sure this is the file. But I think Russ tryed it on his system and it didnt work???

http://www.mediafire.com/file/2d6y4d98e9hebq1/MenuScreenColorFix-DirectDrawComp-Vistaand7.7z/file


It creates a reg file for each eaw.exe you have run it to check, then your install the reg fix with a right click on it......



Heres some info I wrote about it, just improved it alittle:
https://eaw.neocities.org/troubleshoot.html#winreg

goto link and read the 'Direct Draw Menu Color' Fix topic.

Before I could do so, Russ has just reported that he tried this fix, and it worked for him. I'll do so tomorrow, and report back. Thanks!.

Mark Yep used the link from Adgar and I was suprised to see crystal clear screens ..I don't remember if I tried it before Deffinite improvement !!! It might have been when I was using the on board video chip it was an AMD one,,Now got a regular Nvidia card

You just don't want to run a DirectX wrapper and this reg fix. It may become problematic. I forget what happens if you do run like the D3DWindower 1.88 and enable "the" "color" fix routine in the wrapper.

Best to run Win7 natively and use the reg fix.

That's what I did exactally pointed it to my game and made the reg fix..Works well

I was fiddling with my nvidia control panel settings for EAW last night, and not only managed to gain a few fps, but also found the menus were improved to about 95% normal. I think the critical setting might be FXAA, which is of no use, at least on my system.

Please confirm (post/link) the link from Adgar that both of you used with great success.

Is it this one? http://www.mediafire.com/file/2d6y4d98e9hebq1/MenuScreenColorFix-DirectDrawComp-Vistaand7.7z/file

Bob Either of the above links work I used Agers before Mark posted,,there's a read me in the zip,,,

Boob?

Freudian slip?

ShyHigh, what do you mean the FXAA is critical?

What it does for EAW when its working is it smoothes out the entire screen, not just the edges. It will smooth out textures of planes and the menu screens.

Mark reading the post I remembered last year sometime my screens got totally trashed and it was because I had FXAA turned on,,Just ran a test in PRO with the reg fix,,They were crystal clear,,,Turned FXAA on rebooted and man I couldn't even read the buttons...backed out turned FXAA and rebooted and they were back to normal..So I figure forget the FXAA and just with regulat 2 X AA again that's a Ge Force 1050..Maybe some one could run a quick test with another card,,,I didn't mess with any of the filtering selections..Right now EAW is looking good and running fine,,and the way my settings are my other games run good,,So if it ain't broke don't fix it !!

Okay.

It must be the Directdraw reg fix compatibility will effect FXAA like you say.
On Win10 where that particular fix isnt present the FXAA behaves differently.
awell, wasn't that great of a setting anyhow. Like you said 2x AA is good enough to smooth the edges of the plane.

Thanks for explaining that.

Right now my installs are clear and I tested it on 1.29 same isuue..I think last year it took a few hours to figure it out,, But back then I wasn't using the reg fix,,I think it just might beNvidias implementation of FXAA or a driver version but I'm not going to chase that ,,It's great now

Mark, it's probably obsolete information, now. I got an improvement in the menu screens when I disabled it, while seeing no detectable deterioration in my graphics. I've since used the registry 'fix' and obtained an even better improvement in the menus, so I might just reactivate FXAA and review it and to see if I get the same response as rwatson. There are so many variables and different systems that it's hard to declare anything definitively.

In my game, to compensate for disabling FXAA, I increased ordinary AA to 4x, with little or no reduction in fps, but with a definite sharpening of image particularly noticeable in the cockpit frames.

Update: I re-enabled FXAA and the garbled menus returned, with no detectable improvement in image and a 7 or 8 reduction in framerates. I disabled FXAA again, menus back to normal, and upped to 8x. The latter seemed to give a slight improvement in fps.

What is "FXAA"?