I've recently tried replaying Might and Magic 8, which I've played on
a Windows 98 box with no problems.  I've upgraded the same box to
Windows XP a few weeks ago, and now when I try to play MM8 the screen
will not display any colors.  Worse, when I exit the game (which is
unplayable in black and white due to contrast issues) my monitor is
displaying in black and white.  Going to the control panel and setting
the colors to 32 bit (or 16 bit if it was originally 32 bit) fixes the
monitor.

Does anyone have any ideas what might be causing this?  I'm running on
a system I bought in 1998 with an Infinity 128 graphics card.  Do I
need to get a new card?

Thanks,

Robert

Try to run it in 256 colors...

Robert wrote:
> I've recently tried replaying Might and Magic 8, which I've played on
> a Windows 98 box with no problems.  I've upgraded the same box to
> Windows XP a few weeks ago, and now when I try to play MM8 the screen
> will not display any colors.  Worse, when I exit the game (which is
> unplayable in black and white due to contrast issues) my monitor is
> displaying in black and white.  Going to the control panel and setting
> the colors to 32 bit (or 16 bit if it was originally 32 bit) fixes the
> monitor.
> 
> Does anyone have any ideas what might be causing this?  I'm running on
> a system I bought in 1998 with an Infinity 128 graphics card.  Do I
> need to get a new card?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Robert