Populous: The Beginning - graphics tweak help

Deadbeat · 11 Mar 2012 at 15:17

So I unearthed my old copy of this game during a recent Bullfrog nostalgia trip (Theme Hospital, Dunkeon Keeper and now this) and found some useful little tools around like PopRes. However, I have no idea how it works - apart from the obvious height and width values, it also requires a depth value, which has me stumped (not really literate in that field). I've been sticking in a value of 1, which doesn't seem to do any harm, but I'm also getting dodgy graphical glitches (scatty, inversed colours making unplayable landscapes) in-game that I can't seem to fix. Running compatibility mode for Win XP SP3, if that's any help. Anyone managed to get this game running at a decent res on Win7?

AHarvey · 11 Mar 2012 at 16:28

is there nothing on the site that explains each option?

I would imagine that it's colour depth, 16, 32 or 64??

Kutter · 11 Mar 2012 at 16:31

used to love this game

Deadbeat · 11 Mar 2012 at 16:32

Perhaps... it only mods the D3D version though, which I've noticed won't actually load without crashing, and it's the software version that crops up with the dodgy graphics. Might have to resign this one to the shelf for a bit.