There is one fix to the upside down icons. Create a shortcut to rebexe.exe to your desktop Add -w to the end of the shortcut to have it run in windowed mode (Example 'C: Program Files (x86) Steam steamapps common Star Wars - Rebellion REBEXE.EXE' -w). The icons for the various items are all upside down. For instance when you go to a planet and look at the characters there, the names appear up in the window rather than below the icon and the icon is upside down.
Star Wars: Rebellion - Shut Up & Sit Down Review - Duration: 17:56. Shut Up & Sit Down 466,765 views. Harsh Rules - Star Wars Rebellion - Rise of the Empire Expansion - Duration: 24:54. Star Wars: Rebellion» Forums. Upside down; - resource icons for better visualization. From the cards to the board just served to slow the game down to a crawl. It'll bring up another menu and you should be on the Games tab. Use this to find Star Wars Rebellion. When you find it listed, if the executable hasn't already been recognized by GameRanger (it'll be in bold if it has), click on it then click on the Browse button and select the REBEXE executable where the game folder is located and use that.
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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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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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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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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
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Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2012 7:09 pm |
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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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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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Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2012 11:38 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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Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2012 9:04 pm |
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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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Location: Denmark | Tx for assistance MrPhildevil, but i think ill wait for a win 8 solution.
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Posted: Fri Nov 23, 2012 12:29 am |
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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,
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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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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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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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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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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 11:35 pm |
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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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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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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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Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2012 11:38 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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Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2012 9:04 pm |
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Posted: Thu Nov 22, 2012 9:45 am |
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Location: Denmark | Tx for assistance MrPhildevil, but i think ill wait for a win 8 solution.
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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,
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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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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?
Just my two-bits worth
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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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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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