Combat Flight Simulator: Color Palette or Textures Are Distorted (198162)

SYMPTOMS

When you run Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator in Full Screen mode, you may experience any of the following symptoms:

The color palette used by the game may be green.
Textures in the game may be missing or distorted.
The text on the screen may be blurred.

CAUSE

This behavior can occur if both of the following conditions are true:

A Diamond Fire GL 1000 Pro video adapter or another video adapter based on the 3DLabs Permedia 2 chipset is installed in your computer.
You are using version 4.10.01.2103-0220 or earlier of the 3DLabs Permedia 2 video driver.

RESOLUTION

To resolve this issue, obtain and install the latest version of the 3DLabs Permedia 2 video driver. To do this, contact the manufacturer of your video adapter.

For information about how to contact the manufacturer of your video adapter, click the appropriate article number in the following list to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

65416 Hardware and Software Third-Party Vendor Contact List, A-K

60781 Hardware and Software Third-Party Vendor Contact List, L-P

60782 Hardware and Software Third-Party Vendor Contact List, Q-Z

MORE INFORMATION

To work around this issue, follow these steps:

Quit Combat Flight Simulator if it is running.
Click Start, point to Find, and then click Files Or Folders.
In the Named box, type the following line:
combatfs.cfg
In the Look In box, click My Computer, and then click Find Now.
Double-click the Combatfs.cfg file.
In the "Choose the program you want to use" box, click Notepad.
Click to clear the "Always use this program to open this file" check box, and then click OK.
On the Search menu, click Find.
Type [HARDWARE] and then click Find Next.
In the [HARDWARE] section of the file, type the following line, and then press ENTER:
UseGamma=0
On the File menu, click Exit. When you are prompted to save the changes, click Yes.
Restart Combat Flight Simulator.