D3D Color Palette getting seemingly corrupted or altered?

[Proutbedaine]

Whether it's in v11.44 or v9.6 and wtv settings I try individually or any combination of settings in the .ini files and/or the GTA2_manage exe's configs.... or even with your FrontEndFix active on v9.6 (and with any settings combination I could choose in his setups too)... as you'll see in the screenshots there is a yellow-lime tint added to nearly everything for some reason? Like if the palette is getting corrupted or something?

Tried researching it the whole evening and night to exhaustion. I need to sleep so bad...my eyes are burning...

Tried everything listed here: https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Grand_Theft_Auto_2#16x16x16_Video_Mode_error_and_no_resolutions_available_in_GTA2_Manager

Then found this: https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Glossary:DirectX/DirectDraw_troubleshooting

Seems to be potentially related to it?
Tried a whooole bunch of stuff listed on there.

Also tried compatibility settings from windows.
Tried resetting my nvidia control panel settings or changing them.
Used Nvidia Profile Inspector to go and try some obscure settings that might've helped.

And through all my tests the only thing that made the game have it's original color palette was when I would run it without the WidescreenFix from ThirteenAG and with dgVoodoo with it's D3D .dlls in the folder instead.

I feel it's their dinput.dll that creates the issue somehow on my PC.

OS: Windows 10 Home 64-bit (latest updates)
GPU: RTX 3090 (latest drivers)
And running it on a 4K display

If anyone knows or have a suggestion for a fix for this please let me know. ^^"

I know the issue seems more related to specifically the dinput.dll from ThirteenAG's WideScreenFix (which your mod/plugin is dependent on) but I'm kinda really desperate here and you seem to have a great handle on doing things in GTA2 also?

I also really wanna play with your incredible mod/plugin on and since it's dependant on it I figured it would be relevant to mention in here too?

I created an issue over there also: ThirteenAG/WidescreenFixesPack#1317

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EDIT: 2025-05-01

Also, doesn't happen here on a clean install of v9.6 without any sort of mods whatsoever!

[gennariarmando]

Does it happen on a clean game without wsfix nor frontendfix?

[Proutbedaine]

Does it happen on a clean game without wsfix nor frontendfix?

Just did an edit right now with a screenshot to show how it looks like with a clean v9.6 without any mods whatsoever. The color palette seems fine! Just like when I previously did a test (as mentioned in my initial issue posting details) where would remove wsfix and use only gdVoodoo .dlls with it's own config file. :o

It was a good idea nonetheless to make me test it specifically that way. Good thinking. Don't know why I didn't initially. Just to make sure it wasn't something that was present on it's own somehow too or etc.

[gennariarmando]

Both ws fix and frontendfix don't require voodoo dlls, have you tried on a completely clean build of the game with only these 2, and dinput.dll? If there is a ini called wndmode.ini remove it too.

[Proutbedaine]

Both ws fix and frontendfix don't require voodoo dlls, have you tried on a completely clean build of the game with only these 2, and dinput.dll? If there is a ini called wndmode.ini remove it too.

As I explained in my original text I did try that. In fact the very first time I tried out the game was with only wsfix and frontendfix alone after a clean install.

Then dgvoodoo .dlls was simply other separate tests. Where I had added dgvoodoo .dlls and tried many configs (which still gave wrong colors and also made things even worse sometimes, which was expected but I was desperate lmao) and also with only the dgvoodoo .dlls and it's configs alone without the wsfix and frontendfix which gave the right colors also, just like the clean install without anything added to it.

The moment I seem to introduce the wsfix it gives this issue.

Also I think I already tried it before but I just tried right now with wsfix + frontendfix without the wndmode.ini present in the files and it gives the exact same issues too unfortunately. :/

[owner-w]

This happens to me too.

I noticed the colors are fine if I set a 1920x1080 resolution, but get messed up on 4k resolution. This is with and without frontendfix, since the issue comes from the widescreen patch.

Before I started using frontendfix and only had the widescreen patch, I used dgvoodoo to scale up the 1080p resolution to 4k, while keeping the correct colors, and it was working fine. However, when frontendfix and dgvooodo are active at the same time, the colors are off no matter what resolution is set.

[uVSthem]

Did this this issue ever get fixed? I am having the same problem.

[kapela86]

Anything above 2560x1440 will introduce that green tint. Don't use any higher resolution than that and it will display fine.

[r3538987]

Could be bit related. I noticed that when game has dgVoodoo2 files, and on top of that there is d3d9 from Reshade, main menu looks like being color limited. While once loaded into game, it looks just fine.

Had anyone encountered such behavior, and maybe even found workaround where you get original colors, and keep Reshade?
Even without Reshade, with dgVoodoo colors are screwed.