Sunday 24 March 2013

Run Roadrash in Windows 7 without Color Issues



When you upgrade your Operating System to Windows 7 or Windows 8, the good old games you have in your hard drive may show some graphics or color issues when you try to run them. These games include Roadrash, Age of empire etc. Let's see a working resolution for this problem.


The game with color issues will look like this:



Follow the below simple steps to resolve this problem:

1. Go to ' Notepad ' or any other text editor.

2. Type (or copy and paste) the below lines exactly:


taskkill /F /IM explorer.exe
ROADRASH.exe
start explorer.exe

3. Click ' File > Save as '.

4. File name : ROADRASH.bat

5. Select ' All Files ' in the save as type drop down menu.

6. Save the file in the installation directory. It is the directory where you find the ' ROADRASH.exe ' file.

7. It will be usually ' C:\Program Files\Road Rash '.

8. Double Click ' ROADRASH.bat ' to run the game.

Now you can see the color issue being resolved.


66 comments:

  1. Thank u thanks a lot.... it is workin :)

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  2. Thanks a lot friend !!!
    It is all right !!!

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  3. It works very fine.

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  4. Thank you very much dude...its working fine for me now!!!!!!!!

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  5. i created the bat file, but it is not working, colour issues still persist

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    1. Double click the bat file to run the game.

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    2. bat file is a notepad...how it can run...???

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    3. notepad runs thw cmmnd which in turn runs the program

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  6. hey, i tried your method, ran the .bat file, tallied the name of the app and the one written in the file but it keeps asking me to first install the game

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    1. Obviously it is not a graphic problem.

      The game seems to be corrupted.

      Please download a fresh copy of the game.

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    2. run registry file first

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  7. thank you pal. it work perfectly for me and am enjoying the game.hope to have your email..mine be akwandoh77@gmail.com

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  8. It not worked on my windows 7 computer

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  9. please send a link or any site to download road rash which should be work in windows 7

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  10. very very thanks
    i want your photo, i will pray you daily, with milk and flowers.

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  11. THanks .........

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  12. Works on win 7 x64 in 2008, but did not. I am working to fix this so everyone can play that EA already abandoned the project and not the most support. I find it absurd that a game like this be abandoned.

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  13. Earlier it did not work for me. After some research I found that game installation path and the path in registry is different. So I changed the path in registry to the path where I installed road rash. It worked like a charm.

    However, sound is not working for me. I am getting midi error.

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  14. I did it in my laptop but after I opened the ROADRASH.bat and close it, the explorer.exe won't open again and my desktop became empty. how can I fix that?

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  15. Perfect !! Thanks a lot buddy :D

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  16. I made a mistake first. Instead of typing "taskkill /F /IM explorer.exe" I typed "taskkill/F/IM explorer.exe".
    It didn't work. When I corrected myself and inserted the spaces it worked.
    So people, be careful to type it as it is. Better to copy and paste!

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  17. Excellent Work guy...its working perfectly now , thanks alot..

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  18. It worked fine (y). Thanks man. Enjoyed a lot

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  19. Sorry didn't worked on my system . . followed each and every step as advised . .

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  20. thanks dude. that was amazing

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  21. Hats off buddy thanks for solving my issue...........

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  22. When am opening Roadrash.exe file its saying Could not found any CD-ROM , will you please kindly help me with this.Am waiting for your reply

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  23. Hey my road rash game problem is solved thank you you are great you are a help full man

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  24. It's improved little bit but showing direct draw error while playing

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  25. I did all as above but now whenever I select any race, the game crashes down.

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  26. This is cool man!. so nice of you. wonderful stuff, feeling stupid i hadnt thought of it at all

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  27. Do not work on Win7 SP1, Still facing the graphic issue. Can anyone pls confirm if you are on win7 sp1.

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  28. Excellent Trick, it is working fine.

    Thank you dear

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    1. Also i want to know how the bat file works. Thanks

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  30. thank you it is running perfectly. It was one of my fav old games. Also if you have a trainer for the game, it has 'Run Game'. You should not press it, just click the .bat file.

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  31. Thank you a lot:-) its working.

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  32. Thanks a lot! you are my chunk

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  33. tried everything..made .bat file and all but the colour problem still persists..how to get rid of it ????

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  34. thanks .. it really works !

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  35. Great buddy...Thanks...Works superb...Got the same feel... :)

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  36. thanks a ton ,works like a charm,I was wondering how you foundout about this(figured it out) can u pls mention what caused the problem and how these commands helped solve it.Thanks in advance

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  37. Thanks for solving the problem easily. I was disapoinated with my PC for color problems.

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  38. Thank you very much. It is working perfectly now

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  39. I have a lapotop with windows 7 and for me the color problem is it appears as black and white and no matter what I do it doesnt change.. How to fix this

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