Hey there, just letting anyone out there who still has a color palette problem know of a trick that might fix it while in game (also, how to fix colors when you can't use WormKit). Shift+Pause and the new color palette options in the advanced options don't fix my colors. Also, ending the task of "explorer.exe" crashed my pc. The only thing that worked (before I got wormkit to work) was dropping a shortcut to wa.exe into a batch file.

So, if ALL of those options don't work for you... I fixed the messed up color palette by doing the water color trick: typing /h2so4 into the in-game chat! The colors went back to normal right away. The only problem was that my desktop changes to a new picture every 5 seconds, and when it did this, the game would flash gray for a second. Oh yeah, I'm guessing the colors get screwy again when you type /h2o to stop the water colors.

If you don't use WormKit, or you can't because you need to add different hosting parameters to the link for a Direct IP game, like rope knocking: wa://?scheme=Pf (I can't launch WormKit with /host and the parameters in the desktop shortcut.), you might want to use a batch file to correct your colors.

If you do use a color fixing batch file, you can make a desktop shortcut to worms with the path "C:\Team17\Worms Armageddon\wa.exe" /host wa://?scheme=Pf and drag that into the batch file to launch a Direct TCP/IP game with fixed colors and with rope knocking.

The batch file I use when I don't use WormKit:
Open a new notepad document and copy/paste this into it and save as colorfix.bat

@ECHO OFF
IF [%1]==[] (
ECHO color palatte fix
ECHO Usage: %0 command [parameters]
) ELSE (
taskkill /F /IM explorer.exe
%*
Start explorer.exe
)

You could just disable Windows 7's background-switching "feature".

@ECHO OFF
IF [%1]==[] (
ECHO color palatte fix
ECHO Usage: %0 command [parameters]
) ELSE (
taskkill /F /IM explorer.exe
%*
Start explorer.exe
)
I'm fairly sure this batch file was posted here several times already (http://forum.team17.co.uk/search.php?do=process&forumchoice%5B%5D=47&childforums=1&exactname=1&query=taskkill&showposts=1), using slightly different syntax.

Yes, I just go to the default background when I'm in a game.

Yes, I got that batch file from some thread in here, just too lazy to find the thread again, so I reposted it here. I don't know if other versions work better or worse, but this one is flawless; no slightly off colors in the frontend like with wormkit.

If you don't use WormKit, or you can't because you need to add different hosting parameters to the link for a Direct IP game

Why can't you? First of all, that was the goal of my WormKit installers - to associate replays and URLs with WormKit. Second, you could do it in registry yourself.
And third, there is already a new way of loading modules - WormKitDS (http://forum.team17.co.uk/showthread.php?t=46030), with which you will just have to run WA.exe, and not WormKit.exe. Modules will be loaded by WA itself.

Unless your computer is doing something unimaginably stupid, you shouldn't need any colour fixes anymore with the latest update, right? I was under the impression that this was the case.

Unless your computer is doing something unimaginably stupid, you shouldn't need any colour fixes anymore with the latest update, right? I was under the impression that this was the case.

The auto-changing wallpapers are the cause. They must be turned off. The way he proposed just changes the WA palette fast, so the color bug won't have really much time to produce, but it's still best not to use auto-changin wallpapers.

I had an installation of wormkit that didn't work right, so for a while I thought I couldn't use it. Also, I can't seem to make wormkit launch a Direct TCP/IP with the rope knocking parameter, but with WormKitDS, I guess we don't wormkit anymore. Wish I knew about that earlier! D:<

And I have it several times after restoring the game. It's fixed for a second, but then it messes up again after another second and sometimes stays that way. But Shift+Pause fixes that forever (*sings* till the next restore).

And I have it several times after restoring the game. It's fixed for a second, but then it messes up again after another second and sometimes stays that way. But Shift+Pause fixes that forever (*sings* till the next restore).
I already told about palette fix parameters - the best is only to use the last two parameters of palette fix in Advanced settings, and you won't be left with messed up colors after maximizing.

I still prefer the DirectX 7 compatibility mode registry setting... is it included with one of these options?