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by s6xtyn9ne

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I have a game called Starcraft (by blizzard). When playing tourney games, i have to make Screen Shots of winning screen to ensure they give me my win. Now, they SS's save into my starcraft directory. They save as ext. PCX in bitmap form. Normally, im able to just open them up and they will open with paintbrush. However, whenever i try to open one now, it says "Invalid bitmap format". This is right after a clean install of windows. I tried to reinstall paint but that doesnt work. I reset the default bmp size in paint. Nogo there either. Anyone have ideas? (note, i know other 3rd party programs will work, but id like paintbrush to work, therefore, that other programs is not a valid answer). Thanx!

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by gbworld

The most likely reason for this is that you have increased your color depth (better video card, etc.) to a color depth not supported in Paintbrush. Paintbrush only works with 256 color PCX files. This gives you the following options:

1. Reduce your color depth while playing in the desktop properties.

2. Get a third party screen capture that can run TSR (like Snagit?).

3. Get another editor that can support more colors for PCX.

Unfortunately, the color depth and resolution of many ofthe video cards out today have far outclassed the old, outdated windows editing tools.

Here is an article on PCX in paintbrush:
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q117/1/92.asp

Gregory A. Beamer
MCP: +I, SE, SD, DBA

by s6xtyn9ne

I know that i can get a 3rd party editor. I have corel draw that i can put on, but id just like to use paint as default (i know corel is ALOT better). Ive had it working before i just don tknow how. Reducing the colors/screen size is no help. Already tried. Thanx though.

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