That is pretty strange, i double checked my machines at work and all of them kept the full color icons in 16 bit mode however the shading was a little less pretty but it didnt change like that. The ...

Using two bytes per pixel in a color image. Up to 65,536 colors can be represented in the color palette. Most graphics formats provide 8-bit color or 24-bit color; however, graphics cards generally ...

I've had install problems... First try reducing your onscreen color depth to 16 bit... if that doesn't work... Service Patch 2 fixed this for me in 2k but you are in XP. The game used to require the ...