[Mobhack]

You have a wide screen monitor.

You have the CD version.

The disabling of the GDI/Directx function is normal for Windows 7 to deal with the Aero palette problem, as mentioned somewhere in the "playing on Vista and seven " thread I think.

Your picture shows a highly stretched screen typical of the way some widescreen monitors will attempt to show old-fashioned 4:3 screen sizes. Especially if the end user has chosen a monitor resolution that is not the natural one for the screen - ie a smaller size the monitor then has to interpolate.

So use Desktop resolution to play in wide screen in Windowed mode.

Desktop resolution is the one that was introduced to deal with these new-fangled wide screen monitors several years ago.

Windowed mode and desktop resolution is the recommended way to play the game post Vista anyway - it is actually faster in screen updates than the obsolete full-screen 256 colour mode and some computers will "stutter" with screen updates as their video drivers cannot handle the "old fashioned" MSDOS 256 colour mode in any case. Plus you can still see the windows taskbar (for time incoming email alerts etc) - and the game then plays easily with other windows programmes you may have open.