What do the batch files do?

[Mobhack]

If you dont have windows 7 - they are not needed. Windows 7 aero is why they are there. Windows 8+ dont use aero to scramble the palette. It is explained in the game guide "tuning your machine" section, in a big dialogue box entitled ""Windows vista and seven".

And since you have the full game, it is better to use windowed mode set to desktop resolution. You will then have the full screen and no problems if you minimise or swap out the game to another programme and back etc.

Full-screen mode is obsolete, just a hang over from early DOS days. Some people still do use it, and work around windows habit of going into palette-scrambled mess mode. Windowed mode, set to desktop resolution for CD owners uses the full wide-screen resolution of your modern LCD monitor, not the obsolete "square" modes of full-screen mode.