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Sorry for the delay in reply. Here in the United States, we have just finished celebrating the Thanksgiving holiday. Despite being a holiday, you're incredibly busy trying to get everything ready, attending social gatherings, etc. I rarely had any free time to play video games, let alone Stronghold. Anyways, onto the post. So yeah, I got my cousin's standard edition last week: https://u.cubeupload.com/Buzzed_Lightyear/IMG20201203145657.jpeg After fully uninstalling the Deluxe edition, I made two Alcohol images of the original disks and mounted them in the virtual drive and installed the new standard edition: After patching the game to version 1.4 (and then later 1.4.1), I was greeted with this upon trying to play the game: In other words, it works perfectly. So what can we conclude from all of this? That my suspicions were correct: that this issue is specific to the Deluxe Edition of the game, and specifically the 1.3.1 Deluxe Edition Patch. So word to the wise: avoid the Deluxe Edition of Stronghold 2. There's something wrong with that version for whatever reason.

I'm reopening this topic because I just realized that no-one solved it. So far, all we have deduced is that the files which determines the shading colors are located within C:\Program Files (x86)\Firefly Studios\Stronghold 2\shaders due to Lord_Chris' earlier attempt to find the shading file. By going to the directory C:\Program Files (x86)\Firefly Studios\Stronghold 2\shaders\UI\Default.FX you will see this screen when opened up with notepad: By changing the "COLOR0" value to "COLOR1", we find that: Becomes: Furthermore, we have identified that the scripting is in C++ and coding in Hexadecimal as the orange color has the Hexadecimal code of FFBF00 This is a subject which I have been very interested in because I hate the default red color and love the bandit black color. So far what we've done is"a temporary success" :D