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I run Ubuntu on my desktop but the urge to play starcraft was so great that I finally decided to dual boot windows 7.
Trouble from the start. Can not validate my CD-KEY because it's an upgrade and some how M$ knows that I've installed this copy on my gf's computer Arrrrghh...
So I have 30 days to find another key... great, $238 dollars and I have to deal with this shit.
Then I tried to restore grub so I can actually do stuff other than starcraft...
Guess what? Fucking M$ put a hidden partition on my 1TB drive and unallocated all 700GB of movies, pron, TVs MUSIC WTF? What the fuck.
Why the fuck would you do that without mentioning it anywhere and Why the fuck would you not put it against the same partition!
grub-install won't work now for some reason and I'm suspecting it has to do with M$ gayness.
So tips for all dual booters, Always Always install Ubuntu after you install Windows, If you must do it the other way, UNPLUG ALL OTHER HARDDRIVES JUST TO BE SAFE!!!
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Your life probably just got worse. For some reason windows 7 can't play starcraft unless you are in windowed mode. I think its gets the blue screen of death if you do. One of my friends dual boots XP/7 XP is only for scbw.
gl with your shit
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torrent a copy of win7 and install off of a flash drive.... and starcraft plays fine on win7 for the most part, yes the colors get messed up when you alt+tab, and some ppl have had dc issues from it, but for the most part it runs BW just fine.
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Win7 never had a single issue with me for SC, actually, always wondered what people were talking about when they say that they can't run SC in 7.
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You are totally correct that you want to partition and install GRUB on top of an existing Windows install. Doing it any other way is a very delicate operation.
They literally are just assholes in that they do not "recognize" the existence of preexisting technology on your machine, and assume that you want a clean 100% MS system. Any worthwhile operating system makes an effort to accommodate for peer software, and won't screw you by deleting everything without offering a common sense solution.
Just another reason why Microsoft doesn't respect your freedom to do what you want to do with your computer.
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United States2822 Posts
Win 7 doesn't have any issues with SC for me.
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^Winamp + Windows 7 + Starcraft = Complete freeze. I have to use VLC/WMP for music when playing SC.
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Tears of the technologically inept are so sweet.
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SC runs fine so far... Maybe it's because I use a sc mini folder that i've kept from ages ago with everything preloaded. I do get crappy colours on battle.net though but I can live with that.
What pisses me off is that Microsoft will go to the depth to completely fuck up everything else that's not Windows. It's installer won't even recognize ext3 and just see it as free space then dump shit on it.
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I swear to god Windows is so shit. People keep raving about how Windows 7 is so fast compare to Vista but It feels like shit compare to Ubuntu. I can't even minimize a window without feeling the laggness.
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Calgary25997 Posts
Sentence #2 makes me not feel bad for you 
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If you really MUST have Windows7 (personally I can't understand why you would when XP is great) you better pay for it.
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On March 04 2010 02:04 RebirthOfLeGenD wrote:
Your life probably just got worse. For some reason windows 7 can't play starcraft unless you are in windowed mode. I think its gets the blue screen of death if you do. One of my friends dual boots XP/7 XP is only for scbw.
gl with your shit
Win 7 plays SC in full screen mode fine, at least the Ultimate 64bit version because that's what I use.
It's probably your hardware if you can't play it in full screen.
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On March 04 2010 02:22 Chill wrote:Sentence #2 makes me not feel bad for you
Its okay Chill, we all will meet that special someone someday.
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On March 04 2010 02:19 haduken wrote:
SC runs fine so far... Maybe it's because I use a sc mini folder that i've kept from ages ago with everything preloaded. I do get crappy colours on battle.net though but I can live with that.
What pisses me off is that Microsoft will go to the depth to completely fuck up everything else that's not Windows. It's installer won't even recognize ext3 and just see it as free space then dump shit on it.
You probably didn't uncheck something during the install. You gotta be careful when you're selecting partitions to install on. Regardless of partition type, the partition table will tell you that there's a partition there, so they don't just 'see it as free space' like you say. You fucked up. Stop blaming it on Microsoft.
Having upgraded from Vista to Win7 on a laptop that dual boots Ubuntu/Windows, I know there is definitely a point when you are selecting the partition to install on that you have to make sure to tell it to not touch other partitions. For most users, getting rid of those other partitions is the proper move. For users like you that are dual booting, you should know to check that sort of thing.
On top of that, you're ranting about it not wanting to install because you broke the license agreement. Uh, what?
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On March 04 2010 02:22 Chill wrote:Sentence #2 makes me not feel bad for you
Yea....line 2 completely made me facepalm...sorry dude. but 100% your fault there.
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On March 04 2010 02:27 Klive5ive wrote:
If you really MUST have Windows7 (personally I can't understand why you would when XP is great) you better pay for it.
I did pay for it. What M$ is asking me to do is paying more just for having an extra computer~~@!#$
The only thing I use Windows for is starcraft. Nothing ELSE. You can't even buy a copy of XP anymore and the get genuine version costs more than Windows 7.
The whole thing is designed to leech money from people.
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EPT
