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Prozen

United States338 Posts

July 11 2010 01:51 GMT

#21

On July 11 2010 10:47 naonao wrote:
Just downgrade? No one is making you use windows 7

I want to absolutely make sure that there isn't any other solution besides downgrading before I actually do.

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China13814 Posts

July 11 2010 01:55 GMT

#22

Blizzard doesn't update its (very) old games for newer OS's, which makes logical sense. The one to blame for SC:BW's incompatibility with Windows 7 is not Windows 7 itself, but Blizzard. Should Microsoft be responsible for perfecting its OS's compatibility with a very old game that another company made?

EDIT: As the guy below me said - simplest solution, partition hard drive and get XP

CorsairHero

Canada9491 Posts

July 11 2010 01:55 GMT

#23

Can you not dual boot with xp? Its not that hard

vek

Australia936 Posts

July 11 2010 02:15 GMT

#24

You can fix the color problem by using this adding a registry key that tells windows 7 to use a special compatibility mode for Starcraft 1.16 because out of the box it only knows about 1.14 and below.

http://www.mediafire.com/file/dxjq3iamm2c/sc116reg.rar

Inside the rar it has 2 .reg files, one for 32-bit and one for 64-bit. Just double click the appropriate one to add it to your registry. You can open them with textpad or notepad or whatever to see the contents of each one to see what they do.

This may fix your freezing issue or it may not. I still have freezing problems with the registry keys but it does fix the colour issues completely. I have no issues with windowed mode.

All credit goes to warlord_7 for working this out.

Prozen

United States338 Posts

July 11 2010 03:45 GMT

#25

Alright, I guess my only choice is to downgrade to Vista/XP. Vista shouldn't have freezing problems, right?

Hidden_MotiveS

Canada2562 Posts

July 11 2010 04:05 GMT

#26

Maybe, I've never heard of these freezing problems before. It could also have to do with your drivers so I can't be sure that a downgrade will work.

Alternatively can you partition a vista using something like vmware?

semantics

10040 Posts

July 11 2010 05:08 GMT

#27

Just close explorer when you run sc it's not hard.

iPlaY.NettleS

Australia4349 Posts

July 11 2010 09:53 GMT

#28

upgrade to windows xp
if it ain't broke...