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Ok, this is really getting annoying now. I'm a Windows 7 User and as everyone knows, compatibility problems exist for Brood War in Windows 7, the most notorious being freezing and the colors getting all screwed up.
For myself, this is particularly annoying because I stream Brood War and what can be more frustrating than my computer freezing in the middle of an Iccup ladder match while I'm streaming? I don't mind the colors getting all fucked up, but the freezing definitely is getting on my nerves. I have tried nearly everything to stop the freezing, including the bat file that kills explorer.exe, checking all the boxes except the last 3 for Brood War Compatibility options, and using Windows 7 Basic mode. For a while, this stopped the freezing, but just yesterday, while I was streaming, I experienced a freeze once again.
I'm at a loss here about what to do. I want to continue streaming Brood War for the community but if these freezing issues keep continuing, streaming is going to be a problem. Is it absolutely impossible to play Brood War in Windows 7 without any problems? If it is, then I'm considering downgrading to Windows XP or Windows Vista. Don't get me wrong, guys, Windows 7 is amazing for everything besides Brood War. But I do want to keep streaming... What do I do guys?
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spell the title correctly. pretty please.
man its like i'm stalking you -- every other thread i go to, you're the latest poster
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http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=93382
I checked this thread out mainly because it seems to be the thread with the most replies and I checked out most of those threads that you referenced, Chill. I've tried searching my problem on google, too and I've gone through a Windows 7 forum thread with nearly 30 pages of replies. Nothing worked.
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the colours is an easy fix if you can find it. was searching forever. go to task manager, click the processes tab, right click explorer.exe, select end process, go to file > new task (run), and run the sc exe file from your program folder. colours are fixed and it also fixed a battlenet authentication error for me. and when you want to get your desktop back, you just go file > new task and type explorer.exe.
now i think you could apply this to your streaming as well, but i'm not positive. but it's worth a shot, eh?
edit: lol, i'm not very good at reading, am i? totally missed that you tried killing explorer (the colour problem bugs the shit out of me, btw). if you don't mind spending a bit of money, you can upgrade your windows 7 to professional, which comes with an xp emulator, or something of the sort.
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Believe me, I've already tried that. And I don't really mind the colors getting fucked up. It's the freezing that's a real problem for me.
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try run as administrator.
i dono what your issue is but i run windows 7 and my BW is fine
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Windows 7 isn't your problem. I never encountered freezing before, but to fix your colors, all you have to do is to open your screen resolution. I don't know why, but playing scbw with the screen resolution window open fixes the colors.
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I've tried that as well. Here are all the solutions I've tried.
-Terminate explorer.exe (Fixes colors, but not freezes).
-Use a bat file that automatically terminates explorer.exe and restores it once you are finished playing Brood War.
-Run Windows 7 Basic mode.
-Check most of the compatibility boxes under Starcraft.exe Properties![[image loading]](http://img42.imageshack.us/img42/9168/optione.jpg)
None of these worked. I was also going to try setting my affinity core to 0 but from that thread I just linked to, players who tried this mentioned that it only worked for a while until it crashed again.
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the only fix is to play in window mode. It's not that bad if you run it in 2x mode and have a big monitor
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I've contemplated Window mode, but isn't it hard to move your mouse around in Brood War if you play it in that mode? There just has to be a fix for this nonsense so that people can play full screen...
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On July 11 2010 10:12 The6357 wrote:
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Thanks.
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On July 11 2010 10:01 Prozen wrote:
I've contemplated Window mode, but isn't it hard to move your mouse around in Brood War if you play it in that mode? There just has to be a fix for this nonsense so that people can play full screen...
For me Windowed Mode is the only fix unfortunately. The mouse is a little laggy for me as well, but I dont see any other fix that works permanently.
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On July 11 2010 10:17 Tempest[OEC] wrote:Show nested quote +On July 11 2010 10:01 Prozen wrote:
I've contemplated Window mode, but isn't it hard to move your mouse around in Brood War if you play it in that mode? There just has to be a fix for this nonsense so that people can play full screen... For me Windowed Mode is the only fix unfortunately. The mouse is a little laggy for me as well, but I dont see any other fix that works permanently.
That's honestly a shame. It's really unfortunate that Microsoft didn't make Windows 7 backwards compatible with a twelve year-old game...
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Starcraft has always had issues like this for me, even in vista. So have most blizzard games before diablo 2. It honestly is Blizzard's fault for not patching their games to make them compatiable with the newer versions of windows. In diablo 2 they introduced a video test thing, where your computers graphic and sound cards are tested and then adjusted accordingly for the game.
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I think it's more of Microsoft's fault. Brood war is a really old game, it's not Blizzard's priority to patch the game so that it runs without any problems in newer OSes. They've done a fine job as it is to make the game balanced in the later years of Brood War's release.
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Yes, and Microsoft is going to keep in mind that they should make their game compatible with, as you say, a really old game? And yes, it is Blizzard's job to patch to game so it will run with newer OSes. They still sell Starcraft, therefor, they should still be updating and patching it with new OSes.
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Just downgrade? No one is making you use windows 7
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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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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
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Can you not dual boot with xp? Its not that hard
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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.
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Alright, I guess my only choice is to downgrade to Vista/XP. Vista shouldn't have freezing problems, right?
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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?
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Just close explorer when you run sc it's not hard.
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upgrade to windows xp
if it ain't broke...
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Windows 7 is written in an old code like the XP. So Windows 7 is pretty worthless to use now untill they upgrade the code and fix all the bugs.
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