EPTAlso my biggest problem with Windows 7 and Starcraft seems to be random freezing, i can live with the weird menu colours but the freezing is annoying the fuck out of me...
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Mr.Pyro
Denmark959 Posts
Also my biggest problem with Windows 7 and Starcraft seems to be random freezing, i can live with the weird menu colours but the freezing is annoying the fuck out of me... | ||
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vaderseven
United States2556 Posts
I just open bwchart, AIM, a web browser and a launcher ; run script ; start sc. And ya you don't need scripts but it makes it way simpler. | ||
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da_head
Canada3350 Posts
On September 14 2009 06:59 MaD.pYrO wrote: Also my biggest problem with Windows 7 and Starcraft seems to be random freezing, i can live with the weird menu colours but the freezing is annoying the fuck out of me... same. i'm also having freezing issues, and none of these solutions work. | ||
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vaderseven
United States2556 Posts
On September 14 2009 06:59 MaD.pYrO wrote: None of these solutions worked for me at all... Also my biggest problem with Windows 7 and Starcraft seems to be random freezing, i can live with the weird menu colours but the freezing is annoying the fuck out of me... I'll take a stab at helping you but I need more info. Tell me your comp's specs, what drivers you are using, what version of windows 7, and OC info if you OC, ect ect. | ||
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Scorch
Austria3371 Posts
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vaderseven
United States2556 Posts
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Adeeler
United Kingdom764 Posts
make a .bat file with this in it: cmd.exe /C start /affinity 1 C:\"Program Files\ICCup\Launcher"\"Launcher.exe" ping 127.0.0.1 -n 2 taskkill /f /IM explorer.exe ping 127.0.0.1 -n 2 cd C:\Games\Starcraft\ rem cmd.exe /C start /affinity 1 C:\Games\Starcraft\StarCraft.exe rem Wait for the game to quit, press Enter to continue pause start explorer.exe exit The batch file should use windows compatibility mode for XP sp3 and 640x480 resolution the rest doesn't matter. But! In starcraft because everyone has multi core systems now but the tricky thing is windows 7 is a bit different in that under Speed - Enable CPU Throttling disable this not enable even though it sound like it should be helpful it does the opposite in windows 7. Also under Video: Enable Color Cycling should be OFF (this means water doesn't change color and stuff nothing important) And Disable Unit Portraits. So, use a batchfile setting affinity to your 1st core for Iccup launcher which in turn makes starcraft only use the 1st core as you use the Launcher to launch starcraft not manually. This disable CPU throttling as we set the affinity ourselves and it would only cause crashes. Now turn off Color Cycling & Unit Portraits. All this and in Windows 7 on a dual core Intel I stopped crashing completely. I used to crash all the time and tested all the combinations of things and all these seem to make it fine. You can tab in and out as much as you like, your resolution will switch fine to your normal desktop resolution i.e. I use 1900x1200. I even use dual monitors and put stuff on my second monitor like films or youtube or desktop gadgets and its fine. Only unit portraits 'might' be alright to turn back on but I didn't test as I never cared about it anyways. Anyways enjoy. Note: The pings to yourself are just for a delay to allow explorer to completely close as an indication before you should launch starcraft. I tested the 98/Me compatibility but it causes a problem with connecting to Iccup and stuff iirc. That 98/Me would fix the colors by itself but do it in the above way for the most stable solution I've experienced. | ||
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ProoM
Lithuania1741 Posts
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sh00zkosmosu
Poland16 Posts
 bw keeps crashing - the longer my computer is on the higher possibility that bw will crash. sometimes when i launch the game it will "lag" - pointer movement is choppy and scroll as well. then i know crash is inevitable. any ideas? | ||
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-StrifeX-
United States529 Posts
I run the ultimate copy of Windows 7. I having random lock-ups also seems when my scout dies and i move the screen quickly to look, or something gets canceled and i move to it quickly to see what's going on. Both of these completely freeze up my computer. I have to do a Cold Shutdown (hard shutdown with power button). So hopefully above fix will help fix my problem. I see some people wondering what's causing this. It looks to be GUI of the Windows 7 Desktop for the distorted colors. This really isn't a driver issue more in the design of the desktop for windows 7 IMO. Since explore.exe process that is being killed is what makes your desktop interactive for icons and etc. | ||
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-StrifeX-
United States529 Posts
On October 12 2009 14:44 sh00zkosmosu wrote: none of this works for me bw keeps crashing - the longer my computer is on the higher possibility that bw will crash. sometimes when i launch the game it will "lag" - pointer movement is choppy and scroll as well. then i know crash is inevitable. any ideas? What kind of processor and type of RAM you running? | ||
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Smorrie
Netherlands2925 Posts
When I run SC on my laptop (with Windows 7), it won't stretch the game full screen but stick to its original resolution and adds 'black bars' around it to fill up the rest of the screen. I'm pretty sure this must be a common issue and not only for win7 users.. Anyone can help me out with this? | ||
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ProoM
Lithuania1741 Posts
@echo off taskkill /f /im explorer.exe>nul :loop tasklist |find /i "starcraft.exe">nul If errorlevel 1 goto nope goto loop :nope start explorer.exe It restores the explorer after u turn off sc. You have to run iccup launcher and sc first, then alt+tab, run this one and alt+tab again :}. I'm not the one who created it, I remember someone posting it on iccup forums, so dont give credit to me  . Anyway I'm using it and I like it so I decided to share :}. | ||
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-StrifeX-
United States529 Posts
On October 17 2009 01:33 Smorrie wrote: Different question! When I run SC on my laptop (with Windows 7), it won't stretch the game full screen but stick to its original resolution and adds 'black bars' around it to fill up the rest of the screen. I'm pretty sure this must be a common issue and not only for win7 users.. Anyone can help me out with this? I take it that it ran fine before with XP or Vista before the install? I know some laptops do this even on the other operating systems. | ||
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sh00zkosmosu
Poland16 Posts
Windows 7.7600 x64 Geforce 9800 GT AMD Athlon x64 Dual Core 3600+ 2.0 GHz 2 Gb DDR2 800 Mhz | ||
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Viper
Poland8 Posts
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NarutO
Germany18839 Posts
My computer is not too bad either. 4GB DDR2-800Mhz, GForce 8800GTS, Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 @ 2,6Ghz. Maybe someone can help-.- | ||
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nttea
Sweden4353 Posts
On November 02 2009 07:20 G.s)NarutO wrote: Does that also fix in game lag? I do have insane lags since I use Windows 7. And no, I don't download neither does the opponent... its just "computer-lags". My computer is not too bad either. 4GB DDR2-800Mhz, GForce 8800GTS, Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 @ 2,6Ghz. Maybe someone can help-.- i can tell you something is weird with starcraft in windows vista, i have no lag really but the menu switches take longer with like a 0.2 blackout between the switches. gotten used to it now but it was annoying as hell in the start. | ||
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NarutO
Germany18839 Posts
On November 02 2009 07:33 nttea wrote: i can tell you something is weird with starcraft in windows vista, i have no lag really but the menu switches take longer with like a 0.2 blackout between the switches. gotten used to it now but it was annoying as hell in the start. It lags in game. Barely playable. | ||
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Adeeler
United Kingdom764 Posts
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