I found that the behavior of my SC depended not on my OS but on the settings of my GPU. For example, factory-default Windows 7 puts starcraft at fixed-ratio which leaves black bars on both sides. That was entirely fixed, however, by tweaking with my GPU settings.

vaderseven

United States2556 Posts

November 05 2009 02:16 GMT

#44

To everyone with "in game lag", try the following and report back PLS im interested in maybe helping solve this.

Try :

1. Update CHIPSET drivers (thats the driver for part of you mobo, find it on your mobos website) [skip if you cant figure it out, but do try! You can use http://www.cpuid.com/download/cpuz/cpuz_152_setup.exe to find out your Mobo model/make].

2. Update Audio drivers.

3. Update Graphics drivers.

4. Turn off* CPU throttling (in game go to options then speed).

I had 2 friends have this fixed by upgrading audio drivers. The only thing else that might help is CPU affinity, if many still need lag fixed AFTER trying that I'll write a guide on how to do that.

edit - never ment to say turn that on, corrected to turn OFF

Adeeler

United Kingdom764 Posts

November 05 2009 02:41 GMT

#45

If you set CPU Affinity to a single core you can set CPU Throttling OFF, helps against crashs. Killing Explorer 1st helps against colours.

Make sure to turn of unit animations & colourtile changing thingy too, then you become pretty much 100% stable.

Louder

United States2276 Posts

November 05 2009 03:46 GMT

#46

I didn't have lag issues in online games until AFTER I installed the Intel chipset drivers for my board in Windows 7. To fix the lag issue I had to add a couple of registry keys and disable something to do with Windows network management. I also made sure to disable TCPIP V6

Registry stuff: http://lifeandcode.net/2009/05/reduce-game-network-latency-in-windows-7-or-vista/
Network stuff: http://www.speedguide.net/faq_in_q.php?qid=247

These things fixed it.

OneOther

United States10774 Posts

December 18 2009 20:38 GMT

#47

gonna try to fix the in-game lag for windows 7
looks pretty complicated for a computer newb like myself though

is there a new simpler solution to this? so annoying

Aerox

Malaysia1213 Posts

December 18 2009 20:42 GMT

#48

Blizz plz patch.

OneOther

United States10774 Posts

December 18 2009 21:00 GMT

#49

ughhh

comabreaded

United States2166 Posts

December 19 2009 00:00 GMT

#50

Anyone able to get BW in fixed-aspect ratio (black bars on the sides) on a widescreen LCD using NVIDIA drivers?

Everytime I select "Use NVIDIA scaling with fixed-aspect ratio" and hit Apply, it reverts back to "Use my display's built-in scaling."

Smorrie

Netherlands2945 Posts

January 03 2010 00:26 GMT

#51

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?

Finally found out how to 'fix' this (for ATI users). Apparently there's a bug in the ATI Catalyst Control Center which won't allow you to change the scaling options in Windows 7.. However if you switch your resolution to anything but the maximum res, it will actually work. Still sucks having to change your res just to play SC, but it's better than nothing :p

Now I'll be able to destroy everyone in 2010.

vaderseven

United States2556 Posts

January 03 2010 06:02 GMT

#52

On December 19 2009 09:00 comabreaded wrote:
Anyone able to get BW in fixed-aspect ratio (black bars on the sides) on a widescreen LCD using NVIDIA drivers?

Everytime I select "Use NVIDIA scaling with fixed-aspect ratio" and hit Apply, it reverts back to "Use my display's built-in scaling."

This means you MUST adjust a setting in your MONITORS options.

Find the options button on your monitor and look for ANYTHING related to aspect ratio and try various options.

MuffinDude

United States3837 Posts

January 03 2010 10:14 GMT

#53

I have a problem with method two. While it does help with the colors, it kills my tool bar (task bar well the thing on the bottom), and i can't make it reappear until I log off and log back in. Can you help me wit this?

lFrost

United States295 Posts

January 03 2010 10:27 GMT

#54

wow this is excellent. I just tried option 3 and it worked perfectly. Like it says, just right click desktop and there should be an option for "screen resolution", above "gadgets" and "personalize", and you just leave that open and all the colors never glitch anymore. Usually my sc colors have been slightly messed up in the opening screen where you pick between single player, multiplayer, etc but this solution fixed even that.
edit: nevermind, sometimes this solution works and somethings it doesnt.. weird

AtlaS

United States1001 Posts

January 14 2010 21:28 GMT

#55

So instead of making a new thread, i might as well go ahead and bump this one.
I tried solution 2 and it worked beautifully. I think it may have also fixed the random freeze I sometimes get while playing Starcraft. Only problem is that when I do it, it eats up so much of my CPU and uses way more power than Starcraft should. Any ideas what might be causing this? and more importantly how to fix this? I have 6 gigs of ram and a Intel I7 920. I'll post my other specs if necessary but I doubt anything else is affecting it.

7mk

Germany10157 Posts

January 14 2010 21:36 GMT

#56

On January 03 2010 19:14 MuffinDude wrote:
I have a problem with method two. While it does help with the colors, it kills my tool bar (task bar well the thing on the bottom), and i can't make it reappear until I log off and log back in. Can you help me wit this?

get to your task manager (control alt delete) -> new task -> enter "explorer"

crabapple

United States397 Posts

January 26 2010 21:15 GMT

#57

ok killing explorer works great, but

how do you start explorer again?

the "solution 1" in the first post won't restore it for me

JonsaBoy

Denmark457 Posts

January 26 2010 21:25 GMT

#58

Ctrl+alt+delete - task manager - new task - type explorer.exe and hit enter

The6357

United States1268 Posts

March 27 2010 05:32 GMT

#59

On January 27 2010 06:15 crabapple wrote:
ok killing explorer works great, but

how do you start explorer again?

the "solution 1" in the first post won't restore it for me

I have opposite problem...when i run that cmd file it doesn't end explorer.exe...I have task manager open and run starcraftstarter.cmd..the explorer.exe is still running -_-;
also...does it supposed to start starcraft for me automatically?

edit:it seems like this program should automatically start starcraft for me...but it doesn't start BW..
I have bw installed in "C:\Program Files (x86)\StarCraft\StarCraft.exe"
any help plz?