Windows 7 Broodwar latency issue

On June 22 2010 23:32 Capnstank wrote:
Hey guys, here's what I've found works for fixes on my Windows7 laptop:

Crashes - If they occur leaving games or when your game would be saving files to your hard drive (replays, save files) then you need to run the game as admin. This is the only time I've noticed crashes outside of the unavoidable hardware issues that come and go.

Visual issues - The change to compatibility mode did not do anything for me, but I noticed that when I alt tab from the game, close down anything extra running on my task bar and select an icon on the top-left of my desktop before alt-tabbing back to Starcraft my visual problems are gone or at the very least bearable. I have a friend that tried this and had zero luck but it has worked for me so it might be worth a shot.

Your latency is most likely caused by poor port forwarding. Ensure ports 6112-6119 both TCP/UDP are open to your computer. Since iCCup works for you I assume this is your problem as the connection between the blizzard servers and you are probably having issues. I never thought that was an issue until recently when I found out that even with ports forwarded I couldn't host games on USWest. I changed to USEast (without any hardware/software configuration changes) and haven't had a problem since. Also, like you, iCCup works fine for me.