On October 15 2011 17:35 Relickey wrote: Still no windows 7 fix? uh, I guess I'll post it in case you decide to edit it in later.
Windows 7 needs a fix explorer.exe fucks with the colors on Brood War, and will make everything discolored and harder to see. Here's how to fix it:
1. Open Notepad 2. Type in (remove the quotation marks) "taskkill /f /IM explorer.exe ping 127.0.0.1 -n 2 rem Wait for the game to quit, press Enter to continue pause start explorer.exe exit" 3. save as StarCraft.bat
This this will start up a command prompt window that will kill explorer.exe, and when you want to start explorer.exe up again you just click on the window and hit any key. There's one floating around on iccup that automatically starts up the iccup launcher, but I use both Minilauncher and Iccup so this is what I use, and supplement it with my Rocketdock, because it doesn't get closed out with explorer.exe
On October 15 2011 17:35 Relickey wrote: Still no windows 7 fix? uh, I guess I'll post it in case you decide to edit it in later.
Windows 7 needs a fix explorer.exe fucks with the colors on Brood War, and will make everything discolored and harder to see. Here's how to fix it:
1. Open Notepad 2. Type in (remove the quotation marks) "taskkill /f /IM explorer.exe ping 127.0.0.1 -n 2 rem Wait for the game to quit, press Enter to continue pause start explorer.exe exit" 3. save as StarCraft.bat
This this will start up a command prompt window that will kill explorer.exe, and when you want to start explorer.exe up again you just click on the window and hit any key. There's one floating around on iccup that automatically starts up the iccup launcher, but I use both Minilauncher and Iccup so this is what I use, and supplement it with my Rocketdock, because it doesn't get closed out with explorer.exe
@L_Master In the spoiler for "Where to get BW" can you put something along the lines like "It's suggested that you buy the full game for single player experience and Battle.net" or something along those lines to satisfy those uncomfortable with your link.
Also, will the Beginner Guide to BW have anything to do with strats or is that for another thread?
On October 16 2011 05:36 NationInArms wrote: @L_Master In the spoiler for "Where to get BW" can you put something along the lines like "It's suggested that you buy the full game for single player experience and Battle.net" or something along those lines to satisfy those uncomfortable with your link.
Also, will the Beginner Guide to BW have anything to do with strats or is that for another thread?
It should probably just direct people to Liquipedia, no sense in re-writing alot of what's already there.
On October 16 2011 05:36 NationInArms wrote: @L_Master In the spoiler for "Where to get BW" can you put something along the lines like "It's suggested that you buy the full game for single player experience and Battle.net" or something along those lines to satisfy those uncomfortable with your link.
Also, will the Beginner Guide to BW have anything to do with strats or is that for another thread?
It should probably just direct people to Liquipedia, no sense in re-writing alot of what's already there.
Well, yeah I know that, but there are some good threads out there like Recommended Thread (which is stickied) so I was wondering if he was going to do a recommended thread of his own or just link to liquipedia and Recommended Threads(which is a little outdated).
My apologies for the lack of updates and responses to the thread. It's been a hectic last week (20 credit hours is pretty brutal) with alot of stuff going on.
Thanks for the color fix, it has been added to the OP! I wasn't even thinking about that since the colors only apply to menu/loading screen/etc and aren't whacked out in game.
On October 16 2011 05:36 NationInArms wrote: @L_Master In the spoiler for "Where to get BW" can you put something along the lines like "It's suggested that you buy the full game for single player experience and Battle.net" or something along those lines to satisfy those uncomfortable with your link.
Also, will the Beginner Guide to BW have anything to do with strats or is that for another thread?
It should probably just direct people to Liquipedia, no sense in re-writing alot of what's already there.
Yes, the links will be to relevant liquipedia content, VODs, replays, etc. Not only would it make for monstrously long spoiler texts, there would be no reason to just copy paste from liquipedia/elsewhere.
On October 15 2011 10:49 dAPhREAk wrote: odd. beginner's guide to sc1 starts with how to steal the game....
Not really, considering everyone plays on iccup. Blizzard even mentioned one of their tournaments or something once ages ago and seemed to support it. It seems a bit more odd to me you were trying to give the guide a negative stigma :/
its illegal and tl.net does not allow you to post links to illegal downloads. so, yes, i do find it odd that you would start a beginner's guide by linking to a place to steal the game.
btw, the reason iccup.tv is no longer called iccup for sc2 is because blizzard does not in fact agree with what they did with sc1. i could link you to hundreds of posts where people complain that sc2 doesnt have lan support. any idea why there is no lan support?
You don't know anything about the sc1 scene do you. Almost all servers that were ever competitive (going back to 2001) were 2nd hand servers. or illegal as you call them.
The fact that I think nobody condones to download it illegally. The fact is we want people to buy the battlechest (which is less than $20) we want people to support sc1. We know a lot of people don't want to spend the money. So we link to where you can download the game.
i said pirating the game was illegal, not playing on other servers (which i believe is also against the EULA, but am not sure so I won't comment on).
as for pirating, not only are you violating the law, but you violate tl.net's rules by linking to an illegal downloading site.
so, i am not sure why you are getting so agro about it; and, i have been playing sc1 since 1998 and warcraft 2 before that. so, don't get all uppity about your supposed involvement in sc1.
People were getting hostile because you came in here with what many saw as a hyper aggressive tone. If you had started off with "OP, I'm under the impression the iccup starcraft download was illegal, were you aware of that?" then I don't think anyone would have had a problem.
However, I was under the impression that blizzard was okay with, or at the very least chose to allow, the ICC download. It's important to realize that it isn't the full game, and includes just the bare bones required for online play. Things like the campaign, music, etc is absent.
If TL isn't okay with illegal downloads and the ICC version IS in fact illegal I'm sure the mods will let me know to remove the link.
On October 16 2011 05:36 NationInArms wrote: @L_Master In the spoiler for "Where to get BW" can you put something along the lines like "It's suggested that you buy the full game for single player experience and Battle.net" or something along those lines to satisfy those uncomfortable with your link.
Also, will the Beginner Guide to BW have anything to do with strats or is that for another thread?
IF we are bumping this, I think it's worth mentioning that there is a superior solution to the windows 7 color issues than the killing explorer.exe mentioned in the OP: Use w7ddpatcher.
On December 22 2011 12:27 keyStorm wrote: where do i put the maps from the mappack?
In your Starcraft folder you'll find another folder called maps, open that up and there should be another folder named download, stick them in that folder.
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