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StarCraft Brood War Windows 7 Color Fix (registry) - Page 2

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shubcraft
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Germany145 Posts
December 05 2012 18:46 GMT
#21
When it comes to bw crashing randomly i advise to not run your own music in backgrund, eg winamp, itunes or windows media player, this prevented crashes for me.
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pebble444
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
Italy2503 Posts
December 05 2012 18:58 GMT
#22
On December 06 2012 03:46 shubcraft wrote:
When it comes to bw crashing randomly i advise to not run your own music in backgrund, eg winamp, itunes or windows media player, this prevented crashes for me.


My sc used to randomly crash when i had skype(and only skype) open, no idea why, but then i just re-install it and it went fine afterward (w7)
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NbSky
Profile Joined August 2007
Canada1023 Posts
December 05 2012 19:30 GMT
#23
now if only i could play sc in wide screen
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quirinus
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
Croatia2489 Posts
December 05 2012 21:52 GMT
#24
The BW crashing thing is mostly on W7 64-bit, old version. If you install some newer version/build it won't crash anymore. At least that's what worked for me. (I read somewhere that they added more support for programs like StarCraft later.)
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[sc1f]eonzerg
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
Belgium6967 Posts
December 05 2012 23:32 GMT
#25
the servipack 1 fix all those problems
xboi209
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
United States1173 Posts
December 05 2012 23:59 GMT
#26
Yeah I noticed color issue was gone after a bunch of windows updates on my vista computer
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dRaW
Profile Blog Joined January 2010
Canada5744 Posts
December 06 2012 00:20 GMT
#27
not related but anyone know how to fix this problem I am having where, if I have skype open, the game of BW ends it crashes? (I believe it's from trying to re-size from BW to skype program)
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amazingxkcd
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
GRAND OLD AMERICA16375 Posts
December 06 2012 00:45 GMT
#28
On December 06 2012 09:20 dRaW wrote:
not related but anyone know how to fix this problem I am having where, if I have skype open, the game of BW ends it crashes? (I believe it's from trying to re-size from BW to skype program)

Set skype to dnd mode
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dRaW
Profile Blog Joined January 2010
Canada5744 Posts
December 06 2012 01:40 GMT
#29
On December 06 2012 09:45 amazingxkcd wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 06 2012 09:20 dRaW wrote:
not related but anyone know how to fix this problem I am having where, if I have skype open, the game of BW ends it crashes? (I believe it's from trying to re-size from BW to skype program)

Set skype to dnd mode


thanks, tried and still crashed. Didn't used to happen T_T maybe it was a skype update...
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Assault_1
Profile Joined April 2009
Canada1950 Posts
December 06 2012 01:56 GMT
#30
Thx, it worked. It also fixed the icons in windows mode.
Heres what his 64bit reg contains incase anyone is scared to dl it:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\DirectDraw\Compatibility\Starcraft116]
"Flags"=hex:00,08,00,00
"Name"="Starcraft.exe"
"ID"=hex:ca,89,65,49
TelecoM
Profile Blog Joined January 2010
United States10721 Posts
December 06 2012 02:59 GMT
#31
Does this work on windows 8?
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Gendo
Profile Joined June 2012
United Kingdom216 Posts
December 06 2012 07:19 GMT
#32
Nice, used to work decently in full screen (4:3) now it goes only widescreen (good colors) but unplayable..what did i do?
WhuazGoodJaggah
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
Lesotho777 Posts
December 06 2012 09:42 GMT
#33
On December 06 2012 16:19 Gendo wrote:
Nice, used to work decently in full screen (4:3) now it goes only widescreen (good colors) but unplayable..what did i do?


Choose fixed aspect ration in your graphics driver software.
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quirinus
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
Croatia2489 Posts
December 06 2012 10:02 GMT
#34
On December 06 2012 11:59 GGzerG wrote:
Does this work on windows 8?


I think I read somewhere that W8 has support for old programs like StarCraft. Try going to properties and compatibility mode and search for color palette support or something like that.

Otherwise I think W7 reg might work anyway.
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WGT-Baal
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
France3484 Posts
December 06 2012 11:55 GMT
#35
Thank you!!!!
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FFW_Rude
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
France10201 Posts
December 06 2012 12:46 GMT
#36
God that's awesome !
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WhuazGoodJaggah
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
Lesotho777 Posts
December 06 2012 14:39 GMT
#37
On December 06 2012 10:40 dRaW wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 06 2012 09:45 amazingxkcd wrote:
On December 06 2012 09:20 dRaW wrote:
not related but anyone know how to fix this problem I am having where, if I have skype open, the game of BW ends it crashes? (I believe it's from trying to re-size from BW to skype program)

Set skype to dnd mode


thanks, tried and still crashed. Didn't used to happen T_T maybe it was a skype update...


uninstall that piece of shit software = no more crashes.
small dicks have great firepower
Falling
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
Canada11513 Posts
December 09 2012 20:04 GMT
#38
Maybe this isn't the best place for this question as it is probably unrelated, but it did seem to first show up after using the color fix.

Has anyone else had Starcraft open a lot slower recently? Like a full minute or more after double clicking on the icon, it'll readjust the display ratio, but then nothing else will happen for at least a minute if not more. I actually think it's taking longer and longer these days. Everything else works with the game. It goes perfectly fast and shutsdown properly. And switching back and forth with alt-tab and the like works fine. But the intial opening has gotten super slow.
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ChinaGreenTea
Profile Joined September 2010
Netherlands49 Posts
December 09 2012 23:47 GMT
#39
On December 10 2012 05:04 Falling wrote:
Maybe this isn't the best place for this question as it is probably unrelated, but it did seem to first show up after using the color fix.

Has anyone else had Starcraft open a lot slower recently? Like a full minute or more after double clicking on the icon, it'll readjust the display ratio, but then nothing else will happen for at least a minute if not more. I actually think it's taking longer and longer these days. Everything else works with the game. It goes perfectly fast and shutsdown properly. And switching back and forth with alt-tab and the like works fine. But the intial opening has gotten super slow.

I have. The only way I solved it was reinstalling Windows 7, don't know what causes it... Maybe it has to do with SCBW being old software and Win7 doesn't like old games.
xboi209
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
United States1173 Posts
December 10 2012 04:04 GMT
#40
On December 10 2012 05:04 Falling wrote:
Maybe this isn't the best place for this question as it is probably unrelated, but it did seem to first show up after using the color fix.

Has anyone else had Starcraft open a lot slower recently? Like a full minute or more after double clicking on the icon, it'll readjust the display ratio, but then nothing else will happen for at least a minute if not more. I actually think it's taking longer and longer these days. Everything else works with the game. It goes perfectly fast and shutsdown properly. And switching back and forth with alt-tab and the like works fine. But the intial opening has gotten super slow.

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