I just installed Windows 8.1 and tried playing Broodwar but I'm having some video issues. Every button has a black box as the background in the middle, instead of being one solid color. And when I click on say "Join" I can only see the game list partially, the other half is obscured. Scoured the forums and Google and couldn't find anyone else having this issue.

Any advice?

cpc

Australia126 Posts

April 05 2014 01:33 GMT

From my experience in game it works just fine but the bnet interface is bad unless in window mode and then it will look fine

xboi209

United States1173 Posts

April 05 2014 03:09 GMT

Window mode is the only practical solution

JieXian

Malaysia4677 Posts

April 05 2014 05:18 GMT

Same here, I'm looking for a solution because windows mode isn't fun

fabiano

Brazil4644 Posts

April 05 2014 18:22 GMT

If you reduce your desktop resolution to 800x600 or 640x480 windows mode = fullscreen basically

JieXian

Malaysia4677 Posts

April 08 2014 01:46 GMT

I can't do it, the mininum for me is 1024 x 768
I have another problem. When I alt tab and when i restore I get a blank black screen with everything else responding..

......And my iccup results don't register but that's for another thread

endy

Switzerland8970 Posts

April 08 2014 02:04 GMT

I don't have any issue running BW with Win 8.1. I checked the boxes to run it in 640*480 and disable DPI scaling.
However, the mouse behavior is significantly different in Win 8.1 so I kept my old WinXP computer only for BW.

JieXian

Malaysia4677 Posts

May 10 2014 07:49 GMT

On April 08 2014 10:46 JieXian wrote:
I can't do it, the mininum for me is 1024 x 768
I have another problem. When I alt tab and when i restore I get a blank black screen with everything else responding..

......And my iccup results don't register but that's for another thread

I've fixed the alt tab problem by setting compatibility settings to Vista sp2! (was win98 previously)

hp.Shell

United States2527 Posts

May 10 2014 22:12 GMT

If you have nvidia card, you might try going to nvidia control panel. Under Display > Adjust desktop size and position, you can change the scaling to "no scaling" - this will allow you to play in fullscreen with a game size of the original 1x windowed size. I have a 1920x1080 monitor and I play this way. It's basically just an easy way to cover the entire screen in black, then overlay the game screen from windowed in the center of the black screen.

parkin

1082 Posts

May 10 2014 22:21 GMT

#10

Install virtualbox and make a linux virtualization with wine and broodwar.

Mindcrime

United States6899 Posts

May 10 2014 22:54 GMT

#11

On May 11 2014 07:21 parkin wrote:
Install virtualbox and make a linux virtualization with wine and broodwar.

lol

that's a terrible idea

Falling

Canada11379 Posts

May 11 2014 04:59 GMT

#12

Anyone had a completely black screen with windows 8? We got it working randomly, but I have no idea what temporarily fixed it. All I know is most of the time it doesn't work at all. This isn't the colour artifact problem where you either end exlorer.exe or have a black destop and pull up screen resolution. The entire screen was black despite running all the win xp compatability, etc.

JieXian

Malaysia4677 Posts

May 11 2014 05:23 GMT

#13

On May 11 2014 13:59 Falling wrote:
Anyone had a completely black screen with windows 8? We got it working randomly, but I have no idea what temporarily fixed it. All I know is most of the time it doesn't work at all. This isn't the colour artifact problem where you either end exlorer.exe or have a black destop and pull up screen resolution. The entire screen was black despite running all the win xp compatability, etc.

Try vista sp2 compatibility, disable display scaling, run in 640x480 resolution. That worked for me. I have had the same problems with other compatibility settings too. It still has some minor problems and I'll try it out with sp1 or something later, but the major problem of having a blank screen is solved.

On May 11 2014 07:12 hp.Shell wrote:
If you have nvidia card, you might try going to nvidia control panel. Under Display > Adjust desktop size and position, you can change the scaling to "no scaling" - this will allow you to play in fullscreen with a game size of the original 1x windowed size. I have a 1920x1080 monitor and I play this way. It's basically just an easy way to cover the entire screen in black, then overlay the game screen from windowed in the center of the black screen.

I don't have that option and I can't disable it with dell graphics setup : /

InSaYnE

3 Posts

June 15 2014 05:46 GMT

#14

Hey guys ive been wanting to get back into some rts action so i busted out my starcraft and broodwar so i can beat them down before upgrading to starcraft 2. i have windows 8.1 and the game launches and runs. the color is fine and i can get into campaign and everything but everything is choppy. mouse input in menus is all over the place. if a building is building anything in game the game is choppy. scrolling the map feels choppy too. its basically unplayable like this. Ive been googling for hours and cant seem to get it fixed. Ive seen a few threads on your board and figured maybe you guys know something i dont.

InSaYnE

3 Posts

June 15 2014 06:17 GMT

#15

So i stumbled upon a fix for my choppy game play. i just turned off the facial animations when there's an in game message and low and behold it works great.

chrisolo

Germany2609 Posts

June 15 2014 08:21 GMT

#16

On June 15 2014 14:46 InSaYnE wrote:
Hey guys ive been wanting to get back into some rts action so i busted out my starcraft and broodwar so i can beat them down before upgrading to starcraft 2.

thats downgrading bro!

xboi209

United States1173 Posts

June 15 2014 09:06 GMT

#17

On June 15 2014 14:46 InSaYnE wrote:
Hey guys ive been wanting to get back into some rts action so i busted out my starcraft and broodwar so i can beat them down before upgrading to starcraft 2. i have windows 8.1 and the game launches and runs. the color is fine and i can get into campaign and everything but everything is choppy. mouse input in menus is all over the place. if a building is building anything in game the game is choppy. scrolling the map feels choppy too. its basically unplayable like this. Ive been googling for hours and cant seem to get it fixed. Ive seen a few threads on your board and figured maybe you guys know something i dont.

"this is Windows 8 fix to resolve graphic lag
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Lobby will be messed, but no more lag. This uses Koget for streaming. Explorer.exe will be killed + others things. On close launcher or check DWM again will be all restored"
-mca64

InSaYnE

3 Posts

June 15 2014 14:16 GMT

#18

launcher works perfectly i doubt ill be playing online though. i haven't played starcraft since i was about12. which means my ass would be spoon fed to me on a silver platter.

Malkiyah

Russian Federation92 Posts

January 25 2015 21:13 GMT

#19

I've installed Windows 10 Technical Preview, same shit in lobby
Seems no way to fix that

xboi209

United States1173 Posts

January 25 2015 21:24 GMT

#20

On January 26 2015 06:13 Malkiyah wrote:
I've installed Windows 10 Technical Preview, same shit in lobby
Seems no way to fix that

We're lucky that it didn't get worse at least