EPT- Buy a copy of Windows XP
- Install VirtualBox
- Create a Windows XP virtual machine.
- Run the Windows XP VM in full-screen mode with keyboard/mouse captured.
- Install Brood War.
You can even get IPX for LAN!
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lemmata
468 Posts
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Lightswarm
Canada967 Posts
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xboi209
United States1173 Posts
On January 26 2015 07:01 lemmata wrote: I have a solution that works perfectly for me, even without launchers. Brood War works better than it ever did before.
You can even get IPX for LAN! So you need to buy a copy of an outdated OS to just play this one game. Not only that, your computer needs to be able to handle running that second OS and playing SC smoothly. While this could work for some people, it's not ideal. | ||
FlaShFTW
United States10253 Posts
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xboi209
United States1173 Posts
On January 27 2015 16:06 FlaShFTW wrote: is anyone else's text fucked up? like if i go to the game menu and i click on different games, the text will overlap. same with trying to view someone's profile in the lobby. if i view, it overlaps the chat boxes and i can no longer see the chat and stuff. This is normal for Windows 8, start using WMode | ||
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Hesmyrr
Canada5776 Posts
On January 26 2015 07:01 lemmata wrote: I have a solution that works perfectly for me, even without launchers. Brood War works better than it ever did before.
You can even get IPX for LAN! Is Window XP even safe to run? I keep Window XP drive but refuse to enable any network functionality at all due to the discontinued support. | ||
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endy
Switzerland8970 Posts
On January 27 2015 16:06 FlaShFTW wrote: is anyone else's text fucked up? like if i go to the game menu and i click on different games, the text will overlap. same with trying to view someone's profile in the lobby. if i view, it overlaps the chat boxes and i can no longer see the chat and stuff. You'll get used to it. I prefer that than the quirks we had with Win7. | ||
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Lazare1969
United States318 Posts
On January 28 2015 01:51 Hesmyrr wrote: Is Window XP even safe to run? I keep Window XP drive but refuse to enable any network functionality at all due to the discontinued support. No, it is now reserved for adventurers, swashbucklers and daredevils. It is also highly flammable and may cause effects such as delayed metabolic acidosis, blindness, and death. | ||
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FlaShFTW
United States10253 Posts
On January 28 2015 01:43 xboi209 wrote: This is normal for Windows 8, start using WMode cant. windows mode is way too small for me :/ | ||
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xboi209
United States1173 Posts
On January 28 2015 01:51 Hesmyrr wrote: Is Window XP even safe to run? I keep Window XP drive but refuse to enable any network functionality at all due to the discontinued support. No it isn't but since you'd be running it in a VM, you have nothing to worry about unless personal/sensitive data is in your VM. On January 28 2015 03:50 FlaShFTW wrote: cant. windows mode is way too small for me :/ You can double the resolution | ||
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ScOULaris
26 Posts
Okay... so I can except garbled Bnet menus as long as I can play the actual game, but there's one last problem that I feel like I haven't seen mentioned around here. There is a considerable delay when telling a unit to perform an action. I loaded up the game on an old Windows 7 laptop just to make sure I wasn't imagining things. It's not mouse lag. The game responds to my mouse immediately when it comes to animating the reticle whenever I click somewhere on the terrain, but units have what feels like a full second delay before they react to the command. Has anyone else encountered this? | ||
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B-royal
Belgium1330 Posts
On June 10 2015 22:27 ScOULaris wrote: Alright, I'm trying my damnedest to get Brood War functioning adequately on my Windows 8.1 machine. It seems like every solution to one problem requires conceding another. At first the game felt choppy, but running it with the ddemulate flag fixed that. Then I wanted to have working Bnet menus, so I used window mode in Chaoslauncher... but ddemulate doesn't work within the launcher. Okay... so I can except garbled Bnet menus as long as I can play the actual game, but there's one last problem that I feel like I haven't seen mentioned around here. There is a considerable delay when telling a unit to perform an action. I loaded up the game on an old Windows 7 laptop just to make sure I wasn't imagining things. It's not mouse lag. The game responds to my mouse immediately when it comes to animating the reticle whenever I click somewhere on the terrain, but units have what feels like a full second delay before they react to the command. Has anyone else encountered this? How are you launching the game? Are you playing online or single player? Are you playing online versus the computer? Do you have LAN latency enabled? I tried playing online versus the computer once and it gave me a delay of around 1 second. When you play versus human opponents on the other hand and have LAN latency enabled, it feels amazing. | ||
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ScOULaris
26 Posts
I was playing by myself on Bnet when testing this out this morning, and it did basically feel like latency. Actual game performance was fine, but the delay between my actions and my units' movements felt like latency. Maybe I need to forward some ports? I remember having to do that on my old Windows 7 laptop, but I haven't done it on my windows 8.1 machine yet. I don't want to use the LAN Latency trick since it's technically a hack. | ||
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vOdToasT
Sweden2870 Posts
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xboi209
United States1173 Posts
On June 11 2015 00:51 ScOULaris wrote: Maybe I need to forward some ports? I remember having to do that on my old Windows 7 laptop, but I haven't done it on my windows 8.1 machine yet. I don't want to use the LAN Latency trick since it's technically a hack. You don't need to forward your ports for this, it's normal for that slight latency delay. You need to use the LatencyChanger if you want to decrease the built-in latency, yes it is technically a hack however all players in the game must use it or else disconnects will occur, so no one will have an advantage. | ||
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B-royal
Belgium1330 Posts
On June 11 2015 00:51 ScOULaris wrote: I am just launching the game normally as administrator with a shortcut using the ddemulate flag at the moment. Full screen, no window mode. I was playing by myself on Bnet when testing this out this morning, and it did basically feel like latency. Actual game performance was fine, but the delay between my actions and my units' movements felt like latency. Maybe I need to forward some ports? I remember having to do that on my old Windows 7 laptop, but I haven't done it on my windows 8.1 machine yet. I don't want to use the LAN Latency trick since it's technically a hack. Just to make sure... you are playing through the iccup gateway? | ||
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ScOULaris
26 Posts
On June 11 2015 06:42 B-royal wrote: Just to make sure... you are playing through the iccup gateway? No. Just USEast because that's where the last vestiges of the UMS community seem to remain. Does anyone play UMS on the ICCup servers? | ||
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xboi209
United States1173 Posts
On June 11 2015 07:14 ScOULaris wrote: No. Just USEast because that's where the last vestiges of the UMS community seem to remain. Does anyone play UMS on the ICCup servers? Barely, I would recommend US East for UMS. And if you're going to be on US East, I would also recommend using wDetector as an antihack. | ||
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ScOULaris
26 Posts
On June 11 2015 07:17 xboi209 wrote: Barely, I would recommend US East for UMS. And if you're going to be on US East, I would also recommend using wDetector as an antihack. Okay. Is it possible to connect to US East through a launcher like mca64? Looks like I can only connect to either ICC or Fish through it. Edit: Nevermind, I figured out how. | ||
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TelecoM
United States10686 Posts
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