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xboi209
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
United States1173 Posts
December 12 2015 23:05 GMT
#21
On December 13 2015 07:40 skern49 wrote:
Is this designed to fix the supposed lag inherent in Windows 7? Or is just for graphical purposes?

Windows 7 doesn't introduce any (noticeable) lag, so no.
http://www.reddit.com/r/broodwar/
endy
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
Switzerland8970 Posts
December 12 2015 23:43 GMT
#22
fix the graphics for me with Win8.1 but also adds a lag that makes the game unplayable. Makes the game feel like CPU is at 100% usage while it's not.
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xboi209
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
United States1173 Posts
December 12 2015 23:54 GMT
#23
On December 13 2015 08:43 endy wrote:
fix the graphics for me with Win8.1 but also adds a lag that makes the game unplayable. Makes the game feel like CPU is at 100% usage while it's not.

Is CPU Throttling enabled or disabled? Can you try toggling it?
http://www.reddit.com/r/broodwar/
endy
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
Switzerland8970 Posts
December 13 2015 00:06 GMT
#24
I've tried that already and it didn't help.
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AleXoundOS
Profile Joined January 2011
Georgia458 Posts
December 13 2015 13:01 GMT
#25
Interesting how it will behave under Wine, and will it affect performance and battlenet menus.
https://bwapi.github.io - An API for interacting with Starcraft: Broodwar (1.16.1)
LaStScan
Profile Joined May 2011
Korea (South)1289 Posts
December 13 2015 14:50 GMT
#26
I will make a personal feedback very soon with a few videos provided.
Trying my best for ASL, ASTL
Cele
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
Germany4016 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-12-13 16:00:45
December 13 2015 15:36 GMT
#27
On December 13 2015 08:54 xboi209 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 13 2015 08:43 endy wrote:
fix the graphics for me with Win8.1 but also adds a lag that makes the game unplayable. Makes the game feel like CPU is at 100% usage while it's not.

Is CPU Throttling enabled or disabled? Can you try toggling it?


i don't have that active too. The lag reduced greatly for me when i switched off the DDRAW Emulation in the MCA Launcher, but it still was notable. And too notable to really feel comfortable playing.
Broodwar for life!
LaStScan
Profile Joined May 2011
Korea (South)1289 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-12-13 15:44:00
December 13 2015 15:41 GMT
#28

1. DDraw.dll made my StarCraft feels heavy/slow.
2. My StarCraft took a while to load in the beginning.
3. My StarCraft felt like running LESS frame.
4. Words seem blurry in the channel.

Shows a clear difference at 1:40 and 7:10 (Sweeping screen with the keyboard arrows)
Overall, I felt like I had ddemulate on. ddemulate makes my StarCraft run slower.
Trying my best for ASL, ASTL
mca64Launcher_
Profile Joined June 2015
Poland629 Posts
December 13 2015 16:12 GMT
#29
set seccond graphic card for a launcher. Should helps
Cele
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
Germany4016 Posts
December 13 2015 16:14 GMT
#30
On December 14 2015 01:12 mca64Launcher_ wrote:
set seccond graphic card for a launcher. Should helps



don't understand what you mean. Can you explain in detail?
Broodwar for life!
mca64Launcher_
Profile Joined June 2015
Poland629 Posts
December 13 2015 16:24 GMT
#31
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chrisolo
Profile Joined May 2009
Germany2609 Posts
December 13 2015 18:00 GMT
#32
Thanks. Seems to be working nice for me. Only that the font seems to be a little bit blurry, but I can live with that.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ - aka cReAtiVee
xboi209
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
United States1173 Posts
December 13 2015 20:06 GMT
#33
http://www.mediafire.com/download/2ho98h6n547l8t8/ddraw_02.zip
Blurry fonts have been fixed.
http://www.reddit.com/r/broodwar/
Glioburd
Profile Joined April 2008
France1911 Posts
December 13 2015 20:45 GMT
#34
Thanks for your work Xboi !
"You should hate loosing, but you should never fear defeat." NaDa.
xboi209
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
United States1173 Posts
December 13 2015 22:36 GMT
#35
On December 14 2015 05:45 Glioburd wrote:
Thanks for your work Xboi !

Credits go to Aqrit
http://www.reddit.com/r/broodwar/
outscar
Profile Joined September 2014
2832 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-12-14 00:19:27
December 13 2015 22:52 GMT
#36
On December 14 2015 01:12 mca64Launcher_ wrote:
set seccond graphic card for a launcher. Should helps


Switching between them didn't help, I got integrated and modern driver. I think setting latest NVIDIA modern driver for 98 game is silly.

On December 14 2015 05:06 xboi209 wrote:
http://www.mediafire.com/download/2ho98h6n547l8t8/ddraw_02.zip
Blurry fonts have been fixed.


For me blurred fonts were fine, they looked nicer, looked like Microsoft font thing which makes easy to read things.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ClearType
But if you have use glasses sure it's bad and differs.

Basically Scan in his video showed everything I wanted to say. It feels like I'm using some other mouse with other speed/DPI and other mouse pad. Sure it's playable but that's not right, it messes with your control bad and you can't ladder. Maybe it made for Warcraft 2 or whatever game of Blizzard and not compatible with BW. So I'm taking back my word about implementing this dll to mca64launcher because mca's Emulate DirectDraw option is hundred times better and not giving a lag.
sunbeams are never made like me...
mca64Launcher_
Profile Joined June 2015
Poland629 Posts
December 14 2015 00:03 GMT
#37
for me also lags on win 7
Glioburd
Profile Joined April 2008
France1911 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-12-14 00:25:31
December 14 2015 00:25 GMT
#38
On December 14 2015 07:36 xboi209 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 14 2015 05:45 Glioburd wrote:
Thanks for your work Xboi !

Credits go to Aqrit

Oh indeed, my bad, thanks Aqrit then ! :p
"You should hate loosing, but you should never fear defeat." NaDa.
chrisolo
Profile Joined May 2009
Germany2609 Posts
December 14 2015 08:32 GMT
#39
On December 14 2015 05:06 xboi209 wrote:
http://www.mediafire.com/download/2ho98h6n547l8t8/ddraw_02.zip
Blurry fonts have been fixed.


Thanks, much better now.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ - aka cReAtiVee
B-royal
Profile Joined May 2015
Belgium1330 Posts
December 16 2015 22:25 GMT
#40
I have a windows 8 laptop on which brood war only plays as a small screen in the upper left corner of the monitor. I gave this a try, but it didn't fix it unfortunately.
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