I have to big monitor to play StarCraft comfortably (even when I set mouse on 4000DPI t.t) so playing in window is must-be option. I am planning to play on ICCup this evening but damn - I do not see window mode in launcher (I think that launcher detects Adv as hack so I will not even try). I always thought that ICC launcher have window mode option, but now I cannot find it. Maybe I am blind or I just missed this. Is there any way to have window mode while playing ICC with launcher?

Goosey

United States695 Posts

July 18 2008 17:02 GMT

You arn't going blind, ICCup launcher has a limited feature set.

It would be fantastic if ICCup could open up to all chaoslauncher plugins, or at least keep an approved list they could verify with hash checks or something. APMAlert, windowed mode, etc.. So many great plugins you can not use on ICCUP. :|

Blu-Ray

Poland93 Posts

July 18 2008 17:05 GMT

Yeah, playing without windowed mode is NIGHTMARE for me. My minerals and gas are always above 500, more likely 1000 I cannot macro that much and I have problems with seeing minimap and battle at one time (so I do not see incoming drops or so). This is so annoying that I play only with window mode on this computer. Ah that would be great if ICCup will add only few, just few features like this... T.T

United States2898 Posts

July 18 2008 17:07 GMT

Well a big reason they limit some plugins is to keep cheating to a minimum on iccup.

MasterOfChaos

Germany2896 Posts

July 18 2008 20:31 GMT

It is possible, but you are walking on very thin ice if you do it, as W-Mode is not an allowed plugin on ICCup.
You have to copy the iccscbn.icc to the chaoslauncher directory AND change the file extension to ".bwl". Then you can enable/disable plugins by hand. If you enable the wrong plugins, you probably will be banned. W-Mode worked for me without triggering the AH, but don't cry if you get banned.
Chaosplugin, W-Mode and CPU-Savior should work, but Chaosplugin is the only one which is officially allowed.

Shauni

4077 Posts

July 18 2008 21:38 GMT

You don't have any fixed aspect ratio scaling on your screen or graphic card settings?

Tudazul

Brazil400 Posts

July 18 2008 23:03 GMT

use chaoslauncher

Blu-Ray

Poland93 Posts

July 19 2008 08:59 GMT

Hey, Tudazul but I wanna play ICCup with antihack and I do not know how to launch 2 launchers at 1 time. Generally I will think about MasterOfChaos way -> I am gonna check, ask admin etc.

blagoonga123

United States2068 Posts

July 19 2008 09:12 GMT

haha so giant monitors can be bad too?

Maybe I won't get a 24" @_@

Ancestral

United States3230 Posts

July 19 2008 09:12 GMT

#10

StarCraft is at 640x480, it doesn't matter what your screen size is. If you play in a window or
fullscreen, the mouse will move the same portion of the StarCraft screen given a certain amount of mouse movement.

Just sit farther away.

Emptyeye

United States34 Posts

July 19 2008 16:42 GMT

#11

If the problem in the OP is what I think it is, there should be some setting along the lines of "full screen" (No border). That's what I had to set it to to make the StarCraft playing area full screen. In Vista (Yeah, yeah, I know), it was right-click the desktop/Graphics Options/Panel Fit/Full Screen.

kdog3683

United States916 Posts

July 28 2008 18:31 GMT

#12

On July 19 2008 05:31 MasterOfChaos wrote:
It is possible, but you are walking on very thin ice if you do it, as W-Mode is not an allowed plugin on ICCup.
You have to copy the iccscbn.icc to the chaoslauncher directory AND change the file extension to ".bwl". Then you can enable/disable plugins by hand. If you enable the wrong plugins, you probably will be banned. W-Mode worked for me without triggering the AH, but don't cry if you get banned.
Chaosplugin, W-Mode and CPU-Savior should work, but Chaosplugin is the only one which is officially allowed.

Vista Won't let me change the .icc to .bwl for some reason.

Can sombody upload iccscbn.icc as iccscbn.bwl?

Raithed

China7078 Posts

July 28 2008 18:37 GMT

#13

id recommend sitting further away im happy with 15" screen, any more than that and id just blah. too big.

MasterOfChaos

Germany2896 Posts

July 28 2008 18:40 GMT

#14

On July 29 2008 03:31 kdog3683 wrote:

Show nested quote +

Vista Won't let me change the .icc to .bwl for some reason.

Can sombody upload iccscbn.icc as iccscbn.bwl?

enable "show file extensions for known files" somewhere in the explorer settings. Or rename it on the command prompt.

memmypoker

119 Posts

July 28 2008 18:55 GMT

#15

On July 29 2008 03:37 Raithed wrote:
id recommend sitting further away im happy with 15" screen, any more than that and id just blah. too big.

:D:D iv got 17" laptop and its fine too

kdog3683

United States916 Posts

July 28 2008 18:56 GMT

#16

On July 29 2008 03:40 MasterOfChaos wrote:

Show nested quote +

enable "show file extensions for known files" somewhere in the explorer settings. Or rename it on the command prompt.

Thanks I got it.

Anyway to play Chaos Launcher - ICCup without CD? xD

MasterOfChaos

Germany2896 Posts

July 28 2008 19:08 GMT

#17

Blizzard included a NOCD in 1.15.2. Simply copy Install.exe from the cd to the sc directory and rename it to broodwar.mpq. There are also mini broodwar.mpqs available, but these don't include music, and I don't know where to find them.

kdog3683

United States916 Posts

July 28 2008 20:07 GMT

#18

Thanks again got it xD

Edit:

Question about Windowed mode:

@ the top right, I see 5 Icons.

THe 2 on the right are Close, and minimize.

What are the 3 on the left?