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Windows 7 + BW color problems?

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-orb-
Profile Blog Joined September 2007
United States5770 Posts
January 18 2009 01:46 GMT
#1
So I just installed Windows 7 beta, and I'm liking it in a number of ways.

However, I noticed when I play starcraft I'm getting this weird color messup (kind of like when you alt tab a lot and sometimes it gets messed up with weird colors), except on XP whenever that happened, it went away once I got into the game. This time I tried making a game and it was still partially there (the most notable place was the edges of fog of war... there was like this white line around the edges, it was pretty annoying).

I tried going into compatibility modes, and I tried running in 256 colors in the compatibility tab, but nothing will fix it T_T

Does anyone know how to fix this problem? Does anyone else with the windows 7 beta have this problem?
'life of lively to live to life of full life thx to shield battery'
how sad that sc2 has no shield battery :(
Shadowfury333
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
Canada314 Posts
January 18 2009 01:51 GMT
#2
This was a problem with Vista/XP until 1.15.3, so it is probably the same issue until Blizzard releases a patch to fix that colour issue as well. However, it seems odd that they would have too, since the impression I got from the 1.15.3 patch was that the colour processing code was changed to allow for systems without the correct 8-bit colour palette. Maybe Windows 7 has a different palette again. Strange.

PM R1CH, he'd know.
Darkness called...but I was on the phone, so I missed him. I tried to *69 darkness, but his machine picked up. I yelled "Pick up the phone, Darkness", but he ignored me. Darkness must have been screening his calls.
Ramsing
Profile Joined July 2007
Canada233 Posts
January 18 2009 02:11 GMT
#3
I'm not sure if this will work but whenever that happens to me with alt+tabbing usually you can fix the problem by just alt tabbing again and the problem goes away.
-orb-
Profile Blog Joined September 2007
United States5770 Posts
January 18 2009 02:53 GMT
#4
On January 18 2009 11:11 Ramsing wrote:
I'm not sure if this will work but whenever that happens to me with alt+tabbing usually you can fix the problem by just alt tabbing again and the problem goes away.


lol nah when it first happened i tried alt tabbing like 50 times
'life of lively to live to life of full life thx to shield battery'
how sad that sc2 has no shield battery :(
thunk
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
United States6233 Posts
January 18 2009 03:06 GMT
#5
I knew Windows 7 would all sorts of BW problems, haha.

In "compatibility options" (if they still have it in Windows 7) and you can change color options to 256 colors. That's how it worked in Vista, anyway.
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-orb-
Profile Blog Joined September 2007
United States5770 Posts
January 18 2009 05:37 GMT
#6
On January 18 2009 12:06 thunk wrote:
I knew Windows 7 would all sorts of BW problems, haha.

In "compatibility options" (if they still have it in Windows 7) and you can change color options to 256 colors. That's how it worked in Vista, anyway.


As said in the OP i tried that and it didn't fix it.

And no, it doesn't have "all sorts of BW problems," this is the only one. Everything else with it is perfectly fine, just the colors are a little messed up.
'life of lively to live to life of full life thx to shield battery'
how sad that sc2 has no shield battery :(
da_head
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
Canada3350 Posts
January 18 2009 17:31 GMT
#7
i have the exact same problem! i tried all the compatibility shit and nothing works. also, i'm dual booting vista, and the colors are perfectly fine in vista :S
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Ash
Profile Blog Joined September 2003
Malaysia1978 Posts
January 18 2009 17:48 GMT
#8
are your battle net icons fine in vista as well?
irishash
Profile Joined November 2008
United States285 Posts
January 18 2009 18:17 GMT
#9
had this problem, fixed it by changing video card color correction settings to "all programs" or something like that
Racenilatr
Profile Blog Joined August 2008
United States2756 Posts
January 18 2009 19:14 GMT
#10
This happens to me on vista sometimes. I had to disable the "High desktop scaling" or something like that. Basically it took away my transparency while bw was opened :/ Also I had to disable xfire ingame.
Ash
Profile Blog Joined September 2003
Malaysia1978 Posts
January 19 2009 06:50 GMT
#11
On January 19 2009 03:17 irishash wrote:
had this problem, fixed it by changing video card color correction settings to "all programs" or something like that


mind to elaborate?
b3h47pte
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
United States1317 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-01-19 19:42:28
January 19 2009 19:00 GMT
#12
NVM.
IzzyCraft
Profile Blog Joined June 2007
United States4487 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-01-19 19:14:16
January 19 2009 19:13 GMT
#13
I had no real problems in my bw.

The problem was the color was messed up for everything except the b.net lobby and when actually playing the game

Which imo is where you spend 97% of the time anyways.
I have ass for brains so,
even when I shit I'm droping knowledge.
Scooge
Profile Joined December 2008
Iceland144 Posts
January 19 2009 19:17 GMT
#14
I fixed my problem like this with a NVidia card:

Go into Nvidia's display options (Display -> Advance -> something something until you get to the Nvidia control panel), in manage 3D settings go to program settings tab, add StarCraft and turn off everything.
Cobalt
Profile Joined April 2008
United States441 Posts
January 19 2009 19:28 GMT
#15
On January 20 2009 04:17 Scooge wrote:
I fixed my problem like this with a NVidia card:

Go into Nvidia's display options (Display -> Advance -> something something until you get to the Nvidia control panel), in manage 3D settings go to program settings tab, add StarCraft and turn off everything.


This didn't work for me on a 7600GT. Could you maybe post a screen of your settings?
stafu
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
Australia1196 Posts
January 19 2009 19:30 GMT
#16
I have the same problems. In Windows 7 my BW colours are kind of inverted?
Starstuff
Profile Joined January 2009
Croatia60 Posts
January 24 2009 19:02 GMT
#17
Any updates about this?
Always remember that you are unique... Just like everyone else.
zulu_nation8
Profile Blog Joined May 2005
China26351 Posts
January 24 2009 19:03 GMT
#18
well im never gonna update my operating system then
Mannequin
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
Canada131 Posts
January 24 2009 19:06 GMT
#19
This happend to me on vista i had to play around with the settings in properties a number of times to get it to work.
The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone to blame it on.
CharlieMurphy
Profile Blog Joined March 2006
United States22895 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-01-24 19:41:59
January 24 2009 19:41 GMT
#20
What is the difference between 7 and Vista? They look the same (ugly) to me.

I use XP classic windows.
..and then I would, ya know, check em'. (Aka SpoR)
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