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GoSu
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
Korea (South)1773 Posts
July 20 2009 14:15 GMT
#41
You have to stay on XP. Really the best.
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defuzas
Profile Joined July 2009
248 Posts
July 20 2009 14:27 GMT
#42
i just kill explorer before launching game and thats it
Mah Buckit!
Profile Joined April 2009
Finland474 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-07-20 17:13:54
July 20 2009 17:08 GMT
#43
On July 20 2009 22:42 DeCoup wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 20 2009 19:54 Mah Buckit! wrote:
Why ?
I got the color thing working, but I got the connection problem.

If you change the setting back and get crap color can you connect to iccup? If not I think that is an unrelated problem.


Umm no. oh my god, I just played yesterday evening. So why can´t I get to Iccup! Aww....
Is Iccup down on someone else?

E. So actually Iccup went down just when I started to solve this color problem O.O
That´s some timing. Well I got the fullscreen working now I guess so thx even though I didn´t really use anyones help. And the crashing in fullscreen mode is a different thing then? I try to use that processor thingy ( make it use only one processor).
Starcraft? Epic Grimness.
tec
Profile Joined July 2009
Norway4 Posts
July 21 2009 03:31 GMT
#44
Hi,

I was having problems with Starcraft crashing in Windows 7 (64-bit) when using multi core processor.

I created a small plugin for ChaosLauncher to automatically change the affinity for Starcraft to the first processor. The problem is that this really won't help me when using the ICCUP launcher.

It's a one line fix really.

Plugin for ChaosLauncher:
http://tveitec.com/AffinityPlugin.zip

Source code:
http://tveitec.com/AffinityPlugin.cpp

Hopefully ChaosPlugin (for ICCUP) will integrate the single line needed to change affinity:

Delphi:
SetProcessAffinityMask(hProcess, 1);

C:
SetProcessAffinityMask(hProcess, 1L);
tec
Profile Joined July 2009
Norway4 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-07-21 04:29:40
July 21 2009 03:40 GMT
#45
Made it work in ICCUP Launcher.

For those having problems with Starcraft freezing in Windows 7 64-bit using multicore:

I've made a plugin that changes the affinity of Starcraft so that it only uses the first processor. This has fixed the problems I had with Starcraft freezing/hard-locking.

Affinity plugin works with ChaosLauncher...
or you can (kinda) make it work in ICCUP Launcher:

Go to ICCUP launcher dir (usually Starcraft dir c:\Program Files (x86)\Starcraft in Win7)
Rename Chaosplugin.bwl to Chaosplugin_original.bwl
Extract AffinityPlugin.zip to Starcraft directory (get it from http://tveitec.com/AffinityPlugin.zip)
Rename AffinityPlugin.bwl to Chaosplugin.bwl
Run ICCUP launcher.
Tick the ChaosPlugin checkbox in ICCUP launcher.

You'll lose the Chaos Plugin abilities, but for me it doesn't freeze in Windows 7 anymore.

For those having problems with colors (this worked for me)
Change properties for Starcraft.exe to:
http://tveitec.com/StarcraftCompatibilitySettings.png

Ps. Posting in this thread because I can't create new posts, and this thread is pretty relevant to the subject.. (Just registered my account here).
anmaray
Profile Joined August 2009
United States7 Posts
August 28 2009 03:10 GMT
#46
On July 21 2009 12:40 tec wrote:
Made it work in ICCUP Launcher.

[b]
Rename AffinityPlugin.bwl to Chaosplugin.bwl
Run ICCUP launcher.
Tick the ChaosPlugin checkbox in ICCUP launcher.

You'll lose the Chaos Plugin abilities, but for me it doesn't freeze in Windows 7 anymore.


You can just rename the wmode.bwl (for windowed mode), most people probably play fullscreen anyway.
CorsairHero
Profile Joined December 2008
Canada9491 Posts
August 28 2009 07:48 GMT
#47
On July 21 2009 12:31 tec wrote:
Hi,

I was having problems with Starcraft crashing in Windows 7 (64-bit) when using multi core processor.

I created a small plugin for ChaosLauncher to automatically change the affinity for Starcraft to the first processor. The problem is that this really won't help me when using the ICCUP launcher.

It's a one line fix really.

Plugin for ChaosLauncher:
http://tveitec.com/AffinityPlugin.zip

Source code:
http://tveitec.com/AffinityPlugin.cpp

Hopefully ChaosPlugin (for ICCUP) will integrate the single line needed to change affinity:

Delphi:
SetProcessAffinityMask(hProcess, 1);

C:
SetProcessAffinityMask(hProcess, 1L);

i had the same problem with 32 bit win 7

will this also fix it?
© Current year.
hunter3
Profile Blog Joined January 2008
United States155 Posts
August 28 2009 08:31 GMT
#48
My colors were fine during some builds, messed up during other builds of Windows 7. A few months ago I gave up during troubleshooting and made a few batch files that fixed the problem for any version of Win7. These simply kill explorer while Starcraft is running.

If you're just playing on Battle.net, no launchers, just run this and it'll launch Starcraft automatically.
Starcraft

If you're using either Chaoslauncher or Iccup launcher, run the launcher, start starcraft, tab out and run this file, then tab back in. When you're finished playing, hit enter to restore explorer.
StarcraftLauncher

When better video drivers are released and I finally update to RTM, I'll figure out something better.
Mah Buckit!
Profile Joined April 2009
Finland474 Posts
September 06 2009 13:46 GMT
#49
On July 21 2009 12:40 tec wrote:
Made it work in ICCUP Launcher.

For those having problems with Starcraft freezing in Windows 7 64-bit using multicore:

I've made a plugin that changes the affinity of Starcraft so that it only uses the first processor. This has fixed the problems I had with Starcraft freezing/hard-locking.

Affinity plugin works with ChaosLauncher...
or you can (kinda) make it work in ICCUP Launcher:

Go to ICCUP launcher dir (usually Starcraft dir c:\Program Files (x86)\Starcraft in Win7)
Rename Chaosplugin.bwl to Chaosplugin_original.bwl
Extract AffinityPlugin.zip to Starcraft directory (get it from http://tveitec.com/AffinityPlugin.zip)
Rename AffinityPlugin.bwl to Chaosplugin.bwl
Run ICCUP launcher.
Tick the ChaosPlugin checkbox in ICCUP launcher.

You'll lose the Chaos Plugin abilities, but for me it doesn't freeze in Windows 7 anymore.

For those having problems with colors (this worked for me)
Change properties for Starcraft.exe to:
http://tveitec.com/StarcraftCompatibilitySettings.png

Ps. Posting in this thread because I can't create new posts, and this thread is pretty relevant to the subject.. (Just registered my account here).


Sry didn´t work for me. I lost the Chaoslauncher settings so I´m pretty sure I did everything right.
BW has crashed now 3games in a row :/
I would play with window mode even though is messes up the mouse and doesn´t feel right, but the game won´t even start in w-mode.

Sucks.
Starcraft? Epic Grimness.
Charlee
Profile Joined August 2009
United States60 Posts
September 21 2009 17:51 GMT
#50
http://gaming.icrontic.com/articles/get-starcraft-working-on-windows-7-three-easy-steps

worth a shot?
RIP KTF/KT MagicNs
Nukkels
Profile Joined September 2009
1 Post
Last Edited: 2009-09-22 03:49:18
September 22 2009 03:45 GMT
#51
My theory is that it relates to widescreen monitors. I first installed it on my laptop (1280x768) and it had issues but the latest drivers and the DH mobility modder worked wonders in conjunction with changing the compatibility settings.

Next I installed it on my desktop with a 5:4 screen (1280x1024) and it worked fine out of the box. I recently upgraded my monitor to a 1920x1080 and it suddenly has the colour issues.

Force it to 256 colours, 640x480 and check the 'disable desktop composition' box. THOSE 3 SETTINGS worked for me.

Note that the other methods such as having the personalisation window open didn't work for me, and restarting explorer kills some of the icons in the notification area so I wanted to avoid that method.

If anyone can confirm/deny my theory about widescreen monitors, that'd be extremely helpful.
GTR
Profile Blog Joined September 2004
51673 Posts
October 04 2009 03:10 GMT
#52
Could anyone reupload the Affinity Plugin? Link is down.
Commentator
Physician *
Profile Blog Joined January 2004
United States4146 Posts
October 04 2009 03:23 GMT
#53
1. Right click the Starcraft icon -> Properties -> Compatibility tab
2. Check ALL the Settings, but do NOT check Compatibility Mode
3. When you are ready to play, right click your desktop and click “Screen Resolution”. Leave this window open. Now launch Starcraft!
4.leave the Screen Res window open while you play and you’re golden.
"I have beheld the births of negative-suns and borne witness to the entropy of entire realities...."
epicdoom
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
United States489 Posts
October 16 2009 22:12 GMT
#54
On October 04 2009 12:10 GTR wrote:
Could anyone reupload the Affinity Plugin? Link is down.


Can I second this, frustrating crashes in the middle of iccup games really blows sometimes, so if anyone can reupload i'd appreciate it very much
Xaanix
Profile Joined October 2009
United States109 Posts
October 21 2009 21:16 GMT
#55
I dont think you need a plugin for this.. you can change it yourself if needed:
1. Launch SC (normal or with iccup launcher)
2. alt tab into windows, run taskmgr.exe AS ADMIN
3. locate starcraft.exe in your process list, right click on it and select 'set affinity'
4. adjust the checkboxes so that only CPU0 is checked
5. click ok... you're done, go back in BW and enjoy.
our deeds have traveled far what we have been is what we are - Dream Theater - SFAM
shin_toss
Profile Joined May 2010
Philippines2589 Posts
September 09 2010 14:16 GMT
#56
On July 20 2009 07:06 Mah Buckit! wrote:
I did digging too, didn´t notice prayanavitas solution earlier but THX for it, I´ll definitely use it until something more convenient shows up if it something ever shows up.

I just found this in Blizzard Forums made by user Eggboi 2 days ago.( I found out it was older solution though):

+ Show Spoiler +
" searched everywhere trying to find a fix to this problem, and here's what I found.

Open a new .txt document and paste in the following:

taskkill /f /IM explorer.exe
D:\"StarCra​ft"\"StarCr​aft.exe"
start explorer.exe


the 2nd line needs to direct towards your SC Directory (so C\"Games\Starcr​aft"\"StarC​raft.exe" for a lot of you)

When you save the file, save it as a .bat file and use that to launch Starcraft. It will terminate explorer while SC is running, and when you close SC explorer automatically restarts. This is the only fix i have found that works for my setup; Windows 7, Build 7100 w/ Nvidia 7950 GT.

Hope this works for you!"


So this is a more scientic solution for all the fullscreen mode color bug and crashing. But it´s only for original starcraft client and it can´t work with Iccup because you have to use IccupLauncher to start the game. But I guess it wouldn´t be too hard for any real geek make it work with Iccuplauncher right like modify the launchers coding to start the game with that .bat file?? Don´t know if it shows up as hack or smthn then.

E. Yeah there was a newer thread than this but I really didn´t get anything of it so I posted here where were some actual solutions. If there is some real solutions already I´d be pleased to know because windowmode sucks. Also the crashing and color problems seem to have different roots. I guess I can handle the crashing but don´t know about the color thing.

Actually I´m starting to feel dumb here, am I the only 7 user still with this problem? I have installed right drivers and all...


This worked on my win 7. but still crashes sometimes if after exiting.
AKMU / IU
fabiano
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
Brazil4644 Posts
September 09 2010 16:11 GMT
#57
On September 09 2010 23:16 shin_toss wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 20 2009 07:06 Mah Buckit! wrote:
I did digging too, didn´t notice prayanavitas solution earlier but THX for it, I´ll definitely use it until something more convenient shows up if it something ever shows up.

I just found this in Blizzard Forums made by user Eggboi 2 days ago.( I found out it was older solution though):

+ Show Spoiler +
" searched everywhere trying to find a fix to this problem, and here's what I found.

Open a new .txt document and paste in the following:

taskkill /f /IM explorer.exe
D:\"StarCra​ft"\"StarCr​aft.exe"
start explorer.exe


the 2nd line needs to direct towards your SC Directory (so C\"Games\Starcr​aft"\"StarC​raft.exe" for a lot of you)

When you save the file, save it as a .bat file and use that to launch Starcraft. It will terminate explorer while SC is running, and when you close SC explorer automatically restarts. This is the only fix i have found that works for my setup; Windows 7, Build 7100 w/ Nvidia 7950 GT.

Hope this works for you!"


So this is a more scientic solution for all the fullscreen mode color bug and crashing. But it´s only for original starcraft client and it can´t work with Iccup because you have to use IccupLauncher to start the game. But I guess it wouldn´t be too hard for any real geek make it work with Iccuplauncher right like modify the launchers coding to start the game with that .bat file?? Don´t know if it shows up as hack or smthn then.

E. Yeah there was a newer thread than this but I really didn´t get anything of it so I posted here where were some actual solutions. If there is some real solutions already I´d be pleased to know because windowmode sucks. Also the crashing and color problems seem to have different roots. I guess I can handle the crashing but don´t know about the color thing.

Actually I´m starting to feel dumb here, am I the only 7 user still with this problem? I have installed right drivers and all...


This worked on my win 7. but still crashes sometimes if after exiting.


Yesterday someone blooged about it with a fix, didnt need to bump this thread :/

http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=151063

I'vent tried myself, but there are people saying it does work.
"When the geyser died, a probe came out" - SirJolt
Pulimuli
Profile Blog Joined February 2007
Sweden2766 Posts
September 09 2010 16:19 GMT
#58
you can fix it by starting BW and then open the task manager and shut down windows explorer (since its the explorer that messes up the colours in BW)

works fine for me when i tried starting BW last week
tryummm
Profile Joined August 2009
774 Posts
September 09 2010 19:37 GMT
#59
On January 18 2009 14:37 -orb- wrote:
Show nested quote +
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.


I have windows 7 and have to restart sc if I alttab in the chat channels
crazeman
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
664 Posts
September 09 2010 21:30 GMT
#60
On January 26 2009 07:46 Mastermind wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 25 2009 04:41 CharlieMurphy wrote:
What is the difference between 7 and Vista? They look the same (ugly) to me.

I use XP classic windows.

What? Vista looks 10 times better than XP.
Alt tabbing always fixes this issue when it happens to me in vista.



Vista blows no matter how pretty it looks.
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