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TriniMasta
United States1323 Posts
Run in 256 Colors, disable visual themes (and all the rest). | ||
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darklordjac
Canada2231 Posts
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2Pacalypse-
Croatia9517 Posts
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micro7295
United States68 Posts
On May 15 2009 19:54 lazz wrote: what the hell is windows 7? im...im not sure man... | ||
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buhhy
United States1113 Posts
On August 15 2010 05:22 2Pacalypse- wrote: If the only solution to crashing so far is Window Mode in Chaoslauncher, has anyone tried to contact its creator (XeNotRoN) and see if he can make it work for full screen as well? Or resizable, that would be pretty cool. | ||
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squall leonhart
Australia44 Posts
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Garrl
Scotland1974 Posts
Go into a game, open up the menu. From there, hit options -> video and uncheck Enable colour cycling. Saw it on a Korean website, it's worked for me for the past few weeks with no crashes. (64 bit Win7). | ||
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squall leonhart
Australia44 Posts
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Tomken
Norway1144 Posts
On November 16 2010 22:13 Garrl wrote: I'm pretty sure I've found a solution. Go into a game, open up the menu. From there, hit options -> video and uncheck Enable colour cycling. Saw it on a Korean website, it's worked for me for the past few weeks with no crashes. (64 bit Win7). This has worked for me so far \o\ | ||
flamewheel
FREEAGLELAND26781 Posts
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Weeuweed
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2Pacalypse-
Croatia9517 Posts
On December 06 2010 17:20 Weeuweed wrote: So did the crashes/hangs stopped for the people trying disabling colour cycle option? gonna try this myself later On November 17 2010 00:33 squall leonhart wrote: its one of those coincidental fixes and nothing more. | ||
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Pezsmapatkany
Hungary25 Posts
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squall leonhart
Australia44 Posts
On December 06 2010 17:20 Weeuweed wrote: So did the crashes/hangs stopped for the people trying disabling colour cycle option? gonna try this myself later no. usually when the freeze occurs there is no palette change occuring. | ||
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Vikkekh
Sweden47 Posts
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squall leonhart
Australia44 Posts
We can (sometimes) detect when this happens by processing the WM_PALETTECHANGED message. A few update versions ago we added logging (just log the window title/class/process name), which helped users identify offending applications and close them. MSN Live Messenger was a common culprit. The problem got worse when we found out that Windows Vista (and 7) does it "by itself". The WM_PALETTECHANGED parameters point towards CSRSS and the desktop window. In Vista, a workaround that often worked was to open any folder (Computer, Documents, etc.) and leave it open while running the game. Sounds ridiculous, but it worked - in most cases. In Windows 7, not even this workaround worked any more. Users found that stopping some services (Windows Update and the indexing service) also resolved the problem on some configurations. | ||
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Ghostcom
Denmark4782 Posts
On August 15 2010 05:22 2Pacalypse- wrote: If the only solution to crashing so far is Window Mode in Chaoslauncher, has anyone tried to contact its creator (XeNotRoN) and see if he can make it work for full screen as well? Does chaoslauncher actually fix crashing? I've tried so much different stuff right now that I've ended up dugging out my old desktop which I frankly haven't got space for, so if someone could actually confirm this to work you would make me most happy! | ||
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2Pacalypse-
Croatia9517 Posts
On December 06 2010 23:56 Ghostcom wrote: Does chaoslauncher actually fix crashing? I've tried so much different stuff right now that I've ended up dugging out my old desktop which I frankly haven't got space for, so if someone could actually confirm this to work you would make me most happy! It's not Chaoslauncher in itself, but a Window Mode plugin. And yes, that is the only known fix for crashing problems so far. The bad side is that you can't play in fullscreen, but rather in a Window (takes some getting used to). | ||
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Grobyc
Canada18410 Posts
On December 06 2010 23:56 Ghostcom wrote: Does chaoslauncher actually fix crashing? I've tried so much different stuff right now that I've ended up dugging out my old desktop which I frankly haven't got space for, so if someone could actually confirm this to work you would make me most happy! Yes it does work (for iCCup launcher as well; it uses the same plugin by MoC). | ||
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2Pacalypse-
Croatia9517 Posts
On December 06 2010 23:02 squall leonhart wrote: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1054365/exclusive-directdraw-palette-isnt-actually-exclusive Interesting, but wasn't that already fixed with a registry hack? And how much is this connected to the freezing problem? It's apparent that other applications changing the palette while Starcraft is running would mess up it's colors, but I can't seem to understand how it could be connected to the freezing problem. Also, from that link: http://hifi.iki.fi/cnc-ddraw/ - Seems like someone else did the Direct Draw hack, but this time having C&C and Red Alert in mind -.- Anyone with an idea of how much does it apply to Starcraft, and what's the difference between already existing Direct Draw hack (http://sol.gfxile.net/ddhack/)? | ||
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