EPTBW crashes in Windows 7 - Page 15
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MageKirby
United States535 Posts
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xarthaz
1704 Posts
On January 13 2011 22:11 dronescout wrote: How?? Modern graphic cards dont even have w95/98 drivers any more, how the hell to run it?This might be a bit over the hill but I solved my BW colors, crash and stuttering problems by using a virtual windows 98. | ||
Sayle
United Kingdom3685 Posts
http://www.iccup.com/starcraft/community/thread/85949.html | ||
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Necosarius
Sweden4042 Posts
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skypig
United States237 Posts
2. Try the registry edits shown on pages 21 and 23 of this thread; this fixed my color issues. Good luck. | ||
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Sandrosuperstar
Sweden525 Posts
On January 20 2011 02:12 skypig wrote: 1. DISABLE the "Enable Color Cycling" checkbox in the Gameplay section of the in-game Menu. It worked for me. 2. Try the registry edits shown on pages 21 and 23 of this thread; this fixed my color issues. Good luck. Just wanted to say this fixed it for me aswell :D | ||
2Pacalypse-
Croatia9538 Posts
On January 20 2011 01:01 Sayle wrote: This seems to be a working solution: http://www.iccup.com/starcraft/community/thread/85949.html There is no a working solution yet besides w-mode in Chaoslauncher. But, here's a good workaround to make your Starcraft work on Windows 7: 1. Enable Window Mode in Chaoslauncher. 2. Change your Windows resolution to 640x480 and position your Starcraft in Window mode so it fits the screen perfectly. 3. Use Alt + F1 to lock your cursor inside Starcraft window, so you can scroll normally in game. 4. In case you can only change your resolution to 800x600 in Display Settings, click Advanced and go to Adapter settings. There find "List all modes" option and click it. When you find all modes, choose the one where it says "640 by 480, True Color (32bit), xx Hz" (note: choose highest number of xx you find). | ||
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TeRRaNNoSauRuS ReX
United States13 Posts
the skypig solution | ||
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agarangu
Chile274 Posts
I tried playing Warcraft III on WXP and on Ubuntu (with Wine). In WXP I had a ping of 200-250ms. In Ubuntu a had a ping of 15-17ms. Really, I did not mean 150-170ms. And I was using the same laptop with the same disk space for each OS and playing the same game (DotA), on the same server. Try Ubuntu. | ||
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MamiyaOtaru
United States1687 Posts
On January 16 2011 05:01 xarthaz wrote: Virtual machines don't directly access the hardware, so it makes zero difference if a card has a win9x driver. The VM uses a virtual video driver. It will pretty much suck at 3d, but guess what Starcraft isn't. How?? Modern graphic cards dont even have w95/98 drivers any more, how the hell to run it? On January 20 2011 03:55 agarangu wrote: don't do it if you value your time. Just for playing BW, sure give it a shot. Making it your fulltime desktop is a waste though. Also LOL at the pings. The OS you use has no bearing on the internet between you and your competitor, which is what most affects ping. You aren't given special access to a faster internet because your ISP sees you are using an alternate OS. People mocked the KillerNIC for claiming it would improve your ping when all it could affect was your computer. Maybe a millisecond here or there. Same with your OS. You can't change the topology of the intervening network by changing your OS. What you are experiencing is Illusory CorrelationI play SCBW on linux, because is so much faster than W****** when playing online. I tried playing Warcraft III on WXP and on Ubuntu (with Wine). In WXP I had a ping of 200-250ms. In Ubuntu a had a ping of 15-17ms. Really, I did not mean 150-170ms. And I was using the same laptop with the same disk space for each OS and playing the same game (DotA), on the same server. Try Ubuntu. | ||
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djcube
United States985 Posts
I guess I'm done with bw until some kind of solution appears for full screen on W7 OS. | ||
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agarangu
Chile274 Posts
On January 20 2011 05:23 MamiyaOtaru wrote: Virtual machines don't directly access the hardware, so it makes zero difference if a card has a win9x driver. The VM uses a virtual video driver. It will pretty much suck at 3d, but guess what Starcraft isn't. don't do it if you value your time. Just for playing BW, sure give it a shot. Making it your fulltime desktop is a waste though. Also LOL at the pings. The OS you use has no bearing on the internet between you and your competitor, which is what most affects ping. You aren't given special access to a faster internet because your ISP sees you are using an alternate OS. People mocked the KillerNIC for claiming it would improve your ping when all it could affect was your computer. Maybe a millisecond here or there. Same with your OS. You can't change the topology of the intervening network by changing your OS. What you are experiencing is Illusory Correlation I see you haven't tried Ubuntu yet. No matter what the ping was, the game effectively runs faster and less laggy on Ubuntu, and A LOT faster on Debian. "Making it your fulltime desktop is a waste though." really? just a statement with o arguments? xD | ||
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Navane
Netherlands2751 Posts
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Taekwon
United States8155 Posts
On January 28 2011 08:55 Navane wrote: buy a 100 dollar pc and put windows XP on it. It's worth it for broodwar. I'll take it. | ||
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GinDo
3327 Posts
Or you can make you computer run multiple OSs. Saves your self the 100 dollars  | ||
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Frigo
Hungary1023 Posts
On January 20 2011 02:12 skypig wrote: 1. DISABLE the "Enable Color Cycling" checkbox in the Gameplay section of the in-game Menu. It worked for me. 2. Try the registry edits shown on pages 21 and 23 of this thread; this fixed my color issues. Good luck. Disabling color cycling makes SC crash a lot less, but it does not solve the problem fully, it might still change the palette at alt-tab and game enter/exit, so it can crash due to the lack of directdraw locking in Windows 7 The registry edit doesnt solve it either, it seems it only changes the palette update frequency | ||
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2Pacalypse-
Croatia9538 Posts
On January 28 2011 10:48 Frigo wrote: Disabling color cycling makes SC crash a lot less, but it does not solve the problem fully, it might still change the palette at alt-tab and game enter/exit, so it can crash due to the lack of directdraw locking in Windows 7 The registry edit doesnt solve it either, it seems it only changes the palette update frequency You seem quite knowledgeable about DirectDraw, maybe you could help out these guys: https://code.google.com/p/ddhack/ | ||
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V6
147 Posts
oh i think i had crash before just in beginning when running it via cd, but mounting solved that. strange how the same operating system can have different problems? | ||
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nosliw
United States2716 Posts
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Gak2
Canada418 Posts
But it does stop the crashes and as a bonus fixes the colours! | ||
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