BW crashes in Windows 7 - Page 4

On October 08 2009 00:24 disco wrote:
I've had the same problem. I'm concidering installing Vista on the side to play SC. I also stream my games from time to time but that's basically asking for a PC freeze. Happens 99% of the time when I stream.

On October 08 2009 17:29 Postaldude wrote:



dont install vista, install W7 if anything

On October 21 2009 13:46 Xaanix wrote:
Just installed Windows 7 64bit (retail) (upgrade from vista 64) and BW was freezing on me... would happen after about 5 minutes.. after freezing 3 times I searched the net and found the Affinity fix here. Definately works. I still have the discoloration however and wasnt able to solve this with compatibility settings or anything... Still, just glad i can play. SC was the game i was most worried about.

Thanks!
Xaanix

On October 28 2009 18:57 2lame wrote:
OK, think i have a solution for the freezing which is only remotely related to CPU core affinities and such, but i still have to test it out and report back with results..

So, the Windows Audio Device Graph Isolation as they call the audiodg.exe process on Win7, is the thing used by 3rd party audio hardware manufacturers to put in stuff for their audio drivers, and at the same time not break windows apart (that's the reason audiodg is not included in svchost). My system setup is equipped with an embedded Realtek HD audio device, and by consequence, i'm using Realtek drivers which i update on regular basis. I'm using Windows 7 RC1, from around the time it was available to test from MS (several months ago).
While on Win7 at that time, Realtek had come up with a series of drivers, which had one thing in common - on a random period of time, the audiodg.exe process would take up 100% of one of my cores (i use a quadcore, and audiodg is a sigle core application) - this is when using audio - like playing Winamp, waching a movie, playing games. Then it would stop harassing my core after some minutes or longer, or when i stop outputting audio from the soundcard. This did not bother me much as it irritated me, cause like i said i use a quad core and this means only 25% of my cpu were taken. At that time i had stopped playing SC due to problems with color inversion, to which i find solution here at TeamLiquid a few days ago :D Thanks a bunch for that!!!

Meanwhile, Realtek had released a driver, which removed this bug with audiodg. Recently however, new drivers appeared and as strict about drivers as i am, i immediately decided to go for it and apply them - new drivers could only make things better, right?
Guess what happened - the audiodg bug appeared again. This time however i had already started playing SC after fixing discoloration problems, and my machine hung during several games, which had me searching all over the net for a fix (including the affinity fix in this thread).

This morning it hit me - could it be possible for audiodg to bug itself out right during the middle of a game and on top of that, on the same Core, on which my SC was running, resulting in taking up all CPU resource out of the game? Could that be leading to some confusion in windows core management and a total system hang? It it possible, but not yet proven. I am going to add here, that i have the SC music turned on during gameplay, and all sounds on, included. My roommate, with whom i play, did not have any hangs whatsoever until now, and guess, he uses an older Realtek driver on Win7, which i presume had this audiodg problem removed...

So, will make a few tests and maybe a driver rollback, and report back to you on results. Apologies for the long post if someone feels irritated by it, i am just trying to give a hand to all faithful SC players on the new Win

p.s.: you could try and help me out with testing, by monitoring your audiodg process while playin winamp for instance, or by playing SC with sound off. For those who use Realtek HD Audio soundcard - the triver i'm currently with: Vista_Win7_R235, and the driver of my roommate: Vista_Win7_R234 - feel free to test and report back here or on PM

edit: the driver version on my desktop (the fully working computer) is 6.1.7600.16385 in device manager. I believe this is R2.34 but I'm not sure.

On October 22 2009 09:40 Xaanix wrote:
Ok, I found the batch script and tested it out, it does indeed fix the color issue! (none of the compatability or color mode settings worked, leaving resolution window open also didnt work, but this did!)

the batch script basically restarts the explorer process as part of the script, the OS does not restart it automatically. Killing explorer doesnt stop any existing programs, and you can still alt-tab between programs you have open, so basically what happens is that you run the script after you've already started broodwar, and then alt tab into broodwar and all the colors are fixed. This obviously works regardless of whether you use the ICCUP launcher or not.

These are the commands for the script, just create a .bat file and paste in the contents below:


@ECHO OFF
ECHO Starcraft for Windows 7
ECHO _____ __ ______
ECHO / ___// /_____ ____________________ _/ __/ /_
ECHO \__ \/ __/ __ `/ ___/ ___/ ___/ __ `/ /_/ __/
ECHO ___/ / /_/ /_/ / / / /__/ / / /_/ / __/ /_
ECHO /____/\__/\__,_/_/ \___/_/ \__,_/_/ \__/
taskkill /f /IM explorer.exe
PAUSE
Start explorer.exe

@ECHO OFF
ECHO    Starcraft for Windows 7
ECHO    _____ __                             ______
ECHO   / ___// /_____ ____________________ _/ __/ /_
ECHO   \__ \/ __/ __ `/ ___/ ___/ ___/ __ `/ /_/ __/
ECHO  ___/ / /_/ /_/ / /  / /__/ /  / /_/ / __/ /_
ECHO /____/\__/\__,_/_/   \___/_/   \__,_/_/  \__/
taskkill /f /IM explorer.exe
PAUSE
Start explorer.exe

On October 28 2009 21:20 Geo.Rion wrote:
for me it's buggy on Vista too...

taskkill /f /IM explorer.exe
D:
cd D:\Gamez\Starcraft
starcraft.exe
start explorer.exe

On October 28 2009 22:18 ProoM wrote:
cmd.exe /C start /affinity 1 C:\"Program Files\ICCup\Launcher"\"Launcher.exe"
ping 127.0.0.1 -n 2
taskkill /f /IM explorer.exe
ping 127.0.0.1 -n 2
cd C:\Program Files\StarCraft\
rem cmd.exe /C start /affinity 1 C:\Program Files\StarCraft\StarCraft.exe
rem Wait for the game to quit, press Enter to continue
pause
start explorer.exe
exit

Colors + crashing bugs fix for Windows 7 (you have to change bold'ed places and save this to .exe file)