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writer22816
Profile Blog Joined September 2008
United States5775 Posts
October 29 2009 05:59 GMT
#81
On October 28 2009 22:13 2lame wrote:
Ok... so far i've rolled back on the old Realtek driver, and made a few SC games - so far, so good - no hangs.. Still needs to be properly tested for a few days (let's not forget this is a randomly happening process)

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

I think Windows Vista uses the same audiodg process, carrying the same issue with it. As far as win 95 goes... well that's some old school sh*t :D


Nope, I used to use Vista on my laptop with no freezes. Only when I updated to Win7 did I start getting the problems.
8/4/12 never forget, never forgive.
iG.Aura
Profile Blog Joined October 2004
Poland686 Posts
November 02 2009 23:53 GMT
#82
so im considering upgrading to windows 7 ... pretty soon however my biggest concern is BW running. (iccup launcher more specifically). do you think i should wait? or are most of the problems resolved?
:-)
CorsairHero
Profile Joined December 2008
Canada9491 Posts
November 02 2009 23:55 GMT
#83
On November 03 2009 08:53 iG.Aura wrote:
so im considering upgrading to windows 7 ... pretty soon however my biggest concern is BW running. (iccup launcher more specifically). do you think i should wait? or are most of the problems resolved?

to fix the crashing, I closed all my music programs ie. winamp/itunes. If you want to fix the colors, kill explorer.exe before you launch sc

haven't had any issues on b.net or iccup
© Current year.
iG.Aura
Profile Blog Joined October 2004
Poland686 Posts
November 03 2009 00:29 GMT
#84
On November 03 2009 08:55 CorsairHero wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 03 2009 08:53 iG.Aura wrote:
so im considering upgrading to windows 7 ... pretty soon however my biggest concern is BW running. (iccup launcher more specifically). do you think i should wait? or are most of the problems resolved?

to fix the crashing, I closed all my music programs ie. winamp/itunes. If you want to fix the colors, kill explorer.exe before you launch sc

haven't had any issues on b.net or iccup


bw with no music.. thats almost impossible..
:-)
CorsairHero
Profile Joined December 2008
Canada9491 Posts
November 03 2009 01:26 GMT
#85
use in game music?..
or maybe try that xp mode
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da_head
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
Canada3350 Posts
November 03 2009 01:27 GMT
#86
i don't have any music open, and mine still crashes.
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empty.bottle
Profile Joined July 2009
685 Posts
November 03 2009 02:03 GMT
#87
On November 03 2009 10:27 da_head wrote:
i don't have any music open, and mine still crashes.


32 or 64?
Dakota_Fanning *
Profile Joined January 2008
Hungary2359 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-11-03 06:59:28
November 03 2009 06:57 GMT
#88
I have Windows 7 64 bit, and I too experience the crashes. As far as I know, this only relates to the 64 bit version of win7.

Whenever I want to play, I reboot my computer, and basically start nothing else than just the launchers I use (BWHF Agent) and Starcraft itself. Then it works no problem. If I start to launch other applications, then it might crash unexpectedly (I didn't test which applications cause the problem, but it crashed even if I was running no music players).

Edit: browsers with flash plugins might be a problem too.
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Kadoka
Profile Joined October 2008
United States82 Posts
November 05 2009 05:29 GMT
#89
For those with Starcraft crashing on windows 7:

Right click the desktop, open Screen Resolution, and leave that open while you play.

I don't know why it works. My friend on windows 7 has to have it open or he'll crash.

If screen resolution is open he doesn't crash, if he forgets to open it he'll crash after a few minutes of play.

Not everyone has the crashing issues on 7, but this seems to fix it when you have that problem. This does not solve the negative colors glitch though.
asdf
PobTheCad
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
Australia893 Posts
November 05 2009 05:38 GMT
#90
what a hassle
i'll be sticking with good old windows XP
Once again back is the incredible!
GTR
Profile Blog Joined September 2004
51535 Posts
November 11 2009 05:54 GMT
#91
can anyone reupload the affinity fix plugin for chaos?
Commentator
LarJarsE
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
United States1378 Posts
November 11 2009 06:17 GMT
#92
For you who havent upgraded to VISTA yet, get with the program.
since 98'
mcneebs
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
Canada391 Posts
November 13 2009 02:49 GMT
#93
I really love win7, but I agree that this is killing me. I've tried affinity, compatibility mode options, and the batch file that kills explorer upon SC:BW launching, but I still get crashes and freezes. The only option I can think of is to dual boot win7 for 95% of my programs, and XP for SC.
You do it to yourself. Just you. You and no one else.
GTR
Profile Blog Joined September 2004
51535 Posts
December 04 2009 07:35 GMT
#94
On November 13 2009 11:49 mcneebs wrote:
I really love win7, but I agree that this is killing me. I've tried affinity, compatibility mode options, and the batch file that kills explorer upon SC:BW launching, but I still get crashes and freezes. The only option I can think of is to dual boot win7 for 95% of my programs, and XP for SC.


bump, no one knows a solution to completely stop crashing?
i just played a total douche who tried to hide buildings just then on iccup and my comp crashed while i was finding his buildings. unfortunately because i crashed, i don't have a replay to back up my complaint.
Commentator
Cedstick
Profile Blog Joined November 2009
Canada3336 Posts
December 04 2009 07:38 GMT
#95
Running in Compatibility Mode worked for me. Just choose XP.
"What does Rivington do when he's not commentating?" "Drool." ~ Categorist
Navi
Profile Joined November 2009
5286 Posts
December 04 2009 07:58 GMT
#96
For me, windowed mode on Chaoslauncher and ICCUP launcher makes everything fine (Win7 64bit).

No special settings, just run CL and BW and ICCUP as admin.
Hey! Listen!
Cedstick
Profile Blog Joined November 2009
Canada3336 Posts
December 04 2009 13:10 GMT
#97
Yea, I got discolouration in full-screen mode, but who plays fullscreen on anything over 20"? lol
Windowed-mode makes everything fine. Win7 64bit here as well.
"What does Rivington do when he's not commentating?" "Drool." ~ Categorist
Cwoo
Profile Joined August 2009
United Kingdom6 Posts
December 04 2009 13:30 GMT
#98
I guess this doesn't help with anyones problems but I'm running Win7 on 64bit (quad core) and bw / chaos luncher / iccup launcher all work fine.

I do get funky colors on the menu screen when running in full screen but once in a game that goes away.
HwangjaeTerran
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
Finland5967 Posts
December 04 2009 13:45 GMT
#99
Open notepad.

copy/paste:

cmd.exe /C start /affinity 1 D:\"SC"\"Launcher"\"Launcher.exe"
ping 127.0.0.1 -n 2
taskkill /f /IM explorer.exe
ping 127.0.0.1 -n 2
cd C:\SC\StarCraft\
rem cmd.exe /C start /affinity 1 D:\"SC"\"StarCraft.exe"
rem Wait for the game to quit, press Enter to continue
pause
start explorer.exe
exit

Replace those paths with what you have for said files, save as .bat file.
Now when you wish to play start SC by clicking the file you created, it kills explorer until you stop playing. You can also create a shortcut of the file and make it look like SC so it looks prettier.


I tried everything else but only this works, now about 200 games without a crash. If even this doesn´t work then I have no idea what could be wrong. Maybe you guys have some weirdo component that just hates SC.
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da_head
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
Canada3350 Posts
December 04 2009 13:48 GMT
#100
it was crashing for me but i solved it by doing this. making sure all my programs are closed (especially firefox) and when sc opens, i alt tab go to task manager and make sure that starcraft's affinity is set as one cpu.
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