EPTBW crashes in Windows 7 - Page 8
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snotboogie
Australia3550 Posts
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[UoN]Sentinel
United States11320 Posts
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Always
United States376 Posts
 anyone know what to do? | ||
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ssj114
Afghanistan462 Posts
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lynx.oblige
Sierra Leone2268 Posts
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ssj114
Afghanistan462 Posts
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razorsuKe
Canada2053 Posts
On December 22 2009 15:35 Always wrote: this is ridiculous, i've lost 4 games this season so far due to my computer just randomly shutting off. no warning, nothing. just shuts off like someone pulled the power. it never did this before i "upgraded" anyone know what to do?I was down 4 games last season, almost reaching B. My ally just had to install win7 -_- | ||
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CorsairHero
Canada9491 Posts
On December 22 2009 15:35 Always wrote: this is ridiculous, i've lost 4 games this season so far due to my computer just randomly shutting off. no warning, nothing. just shuts off like someone pulled the power. it never did this before i "upgraded" anyone know what to do?do a clean install next time sc isn't suppose to have the ability to shutdown your computer =/ I would assume that even if sc had any conflicts with other processes that it would cause a crash or freeze instead On December 22 2009 15:54 ssj114 wrote: Silly Windows users. Linux always wins now. when it comes to gaming, windows always wins. | ||
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Xeris
Iran17695 Posts
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pat965
Canada274 Posts
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Bill Murray
United States9292 Posts
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lynx.oblige
Sierra Leone2268 Posts
UAC is also less intrusive. It does not actually freeze your system like it would in Vista (if you would play audio/video and UAC would come up, it would lag and try to catch up all at once turning into a not so pleasurable sensual experience). If you already run SC windowed, you do not have to worry about SC when upgrading (and you really should upgrade to W7). What is working for me most of the time is to just close/minimize as many programs as possible. It still occurs but is not as sudden/definitely not a real fix. | ||
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Shield
Bulgaria4824 Posts
On December 22 2009 22:35 lynx.oblige wrote: and you really should upgrade to W7 If SC runs fine on Windows 7 (including colours), then give such advice. Killing explorer.exe is also an option but it is inconvenient. | ||
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writer22816
United States5775 Posts
On December 22 2009 22:54 slimshady wrote: If SC runs fine on Windows 7 (including colours), then give such advice. Killing explorer.exe is also an option but it is inconvenient. Eh, tbh I have no idea what the fuss about the Win7 color problem is about. True, when you run SC without killing explorer you get messed up colors, but when you join a game the colors are 99% fine. Sometimes, I noticed that water on a twilight map will have messed up colors. | ||
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Badjas
Netherlands2038 Posts
On December 22 2009 22:35 lynx.oblige wrote: Windows 7 is excellent. It basically does everything Vista wants to do but better. One of the most simple benefits is slightly (or greatly, depends on the system of course) reduced start up times. Which in my case matters a lot. Again, there are other improvements as well (greater data transfer rates, etc.). I haven't tried windows 7 myself yet, but I am skeptical of this claim. If you do a clean install of windows xp on the same machine, does it boot slower than windows 7? I have previously downgraded an xp system to windows 98 and I actually achieved lift off. | ||
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Invictus
Singapore2697 Posts
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Abyzou
Sweden209 Posts
On December 22 2009 15:50 lynx.oblige wrote: Silly XP purists. Vista on the latest SP is better than XP now. I agree. XP is great but it's just ancient by now. It lacks so many features. For example the start menu in Vista/7 is so much better it's not even funny. I'm using 7 and it's really great. I haven't had any trouble with compatibility beyond the stuff that wouldn't work in Vista either... All that really chaps my hide is the SC issues and Age of Mythology, which won't run at all | ||
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writer22816
United States5775 Posts
On December 15 2009 01:51 inReacH wrote: 5.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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Why do you have a Launcher file? Unless that is chaoslauncher? | ||
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Un Gato
United States123 Posts
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blabber
United States4448 Posts
On December 25 2009 05:44 Un Gato wrote: I doubt that Windows 7 itself is the issue for any of this. I've been running SC on XP, Vista, and W7 and have had it work fine on each. The only difference is what sort of crazy colors I see outside of games, in games it's always fine. yeah for the first few months of owning 7 I thought this as I was not getting any freezes under Windows 7 at all. But within the past month I've had it happen like five times, which is too much for me. Now I run a dualboot setup with XP and 7. | ||
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