EPTOn December 22 2009 16:33 Xeris wrote:
that code works by the way, i've had 0 crashes so far.
that code works by the way, i've had 0 crashes so far.
didnt work for me :S
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ProoM
Lithuania1741 Posts
didnt work for me :S | ||
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Un Gato
United States123 Posts
On December 25 2009 05:49 blabber wrote: 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. That seems as though it's a recent change, not something that you just randomly avoided until now given the sudden frequency. | ||
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whiteLotus
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Khaymus
United States750 Posts
 Fuck windows 7. None of this works for me ((((( | ||
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Un Gato
United States123 Posts
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Khaymus
United States750 Posts
To top it off, my launcher will not launch the damn game in windowed mode, so I can't even fix it by doing that. Tells me to reinstall Iccup launcher, but that doesn't help at all -_-. Anyone find any solution that works when none of this already posted doesn't? | ||
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HazMat
United States17077 Posts
On December 15 2009 01:51 inReacH wrote: I think I found a fix, I played all of yesterday with no problems... these are all the things I did, I'm not sure if one or a combination of them was what helped but here goes: 1.Close winamp. 2.Go into NVIDIA control panel and set Starcraft to use only one GPU(I'm using a gtx 295 so if you have a single GPU gfxcard this one won't be necessary) 3.Turn vertical sync off for starcraft in NVIDIA control panel.(doubt this one matters) 4.Go to your Starcraft directory, right click on starcraft.exe, properties, compatibility, check mark all boxes except disable desktop comp and disable display scaling. 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I'm about to go play SC all day so if I crash I'll edit this post with a something like 'fuck my life', if this is still here then it's working. If you need help with any of the steps please post the question here and you might want to pm me. What do we replace in D:\"SC"\"Launcher"\"Launcher.exe" | ||
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lynx.oblige
Sierra Leone2268 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. Or you can try reading my post again. Preferably with your dyslexia off. | ||
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Prozen
United States338 Posts
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BrTarolg
United Kingdom3574 Posts
Really sucks i cant play at all game just freezes and i dont know how to fix | ||
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Baksteen
Netherlands438 Posts
On June 30 2010 20:00 BrTarolg wrote: Wow i just experienced this for the first time after running BW on windows 7 Really sucks i cant play at all game just freezes and i dont know how to fix Did you set it to compatibility mode for windows 95, with 265 colors and the altered resolution, 640*480 because i just reinstalled the client and i had no problems at all. | ||
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JollYRoGeR
Sweden342 Posts
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Bibdy
United States3481 Posts
On June 30 2010 22:48 Baksteen wrote: Did you set it to compatibility mode for windows 95, with 265 colors and the altered resolution, 640*480 because i just reinstalled the client and i had no problems at all. Yeah, that worked fine for me. Can't remember if I needed to set the affinity to 1 CPU (after its loaded, alt-tab out, go to Task Manager -> Right Click the exe in Processes -> Set affinity) like I've had to do for several other old games lately like Thief 1 and TA: Kingdoms. | ||
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Lysteria
France2279 Posts
Seven + BW + Winamp = crash. When I'm lucky, I can play one game before crashing the game. Without it, no problem since 6 months. ^^ | ||
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Baksteen
Netherlands438 Posts
On July 01 2010 02:12 Bibdy wrote: Yeah, that worked fine for me. Can't remember if I needed to set the affinity to 1 CPU (after its loaded, alt-tab out, go to Task Manager -> Right Click the exe in Processes -> Set affinity) like I've had to do for several other old games lately like Thief 1 and TA: Kingdoms. Don't think that this step is required, at least not for me. BW has been running like charm <3 On July 01 2010 02:40 Lysteria wrote: Be sure to not have winamp started when playing BroodWar. Seven + BW + Winamp = crash. When I'm lucky, I can play one game before crashing the game. Without it, no problem since 6 months. ^^ Yea i remember reading about this, didn't it have something to do with the .wav files and how they are used by SC:BW? | ||
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Lysteria
France2279 Posts
I know you can listen music while playing Starcraft with Windows Media Player, VLC, probably nearly everything, even a selfmade player. Winamp is the only one on my computer which can crash it. If someone knows why, I'm interested. | ||
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blabber
United States4448 Posts
The only workaround is using window mode with chaoslauncher or iccup launcher | ||
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Leg[end]
United States241 Posts
That works for me | ||
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Rkie
United States1278 Posts
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-Valor-
United States283 Posts
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