BW crashes in Windows 7

On May 15 2009 19:54 lazz wrote:
what the hell is windows 7?

On May 15 2009 19:54 lazz wrote:
what the hell is windows 7?

On May 15 2009 19:52 bitchaRd[raGe] wrote:
There were some topics about messed up colors in StarCraft under windows 7.
But i have other problem. Starcraft just crashes in my machine. I can play 5 minutes or an hour, but it always crashed after some time, so i have to shut down my pc and reboot.

Does anyone have similar problem? How it can be solved? Please, help.

On May 15 2009 19:57 kaleidoscope wrote:


A new OS, to replace the failed vista..

On May 15 2009 19:59 FirstBorn wrote:


The only feedback I've got from people who already got that on their PC's is that it's crap and nothing seems to work on it.

My one and only love remains Windows XP.

Oh and sorry for derailing, but I can't really help you. Best advice I have is to get XP as a second OS.

On May 15 2009 20:10 bitchaRd[raGe] wrote:
I start Starcraft with Windows XP compatibility settings, setting up all the tips there (256 colors, 640x480, disabling all features, etc). Starcraft starts ok, i join iccup or west, can create and join games, everything is ok, even colors are ok. But when i play, in the game, all system crashes and i can't even reboot, or alt+tab, or ctrl+alt+del. It just stops everything. All i can do is to switch off my computer and then switch on.

I can't set up XP because there are only Vista drivers to my graphics card. I have laptop, and this card doesn't support XP

On May 15 2009 20:19 imRadu wrote:


And your GFX Card is what?

On May 15 2009 20:10 bitchaRd[raGe] wrote:
I start Starcraft with Windows XP compatibility settings, setting up all the tips there (256 colors, 640x480, disabling all features, etc). Starcraft starts ok, i join iccup or west, can create and join games, everything is ok, even colors are ok. But when i play, in the game, all system crashes and i can't even reboot, or alt+tab, or ctrl+alt+del. It just stops everything. All i can do is to switch off my computer and then switch on.

I can't set up XP because there are only Vista drivers to my graphics card. I have laptop, and this card doesn't support XP

On May 15 2009 20:22 bitchaRd[raGe] wrote:


Geforce 9500M GS.
I googled some pirate drivers, but afaik officialy it doesn't support XP. Anyways, i though, if it will be some way to play Starcraft under Windows 7, cause it looks great, and this bug is its only weakness.

On May 15 2009 20:23 Ash wrote:


would you mind to share the exact settings you're using on windows 7 for BW? Because I've done the same as you, changing to 256 colours disablingall the features and etc but still the colours are so fucked up when I launch BW. That alone has turned me off to try out the so-called one of the most promising windows to be launched.

On May 16 2009 22:45 MasterOfChaos wrote:
Try using XP-Mode:
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2009/Apr09/04-28Win7QA.mspx

On May 17 2009 02:39 cava wrote:
I hope windows 7 is a success. I always thought Vista got a bad rap for no reason. After serice pack 1 vista became solid as a rock. I build this computer in January with windows vista x64 and it has yet to crash on me, or fail to be able to run a program. If windows 7 is an improvement it will be an awesome OS.

On May 17 2009 02:55 da_head wrote:
i have windows 7 installed on a partition, but i have yet to use it. (too lazy to redownload all my programs and such lol. leaving it for the summer)

On May 17 2009 03:05 iheartgna wrote:


If you have vista, you can upgrade and you won't lose any of your programs. If you use xp you don't have an upgrade option, but when you delete the old xp partiton during a win7 reformat it will keep the contents of certain folders, notably the Program Files folder, and move it to C:/Windows.old in win7. I put all my music+movies etc into program files before I reformatted and everything works perfectly.

On topic: I have the same problem but my sc seems to be a bit more stable; I haven't suffered a crash within ~1 hour yet

On May 15 2009 19:56 konadora wrote:

Have you been living under a rock?

Next OS after Vista

Although it's more of a Vista upgrade

On May 17 2009 08:21 Raithed wrote:

id say XP++ rather than vista+

On May 17 2009 08:18 mainerd wrote:
If you have a multi core processor you might want to try setting the affinity under the task manager to just 1 processor for starcraft (rightclick the process, choose set affinity). I have to do this every time i run SC with my quad core or it will randomly lock my computer up... I use Vista 64 Ultimate, not sure about windows 7.

On May 15 2009 19:54 lazz wrote:
what the hell is windows 7?

On May 17 2009 08:21 Raithed wrote:

id say XP++ rather than vista+

On June 24 2009 03:29 Fr33t wrote:
People still use XP? Daaaamn, hahaha

I didn't notice any higher latency either on my 7(x64) install though when playing on ICCUP. Does it happen all the time or occasionally?

On May 15 2009 20:13 funkie wrote:


I've gotten the exact opposite actually.

Most of the geeky nerds that have installed it in their comps, have said that it's faster and it's filled with good new features. Also, since the last release it's just as Release Candidate, I wouldn't expect things to work all the time.

On May 15 2009 19:57 kaleidoscope wrote:


A new OS, to replace the failed vista..

On June 24 2009 03:29 Fr33t wrote:
People still use XP? Daaaamn, hahaha

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)

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)


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

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?

On November 03 2009 08:55 CorsairHero wrote:

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

On November 03 2009 10:27 da_head wrote:
i don't have any music open, and mine still crashes.

On December 04 2009 22:45 HwangjaeTerran wrote:


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.

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.

On December 12 2009 08:11 R1CH wrote:
Anyone who is having crashing on Win7 want to help me develop a fix? Will require remote access to your PC.

On December 12 2009 08:11 R1CH wrote:
Anyone who is having crashing on Win7 want to help me develop a fix? Will require remote access to your PC.

i have done further looking into this with multiple applications which make use of double buffering or triplebuffering (and vsync). The results are that these applications when run in DDraw fail to lock the primary buffer and result in Screen tearing and also the drawing of the windows startmenu orb and flashing taskbar buttons to display on top of the application in fullscreen. Had the primary framebuffer locked, this would NOT occur. That said. This is a windows 7 bug spanning both X32 and x64, and video drivers have no bearing what so ever. The same applications work fine on Vista. The only thing i can think of is these applications are displaying the behavior of an application manifested for Windows 7, rather then older versions and so are unable to lock the primary buffer. more info here http://www.codenamewindows.com/?p=58

On December 12 2009 19:05 virusak wrote:
Well don't know if anyone mentioned this but this is rather only a graphic DirectDraw issue, if you run skype or winamp on the background it will still play

On the Microsoft technet forum there is also a discussion about this, Squall_Leonhart69r seems to have get to the problems core

On December 12 2009 19:10 CorsairHero wrote:

definitely a no for me

On May 17 2009 02:39 cava wrote:
I hope windows 7 is a success. I always thought Vista got a bad rap for no reason. After serice pack 1 vista became solid as a rock. I build this computer in January with windows vista x64 and it has yet to crash on me, or fail to be able to run a program. If windows 7 is an improvement it will be an awesome OS.

On December 18 2009 05:49 mizore wrote:
I've tried running every fix listed here but I still can not get BroodWar to work. My problem sounds a bit different than the ones that are listed here though.

Everytime I click on multiplayer > expansion, BroodWar crashes and gives me this error :

The instruction at 0x004dd66e referenced memory at 0x00000018. The memory could not be written. Click on OK to terminate the program.

Any help in getting this to work would be appreciated... I don't mind somebody remotely accessing my computer to get it to work either.

On December 19 2009 23:16 mizore wrote:


Disregard this, I found out my problem.

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?

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?

On December 22 2009 15:54 ssj114 wrote:
Silly Windows users. Linux always wins now.

On December 22 2009 22:35 lynx.oblige wrote:
and you really should upgrade to W7

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.

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.).

On December 22 2009 15:50 lynx.oblige wrote:
Silly XP purists. Vista on the latest SP is better than XP now.

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.
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On December 22 2009 16:33 Xeris wrote:
that code works by the way, i've had 0 crashes so far.

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.

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.
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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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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. ^^

On July 01 2010 05:47 ss6290 wrote:
I have the same problem and I am already running SC:BW on compatability mode for XP. After I get maybe twenty minutes into a game it freezes and I have to manually shut down to fix it. Any help would be appreciated.

On July 01 2010 06:02 Baksteen wrote:


Set it to compatability mode for windows 95, that worked for me. Also did while i used Vista.

Edit:


These are the settings i use.

Edit2: i should maybe check run as administrator because now it asks me everytime it starts up :p

On July 01 2010 06:39 ss6290 wrote:

Unfortunately, that did not solve the freezing issue. Any more suggestions?

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.

On July 01 2010 06:44 Baksteen wrote:


Did you try this already?

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.
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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.

Scouring the web, I have come to the conclusion that this is a Windows 7 issue, and there is no link between hardware, or drivers as it occurs on ATI, Intel and Nvidia chips.

Games such as Starcraft may freeze as soon as you hit the first menu screen, or as late as half way through a mission.

...

So far i've verified that
Affinity does not fix it.
Process Priority does not fix it.
End tasking or pausing Explorer does not fix it.
Selective startup does not fix it.

Running without drivers will not fix it (don't even bother suggesting it).

This is an issue that doesn't have any correlation to system configuration, The game that gets the most coverage with this issue is Starcraft and though that might get a Patch, its no doubt that the Age of empires games won't.

The freeze is not a hardlock, rather its a freeze of the display and input controls. Processes in the background continue running and if you are in a chat on skype or xfire these continue as well according to some users.

Someone mentioned a Race issue between Ddraw and WDDM, but i've no idea how to verify that.

Specific Starcraft issue is here http://www.sevenforums.com/gaming/11659-starcraft-freezes-after-1-5-minutes-playing.html
http://www.sevenforums.com/gaming/10190-starcraft-system-crash.html

but Issues for Age of empires and worms can be found across the internet.
theres even on here
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/w7itproappcompat/thread/bde26b63-e8fc-46ac-8541-7f8154c8328d

Note: All the fixes known to work on Vista, do not work on Windows 7.

i have done further looking into this with multiple applications which make use of double buffering or triplebuffering (and vsync). The results are that these applications when run in DDraw fail to lock the primary buffer and result in Screen tearing and also the drawing of the windows startmenu orb and flashing taskbar buttons to display on top of the application in fullscreen. Had the primary framebuffer locked, this would NOT occur. That said. This is a windows 7 bug spanning both X32 and x64, and video drivers have no bearing what so ever. The same applications work fine on Vista. The only thing i can think of is these applications are displaying the behavior of an application manifested for Windows 7, rather then older versions and so are unable to lock the primary buffer. more info here http://www.codenamewindows.com/?p=58

As I understand it, DirectDraw assumes it can lock the primary draw buffer, and Windows 7 itself draws to the buffer, since so much of the GUI is now done in 3D e.g. Aero. At some point they both try and draw to the buffer at the same time, resulting in a freeze of the display (both programs are waiting for the buffer to be released, neither lets go, and thus you get a classic deadlock due to the inter-process race condition).

XP Compatibility mode achieves nothing sadly - neither does XP Mode, as Squall mentions, the game can't switch display modes under XP Mode.

I've resorted to Windows XP in VirtualBox.

Anyhow, search for a program called ChaosLauncher. I initially used CL to launch StarCraft in windowed mode because my LCD would auto-stretch to widescreen, but it can also be used to play SC in fullscreen. It appears to take control of DirectDraw or something, I don't know the details, I've only ever dabbled in programming. The important thing is it prevents StarCraft from freezing on me.

here is another way however, it would require keeping starcraft in a window (which does work) and then scaling that window to desktop size.

coupled with warlord_7's colour compatibility reg patch it should work.

On July 05 2010 07:31 olof wrote:
I still have exctremely low expectations in having this fixed, but I something just occured to me.

This freeze never happens when I watch replays, only when I play. And I usually watch replays online with the iCCup launcher, though not with anyone else (RONREY)

On July 05 2010 07:52 floor exercise wrote:


It's coincidence it hasn't happened while watching a replay

On July 05 2010 06:43 trypt wrote:
I spent awhile looking for a fix after beta went down... the fix I found to a "crashing" bug where your entire system just freezes and you cant CTRL+ALT+DELETE, but can still hear music in the background is the following:

1. Go to your task manager
2. Go to processes tab, and allow changes (click on the Show process from all users)
3. Go to "Set Affinity" for the Starcraft process, and DO NOT allow it to use all cpu's, just choose 1 core.

To those who have this problem, let me know if this fix works... after it I played for 8-10 hours straight for a few days before quitting SC.

On July 05 2010 06:43 trypt wrote:
I spent awhile looking for a fix after beta went down... the fix I found to a "crashing" bug where your entire system just freezes and you cant CTRL+ALT+DELETE, but can still hear music in the background is the following:

1. Go to your task manager
2. Go to processes tab, and allow changes (click on the Show process from all users)
3. Go to "Set Affinity" for the Starcraft process, and DO NOT allow it to use all cpu's, just choose 1 core.

To those who have this problem, let me know if this fix works... after it I played for 8-10 hours straight for a few days before quitting SC.

On August 04 2010 21:23 SneakPeek wrote:
i dont think you need to set the affinity of the chaos launcher to 1. just use the window mode option and problem solved, no color mess-ups, no lock-ups, just BW in a very small window.

On August 05 2010 02:16 olof wrote:

Window mode is kinda laggy for me, the only thing that works for me is to alt tab and set affinity to 1 manually. It's not biggie but sometimes I forget and the computer freezes.

On August 06 2010 23:33 darkemperor wrote:
This problem is because of Winamp. Everytime when Winamp is open in background, music doesn't have to play, it crashes.. and when Winamp is closed, there is no problem whatsoever.. I've played 30-40 successful games at different times and I've come to that conclusion.

On May 15 2009 19:54 lazz wrote:
what the hell is windows 7?

On August 15 2010 05:22 2Pacalypse- wrote:
If the only solution to crashing so far is Window Mode in Chaoslauncher, has anyone tried to contact its creator (XeNotRoN) and see if he can make it work for full screen as well?