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On February 07 2010 09:16 theconartist wrote:
God its hilarious to see you guys theorize about things you have no clue about.
I've had fun playing Starcraft on Windows 7 for almost 6 months now without a hitch. Wanna know the only difference between you and me? Driver versions. I'm not saying you haven't tried updating or whatever but it really isn't microsoft's, blizzards, or ati/nvidia's fault. It's just an old game and its impossible for the people writing the drivers to test for every possible combination of software.
Now I get to sit back and laugh even more as 100 noobs cry about this post while pretending they know what they are talking about.
Read the link I posted. What the problem is has already been established and that is not it.
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On February 07 2010 10:46 frozenkatkiller wrote:Show nested quote +On February 07 2010 09:16 theconartist wrote:
God its hilarious to see you guys theorize about things you have no clue about.
I've had fun playing Starcraft on Windows 7 for almost 6 months now without a hitch. Wanna know the only difference between you and me? Driver versions. I'm not saying you haven't tried updating or whatever but it really isn't microsoft's, blizzards, or ati/nvidia's fault. It's just an old game and its impossible for the people writing the drivers to test for every possible combination of software.
Now I get to sit back and laugh even more as 100 noobs cry about this post while pretending they know what they are talking about. Read the link I posted. What the problem is has already been established and that is not it.
@theconartist
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Sorry for bringing this old thread back up but the solution wasn't all of these little hacks for me. All I did was go to the battle.net site and downloaded Starcraft through my account and put in the provided key they gave me. I know several people that have done this on Windows 7 as well and the game works for them.
Hope this works for some people.
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turn on the game, minimize it and turn on task manager. go to affinity and turn off all cores except for one. and make sure all your other programs are closed (especially firefox and the like), then it won't freeze.
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United States9107 Posts
I don't want to be a jerk or anything but I'm running Windows 7 and have had 0 problems with bw. (It was a bit tricky getting sc to display in its original aspect ratio but it worked eventually)
I wonder why that is?
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Windows 7 x64
Core i7
Broodwar CPU throttle enabled
Terminate explorer process when running starcraft
Works great, never crashes, colors are fixed by having explorer not running.
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it is probably a directdraw issue with some HW components, it is not corelated to any SW installed or used on a computer, it is a directdraw issue
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well good thing i'm not upgrading for windows 7 anytime soon...
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I'm on Windows 7.
The colors are totally messed up in the game menu, but I don't care about that, as long as the colors are fine ingame, which they are. I haven't expirienced any random freezes in a long time, which makes me think that it's not Windows 7 that is causing any problems in that regard.
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My SC has never frozen on Windows 7. I have not fixed the colors tho.
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Color fix is easy and well worth it. You don't need fancy scripts or options or any of that shit. Terminate explorer.exe before running starcraft/chaoslauncher/iccuplauncher and then restart it with task manager after you're done.
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dual boot xp or avoid w7 at all times, there is no other fix.
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I'm running BW on windows 7 too.
Colours are all messed up and there's really bad lat sometimes when selecting buildings, or pressing hotkeys to build units. My connection is fine and I'm playing on iccup. Like say I select 4 factories in a row, pressing V after each (to build vultures), when I get to the 3rd or 4th factory there will be a minor spike or something in lat and sometimes the factory wont even be selected when I click on it.
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Activate compatibility mode for Win XP SP3 and disable desktop composition and see how it goes. I run BW with this setting, and it never froze. Ingame colors are fine too.
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for the people who say they've never had a crash, just wait, it'll happen :D
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it used to freeze for me. it seemed whenever I had skype running at the same time it would freeze up. Heres some things i noticed. I have a quad core cpu. So I set the Affinity for starcraft on Core #0.
However this didnt fix the problem. So I alt tabbed while Starcraft was running and noticed that starcraft was using 100% of Core #0. I checked the "CPU Throttling" in Starcraft and Core #0 went from 100% to 1%.
If you have a CPU with multiple cores you might wanna try setting an affinity for it to use 1 core and check the CPU Throttling in starcraft. Otherwise I'd close ALL applications running while running Starcraft.
hope that helps... Also if you're running Starcraft on windows 7. To fix the color issues. All you have to do is right click the desktop > click Screen Resolution and leave that window open while you play starcraft.
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good ol trusty windows xp, I'll never upgrade!
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On February 07 2010 08:55 iCCup.Raelcun wrote:Show nested quote +On February 07 2010 08:39 mOnion wrote:On February 07 2010 05:24 hasuprotoss wrote:Best fix I've found (courtesy of http://www.iccup.com/warcraft/forum/general_forum/starcraft_forum_/83879/page1.html)Best fix for all this and to fix windows 7 freezing i've used is as follows. I've been using this for ages and ages weeks on iccup and have played nearly 70 games this season day to day and its working without freezing anymore. make a .bat file with this in it: 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:\Games\Starcraft\
rem cmd.exe /C start /affinity 1 C:\Games\Starcraft\StarCraft.exe
rem Wait for the game to quit, press Enter to continue
pause
start explorer.exe
exit The batch file should use windows compatibility mode for XP sp3 and 640x480 resolution the rest doesn't matter. But! In starcraft because everyone has multi core systems now but the tricky thing is windows 7 is a bit different in that under Speed - Enable CPU Throttling disable this not enable even though it sound like it should be helpful it does the opposite in windows 7. Also under Video: Enable Color Cycling should be OFF (this means water doesn't change color and stuff nothing important) And Disable Unit Portraits. So, use a batchfile setting affinity to your 1st core for Iccup launcher which in turn makes starcraft only use the 1st core as you use the Launcher to launch starcraft not manually. This disable CPU throttling as we set the affinity ourselves and it would only cause crashes. Now turn off Color Cycling & Unit Portraits. All this and in Windows 7 on a dual core Intel I stopped crashing completely. I used to crash all the time and tested all the combinations of things and all these seem to make it fine. You can tab in and out as much as you like, your resolution will switch fine to your normal desktop resolution i.e. I use 1900x1200. I even use dual monitors and put stuff on my second monitor like films or youtube or desktop gadgets and its fine. Only unit portraits 'might' be alright to turn back on but I didn't test as I never cared about it anyways. Anyways enjoy. Note: The pings to yourself are just for a delay to allow explorer to completely close as an indication before you should launch starcraft. I tested the 98/Me compatibility but it causes a problem with connecting to Iccup and stuff iirc. That 98/Me would fix the colors by itself but do it in the above way for the most stable solution I've experienced. Mine hasn't crashed, had weird colors, or done anything funky since I began using this file. mkay, for those of us on TL who ARENT cs majors, can someone explain exactly how to do this .bat and coding stuff? i dont know enough about the problem to apply the solution X_X Open notepad copy the ENTIRE section in the CODE window into the notepad. Under File click save as, change the file type from text file to all formats then type in a name like "Kill.bat" as long as it has the .bat at the end of it. Save it and run it.
I have some noob questions regarding this.
Do I have to run the .bat file everytime I want to play SC? Also when I run the .bat file the launcher automatically comes up along with a dos command prompt that says "press any key to continue." Do I just click start SC on the launcher with the command prompt still in the background or do I hit any key first to close the command prompt and then launch SC?
I don't have any color problems but starcraft does freeze around every 30 minutes which requires a hard reboot for me. I'm using W7 32 bit.
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Canada8033 Posts
When the batch file is run, it starts ICCUP and kills the explorer process. Run Starcraft at this point, but keep the command prompt in the background. When you're done, hit any key when the command prompt has focus and the explorer process will be restored.
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