EPTone more quick question.
When the command prompt is running, everything else disappears so I don't have access to any other programs until I quit SC. Is this normal?
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jiabung
United States720 Posts
one more quick question. When the command prompt is running, everything else disappears so I don't have access to any other programs until I quit SC. Is this normal? | ||
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Pigsquirrel
United States615 Posts
A few games later, it completely freezes. Mouse doesn't move, Ctrl Alt Del doesn't do crap, only way to get out is to hit the reset button. Exactly as you describe. I've screwed around with drivers, killed all background process, killed even more processes that i probably shouldn't have killed, and still crashes every 5 or so games. My final solution: Dual Boot with WinXP. Only advice I can give you. Pain in the ass, but it works. | ||
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Pigsquirrel
United States615 Posts
On April 24 2010 13:42 jiabung wrote: thanks! one more quick question. When the command prompt is running, everything else disappears so I don't have access to any other programs until I quit SC. Is this normal? Yep. Once you are done with Starcraft, assuming it doesn't freeze, just exit out, and press any key. Everything will come back. | ||
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teekesselchen
Germany886 Posts
 Now I was kinda happy that I not finally had some few basic skills with terran and there certainly would be enough opponents in SC2 beta break but hey, Win7 pwns me. Seems like I gotta use my old, almost-broken computer just to play Starcraft. | ||
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Funnytoss
Taiwan1471 Posts
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mmp
United States2130 Posts
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Bub
United States3518 Posts
But that doesn't matter... I have yet to experience this playing BW plenty longer than that and never had a problem. However still have that color distortion on BW from my 8800GT. No drivers seems to work? Obviously for OP its something else, not JUST win7... just gotta find it. GL | ||
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nttea
Sweden4353 Posts
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rev.elation
Sweden84 Posts
Wouldn't installing XP on a Virtualbox work as well as being simpler than dualbooting? has anyone tested this? | ||
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KingofHearts
Japan562 Posts
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rev.elation
Sweden84 Posts
You could also try to use a program called Virtualbox and install XP on that and attempt to play BW there (avoiding rebooting the computer all the time). I don't know how that will work though, as asked in my post above. If nothing else, you could try that and feel free to tell me/us how it went. | ||
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Yodo
Russian Federation327 Posts
Wouldn't installing XP on a Virtualbox work as well as being simpler than dualbooting? It works, but mouse response and feeling a bit awkward. I think I'll switch to SCII coz of that =( | ||
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wiesel
Germany727 Posts
Wouldn't installing XP on a Virtualbox work as well as being simpler than dualbooting? has anyone tested this? i have ubuntu host and xp on a vmware machine .Broodwar is running totally fine. Don't know about virtualbox but should work too. I like Vmware more , the vmware player is free too now i think, not sure. It works, but mouse response and feeling a bit awkward. yea i had the exact same problems with win7 and BW. Mouse just felt like i was playing with 300ms.Tried everything from killing explorer to switching compatibility mode, never worked | ||
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rev.elation
Sweden84 Posts
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buhhy
United States1113 Posts
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rev.elation
Sweden84 Posts
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jimminy_kriket
Canada5536 Posts
Im trying to talk with blizz tech support and get as much info for them as possible but I don't have high hopes. So far i've gotten a generic "update your drivers" etc etc response. Hoping for something more useful next. | ||
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blabber
United States4448 Posts
On June 06 2010 15:07 rev.elation wrote: well I never use Aero, I use classic and it hasn't ever frozen for me (only when I alt-tab), so maybe there's something to it. running SC switches your desktop to Basic anyway, does it not? | ||
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Sixer
United States278 Posts
I recently built a new computer (with Windows 7) and went to download Starcraft from my Battle.net account since I lost my physical copy some time ago. When I went to update the patch via Starcraft, it says that I have to reinstall or that I may have a virus. I know I don't have a virus because I downloaded SC before I had done anything else with the computer, and everything was built from scratch (I'm currently running Norton AV as well). I went to download the patch from the Blizzard website, and I couldn't update with those downloads either. I've tried turning off my firewall and closing all of my other Norton-related stuff, but nothing seems to work when it comes to patching. I'd really like to play on iCCup using this computer...has anyone had similar problems and if so, were you able to get around them? Thanks! Edit: I've played a few games in Single Player just to satisfy the urge to play and haven't run into any crashing so this thread isn't at all about my problem but I figured since this thread was already discussing problems with Windows 7, I should probably ask here without making a new thread. | ||
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rev.elation
Sweden84 Posts
On July 06 2010 06:04 blabber wrote: running SC switches your desktop to Basic anyway, does it not? Since I'm only using classic I wouldn't know. | ||
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