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Hister
Profile Joined June 2010
United States89 Posts
September 26 2010 08:11 GMT
#101
Yo I had a issue where I couldn't get in and out of BW it would load then minimize right away I would have to reload several times to be able to play. Then I realized if I mass clicked the screen while alt tabbing back into brood war I could get in and out no problem hope this helps someone using Win7 Home with 4 core AMD Phenom II. And op that freezing stuff you get where the compute seems locked and you have a BW screen with all the weird colors mixed with the GUI go into task manager using ctrl alt delete, processes, click on BW hit minimize maximize then minimize again then maximize again works every time for me.
Freezard
Profile Blog Joined April 2007
Sweden1013 Posts
September 26 2010 13:42 GMT
#102
Uh I run Win7 Ultimate 64-bit and never had any crashes with XP compatibility mode etc. Only problems are that ICCUP rank icons aren't visible in chat and colors in lobby get messed up when you Alt-Tab out of BW. Colors are fine in-game though so I don't care.
seRapH
Profile Blog Joined April 2009
United States9776 Posts
September 26 2010 15:59 GMT
#103
@hister we can't hit ctrl+alt+del. nothing happens.

@freezard those of us with win7 home premium or starter can't install xp compatibility mode.
boomer hands
LunarC
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
United States1186 Posts
September 26 2010 20:44 GMT
#104
Use iccup launcher window mode. All problems with color and freezing WILL disappear.
REEBUH!!!
seRapH
Profile Blog Joined April 2009
United States9776 Posts
September 26 2010 20:55 GMT
#105
On September 27 2010 05:44 LunarC wrote:
Use iccup launcher window mode. All problems with color and freezing WILL disappear.

the problem with window mode is that its tiny, drastically decreases mouse accuracy, and just generally annoying to play with.
boomer hands
buhhy
Profile Joined October 2009
United States1113 Posts
September 26 2010 20:57 GMT
#106
On September 27 2010 05:55 seRapH wrote:
Show nested quote +
On September 27 2010 05:44 LunarC wrote:
Use iccup launcher window mode. All problems with color and freezing WILL disappear.

the problem with window mode is that its tiny, drastically decreases mouse accuracy, and just generally annoying to play with.


You can 2x the window size. It makes a big difference.
corumjhaelen
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
France6884 Posts
September 26 2010 21:24 GMT
#107
On September 27 2010 05:57 buhhy wrote:
Show nested quote +
On September 27 2010 05:55 seRapH wrote:
On September 27 2010 05:44 LunarC wrote:
Use iccup launcher window mode. All problems with color and freezing WILL disappear.

the problem with window mode is that its tiny, drastically decreases mouse accuracy, and just generally annoying to play with.


You can 2x the window size. It makes a big difference.

BTW I have a problem, I can't play in window mode it says wmode.bwl is missing (i dowloaded it from the iccup website). Anyone has an idea ?
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seRapH
Profile Blog Joined April 2009
United States9776 Posts
September 26 2010 22:17 GMT
#108
On September 27 2010 05:57 buhhy wrote:
Show nested quote +
On September 27 2010 05:55 seRapH wrote:
On September 27 2010 05:44 LunarC wrote:
Use iccup launcher window mode. All problems with color and freezing WILL disappear.

the problem with window mode is that its tiny, drastically decreases mouse accuracy, and just generally annoying to play with.


You can 2x the window size. It makes a big difference.

when i 2x the top and bottom goes off the screen, making my resource count off screen and the bottom part of my minimap gone, basically unplayable.
boomer hands
iPlaY.NettleS
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
Australia4373 Posts
September 27 2010 01:46 GMT
#109
On September 27 2010 07:17 seRapH wrote:
when i 2x the top and bottom goes off the screen, making my resource count off screen and the bottom part of my minimap gone, basically unplayable.

i have the same issue
windowed mode is a very poor solution to a serious problem (bw crashing every 5 mins in windows 7)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7PvoI6gvQs
seRapH
Profile Blog Joined April 2009
United States9776 Posts
September 27 2010 03:42 GMT
#110
currently, i'm playing bw at minimal resolution on vmware, running xp.

so i did a little googling for resolution fix on xp, and i get this. so i tried it, but i get an error telling me that the program linked (called ReForce) can't find a monitor. i'm pretty sure the reason for this is just because its inside a virtual machine, but how would i fix this?
boomer hands
skypig
Profile Joined November 2009
United States237 Posts
September 27 2010 04:38 GMT
#111
I had problems running SC on my Windows 7 OS, although it wasn't crashing; it was just stupid color glitch issues. Anyway, here are the things I did to fix my issues:

1. UNCHECK the "Enable Color Cycling" box in the Video options on the in-game menu.
2. Make the registry changes as specified in this thread.

You can also try running the game with the "Screen Resolution" options window open on your desktop...apparently it worked for some people that were having graphical glitches.
SneakPeek
Profile Joined April 2010
Philippines162 Posts
September 27 2010 15:08 GMT
#112
holy $%#%! the fix works!! the color isnt distorted anymore!! i dont know about the comp freeze but the color fix in skypigs post works!! =p
By.Pato
Profile Joined March 2010
Costa Rica52 Posts
September 27 2010 15:20 GMT
#113
On February 01 2010 16:48 Kinky wrote:
If you're using a multi-core CPU, have you tried making it so that the Starcraft.exe process is only running on one core? I never seem to crash when I do that.

this is like the third time I hear this and it makes perfect sense, but how u do that?
ArvickHero
Profile Blog Joined October 2007
10387 Posts
September 27 2010 15:41 GMT
#114
On September 28 2010 00:20 By.Pato wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 01 2010 16:48 Kinky wrote:
If you're using a multi-core CPU, have you tried making it so that the Starcraft.exe process is only running on one core? I never seem to crash when I do that.

this is like the third time I hear this and it makes perfect sense, but how u do that?

If you access the task manager, you set the affinity to a core. Unfortunately I get an error whenever that happens, so I just limited the cores to 2 cores.
Writerptrk
vek
Profile Joined March 2010
Australia936 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-09-27 22:21:10
September 27 2010 22:20 GMT
#115
To people still having problems, I have managed to fix all my colour AND crashing problems in Windows 7 using the ddhack DLL. Here is a link to the original thread/ddhack and a quote of my settings that work for me. Would be good to know if this fixes problems for other people.

Original Thread
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=151063

DDHack
http://sol.gfxile.net/ddhack/

Configuration
Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit.

ICCUP Launcher:
Chaos Plugin - checked
Lan Latency - checked
Window mode - unchecked

Starcraft.exe compatibility options:
Force 640x480 resolution - checked
Run as Administrator - checked
Everything else - unchecked

ddhack.cfg contents:
altwinpos
Playguuu
Profile Joined April 2010
United States926 Posts
September 28 2010 00:09 GMT
#116
I leave the control panel resolution screen up before launching BW and it works fine for me, fixes the colors and everything.
I used to be just like you, then I took a sweetroll to the knee.
seRapH
Profile Blog Joined April 2009
United States9776 Posts
September 28 2010 01:54 GMT
#117
On September 28 2010 07:20 vek wrote:
To people still having problems, I have managed to fix all my colour AND crashing problems in Windows 7 using the ddhack DLL. Here is a link to the original thread/ddhack and a quote of my settings that work for me. Would be good to know if this fixes problems for other people.

Original Thread
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=151063

DDHack
http://sol.gfxile.net/ddhack/

Configuration
Show nested quote +
Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit.

ICCUP Launcher:
Chaos Plugin - checked
Lan Latency - checked
Window mode - unchecked

Starcraft.exe compatibility options:
Force 640x480 resolution - checked
Run as Administrator - checked
Everything else - unchecked

ddhack.cfg contents:
altwinpos

just tried this thing and sc would just stay on the title screen and not run lol. colors were fine tho, and i could ctrl+alt+del out of it.

but i have win7 home premium so that might be why, idk
boomer hands
Garrl
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
Scotland1975 Posts
September 28 2010 16:52 GMT
#118
Interestingly, I've not had any problems for a while (few months without any problems at all) - however, it resurfaces back when I have any program which downloads open or displays any Flash (ie, Firefox/IE/uTorrent/spotify), aside from Steam. I always run Steam and WMP when playing, so I'm not sure if that's helping it somehow.

Running through iccup launcher w/ AH on while being fullscreened.
Metaspace
Profile Joined November 2006
Austria670 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-10-02 11:37:09
October 02 2010 11:33 GMT
#119
This fix (DDHack) seems to work, but I cannot get into Battle.net with it!
When trying to enter battle.net, first, I got a message from battle.net that the application version cannot be determined (kicking me).

Now (??) the game switches back to the desktop (in low resolution) and nothing more happens the moment I try to connect with battle.net, and I have to kill it using task manager.

Any ideas?
Wir haben zuwenig Vespingas!
iPlaY.NettleS
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
Australia4373 Posts
October 02 2010 11:53 GMT
#120
i fixed it by letting windows 7 choose automatically the emulation for brood war - after manually trying windows 95 , 98 and XP SP3 the one it chose with auto settings was XP SP2 , it hasn't crashed in the 10+ hours i have played since then (was crashing every 5 minutes before this) , the colour glitches are still there but they were a minor issue compared to the crashing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7PvoI6gvQs
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