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DorF
Sweden961 Posts
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vek
Australia936 Posts
On October 02 2010 20:33 Metaspace wrote: 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? That's strange.. I can connect fine to iCCup.. I hadn't tried actual Blizzard battle.net. I just assumed it would work for that too. I just tried it and I got the same error you described. I much prefer to play on iCCup anyway so it doesn't really bother me. It's a shame it doesn't work on normal battle.net though. | ||
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DeltruS
Canada2214 Posts
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Metaspace
Austria670 Posts
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Metaspace
Austria670 Posts
I use Win7 Professional 64 bit BTW. | ||
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Metaspace
Austria670 Posts
With this, I do not get the "back to desktop" problem when trying to connect to Bnet; Instead, I (again) get "..was unable to properly identify your application version [...] you may have a computer virus [...]" from Bnet. Seems like the DDHack dll's presence causes this...any workaround? This way I at least get into ICCup. | ||
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Husmusen
Sweden92 Posts
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Metaspace
Austria670 Posts
Do you have aero features active? Do you have any old DirectX installed maybe? | ||
2Pacalypse-
Croatia9497 Posts
On October 03 2010 01:53 Metaspace wrote: Update: You do not need "altwinpos" in DDHack's config, force Vsync to off in your display driver. With this, I do not get the "back to desktop" problem when trying to connect to Bnet; Instead, I (again) get "..was unable to properly identify your application version [...] you may have a computer virus [...]" from Bnet. Seems like the DDHack dll's presence causes this...any workaround? This way I at least get into ICCup. Is this a typo? Because Squall_Leonhart69r said you NEED this options for Starcraft to work properly. Oh and sux that it doesn't work on official bnet servers, but at least it works on iccup right? | ||
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Metaspace
Austria670 Posts
The advantage is in my case, that I can (at least) try to connect. I assume Starcraft does an integrity check, and forbids connecting to Bnet because of the presence of DDHack.... And yes, not being able to get into Bnet sucks toally, I regularely play casual games with a number of friends there that do not play ICCup, as well as quality 3v3 hunters games. | ||
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2Pacalypse-
Croatia9497 Posts
On October 06 2010 00:47 Metaspace wrote: And yes, not being able to get into Bnet sucks toally, I regularely play casual games with a number of friends there that do not play ICCup, as well as quality 3v3 hunters games. Same here, so I hope there's a workaround for this. | ||
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Metaspace
Austria670 Posts
Of course Microsoft could get their shit together and publish a proper backward compatible DirectDraw dll | ||
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2Pacalypse-
Croatia9497 Posts
On October 07 2010 18:16 Metaspace wrote: As far as I can see it, Blizzard could patch BW to tolerate DDHack, or change graphics to output to, i.e., 16bit color in a wrapper around the original output. Of course Microsoft could get their shit together and publish a proper backward compatible DirectDraw dll Lol, we're doomed. | ||
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Shiro)Tenshi
China214 Posts
I didn't know what to do so I just randomly updated my nvidia graphics driver and for some reason my bw doesn't freeze anymore  It still has color problems, but I could easily fix that by killing off explorer.exe when I play | ||
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Embrace Skill
England6 Posts
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TheWa11
United States1 Post
Try this out, I hope this works for everyone else. | ||
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Metaspace
Austria670 Posts
On October 08 2010 14:43 TheWa11 wrote: I was having the same problem with broodwar on windows 7 and i turned on 'enable cpu threading' in the speed settings. I haven't crashed since :D Try this out, I hope this works for everyone else. Will try that. Otherwise, ALL my drivers are up-to-date, but BW crashes consistently within the first 3 minutes of the game. Concerning lag etc.: Did not notice anything there. Using window mode, the mouse reactiveness is poor, it can be improved by switching off "mouse acceleration" in the window's control panel/mouse, but still not ideal. The colors can easily be fixed with a registry addition (there is a thread here). | ||
ArvickHero
10387 Posts
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vek
Australia936 Posts
On October 09 2010 10:13 ArvickHero wrote: I can't change the core affinity settings when I launch the game w/ the ICCup Launcher ;l any way around this? You have to click "Show processes from all users" in the bottom left hand corner of task manager first. This is how I got around it anyway. On October 02 2010 22:56 Metaspace wrote: vek, do you still manage to get into ICCup? I use Win7 Professional 64 bit BTW. Yeah I can still get into ICCup. The only issue I get is the black backgrounds underneath text but this only happens in the battle.net interface so it doesn't bother me. ![[image loading]](http://imgur.com/Ehfxn.png) I'm going to do some investigating and try to make it work on blizzard battle.net also (hooray for free time). | ||
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Metaspace
Austria670 Posts
On October 08 2010 14:43 TheWa11 wrote: I was having the same problem with broodwar on windows 7 and i turned on 'enable cpu threading' in the speed settings. I haven't crashed since :D Try this out, I hope this works for everyone else. Does NOT work. Another crash. :-((( | ||
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