BW crashes in Windows 7 - Page 17

On March 21 2011 22:16 ICanFlyLow wrote:



Does this also fix the color issue?

On March 21 2011 22:01 2Pacalypse- wrote:

OMG!

Someone tested this already? If this works..... I think I might tear up.


edit: also DanyalDenyo, epic 1st post in 7 years lol!

On March 21 2011 22:24 DanyalDenyo wrote:



No it doesn't. You will still have to kill explorer or run Screen Resolution in the background.

I have been playing it every day for the last week and it hasn't crashed since. It used to crash all the time when I had anything else in the background that can play sounds.

I have Win7 32bit though.

On March 21 2011 23:20 supernovamaniac wrote:

Or have windows classic theme.

I believe its the Aero/new interface that's screwing up the resolution.

On March 21 2011 23:20 supernovamaniac wrote:

Or have windows classic theme.

I believe its the Aero/new interface that's screwing up the resolution.

On March 21 2011 22:16 ICanFlyLow wrote:


Does this also fix the color issue?

On March 21 2011 21:49 DanyalDenyo wrote:
Microsoft released a patch that fixes the D2D/D3D bug

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2488113

On February 11 2011 12:04 TheBirdyNamNam2 wrote:
The fast fix is like this

1) Open command prompt as administrator.

2) Make sure you are on your partition drive(usually C.

3) Type in: bcdedit.exe /set {current} nx AlwaysOff

4) Then go to your run textbox at the start menu and type in msconfig.

5) Disable UAC in your tools tab.

6) If all that didn't work then put your SC installation in a different folder than program files and it should still run. Enjoy.

On February 11 2011 12:05 TheBirdyNamNam2 wrote:
You are vulnerable to several different errors because of the systems that 7 and Vista have in place. You have to disable them for SC to run. I've delt with the same crap a thousand times.

On February 11 2011 13:20 BoldMan wrote:
i have trouble with windows 7 bw, but it never crashed

the only problems i have are the colors that are messed up outsider of games, but in games the colors are usually fixed, so BW has never really been a problem for me

but this is obviously some conflict in the programming; is there any easy way to fix this?

if you have a decent solution PM me the post please cause i might forget abotu this thread :D

On February 11 2011 22:44 DorF wrote:
I've heard form friends with Windows 7 that running the game in windowed solves the problem.
I've also heard that while in fullscreen you cna simply go to the ingame options menu and disable colour cycling and that should be it.
This is for crashes , I don't know about colour.

On March 21 2011 21:49 DanyalDenyo wrote:
Microsoft released a patch that fixes the D2D/D3D bug

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2488113

On March 21 2011 23:20 supernovamaniac wrote:

Or have windows classic theme.

I believe its the Aero/new interface that's screwing up the resolution.

On March 22 2011 21:27 squall leonhart wrote:


No, this does not Patch anything involving directdraw.

On March 22 2011 21:27 squall leonhart wrote:


No, this does not Patch anything involving directdraw.

Assume that you run an application that uses Direct2D or Direct3D and that hosts Windows Internet Explorer components on a computer that is running Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2. In this situation, the application may crash.

On March 22 2011 23:09 DanyalDenyo wrote:



Broodwar used to freeze on my windows 7 ultimate 32-bit when I had wmp, chrome or anything that can play sounds. And it happened everytime without exceptions. Sometimes during the first game sometimes later, but it always happened.

After the patch I have been playing for more than 2 weeks without any crashes or freezing and I have music, chrome, and miscellaneous other proggies running and I have played loads of games -NO CRASHES-

Microsoft says the patch fixes the following symptom:



Edit: squall leonhart maybe I should tell my windows that the patch doesn't do anything involving directdraw and the problem shouldn't be fixed eh?

On March 23 2011 00:19 Navane wrote:
Many people run it fine on windows 7, including me. So you don't need to fix windows 7, but probably a specific driver.

On March 23 2011 00:41 Nesserev wrote:
Fellow friends,

first of all, I want to warn you for my horrific explanation, since I run a dutch version, so I'm not capable of giving you the right terms, but I hope it's still readable -_-

I use Vista myself and I was able to fix the colour glitch without any patching. Even though vista and win7 aren't the same, it might (hopefully) work.

1. Right-Click the shortcut/the game
2. Open the settings menu, go to 'compatibility'
3. a) compatibility mode : windows 95
b) settings : all options activated (don't know if this is really needed, but it did the trick)
c) run as an administrator
4. Go to the 'Settings for all users'-options at the bottom of the 'compatibility'-menu
5. Repeat step 3

Now start the game and hope that it's alright ^^
Even though it's not for Win7, it might help those few vista-users that are having the same problems as everyone else here did.

I run a 64-bit version of vista.

Hope it works ^^

On March 24 2011 01:27 mudlord wrote:
Ugh, whats this crap?

DirectDraw registry hacks, like my w7ddrawpatcher are not a end all solution.
Forcing explorer.exe to close is not a solution.
Compatibility mode does nothing.
Wrapping DirectDraw > more recent API like the wrapper I am working on (and Wine) is a proper & solution.