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[H] Windows 7 still freezes BW

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Raelcun
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
United States3747 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-02-01 04:35:15
February 01 2010 04:31 GMT
#1
Okay so Windows 7 and BW don't mix very well, I fixed the colors fine. I'm dealing with the slight input delay and don't even notice it most of the time anymore.

I -thought- I fixed the issue where BW freezes but I'm still getting random crashes when BW is open past around an hour and a half.

Before you can ask I have a .bat file running to kill the explorer process.

taskkill /f /IM explorer.exe
rem press Enter to continue
pause
start explorer.exe
exit


Using this I have streamed for over 3 hours while running Winamp but I still run into extremely random freezing issues where I have to power down my computer because BW is stuck on top and I can't end task it or get back to windows in any way. This is so random that it might not occur for a week then twice in a day. If you were watching it happened in the middle of game 3 of Legionnaire vs Nyoken while casting with Psyonic_Reaver today so it was rather annoying. Yet earlier in the day I did a 3 hour cast of TL Arena V with no problems. I can't figure out what else might be causing this.

PS- Let me clarify the freezing issue occurs independantly of Winamp running or really any other programs at all.
blabber
Profile Blog Joined June 2007
United States4448 Posts
February 01 2010 04:41 GMT
#2
there seems to be no fix as of yet.

one workaround however is to use chaoslauncher + window mode
blabberrrrr
Hithran
Profile Joined March 2009
Canada57 Posts
February 01 2010 04:43 GMT
#3
This happens to me too. Killing explorer fixed it for me but yesterday it froze for the first time in a week of running it with no explorer. running Winamp always causes it to crash for me.

here is a thread of people discussing the problem in more detail. There doesn't seem to be a true fix out yet.

http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vistagaming/thread/4e83dac8-8d4d-4dad-9f1d-e08fa2fe1e48
razorsuKe
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
Canada2000 Posts
February 01 2010 04:56 GMT
#4
I can't believe nobody is giving a damn about this issue, every knowledgeable person is just telling people to fix drivers and shit when it is clearly not the issue. Fucking hate people.
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Raelcun
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
United States3747 Posts
February 01 2010 07:12 GMT
#5
Yeah I found that thread before and the official Microsoft answer guy keeps talking about drivers it's complete bullshit. It's obviously not a driver issue just Microsoft doesn't want to admit they made a mistake.
Kinky
Profile Blog Joined September 2008
United States4126 Posts
February 01 2010 07:48 GMT
#6
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.
GTR
Profile Blog Joined September 2004
51507 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-02-01 09:27:39
February 01 2010 08:23 GMT
#7
Ever since I started playing with Winamp exited I have not experienced any crashes, even playing through prolonged periods.
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writer22816
Profile Blog Joined September 2008
United States5775 Posts
February 01 2010 08:32 GMT
#8
Well I use windows 7 and I have yet to experience a freeze

I don't think it would be a stretch to call it a hardware problem, and thus a driver issue
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disco
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
Netherlands1667 Posts
February 01 2010 09:22 GMT
#9
I still have the exact same problem. Been running without freezes for a couple of days now, but there were days that I kicked my PC because it froze 5 times in a day.
this game is a fucking jokie
Doso
Profile Joined March 2008
Germany769 Posts
February 01 2010 09:24 GMT
#10
Use VLC instead of Winamp for background music > no more SC crashes
disco
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
Netherlands1667 Posts
February 01 2010 09:30 GMT
#11
It's unrelated to winamp or VLC.
this game is a fucking jokie
Zilver
Profile Joined December 2008
Finland282 Posts
February 01 2010 09:38 GMT
#12
In my case, I stoppped using winamp and went foobar insted. That was well over 2 weeks ago and I havent crashed even once!
Before that I used to crash almost every game, but sometimes nothing happened for days, it truly seemed random.
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Noxide
Profile Joined July 2009
United States2870 Posts
February 01 2010 09:45 GMT
#13
Yea I have tried messing with drivers, winamp and such. Nothing ends up being a complete fix. Random crashes piss me off.
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NiGoL
Profile Joined September 2008
1868 Posts
February 01 2010 09:57 GMT
#14
when i used win 7 i never had this problem, weird that some people does. ;o
i just had some issues with the colors, and that was easy to fix with just alt+tab.
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liosama
Profile Blog Joined October 2007
Australia843 Posts
February 01 2010 10:17 GMT
#15
sc lags for me as well. Every 10 seconds I get a random microsecond skip. Annoys the absolute shit out of me. I basically cant play any game without setting it to Extra High Latency which still lags as well
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IceCube
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
Croatia1403 Posts
February 01 2010 10:28 GMT
#16
On February 01 2010 19:17 liosama wrote:
sc lags for me as well. Every 10 seconds I get a random microsecond skip. Annoys the absolute shit out of me. I basically cant play any game without setting it to Extra High Latency which still lags as well

That may or may not (most likely) be the problem with Win 7. The problem on this thread is Win 7 + Winamp + SC = crash, no lag issues revealed. And there is no solution to this problem to this date. Your problem liosama might be with your internet connection/proxy which does not affect Win 7 crash, and therefore I suggest using search option to try and find solution to your problem.
Forever Vulture.. :(
PokePill
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
United States1048 Posts
February 01 2010 10:44 GMT
#17
On February 01 2010 19:28 IceCube wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 01 2010 19:17 liosama wrote:
sc lags for me as well. Every 10 seconds I get a random microsecond skip. Annoys the absolute shit out of me. I basically cant play any game without setting it to Extra High Latency which still lags as well

That may or may not (most likely) be the problem with Win 7. The problem on this thread is Win 7 + Winamp + SC = crash, no lag issues revealed. And there is no solution to this problem to this date. Your problem liosama might be with your internet connection/proxy which does not affect Win 7 crash, and therefore I suggest using search option to try and find solution to your problem.


It has nothing to do with winamp, SC crashes on both my windows 7 computers and I do not use winamp.
RowdierBob
Profile Blog Joined May 2003
Australia13295 Posts
February 01 2010 11:27 GMT
#18
I haven't had any dramas. I've had replays freeze a couple of times, but never while playing.
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7mk
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
Germany10157 Posts
February 01 2010 12:20 GMT
#19
cant believe that blizzard isnt even working on a patch to fix all this windows7 bullshit
beep boop
liosama
Profile Blog Joined October 2007
Australia843 Posts
February 01 2010 23:03 GMT
#20
Well my SC goes black actually :\

I load it up and everything is black, but I can hear sounds and shit. I don't know how to fix that :|
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