| ImmortalTofu United States. September 16 2011 07:56. Posts 1039 | Profile Blog # |
I've installed the windows 8 Dev beta, and I've installed SC2 on it.
Unfortunately, due to the way that windows 8 handles multitasking between metro apps (dragging other running "apps" in from the left), I can't seem to scroll left while playing a game. I've done alot of googling, and it seems that other games don't seem to have this problem, and that people have been successfully running SC without this problem, so I'm trying to identify the source. This happens in fullscreen and fullscreen (windowed) mode, because the mouse has to go all the way to the left in order to start the scrolling, and these are the only ways I like to play. Thanks for any and all help! |
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| gosuMalicE Canada. September 16 2011 08:05. Posts 624 | Profile # |
| Well its a beta, best thing to do is to let microsoft know so it gets fixed... |
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| ImmortalTofu United States. September 16 2011 08:08. Posts 1039 | Profile Blog # |
| I would, but it seems to be isolated to me from what I can tell from other sites... |
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| ImmortalTofu United States. September 16 2011 08:19. Posts 1039 | Profile Blog # | |
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| Bobbias Canada. September 16 2011 08:56. Posts 1006 | Profile Blog # |
| Isn't there an option in SC2 somewhere that lets you tell it to forcefully lock the cursor in the window? |
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| paoO Brazil. September 16 2011 09:06. Posts 3 | Profile # |
| I don't know if I got you right, but maybe running if you are running in windowed (fullscreen) that might be the cause of it. Last edit: 2011-09-16 09:06:49 |
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| ImmortalTofu United States. September 16 2011 09:11. Posts 1039 | Profile Blog # |
| No, I've tried fullscreen as well, and that doesnt work. Bobbias, I've tried that option, and it doesn't make any difference, as soon as I get to the side of the screen, it turns back into a normal windows cursor (because the desktop is actually in a way considered an "app" that can be switched with others) and if i cllick and drag it switches me to another app, and I can't scroll... |
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| ra(y United Kingdom. September 16 2011 09:18. Posts 1 | Profile # |
| make the game fullscreen, lower the resolution, accept, and then make the resolution to whatever you want it to be. works fine for me |
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| ImmortalTofu United States. September 16 2011 09:25. Posts 1039 | Profile Blog # |
| Ra(y... Hmm Thanks for the advice... Though I really don't love it, cus I like playing full res, it does work, so thanks! This does work. If anyone can ever find a solution that doesn't require a res change, please PM me! |
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| ImmortalTofu United States. September 16 2011 09:48. Posts 1039 | Profile Blog # |
| Ok! I have found a (somewhat annoying) but working solution. download MetroController, the app located http://winaero.com/e107_files/downloads/MetroController.zip here. Run then click "disable all new features". This takes you into pretty much a carbon copy of windows 7, even without explorer ribbon-bar and advanced task manager as such after you do a logout and log back (which, luckily, is quite fast in Windows 8 Dev), and fixes this problem. Thanks for the patience guy! Enjoy your windows 8 and I hope this helps someone! |
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 R1CH Administrator September 16 2011 10:17. | Profile Blog # |
On September 16 2011 08:05 gosuMalicE wrote:
Well its a beta, best thing to do is to let microsoft know so it gets fixed...
It's not a beta - it's a developer preview. It's alpha quality at best, this exists solely so developers can build and test their applications on it. It's not recommended for consumers at all. |
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| ImmortalTofu United States. September 16 2011 10:23. Posts 1039 | Profile Blog # |
On September 16 2011 10:17 R1CH wrote:
Show nested quote +On September 16 2011 08:05 gosuMalicE wrote:
Well its a beta, best thing to do is to let microsoft know so it gets fixed...
It's not a beta - it's a developer preview. It's alpha quality at best, this exists solely so developers can build and test their applications on it. It's not recommended for consumers at all.
Well of course! I'm just trying it out to sorta get a feel for what Windows is gonna look like in the future. I'm not using it as my primary OS, but it is nice to not have to reboot everytime I play SC, especially because performance is better here than in 7 for me cus of no background programs.
Oh! And HAIL R1CH! I feel so honored to have you in one of my threads XD. Thanks for all the awesome work you do for the community!Last edit: 2011-09-16 10:23:54 |
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| t1mid United States. September 16 2011 11:04. Posts 142 | Profile # |
| I actually got it and tried to play starcraft2 on windows 8 yesterday, ran into the same problem! I started googling stuff for hours and could not find anything on this "problem", didn't know if I should make a thread here because I felt like the problem was isolated to just me. Glad to know I'm not alone! |
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| HellGreen Denmark. September 16 2011 14:39. Posts 1139 | Profile # |
Sorry I can't help out on the problem, but I really recommend running Win8 in a virtual machine like ie. VirtualBox. That way you don't have to reboot when done testing and playing around  . |
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| doomed Australia. September 16 2011 15:20. Posts 420 | Profile # |
I am playing starcraft II in windows 8 without any problems AT ALL!
Not playing on a virtual box and also playing in Fullscreen.
Not sure if that helps anyone but just letting you know that it does work. |
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| ZnyX Denmark. September 16 2011 15:34. Posts 44 | Profile # |
| Had the same problem, and had to compromise and put my game in windowed mode, and enabling confined cursor. |
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| Bodom United States. September 17 2011 21:04. Posts 15 | Profile # |
| I was having the exact same problem, ra(y's solution works perfectly. Thank you. Hope this helps. |
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| Bodom United States. September 17 2011 21:15. Posts 15 | Profile # |
On September 16 2011 09:25 ImmortalTofu wrote:
Ra(y... Hmm Thanks for the advice... Though I really don't love it, cus I like playing full res, it does work, so thanks! This does work. If anyone can ever find a solution that doesn't require a res change, please PM me!
In ra(y's solution he says to change the res back to whatever you feel like |
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| mattenno United States. September 19 2011 05:35. Posts 21 | Profile # |
| i'm sure blizzard will have to patch their games somewhat to work with windows 8...no worries yet |
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| VauleR October 15 2011 09:11. Posts 1 | Profile # |
I got Win 8 too..
ra(y 's solution works fine for me!
Thank you man. |
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