 ProoM Lithuania. December 25 2009 05:50. Posts 1738 | Profile Blog # |
On December 22 2009 16:33 Xeris wrote:
that code works by the way, i've had 0 crashes so far.
didnt work for me :S |
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 Un Gato United States. December 25 2009 05:52. Posts 123 | Profile # |
On December 25 2009 05:49 blabber wrote:
Show nested quote +On December 25 2009 05:44 Un Gato wrote:
I doubt that Windows 7 itself is the issue for any of this. I've been running SC on XP, Vista, and W7 and have had it work fine on each. The only difference is what sort of crazy colors I see outside of games, in games it's always fine.
yeah for the first few months of owning 7 I thought this as I was not getting any freezes under Windows 7 at all. But within the past month I've had it happen like five times, which is too much for me. Now I run a dualboot setup with XP and 7.
That seems as though it's a recent change, not something that you just randomly avoided until now given the sudden frequency. |
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 whiteLotus December 25 2009 06:03. Posts 227 | Profile Blog # |
| how to stop lag in bw with windows 7? i have all latest drivers etc. |
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| Un Gato United States. December 26 2009 03:50. Posts 123 | Profile # |
| Again, I really don't think Windows itself is at fault for any of these problems. |
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 Khaymus United States. December 26 2009 04:31. Posts 488 | Profile Blog # |
So from the sounds of it. If you are using Windows 7 and get this crash and this batch file does not fix it...your just kinda screwed? 
To top it off, my launcher will not launch the damn game in windowed mode, so I can't even fix it by doing that. Tells me to reinstall Iccup launcher, but that doesn't help at all -_-.
Anyone find any solution that works when none of this already posted doesn't? |
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 HazMat Czech Republic. December 26 2009 10:58. Posts 1760 | Profile Blog # |
On December 15 2009 01:51 inReacH wrote:
I think I found a fix, I played all of yesterday with no problems... these are all the things I did, I'm not sure if one or a combination of them was what helped but here goes:
1.Close winamp.
2.Go into NVIDIA control panel and set Starcraft to use only one GPU(I'm using a gtx 295 so if you have a single GPU gfxcard this one won't be necessary)
3.Turn vertical sync off for starcraft in NVIDIA control panel.(doubt this one matters)
4.Go to your Starcraft directory, right click on starcraft.exe, properties, compatibility, check mark all boxes except disable desktop comp and disable display scaling.
5.Open notepad.
copy/paste:
cmd.exe /C start /affinity 1 D:\"SC"\"Launcher"\"Launcher.exe"
ping 127.0.0.1 -n 2
taskkill /f /IM explorer.exe
ping 127.0.0.1 -n 2
cd C:\SC\StarCraft\
rem cmd.exe /C start /affinity 1 D:\"SC"\"StarCraft.exe"
rem Wait for the game to quit, press Enter to continue
pause
start explorer.exe
exit
Replace those paths with what you have for said files, save as .bat file.
Now when you wish to play start SC by clicking the file you created, it kills explorer until you stop playing. You can also create a shortcut of the file and make it look like SC so it looks prettier.
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I'm about to go play SC all day so if I crash I'll edit this post with a something like 'fuck my life', if this is still here then it's working.
If you need help with any of the steps please post the question here and you might want to pm me.
What do we replace in D:\"SC"\"Launcher"\"Launcher.exe"
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 lynx.oblige Mozambique. December 26 2009 12:43. Posts 372 | Profile # |
On December 22 2009 22:54 slimshady wrote:
Show nested quote +On December 22 2009 22:35 lynx.oblige wrote:
and you really should upgrade to W7
If SC runs fine on Windows 7 (including colours), then give such advice. Killing explorer.exe is also an option but it is inconvenient.
Or you can try reading my post again. Preferably with your dyslexia off. |
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| Prozen United States. June 24 2010 09:37. Posts 291 | Profile Blog # |
| I'm bumping this for a good reason. Is there really no fix for this problem? I tried the bat file + checking almost all the boxes in Starcraft.exe properties, but still the crashing problems continue to occur. And yet, my friend, who has Windows 7 Ultimate, is experiencing no crashing problems. What do I do? |
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 BrTarolg United Kingdom. June 30 2010 20:00. Posts 583 | Profile Blog # |
Wow i just experienced this for the first time after running BW on windows 7
Really sucks i cant play at all game just freezes and i dont know how to fix |
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| Baksteen Netherlands. June 30 2010 22:48. Posts 429 | Profile Blog # |
On June 30 2010 20:00 BrTarolg wrote:
Wow i just experienced this for the first time after running BW on windows 7
Really sucks i cant play at all game just freezes and i dont know how to fix
Did you set it to compatibility mode for windows 95, with 265 colors and the altered resolution, 640*480 because i just reinstalled the client and i had no problems at all.Last edit: 2010-06-30 22:48:25 |
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| JollYRoGeR Sweden. June 30 2010 22:53. Posts 168 | Profile # |
| I did the .bat file once upon a time, now it works great if i open "personalize" before starting the game. Try it! |
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| Bibdy United States. July 01 2010 02:12. Posts 1467 | Profile # |
On June 30 2010 22:48 Baksteen wrote:
Show nested quote +On June 30 2010 20:00 BrTarolg wrote:
Wow i just experienced this for the first time after running BW on windows 7
Really sucks i cant play at all game just freezes and i dont know how to fix
Did you set it to compatibility mode for windows 95, with 265 colors and the altered resolution, 640*480 because i just reinstalled the client and i had no problems at all.
Yeah, that worked fine for me. Can't remember if I needed to set the affinity to 1 CPU (after its loaded, alt-tab out, go to Task Manager -> Right Click the exe in Processes -> Set affinity) like I've had to do for several other old games lately like Thief 1 and TA: Kingdoms. |
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| Lysteria France. July 01 2010 02:40. Posts 399 | Profile # |
Be sure to not have winamp started when playing BroodWar.
Seven + BW + Winamp = crash.
When I'm lucky, I can play one game before crashing the game.
Without it, no problem since 6 months. ^^ |
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| Baksteen Netherlands. July 01 2010 02:53. Posts 429 | Profile Blog # |
On July 01 2010 02:12 Bibdy wrote:
Show nested quote +On June 30 2010 22:48 Baksteen wrote:
On June 30 2010 20:00 BrTarolg wrote:
Wow i just experienced this for the first time after running BW on windows 7
Really sucks i cant play at all game just freezes and i dont know how to fix
Did you set it to compatibility mode for windows 95, with 265 colors and the altered resolution, 640*480 because i just reinstalled the client and i had no problems at all.
Yeah, that worked fine for me. Can't remember if I needed to set the affinity to 1 CPU (after its loaded, alt-tab out, go to Task Manager -> Right Click the exe in Processes -> Set affinity) like I've had to do for several other old games lately like Thief 1 and TA: Kingdoms.
Don't think that this step is required, at least not for me. BW has been running like charm <3
On July 01 2010 02:40 Lysteria wrote:
Be sure to not have winamp started when playing BroodWar.
Seven + BW + Winamp = crash.
When I'm lucky, I can play one game before crashing the game.
Without it, no problem since 6 months. ^^
Yea i remember reading about this, didn't it have something to do with the .wav files and how they are used by SC:BW?
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| Lysteria France. July 01 2010 04:40. Posts 399 | Profile # |
It's a good question !
I know you can listen music while playing Starcraft with Windows Media Player, VLC, probably nearly everything, even a selfmade player. Winamp is the only one on my computer which can crash it. If someone knows why, I'm interested. |
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 blabber United States. July 01 2010 05:03. Posts 3344 | Profile Blog # |
it doesn't have anything to do with other programs running. You can have nothing else running and it may still crash.
The only workaround is using window mode with chaoslauncher or iccup launcher |
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 Leg[end] United States. July 01 2010 05:21. Posts 241 | Profile Blog # |
Right click the SC icon in the actual folder > Click Properties > Run in compatibility mode for XP
That works for me |
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 Rkie United States. July 01 2010 05:36. Posts 621 | Profile # |
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| ValorS United States. July 01 2010 05:47. Posts 157 | Profile # |
| I have the same problem and I am already running SC:BW on compatability mode for XP. After I get maybe twenty minutes into a game it freezes and I have to manually shut down to fix it. Any help would be appreciated. |
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