StarCraft freezes after 1-5 minutes of playing

HughShaw said:
Well I downloaded Chaoslauncher and Avast reported the main executable of being a trojan. Not sure if it's a false positive, but I'm not willing to see.
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it's a false positive. I remember when the update that day for avast thought it was a trojan, then after the update later that same day, it was back to normal.

Chaoslauncher is mainly used for the latencychanger feature, where you can play on Battle.net with no delay.
 

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This thread must not die until the freezing issue is solved. And yes, I've tried all the solutions and they work, but the game freezes every 3 games or so.
 

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it won't die as long as its kept in your subscriptions.
 

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But it may die in the hearts of the Windows 7 forumers, so a good bump was in order. :)
 

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HughShaw said:
I've tried all the solutions and they work, but the game freezes every 3 games or so.
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So they don't work.

I've tried all the solutions and they don't work for me, on Vista or Win7.

The only thing that DID work was running SC on an old computer with XP.

Lame Windows is lame.
 

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i also tried all solutions here and sc bw still freezes after 30-50 minutes playing, or after few games, its random, cant exactly specify..

and chaosluncher was the worst ever thing ;/
 

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Yeah I ended up just creating a dual boot set up with XP and 7 and just boot into XP every time I want to play Starcraft :)
 

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Yeah, this is a really annoying problem....
I was certain that this was a x64 problem, quite surprised that people have this problem on x32.
Just have to wait for the patch...if they ever make one! Or wait for Starcraft 2:devil:
P.S. I knew that Windows 7 was too good to be true:(
 

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Yeah, I also have a Win 7 Ultimate 32-bit and experience this problem
 

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This worked for me. I dont know why, but I uninstalled Pando Media Booster, that comes default with win7, and it just stopped crashing
 

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I don't think it comes default with W7, but was preinstalled by your pc's manufacturer - I didn't see it on any notebook or pc with W7
 

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I've had moderate success although my games do freeze but not very often. BTW, I haven't noticed it mentioned in this forum although I may have missed it, to get rid of the color problem, bring up the Screen Resolution panel and then launch SC on top of that. Colors always work properly on my rig when launched liked that.
 

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Well, we started looking into a few methods to fix this, starting with porting Wine's DDraw emulation to windows,.. needless to say, emulating ddraw via d3d via opengl isn't that fun lol.

shadowfox said:
This worked for me. I dont know why, but I uninstalled Pando Media Booster, that comes default with win7, and it just stopped crashing
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Pando media booster does not come with windows 7 by default.
 

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I had Pando as default. I have a HP Compaq PC.

What I've noticed is that the freeze problem usually happens with those that has the 7100 Build. I'm planning to get SC, and I wondered if it happens to the 7600 build?
 

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maybe for x32 users, but for x64 users its pretty high occurence with 7600.
 

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I'm running windows 7 7600 build, 32bit, and I still get the freezes. Tried most of what was suggested here, except for chaos launcher. Was able to get normal graphics by killing explorer, but game still froze after about 6 seconds. Very shocked to see people have actually made it 30mins to 3 hours. I haven't made it past a min without a freeze (both with explorer running and not running)
 

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I tried chaos launcher and it works just fine !

You can also lock the mouse inside the window so you can scroll the screen on the map easily (which is hard to do with virtual clients)

Anyway until this is fixed, chaos launcher is good enough, plus it makes multi tasking a lot easier
 

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shadowfox said:
This worked for me. I dont know why, but I uninstalled Pando Media Booster, that comes default with win7, and it just stopped crashing
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Nevermind then... it wasnt the problem.

Here's what we know:
The problem is not in the Specs or Starcraft itself, Something in the Windows 7 OS is the problem.

On one hand, I'm not taking the risk for any false positives, if a virus exists, it's a virus. So chaoslauncher is out.

I did some experimenting and what happened was that I opened a bunch of other programs at the same time of starcraft. The more RAM that was being used, the shorter amount of time before it froze. Perhaps this has something to do with windows 7 attempts to "speed up your computer". I also found that the some programs still seem to run, Windows Media Player, Winamp, even When I used youtube.com to listen while still playing. It froze, but still ran. Downloads also completed, even though the game itself froze.
 

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We already know what the real issue is:
squall leonhart said:
Well i've been screwing around with other apps and i believe i have proved that it is a DirectDraw wide failure in locking the primary buffer.

making use of the emulator FCEU (nes emu) i found that with double buffering enabled, (a commonly used method to offset the risk of Vsync slowing down rendering) which requires the locking of the primary frame buffer. the Windows start menu orb and taskbar buttons (those flashing the button atleast) were rendered on top of the application in fullscreen. Had the frame buffer locked properly it would not have these draw ontop.

:) the good news is that the D3D Wrapper is looking to get under Dev soon since my friend has finally gotten Win7 compatible updates for the "Tools" he uses.
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