StarCraft freezes after 1-5 minutes of playing

KNlVES said:

This windows patch does not include starcraft in it's non-compatible application change info. The solution to starcraft freezing is not a directdraw problem. This is due to third party hacks not being compatible with windows seven. So if you wanna stop freezing I advise you stop hacking!. Give it a try and leave feedback.

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I have no write to really post anything concerning this but hey, I will add my two cents..


Shut the **** up.... Hacking = Losers ( sorry for all that do ). I agree with KnowledgeWorker if you had taken the time to read the posts you would have determined that hacks are not the issues. Now please, don't blame good players that they hack just because you suck.

I wish you all read the posts.

Chaos Launcher is already on this board as an option, though it is my personal preference not to use it because it "has a false positive", and in my book, false positives don't exist. But that's just me.

There is a window 7 patch out there (under optional, not recommended) that supposedly fixes the problem. My friend has home basic and it fixes the problem, but however, it still freezes on 7 Ultimate, which is what I have. Well, not that it matters soon, Starcraft II is coming out, and I'm having fun with that

I found what causes the freeze: READ CAREFULLY

I discovered that Starcraft:Broodwar freezes becouse of Skype,
Turn if off completly and you should be fine to play.
If you have problems contact me on skype:emil.popov3 (i can speak English)
And we can play some games.
I hope this will help you

cantdie said:

I found what causes the freeze: READ CAREFULLY

I discovered that Starcraft:Broodwar freezes becouse of Skype,
Turn if off completly and you should be fine to play.
If you have problems contact me on skype:emil.popov3 (i can speak English)
And we can play some games.
I hope this will help you

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No it does not,
using skype while playing sc only makes sc freeze much much faster.

I agree completely. Odd thing is, the more programs you close, the longer the play time is before the freeze. You can's say one particular program is the cause, the problem is somewhere in the Windows 7 System, because in Vista, it didn't freeze.

virusak said:

cantdie said:

I found what causes the freeze: READ CAREFULLY

I discovered that Starcraft:Broodwar freezes becouse of Skype,
Turn if off completly and you should be fine to play.
If you have problems contact me on skype:emil.popov3 (i can speak English)
And we can play some games.
I hope this will help you

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No it does not,
using skype while playing sc only makes sc freeze much much faster.

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Disagree with the qutoe and agree with second quote.. if that mekes sense..

I don't have skype.. never installed it.. On two computers Starcraft crashes and I have never run it

shadowfox said:

because it "has a false positive", and in my book, false positives don't exist. But that's just me.

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yeah sorry but thats bullshit.

Any application can cause a false positive.

many applications flag a warning on packed executables because of the compression techniques making the header harder to interpret.

also any application which hooks anothers functionality, such as a trainer or an extender utility like the starcraft widescreen tool will flag as trojan/loaders

There is a window 7 patch out there (under optional, not recommended) that supposedly fixes the problem. My friend has home basic and it fixes the problem, but however, it still freezes on 7 Ultimate, which is what I have. Well, not that it matters soon, Starcraft II is coming out, and I'm having fun with that

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No there isn't.

Look at this

Ok the tip with skype was wrong,but i found how to fix the freeze for good,
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First start Sc:broodwar, then using ctrl+alt+del go to the taks manager menu,then click show processes from all users,then find the starctaft.exe right click on it,and Set Affinity make it to use only The cpu 0,and make other active programs to use the CPU 1 (like bitcomet,skype,msn,wmplayer,realtek,your antivirus).
When you do it you will be able to play whole day (Tip:you have to make this every time you boot windows,it takes maximum 2 minutes).Look at this pictures i made,Hope this make it easier for you.All the best,enjoy SC
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No. That tip only works on Vista, and is only for unpatched starcraft/broodwar without the idle cycles setting.

No it works on Windows 7, too today i played 2 hours without freeze on fastests maps.
And yes i do use WINDOWS 7

Doesn't work.

The problem is not software, it' hardwar/drivers

Look,

I've played StarCraft Broodwar for many hours with only a few lock ups. With a 56/ 76 record in Battlenet (nothing to brag about I know ) I've played coutless hours during which I most always run Skype while actively talking to 2 to 3 other players. The only thing special I do is make sure to drop to a single monitor and open the "Personalize" window in the background before launching the game. This takes care of the color issues 95 percent of the time for me. If during the game, another app pops up in front or I have to ALT/TAB back to the desktop, the colors are ususally screwed until I restart the game, but not so bad that I cannot finish the game at hand. We were playing multi-player via my VPN until everyone finally purchased the BattleChest. Below I'll list all of the relevant hardware and sofware I can think of:

Asus PNE SLI Mainboard
Nvidia NForce Chipset
Nvidia 8800 GTS Driver 8.17.11.9562
Intel 6600 (2.4 GHz) Dual Core
1X4 Dual Channel SLI NEW EGG Memory (I think actually Crucial brand)
32 bit Windows 7 Ultimate
Windows Experience listed at 5.7, disk being the weakest link
Single SATA 150 GB WD Raptor drive, no RAID
Razor Copperhead Mouse/ USB
Generic old clicking Toshiba keyboard, PS/2
Creative XFi Fatality1 Sounds card with latest drivers 6.0.1.1373
Avast Home
Skype
Office 2007 including Outlook 2007

There is a huge amount of experimental software also installed, I'm not too cautious in trying things as I tend to format fairly often, every 6 months or so but the time frame has gotten longer from XP to 7. Never has SC Broodwar caused an an issue after several formats, so going from a clean system to a junked up system seems to not affect performance so I would say software is out but not for sure obviously.

All that said, I think the problem people are experiencing with Broodwar on Windows 7 are caused by hardware or drivers, maybe x64? I haven't had a reason to x64 on my desktop. Tried it, it sucked. Server is a different story. So far in this thread and others, I havent seen anyone put together a pattern to eliminate possibilities to bring this to a down common factor. That's my input for now, everyone should begin including similar specs and we may bring this to a close.

I am now 99% sure that Winamp has been causing SC to crash when both are running.

I have played for 3 weeks w/o Winamp with no crashes.

I used to get crashes that occured at the most random times. The game and computer would just freeze but the in Winamp will continue playing. it does not necessarily happen 1-5 mins. It can happen anywhere from 1min to several hours of play.

I hope this info helps somebody

any and all applications affect the amount of time till it freezes to an extent.

I completeley read the thread and I tried all the tips but didn't work for me to solve the freeze problem. I've got win 7 64bit ultimate. I downloaded from my battle.net account the 1.15.2 US starcraft installer which doesn't require CD and it solved the colour problem but freezing stayed the same. At first i though it was skype but I was wrong. Now it seems that an old winamp (winamp agent) can be the problem for me. I played 4 mission without any trouble. I didn't try battle.net yet. Just wanted to share my experiences maybe it's helpful.

VonRaynor said:

I completeley read the thread and I tried all the tips but didn't work for me to solve the freeze problem. I've got win 7 64bit ultimate. I downloaded from my battle.net account the 1.15.2 US starcraft installer which doesn't require CD and it solved the colour problem but freezing stayed the same. At first i though it was skype but I was wrong. Now it seems that an old winamp (winamp agent) can be the problem for me. I played 4 mission without any trouble. I didn't try battle.net yet. Just wanted to share my experiences maybe it's helpful.

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Winamp isnt the problem

Is it just me, or does it seem like every single change you do to attempt to fix it only works once or twice when you open the application. Then the computer seems to remember the process you used and freezes the third onward.

also, I was bored and tried this and it worked. I minimized the game on a 2 minute interval, and re-opened it. Do it again and again, and it never freezes. But overall isnt worth doing.

This is a Windows 7 user. I have both Windows 7 32bit and 64bit Pro! They are both doing it. I do not even have WinAmp installed. I have been trying to get some kind of log file or anything out of windows and when starcraft crashes or hangs.. It doesn't give any kind of information..... I don't know- I just want to play starcraft. Ubuntu runs it better then Windows now!

I played many hours since I made my post and it's not freezing. I'm quite sure that in my case winamp was the source of the problem. I'll indicate if freezing returns.

In my case, the crashings were because of Winamp and Firefox with youtube open or any other videostreaming site. Also, sometimes Firefox doesnt close when I close it, so I have to finish the process on the task manager to close it completly, which also caused some crashes (Firefox had youtube open in those cases I guess).

So from my experience, any media player or streaming/music player site will cause a freeze on Starcraft.

I really wish this could be fixed, I play better with some good music heh

Between having an application open to simply having media player open. I have shut down every service except for Windows it self in Regular Mode. Starcraft keeps crashing. Even in Safe Mode Starcraft to crashes. The only way I can play Starcraft on my main rig is if I run SC from or in ChaosLauncher. Even then Starcraft and ChaosLauncher decide to crash once in a blue moon. At least its not the whole computer.....