Solved StarCraft fix holy cow!

[AeonGamer]

Well come the 22nd Maybe we'll see if it works in the Fully Fledged Version of Win7

 

[hax]

I am using the full fledged final version of 7 - build number 7600 - we got it for free already from our university.

 

[Gamer1238]

Your a legend!!!!!

So there I was, stuck playing starcraft in crappy colors yet again, as it has always been during my beta testing of windows 7. For what ever reason, I decided to leave screen resolution dialog box open and what do you know- starcraft runs with its beautiful original colors.

If anyone knows what I'm talking about:

Symptoms:
Starcraft runs with bright turquoise colors everywhere in the menu system. It looks rather psychedelic.

On vista, it intermittently happened, on win7 it happens every time after the 1.16.00 patch installed.

Fix:
Simply open up your screen resolution window before playing, and leave it open. Doing so will result in perfect colors ever time. The same for vista, just open up personalize. I have no idea why this works, but I've tested it many many times- you just open the window- nothing else.

I've reported it to MS and Blizzard- blizzard quickly blew me off though with a "WINDOWS 7 IS NOT SUPPORTED" email.

Hmm... nope, don't care about spelling.

enjoy SC lol!

YOUR A BLOODY LEGEND MATE!!!! I've been looking all over for something like this thanks so much and I second that what Tomthe3rd said

 

[hax]

another update - the freezes really seem to be related to other applications running in the background. when I close skype, winamp and any other media player my computer doesn't freeze when playing starcraft.

 

[bytebull]

I agree with the last post. The freeze ups dont happen to me if I close winamp.

the problem I now have with windows 7 home premium is that it keeps asking me for the CD even after the latest patch that supposedly fixed that.

 

[Gamer1238]

I agree with the last post. The freeze ups dont happen to me if I close winamp.

the problem I now have with windows 7 home premium is that it keeps asking me for the CD even after the latest patch that supposedly fixed that.

that happens to me too. I'm running win 7 home premium too... and it keeps asking me for the cd after i've installed the patch too

 

[bytebull]

I'm working on a fix bro..... gimme some time I'll figure out what is causing that.

 

[Gamer1238]

I'm working on a fix bro..... gimme some time I'll figure out what is causing that.

cheers mate good luck

Can't wait for SC 2

 

[hax]

I agree with the last post. The freeze ups dont happen to me if I close winamp.

the problem I now have with windows 7 home premium is that it keeps asking me for the CD even after the latest patch that supposedly fixed that.

that happens to me too. I'm running win 7 home premium too... and it keeps asking me for the cd after i've installed the patch too

you need to follow these instructions:
Blizzard Support

Windows Users:
- Make sure you have "Hide extensions for known types" unchecked. To do this please use the following steps:
- Click Start -> Programs -> Accessories -> Windows Explorer
- Click on Tools -> Folder options (Windows Vista users may have to press the Alt key to see the tools option at the top of the window)
- Click on the View Tab In the list, look for the "Hide extensions for known file types" option, and make sure that it is unchecked.
- Click OK to save the changes.
- Now you will need to copy some files from the Game CDs - If you own only StarCraft, copy "INSTALL.EXE" from the StarCraft CD to your StarCraft folder and rename it to "StarCraft.mpq".
- If you own StarCraft: Brood War, copy "INSTALL.EXE" from the StarCraft: Brood War CD to your StarCraft folder and rename it to "BroodWar.mpq". If you wish to play the StarCraft original missions then please copy and rename the install file from the original StarCraft CD as well, as listed directly above.

applying the patch alone isn't enough!!!

 

[ODBOD]

Sure, everyone is having the color issue. I fixed that a long time ago. The question now is why starcraft is choppy for me, on any computer I use, except for my laptop that has 1.3 ghz and 1 gb of ram, RUNNING windows 7 Ultimate RTM.

I have installed chipset drivers, I have installed video drivers from nvidia's site, I've gone to windows basic, and it still doesn't cut it.

ECS GF8200A v 1.0
AMD Athlon 7750 Dual-Core Processor @ 2.7 Ghz
nVidia GeForce 9500 GT 1 gb PCIe x16
4 gb RAM DDR2
1 TB Hitachi SATA II Hard Drive

 

[Gamer1238]

Sure, everyone is having the color issue. I fixed that a long time ago. The question now is why starcraft is choppy for me, on any computer I use, except for my laptop that has 1.3 ghz and 1 gb of ram, RUNNING windows 7 Ultimate RTM.

I have installed chipset drivers, I have installed video drivers from nvidia's site, I've gone to windows basic, and it still doesn't cut it.

ECS GF8200A v 1.0
AMD Athlon 7750 Dual-Core Processor @ 2.7 Ghz
nVidia GeForce 9500 GT 1 gb PCIe x16
4 gb RAM DDR2
1 TB Hitachi SATA II Hard Drive

how did you fix the colour issue???? can you tell me please...... what programs you running in the background when your playing Starcraft??

 

[ODBOD]

Sure, everyone is having the color issue. I fixed that a long time ago. The question now is why starcraft is choppy for me, on any computer I use, except for my laptop that has 1.3 ghz and 1 gb of ram, RUNNING windows 7 Ultimate RTM.

I have installed chipset drivers, I have installed video drivers from nvidia's site, I've gone to windows basic, and it still doesn't cut it.

ECS GF8200A v 1.0
AMD Athlon 7750 Dual-Core Processor @ 2.7 Ghz
nVidia GeForce 9500 GT 1 gb PCIe x16
4 gb RAM DDR2
1 TB Hitachi SATA II Hard Drive

how did you fix the colour issue???? can you tell me please...... what programs you running in the background when your playing Starcraft??

[nomedia="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6Wr55bpsBQ"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6Wr55bpsBQ[/"]YouTube- Broadcast Yourself.[/nomedia] - My video explains it.

The only thing running in the background while playing starcraft: Avast antivirus. That's about it.

 

[Gamer1238]

Sure, everyone is having the color issue. I fixed that a long time ago. The question now is why starcraft is choppy for me, on any computer I use, except for my laptop that has 1.3 ghz and 1 gb of ram, RUNNING windows 7 Ultimate RTM.

I have installed chipset drivers, I have installed video drivers from nvidia's site, I've gone to windows basic, and it still doesn't cut it.

ECS GF8200A v 1.0
AMD Athlon 7750 Dual-Core Processor @ 2.7 Ghz
nVidia GeForce 9500 GT 1 gb PCIe x16
4 gb RAM DDR2
1 TB Hitachi SATA II Hard Drive

how did you fix the colour issue???? can you tell me please...... what programs you running in the background when your playing Starcraft??

[nomedia="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6Wr55bpsBQ"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6Wr55bpsBQ[/"]YouTube- Broadcast Yourself.[/nomedia] - My video explains it.

The only thing running in the background while playing starcraft: Avast antivirus. That's about it.

Here's what i'd do turn off Avast and see if that stops the choppyness if not if you have other program that monitor things or gadgets turn them off too and see what happens thanks for the video link btw going to try the trick cheers

PS and make sure you disconnect your net hey you never know virus can get in good luck

 

[ODBOD]

how did you fix the colour issue???? can you tell me please...... what programs you running in the background when your playing Starcraft??

[nomedia="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6Wr55bpsBQ"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6Wr55bpsBQ[/"]YouTube- Broadcast Yourself.[/nomedia] - My video explains it.

The only thing running in the background while playing starcraft: Avast antivirus. That's about it.

Here's what i'd do turn off Avast and see if that stops the choppyness if not if you have other program that monitor things or gadgets turn them off too and see what happens thanks for the video link btw going to try the trick cheers

PS and make sure you disconnect your net hey you never know virus can get in good luck

Turning off Avast does not solve it.
I do not use gadgets.

 

[hax]

update: it seems to work for me now regardless of what runs in the background, I suspect that one of the windows updates might have fixed it, or it was really the nvidia chipset/gpu drivers.

have you installed all windows updates? there was one specifically adressing crashes in older applications...

 

[haoster]

found this in another forums. solved my problem...
unzip the files into starcraft folders, and run the gaming by using the newly added StartcraftFix.exe

 

[ODBOD]

update: it seems to work for me now regardless of what runs in the background, I suspect that one of the windows updates might have fixed it, or it was really the nvidia chipset/gpu drivers.

have you installed all windows updates? there was one specifically adressing crashes in older applications...

Everything is up to date. Refer to original post.

found this in another forums. solved my problem...
unzip the files into starcraft folders, and run the gaming by using the newly added StartcraftFix.exe

You're kidding right? That's an explorer killer, much like batch files.

 

[Gamer1238]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6Wr55bpsBQ[/"]YouTube- Broadcast Yourself. - My video explains it.

The only thing running in the background while playing starcraft: Avast antivirus. That's about it.

Here's what i'd do turn off Avast and see if that stops the choppyness if not if you have other program that monitor things or gadgets turn them off too and see what happens thanks for the video link btw going to try the trick cheers

PS and make sure you disconnect your net hey you never know virus can get in good luck

Turning off Avast does not solve it.
I do not use gadgets.

ok bugger hmmm check video drivers and update if you want.... hmmm i'd have a look into other things eg services and other windows things that take up or use alot of resourse **sorry about spelling**

 

[ODBOD]

Here's what i'd do turn off Avast and see if that stops the choppyness if not if you have other program that monitor things or gadgets turn them off too and see what happens thanks for the video link btw going to try the trick cheers

PS and make sure you disconnect your net hey you never know virus can get in good luck

Turning off Avast does not solve it.
I do not use gadgets.

ok bugger hmmm check video drivers and update if you want.... hmmm i'd have a look into other things eg services and other windows things that take up or use alot of resourse **sorry about spelling**

You didn't read my other post. I said everything is up to date. I'm not going to look through services again. Waste of time, especially when most services have specific functions that make windows 7 what it is.

 

[Gamer1238]

Turning off Avast does not solve it.
I do not use gadgets.

ok bugger hmmm check video drivers and update if you want.... hmmm i'd have a look into other things eg services and other windows things that take up or use alot of resourse **sorry about spelling**

You didn't read my other post. I said everything is up to date. I'm not going to look through services again. Waste of time, especially when most services have specific functions that make windows 7 what it is.

Ok just making sure