Solved StarCraft fix holy cow!

[hexel]

Win7
ok, Im with good news for you! speaking about known fixes, it make a difference in SC work, but gives no final solution to prevent machine from freezing.
I had this freesing with winamp 5.2 running (playing or not), but it would be anything else, maybe antivirus DrWeb.
the way I choose:
- no compatibility flags does anything. you may check it in any way you like, i decided not to use it.
- its fun to open screen resolution dialog before SC launch. it prevents from color artifacts
- and run your BIOS (!!!) setup and look at "Advanced\CPU settings" tab. what did I set:
+ GART Error Reporting: Disable (recomended)
+ Microcode Updation: Disable (what need in such updation?)
+ Secure Virtual Machine Mode: Disable (check as you wish, it can make no differecne)
+ Cool n Quiet: Enable (so I use it)
+ CPU Prefetching: Enable (I dont know what is this)
+ (!) C1E Configuration: Disable (it`s critical. this is a thing)
- also i fixed a problem when additional buttons on my X-718 dont work during game. I disabled PS/2 mouse support (BIOS\Boot\Boot Settings Configuration\PS/2 Mouse Support: Disable). There is no PS/2 mouse port on M3N78

If you are Intel user, check "CPU Speed Stepping" option in such way, but I`m not sure.
If I will not post anything other on this topic, you may be sure that this work.

 

[hexel]

of course! i found out what is happening. on fresh new installiation of win7 I had no problen with freezing, but it appeared after driver installation for ATK0110. first it appeared with question in device manager, but system worked well and I didn`t look at that.
try disable it if you want, but my prev post also solves this bug.

 

[Xertez]

Oh wow! this actually works in game. Amazing. Wish blizzard would make a patch so starcraft could be supported. I know they can do it since the game launches...

 

[briantheman890]

Hey i have a question considering this seems the right topic for starcraft.
I had my sc workin good, colors were off on the intro, but in battlenet and playing was fine.
I changed my screen resolution to 1920-1080 because thats the recommended res for my tv/monitor.
it cuts out the border part of the game.
i.e. cant see gas or money ammounts, bottom right logo in the control hud is missing.
any ideas?
i tried goin to properties to change the game res, but i couldnt.
PM me if you have a solution

 

[squall leonhart]

starcraft doesn't have resolution switching support.

 

[ScathArach]

The problem is with the windows Aero them if you change the theme to Windows Classic and then open the screen resolution screen it works every time and I have created a .bat file that does it all in one click and changes back to your original theme on exit. Some paths may have to be different but it works.

 

[squall leonhart]

Failure at reading thread, noted.

 

[SVHTARGET]

incredible...it works

 

[Chupathingy]

Hey guys, just stumbled upon this thread.

Anyways, I'm glad to see that Starcraft works on Windows 7. I'll report back later today and let you know if this fix works on an Acer Aspire One netbook with 7 Starter.

Thanks again OP for finding a fix for this game. Makes me happy that I can SC it up while at the library or something to that effect.

 

[squall leonhart]

jesus, are people skipping the other thread entirely?

READ: http://www.sevenforums.com/gaming/11659-starcraft-freezes-after-1-5-minutes-playing-13.html
and
http://www.sevenforums.com/gaming/45764-windows-7-starcraft-fix-virtual-pc-2007-a.html

 

[HieranDel8]

I can confirm this fix, though with an addendum.

"Screen Resolution" must be open. Further, the personalized theme must be a non-Aero theme, such as Windows Classic or the other high contrast themes. Windows 7 Basic would not work, neither would the other Aero-based theme selections. To adjust this, open "Personalize".

I'm using Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit, ATI Radeon HD 5770, and LG 1920x1080 display, in a Gateway DX4300-e15 desktop. Game at patch update 1.16.1.

 

[squall leonhart]

so hows that half baked dx11 card working for you with its half broken AF and grey+striped screen issues.

 

[sygnus21]

so hows that half baked dx11 card working for you with its half broken AF and grey+striped screen issues.

So how's your half baked post contributing to any kind of solution?

 

[squall leonhart]

Touche. though its been pretty much proven so far that the win7 freezes occur regardless of what you run in the background so its simpler to just go for the VPC.

 

[sygnus21]

so hows that half baked dx11 card working for you with its half broken AF and grey+striped screen issues.

Again, I failed to see the reasoning of your post. Pehaps I had higher expectations :sarc:

Peace

 

[HieranDel8]

The dx11 card's working great so far. I haven't had the screen issues you're referring to, and forgive me, I don't know what AF is. Further, I don't have any freezes at all, and I'm not running a virtual pc. (AMD Phenom X2 Quadcore 810)

It's prudent to wait for the dx11 hardware implementations to mature before acquiring the cutting edge.

 

[squall leonhart]

I don't know what AF

Radeon HD5xxx Filtering Quality - Technewshw.com The solid grey area in the images is an AF deadzone. the difference pics in the followup posts shows that there is no difference between 8x and 16x (clearing showing broken 16xAF)

I'm not running a virtual pc

Its better to use VM/VPC (not Windows VistualPC/VPC2009) to install XPMode and use that to run starcraft, warcraft, worms, etc as all of these have both the colour glitch, and the freeze fixed. infact i reproduced the freeze running Starlancer in Software mode :|. fingers crossed that Compatibility toolkit 6.0 or SP1 solves this.

 

[Fatdog]

just find 100% working solution

hi, i obviously had the same problem as u guys with SC and stumbled upon this thread to see a solution but the solution given in this thread doesn't work for me. Tried all combination of compatibility crap and doesn't fix it either. Finally i came upon this solution on other site:
make a bat file named Starcraft.bat and put this code in there

taskkill /f /IM explorer.exe
D:\"Games"\starcraftbw\StarCraft.exe

right click->text document-> paste the above-> save it as .bat and select all files not text document.

First line kills the explorer and the second obviously it is the path to your game and thus it starts the game automatically when this file is double clicked. After u run this file the explorer is gone and desktop is empty and the game starts with fine colors as the game is intended to be played. After u quit the game u dont have the explorer but this is easy fixable, just press ctrl+alt+del and run task manager->new task and type explorer.exe and all is back. This is only thing that worked for me i hope it works for u. Sorry if this solution was posted before my post on this thread.

 

[konjuge]

RE #158: just find 100% working solution

More automatic option:

Write these into your .bat file:

taskkill /f /IM explorer.exe
"...\StarCraft\StarCraft.exe"
start explorer.exe
start exit

NOTE: .../ represents the location that you have installed StarCraft.

 

[HieranDel8]

Interesting, it seems the desktop slideshow messes up colors if you've gotten it to work by opening Screen Resolution as well as changing the visual theme to windows classic or other high contrast.