Broodwars WinXP

[Faucon[LR]]

Starcraft ends up crashing within a couple minutes after joining any game(single or multiplayer) and also crashes on battle.net chat interface

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Running under (Listing all versions of drivers I have tried)

Windows XP Home Edition Service Pack 1 (build 2600)

Board: ECS K7S5A 1.0
Bus Clock: 66 megahertz
BIOS: American Megatrends Inc. 07.00T 04/02/01

1466 megahertz AMD Athlon XP

512 SDRAM pc 133

NVIDIA GeForce3 Ti 200 (43.45/41.09)

Hercules DigiFire(tm) 7.1 (6.09a/retail)
*Soundblaster Live 5.1 xgamer(Problems where present with this card as well)

Direct X 9.0a(9.0/8.1)

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I have tried fresh installs with 2 different cdkeys(One set of out of the box cds)

I have not found any viruses on my computer via Nortan antivirus 2002(which has its auto functions disabled)

None of the Starcraft files are fragmented or in a bad sector on the harddrive(plenty of swap space too)

I have tried turning off power management and forcing the display mode to 640x480 @ 256 colors

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I have been able to run:

Everquest
Unreal Tournament 2003
Masters of Orion 3
Jedi Knights II
Dungeon Siege

recently without any problems(dvds play fine as well)

Anyone have any suggestions short of upgrading computer parts or downgrading to a win98 machine?

I would really like to get Starcraft to work since some of my friends believe its the only game worth playing.

 

[NoNameRequired]

Is there an "Errors" folder in the Starcraft directory ? If so, copy-paste the first few lines of any .err file you might find in there. Open the .err file(s) using any text editor. (Notepad or Wordpad will do)

 

[Faucon[LR]]

There isn't an error folder

The crash results in a sound loop and freezes PS2 and USB ports(numlock/capslock no longer change leds on key board from on to off) forcing me to manually reboot my computer. I don't have anything overclocked and my case has proper ventalation.

 

[NoNameRequired]

Did you download the latest drivers for the sound blaster ?

http://www.americas.creative.com/support/files/download2.asp?centric=168&maincat=11&os=10&subcat=16

Did you try lowering the sound acceleration level via dxdiag ?

 

[Faucon[LR]]

*CHEERS*

Lowering sound acceleration via dxdiag worked(Never would have figured to actually tell my soundcard to go slower myself, especially after going to a faster soundcard to try and fix it).

Thanks for all the support NoNameRequired

*big hugs all around*

 

[Unregistered]

Not completely solved...
I have XP, and whenever I try to run B.net (in SC or BW) it gets stuck in the "connecting to fastest server" part.
It leaves no error message, just crashes.
Any ideas?

 

[NoNameRequired]

Click on Start then Run.
Type regedit and click OK.
Click on the + icon beside the HKey_Local_Machine branch.
Click on the + icon beside the Software branch.
Select the Battle.net branch and press the delete key.
Click on the + icon beside the HKey_Current_User branch.
Click on the + icon beside the Software branch.
Select the Battle.net branch and press the delete key.

Delete the bncache.dat file which can be found in the Starcraft directory.


Are you behind a firewall or router ? If so...

Allow port 6112 TCP out and allow established sessions in

Allow port 6112 UDP out and in

Also, if you are using XP's built-in firewall, try disabling to see if that fixes your problem. (Although XP's Firewall should not cause a problem)

 

[Unregistered]

I've done it all;
deleted the regedit stuff (though I couldnt find that Key)
And I have to idea about how to make the firewall allow things to pass (I disabled it, no use).
No win XP firewall, no worries here.
PLEASE??? It just doesn't work \:

 

[NoNameRequired]

Install the latest stand-alone patch which can be found at Blizzard's Patch Page.

 

[Unregistered]

I can't open blizzard's page (for some days now).
Maybe you can send me link to a different site?

 

[NoNameRequired]

Brood War Patch 1.10.

 

[Unregistered]

It's not working. ):
I need some other link to the SC (Not BW) patch.

 

[NoNameRequired]

I see. You wrote Brood War in the topic title.

Starcraft Patch 1.10

 

[Unregistered]

No, thats not the problem - if I was able to get to blizzard's site than I could find it by myself, but I can't get there.
Both links are NOT working, and I can't get to blizzard's site.
I need a DIFFERENT site with the patch, if you know one.
Thanks.

 

[NoNameRequired]

What is the problem ? The site works perfectly for me, including these two direct links I posted.

An alternative would be going to http://www.filemirrors.com and entering the name of the patch in the search box. It will find mirrors for you.

Starcraft 1.10 - Write SC-110.exe
Brood War 1.10 - Write BW-110.exe

You could also possibly download it off a P2P client.
It should not be hard to find the patch yourself...

 

[Unregistered]

Blizzard is still not working for me, tried both netscape (7.0) and IE.
Anyway the File Mirror works, thanks.