Starcraft problems

[Bendah!]

When I try to start Starcraft, things go normally until the game starts. The game first seemingly automatically minimizes itself, colouring my desktop with funky colours, then loads to the main menu. At which point the graphics freeze. So I cannot see where I am pointing my mouse, the game itself does not lock at all, just the visuals. If I try to proceed past the main menu the same locking visuals ensues. When it happens, everything turns to weird, funky patches of colour. I was able to make it in to a game once and the it was so bad it was unplayable.

 

[The Helper]

Starcraft uses the video mode 640x480 and 256 colors. If you are not in that mode when you start the game Starcraft switches you to that mode. You can usually fix this little problem you are having by switching your desktop resolution to 640x480 and 256 colors manually before you start the game.

If you computer cannot enter that video mode then you will not be able to play the game.

 

[Amfidamant]

Or, if you're not using some old fancy Windows or any other non-Windows OS, you can try right clicking on the Starcraft shortcut, select Compactibility and check the "Run in 640x480 screen resolution" and "Run in 256 colors"

 

[Spud497]

Or, if you're not using some old fancy Windows or any other non-Windows OS, you can try right clicking on the Starcraft shortcut, select Compactibility and check the "Run in 640x480 screen resolution" and "Run in 256 colors"

I'm using Windows 7 and I've tried what you said but it still displays in odd colours and parts of the image don't show up...

 

[Kuvion]

I had problems with the colors getting totally messed up on windows 7. I found a few fixes for this:

The first one is very simple. You left-click anywhere on your desktop. Then click on "screen resolution". Just leave it open without changing anything and start the game. This didn't work for me, but it seems to work for many others.

The second solution is a bit more complicated. Open notepad, a simple text editor that comes with the OS. Paste the following text:

taskkill /f /IM explorer.exe
C:\"Program Files (x86)\StarCraft"\"StarCraft.exe"
start explorer.exe

Then change the "Program Files (x86)\StarCraft" to point to your Starcraft folder.
Save the file with the .bat file extension, for example Starcraft.bat
Then just double click on the file. This worked for me.

If nothing of this works, the only solution I know is virtualization. This means running another OS "inside" your computers OS. I can help you if you want to try that.