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r/starcraft•
deadtime

Do you have the Brood War messed up color bug in Vista/7? Here's the fix!

(Crosspost from r/programming - http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/daanp/breathing_new_life_into_old_directdraw_games/)

Specifically, this fixes the problem where you start up BW in Windows Vista and 7, and the colors look all messed up.

Just download the ddhack10.zip archive and extract the files to your Brood War directory.

EDIT: The options that worked best for me was to turn off all Compatibility Mode settings and use "bilinear altwinpos" in the ddhack.cfg file.

Posted Sep 7, 2010, 12:08 PM UTC · edited

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Boglizk•

Far easier to just use the Chaos Launcher and Window Mode.

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Aperture_Kubi•

I've had it work on both.

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jrsherrod•

Who needs a hack? Open your display properties window and run the game.

The funny part is you think I'm kidding.

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noiserrKT Rolster•

That didn't always work for me for some reason.

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jrsherrod•

The fact that it works at all is absurd.

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deadtimeOP•

I used to do this as well. Now you don't have to anymore. Just run the game as normal with those files in the directory, and you never have to worry about it again.

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pedal2000•

Uh...I may be stupid but where is the ddhack10 file?

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so_game•

http://sol.gfxile.net/ddhack/

Alternatively, click this link and then click on the title.

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zeroRepentZerg•

The easiest way is to rightclick and open Screen Resolution and have that open when you start sc:bw. Have worked so far for me, though I am not sure why tbh... ^^

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drys•

This always works for me as well, why bother modifying the game when a simple workaround like this is all that is needed?

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fluxflashorTeam Liquid•

Tried it out, loaded fine and looked great however my fps dropped to an unplayable level. Tried messing with different config options with no luck. I think I'll stick with shitty menu screens (way too lazy to open display props / run compat)

edit: Its probably something to do with my graphics chip, integrated pos laptop

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deadtimeOP•

Did you try bilinear? It didn't seem to have any effect on the FPS on my computer.

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fluxflashorTeam Liquid•

That was the default option in the config file so yes. It may have something to do with my laptop if this is working for other people, I'm running an Intel GMA 950, it sucks.

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RequisitionTerran•

I set up a batch file to end explorer.exe and start Brood War(and start it up again when Starcraft closes). It has worked well for me.

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jobotslash•

I did this with my friend's, he has Win 7. basically, make a .txt file containing this:

taskkill /f /IM explorer.exe
cd "C:\Program Files\StarCraft\"
Starcraft.exe
start explorer.exe

I took this, saved it as .txt, renamed the file to be scbatch.bat, stuck in in my StarCraft folder, then made a shortcut to it on my desktop, renamed it and applied a Wraith icon to it. Works like a charm and you don'thave to open anything crazy or alt+tab out!

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to4dEvil Geniuses•

Or just open your TaskManager and killed explorer.exe

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Jrix•

What's worked for me is first is turning off aero, and playing in compatibility mode for win xp.

However the strangest part of the whole setup is that it doesn't work UNLESS I rick click the shortcut icon (from that point on it works fine). What I mean is... I right click the icon, bring up the right click menu, and that act itself causes it to work.

Which doesn't make one damn bit of sense to me.

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Billyblack•

I've tried every solution I could find online, and the only one that worked was keeping the display properties window open, but that's obviously a temporary fix, and not an actual solution.

But the real solution that I found, nobody seemed to mention. I uninstalled my version of the game, and downloaded it from Blizzard's website. Not only did it fix the problem, but apparently I missed a few (read: all) patches that fixed a few other minor issues as well. It runs beautifully now, with no graphics errors whatsoever.

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drys•

I just re-downloaded and installed withing the last 6 months and I still have the same issue. I have been using the screen resolution trick with no problems though.

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bonch•

Mac version has no issues.

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