Hello facepunch!
Well I decided to reinstall Starcraft because a few buddies and I want to play it. I installed it, updated it and everything is fine but when I start to play it lags horrendously. I think this might be Vista conflicting with it. I know it's not my internet connection because it lags like this even when I play single player. Any help would be amazing, thanks in advance.
An OS doesn't conflict a game, that would represent a major flaw in its design. I see what you're getting at though. Try running it in Compatibility mode for Windows XP.
Lol you should see it on my Windows 7 laptop and then say os doesn't conflict with a game, it was normal when I had xp on it.
Basically the space in the menus is teal and not black, tomorrow if you care I'll nab a screen shot.
You can't do much to fix anything to do with starcraft other than try to find your problem on google.
[QUOTE=Blarg190;19893417]Lol you should see it on my Windows 7 laptop and then say os doesn't conflict with a game, it was normal when I had xp on it.
Basically the space in the menus is teal and not black, tomorrow if you care I'll nab a screen shot.
You can't do much to fix anything to do with starcraft other than try to find your problem on google.[/QUOTE]
I believe when this happens, you must force starcraft to load using 16-bit color's. There's an option for this in the "Windows Compatibility Assistant" or whatever its called menu.
Or you could just set your desktop to display in 16-bit color in the display control panel, though you'll want to put it back to 32-bit when you're not playing Starcraft, as it makes the OS look horrible.
And when I said that the OS doesn't conflict with a game, I mean that that's not the proper terminology and may confuse people, a software confliction implies that two programs or drivers are attempting to use the same thing or control the same thing when the thing in question is only designed to be altered/controlled by a single program.
Incompatibility is a better way to describe it, as that suggests that the OS lacks something, or acts differently than the game expects it too. Or the OS simply doesn't know what to do with the game, in the case of Window Vista and up trying to run a 16-bit program (not to be confused with 16-bit color, a 16-bit program refers to the maximum accuracy of an integer, for example, think of 1.2038948576 as a 32-bit integer, decimal place wise, it would be truncated to this number, if it was 16-bit: 1.20389) bit-length in color refers to the range of colors available for the computer to display.
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