Starcraft 2 Mac Problems, Crashes, and Fixes. Starcraft 2 has been out for about a week now and since launch date my life has basically revolved around the game (I’m a nerd, I know). The game is an absolute blast and you should buy it if you like real time strategy games. Now all that said, it’s not without problems. Despite a lengthy beta testing period, there are still some pretty annoying bugs and crashes in SC2, particularly for Mac users who have NVidia hardware. Red Alert 2 Yuri's Revenge Slow Speed Lag Fix. A tutorial on how to fix Red Alert 2 Yuri's Revenge's slow speed and lag. Like it if it worked for you. For users with a slow computer. I have no idea what the heck you guys have done with this patch, but it has butchered my starcraft 2. How to skip Starcraft 2. Starcraft 2 Optimization running slow.
Starcraft 2 Brood War . Here is the known problem list for the Starcraft 2 Mac client, and more importantly some potential fixes for the problems: * No user interface or menus – if you are missing user interface elements, try quitting and restarting the game, or do a full system restart* Random crashes with Mac OS X 1. NVidia graphics hardware – no current workarounds, Blizzard is aware of the problem and working on it – Update: some of the random crashes have been fixed with the Snow Leopard Graphics Update, it is highly recommended you install this update!* NVidia hardware dramatically underperforms in Mac OS X – potential driver issue, reduce graphics settings to lower settings until a fix is released* Mac OS X underperforms compared to Windows on the same hardware – similar to the above problem, there is speculation this is a Mac OS X video driver problem. The extent of the performance hit varies from system to system, further suggesting it’s related to video drivers. Lower graphics settings for the time being, or run the game in bootcamp.* Mac. Book Pro overheats and game stutters in gameplay and cutscenes – possibly related to above graphics driver problems, some users report adding the following two lines to their variable file helpful (variables is located at ~/Documents/Blizzard/Starcraft II/variables. Glue=3. 0 This forces your frame rates to cap at a consistent level, some hardware is overworking when it doesn’t need to be thus sending your Mac. Book Pro into a ridiculously hot CPU eating festival with itself and crash city. This actually works on other hardware too if it’s overheating during cutscenes and videos.* Black screen on startup but sound plays anyway – switch from fullscreen to windowed mode (Command+M), or do a system reboot* Huge performance hit when using USB Headset with some NVidia hardware (Ge. Force 9. 40. 0M in particular) – unplug the USB headset for now, Blizzard is working on a fix* Mouse gets stuck off screen in dual monitor setups – if this happens, switch to windowed mode (Command+M) and back into full screen mode, usually your mouse will be released* Starcraft 2 crashes, fails, or freezes when trying to download/install patch update – known problem, the cause is thought to be users having a case- sensitive file system. There is no current fix but a workaround is to install Starcraft 2 onto a newly created disk image. You can create a disk image with the Disk Utility tool, located in /Applications/Utilities. Create a New Image onto the Desktop that is about 1. GB and install Starcraft 2 directly into this disk image – some users have reported success just copying their current Starcraft 2 install into that folder and deleting the original installation. Be sure to launch Starcraft 2 client from the disk image.* Incompatibilities with Little. Snitch, App. Cleaner, File. Vault, and Peer. Guardian – these apps are known to cause problems with the Mac Starcraft 2 client, ranging from inability to connect to Battle Net to a patch installation loop. Current workaround is to disable these applications if they are running on your Mac.* Patches won’t download, Starcraft 2 won’t connect to Battle. Net – check for aforementioned problems and applications running, if the patches still do not download or you can’t connect to battlenet it’s possible the proper ports are not open on your network/router. The following ports need to be open: 3. This is part of the official known Mac problem list from Blizzard, hopefully we’ll get an update soon to patch up the serious bugs and performance issues. You can test your own game performance by showing frames per second within Starcraft 2, just hit Option+Control+F while anywhere in the game and a framerate counter will appear in the upper left corner. Even though the Mac system requirements for Starcraft 2 are relatively low, they should not be counted on at this point due to the above problems. Even some of the best hardware is underperforming in Mac OS X. If you want the game to perform it’s absolute best, carefully watch the frame rate in response to graphics changes, and have things like “Shaders”, “Shadows”, and “Lighting” set to Low and “Reflections” set to Off, although you can generally have the resolution native and game textures medium to high and still retain decent performance. Update: Apple has released the Snow Leopard Graphics Update – this is HIGHLY recommended to install as it should help some of the crashes and problems. Update: Apple has seeded a. Running Starcraft + Brood War on Windows 7. Right so as promised here’s another how to on running an old classic on windows 7. There is a general issue with running the *craft series games on vista+ systems due to the change in the underlying graphics architecture of the systems. This has resulted in the games running in the infamous “low colour” mode (where everything looks like it’s in 1. P). This is an annoying bug and one that cannot be easily addressed. Theres a patched driver floating around that someone reverse engineered (annoyingly i cant find the link). I’ve tried it with Starcraft and unfortunately this isn’t (yet) a stable solution (game runs sooooo sloooow) so we have to resort to other means. As i mentioned in my update the solution to running the original Starcraft and it’s expansion pack . No need for tools, no need for patches no need for virtualisation. Note: As always for the best possible experience i would recommend to anyone wanting to run classic games to simply use a virtual machine. These are so easy to setup and they are free. You don’t need VMWare workstation because that’s intended for advanced users (developers etc. VMWare player, Virtual. Box are both free and easy to use solutions. Microsoft’s Virtual PC is also an option. QEMU is pretty much king in the virtualisation world (albite lacking in the nice pretty simple UI so perhaps not for everyone). Boot up a virtual machine, install a copy of windows XP like you would on any other machine and your good to go. Ok so that aside lets get Starcraft running on windows 7! First you will need to install the game (obviously). You MUST do the following: Install the latest patch (afaik 1. Go to gamecopy world. Download the No. CD patch for the version of the game your running. I don’t care if you are against piracy. I don’t care if you spent your hard earned pocket money to buy a legal version of the game. Copy protection technology is ALWAYS an afterthought hack – this is no exception. This game (like all the others i blog about) runs perfect PROVIDED YOU CRACK IT FIRST. These copy protection technologies use obscure ways to do what they do (because people think this makes it harder to get around them). Typically this is just funny (and sometimes it’s actually degrading in performance). However as soon as something in the underlying architecture of the OS changes (like say going from XP to Vista) your fucked. Your precious copy protection will no longer work the way it’s supposed to and (most of the time) it will be the one single reason why, after following all the steps other people have outlined to get the game running perfectly for them, will fail for you. Crack the game if you actually want to play it – it’s YOUR game. You have that right. Once the game is patched and cracked your almost done. First (as always) go into the game folder, right click on starcraft. Click the compatibility tab and tick EVERY option under settings as well as “run as admin”. Don’t bother with “run in compatibility mode”. Now, here’s the obscure bit. Get ready to play the game,minimise the game folder and go to your desktop. Right click on the desktop and select “screen resolution”. You will get your display settings window. Now, without closing the display settings, go back to your Starcraft folder and run the game. You will see the starcraft splash screen displayed all correctly and the game will run fast and without issue – at the time of writing i’m about 3 levels away from finishing brood war on a 2. Just exit the game and try starting it without first opening display settings . Also sometimes after playing for a while you might randomly start getting colour issues. Save what your doing and restart the game – it’s not a perfect solution (because it’s a hack) but it gets the job done UPDATE (2. Comment #1. 76. 00) suggested that: The only thing I use to get rid of the color issue is put a check mark by.
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