Apologies if this is in the wrong section cause I know this is a mod MAKING area but it's also a helping area about mods so please hear me out:
My friend go the Starcraft Battle chest set just this morning and we were playing it together it worked perfectly on normal 1.152 versions. Then he wanted to play some mods because I caught his attention to them, but when we managed to use the downgrader (which works perfectly with my SC and still to this day allows me to play my mods from ages ago) and "play" them (double click on the mods EXE icons) we kept getting an annoying error about some sort of disk read fail.
Would someone know of anyone else who has mod playing failures with the battle chest version of Starcraft?
Cause I suspect an anti-downgrade something or rather or an anti-mod something of rather... Although he does run on vista, but another friend who I lent the game too could play mods on vista regardless but I have the original separated CDs of SC and SC:BW so I suspect it's something to do with the starcraft Bchest itself... Could someone shed some light on me and this subject or has no-one actually come across something of this sort before?
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Sleeping wolves wake hungry.
The so-called Battlechest edition is just both the game and the expansion in one pack, there's nothing else added.
Also, Vista doesn't like mods. I had to disable DEP to make them work.
DEP? explain please.
I'm slow with abbreviations...then explain why they are chosing not to work for him while my other vistafied friends mods worked just perfectly? or is it just simply his computer doesn't like the mods or is being annoying about it? ...or perhaps we need to disable something?
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we kept getting an annoying error about some sort of disk read fail.
Older versions of StarCraft don't support the no-cd feature, so if you downloaded the battle chest off of Blizzard's online store, that'd explain it. Use the BWAIDowngrader
here to get around this. It has its own no-cd crack.
....eh whut? he bought it from ebgames... ok, I'll try that thing then...
EDIT: Never mind sirs! looks like we must've been using a corruptified downgrader or something
cause when we used the BWAIdowngrader and replaced the old downgrader we were using it worked fine.
Post has been edited 2 time(s), last time on Jan 7 2010, 1:19 am by Darkmega.
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The so-called Battlechest edition is just both the game and the expansion in one pack, there's nothing else added.
Also, Vista doesn't like mods. I had to disable DEP to make them work.
Data Execution Prevention (DEP) should not cause any problems with it if you aren't using an old version of MPQDraft. Other than that MPQDraft version, other mod loaders should be DEP-compatible that are for StarCraft versions that are DEP-compatible.
By the way, there is generally no reason to fully disable Data Execution Prevention. The default mode only runs programs with it enabled
when the developer of the program marked the program as compatible.
It is very easy for a program to be made compatible with it. All that needs to be done is to make sure that any executable code that is written to memory by the program is put into memory that the program has marked as executable.
Post has been edited 1 time(s), last time on Jan 7 2010, 6:14 am by ShadowFlare.
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