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Can't Run StarCraft
Jan 12 2008, 4:54 pm
By: Joshgt2  

Jan 12 2008, 4:54 pm Joshgt2 Post #1



StarCraft has been working perfectly for me for the past couple of weeks and when I tried to play it today I got an error message... (see image)

As what it says, my video card suddenly doesn't seem to want to run StarCraft, but yet it will run Half-Life 2 and Garry's Mod with no problems... It said that maybe my DirectX 9 would need to be updated, so that is what I did and still nothing. Does anyone have anything that can help me with this? Please and thank you...



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Jan 12 2008, 6:41 pm MasterJohnny Post #2



run>dxdiag
test the direct draw
if it encounters no problems then...i dunno..
it is possible that you are running a 3d application and that causes the problem



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Jan 13 2008, 6:06 pm Bianca Post #3



Right click your SC shortcut go to Compatibility tab, and click run in 256 colors and run in 640x480 screen resolution,should fixs that :P



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Jan 13 2008, 6:52 pm Xx.Doom.xX Post #4



Quote from Bianca
Right click your SC shortcut go to Compatibility tab, and click run in 256 colors and run in 640x480 screen resolution,should fixs that :P
Yeah. Did you even try what it said?...



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Jan 13 2008, 8:38 pm Bianca Post #5



Um what?



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Jan 13 2008, 8:49 pm Joshgt2 Post #6



Sorry for my absence but I was on an unexpected trip for a day or so....
Quote from Bianca
Right click your SC shortcut go to Compatibility tab, and click run in 256 colors and run in 640x480 screen resolution,should fixs that :P
This works perfectly now... Thanks for the help!



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Jan 14 2008, 12:11 am candle12345 Post #7



If in doubt. Do what the error tells you.



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Jan 15 2008, 1:32 pm Greo Post #8



Quote from candle12345
If in doubt. Do what the error tells you.




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Jan 16 2008, 9:03 pm Joshgt2 Post #9



Quote from Greo
Quote from candle12345
If in doubt. Do what the error tells you.
Stupid post... Wasn't even worth your time.

But I have another problem on my hands... Now I can only play StarCraft once (as in closeing it and then reopening it) then the direct draw error comes back up again... I have everything checked that should be checked but this still isn't working... any other suggestions on why it doesn't work after the second try?



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Jan 17 2008, 1:25 am Bianca Post #10



Strange.. I'm stumped.



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Jan 18 2008, 2:51 am Nintendo_Confed Post #11



Heres a dumb question... have you reinstalled?



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Jan 18 2008, 3:01 am Falkoner Post #12



My brother has the exact same problem, it's an odd Vista error...



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Jan 18 2008, 5:03 am Joshgt2 Post #13



I don't know if this is the case or not, but when I run Steam then StarCraft won't work... but when Steam is shut off and sometimes my computer is restarted everything will work find...



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Jan 19 2008, 4:46 am Riney Post #14

Thigh high affectionado

When in doubt, dont listen to anyone else, system restore or recovery partition one week ago :D



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