There are still people for whom all mentioned fixes WILL NOT WORK:

• Setting Affinity (1 cpu in task manager)
• Setting Process Priority
• End tasking or pausing Explorer (this is my first answer which works in 80 % of cases)
• Selective start-up (allowing just basic services in msconfig: start->run->msconfig)

My personal feeling is, that it depends on your graphic card.. the more powerful your graphic chip is, the higher probability it won't work.

For these people though, there are still 2 possibilities:

1. Run Starcraft in a virtual machine (Windows XP Mode) <- which is ok, but you cannot get this old game full screen (no matter what you do, it resizes itself to 640*480 and leaves black borders around the game)
2. Using the Chaoslauncher tool <- there is an option: W-MODE (windows mode)
3. Using the DxWnd tool (which allows to run old games in a windowed mode)

The second (or the third) option is very interesting and should work for everyone ! It solves the Direct3D freezing problems with this game. It runs in a Window (which is a inconvenience for playing :-/ ), that means, that if you have a high resolution screen, lower your resolution to 800*600 (or something lower than your normal resolution) so that it won't be so small.

There are still people for whom all mentioned fixes WILL NOT WORK:

• Setting Affinity (1 cpu in task manager)
• Setting Process Priority
• End tasking or pausing Explorer (this is my first answer which works in 80 % of cases)
• Selective start-up (allowing just basic services in msconfig: start->run->msconfig)

My personal feeling is, that it depends on your graphic card.. the more powerful your graphic chip is, the higher probability it won't work.

For these people though, there are still 2 possibilities:

1. Run Starcraft in a virtual machine (Windows XP Mode) <- which is ok, but you cannot get this old game full screen (no matter what you do, it resizes itself to 640*480 and leaves black borders around the game)
2. Using the Chaoslauncher tool <- there is an option: W-MODE (windows mode)
3. Using the DxWnd tool (which allows to run old games in a windowed mode). But please, do not forget to install the c++ redistributable first (it's the second link on the site: link). Then you can install the dx tool

The second (or the third) option is very interesting and should work for everyone ! It solves the Direct3D freezing problems with this game. It runs in a Window (which is a inconvenience for playing :-/ ), that means, that if you have a high resolution screen, lower your resolution to 800*600 (or something lower than your normal resolution) so that it won't be so small.

There are still people for whom all mentioned fixes WILL NOT WORK:

• Setting Affinity (1 cpu in task manager)
• Setting Process Priority
• End tasking or pausing Explorer (this is my first answer which works in 80 % of cases)
• Selective start-up (allowing just basic services in msconfig: start->run->msconfig)

My personal feeling is, that it depends on your graphic card.. the more powerful your graphic chip is, the higher probability it won't work.

For these people though, there are still 2 possibilities:

1. Run Starcraft in a virtual machine (Windows XP Mode) <- which is ok, but you cannot get this old game full screen (no matter what you do, it resizes itself to 640*480 and leaves black borders around the game)
2. Using the Chaoslauncher tool <- there is an option: W-MODE (windows mode)

The second option is very interesting and should work for everyone ! It solves the Direct3D freezing problems with this game. It runs in a Window (which is a inconvenience for playing :-/ ), that means, that if you have a high resolution screen, lower your resolution to 800*600 (or something lower than your normal resolution) so that it won't be so small.

There are still people for whom all mentioned fixes WILL NOT WORK:

• Setting Affinity (1 cpu in task manager)
• Setting Process Priority
• End tasking or pausing Explorer (this is my first answer which works in 80 % of cases)
• Selective start-up (allowing just basic services in msconfig: start->run->msconfig)

My personal feeling is, that it depends on your graphic card.. the more powerful your graphic chip is, the higher probability it won't work.

For these people though, there are still 2 possibilities:

1. Run Starcraft in a virtual machine (Windows XP Mode) <- which is ok, but you cannot get this old game full screen (no matter what you do, it resizes itself to 640*480 and leaves black borders around the game)
2. Using the Chaoslauncher tool <- there is an option: W-MODE (windows mode)
3. Using the DxWnd tool (which allows to run old games in a windowed mode)

The second (or the third) option is very interesting and should work for everyone ! It solves the Direct3D freezing problems with this game. It runs in a Window (which is a inconvenience for playing :-/ ), that means, that if you have a high resolution screen, lower your resolution to 800*600 (or something lower than your normal resolution) so that it won't be so small.