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StarCraft
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Developers
Publishers
Engines
Release dates
Windows
March 31, 1998
Mac OS
1999
StarCraft at WineHQ
 StarCraft at Wikipedia
StarCraft
StarCraft 1998
StarCraft: Brood War
StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty 2010
StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm
StarCraft II: Legacy of the Void

General information

More information TeamLiquid - Resource for keeping up with SC1 news
More information Battle.net Forums

Availability[edit]

Source DRM Notes Keys
Official website Availability Table Icons - Battle net.svg Digital download, includes Brood War expansion
Official website DRM details are not known Includes guide books
Amazon.com Disc checkCD/DVD key (no activation)
Amazon.com Disc checkCD/DVD key (no activation) Includes Brood War expansion
Amazon.com Disc checkCD/DVD key (no activation) Includes guide books

Brood War Expansion[edit]

Brood War adds an additional story line, new missions, and new units to the game. Although it improves on the game, the core of StarCraft is left intact, making for easier patching and bug fixing. In most cases, a fix for StarCraft will also fix Brood War.

StarCraft Battle Chest[edit]

Battle Chest is a box set containing StarCraft and Brood War, as well as official strategy guides for both games.

Battle.net Digital Download[edit]

By registering your CD-Key with Battle.net, you are able to download a pre-patched, combined version of StarCraft and Brood War.

Essential improvements[edit]

Patches[edit]

The latest patches can be downloaded at Blizzard's Battle.net website. Brood War users only need to install the Brood War patch (it will update StarCraft as well). Current version is 1.161.

Information To apply the patch, run the executable in Starcraft's root directory.

Mods[edit]

ChaosLauncher - ChaosLauncher allows you to run StarCraft with all the necessary mods like Windowed-Mode.

W-Mode - Allows you to play StarCraft in windowed mode using ChaosLauncher.

Game data[edit]

Configuration file(s) location[edit]

  Location 
Windows
Mac OS

Save game data location[edit]

  Location 
Windows <path-to-game>\saves
Mac OS

Video settings[edit]

Graphics option Option WSGF Notes
Widescreen resolution Hackable WSGF Incomplete.svg see Widescreen resolution.
Multi-monitor Hackable Grading incomplete Position Affects Gameplay
Field of view (FOV) Impossible
Windowed Hackable Use ChaosLauncher with W-Mode.
Borderless fullscreen windowed Hackable
Anisotropic filtering (AF) Impossible
Anti-aliasing (AA) Impossible
Vertical sync (Vsync) Impossible
High frame rate Unknown

Widescreen resolution[edit]

Fix Widescreen[1]

Information DO NOT play in Battle.Net while using this hack. You might get banned.
Information Have StarCraft and Broodwar updated to the latest version
Disadvantage Game has been reported to be buggered running this solution. The camera scroll breaking is fixable in this updated one by shifting back to 640x480 then back to the res you were in. But the crash as level completes is still there (this crash can be fixed by moving the StarCraft folder out of C Drive).

1) Download Resolution Expander 5.1 and extract anywhere you want.

2) Change these lines to the desired resolution: ScreenWidth0=640 ScreenHight0=480

3) After setting your resolutions, run "InsectLoader.exe" to play Starcraft with the hack.

4) If you get an error message that StarCraft isn't installed properly, navigate to folder where Starcraft.exe is locateda and create a file called scfix.vbs

Set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell") set svc=GetObject("winmgmts:root\default:StdRegProv") Wscript.Quit(svc.setStringValue(&H80000002, "SOFTWARE\Blizzard Entertainment\Starcraft", "Program", WshShell.currentDirectory & "\Starcraft.exe"))

If your are using a 64bit OS and the fix doesn't work, try using this instead:

Set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell") set svc=GetObject("winmgmts:root\default:StdRegProv")

Wscript.Quit(svc.setStringValue(&H80000002, "SOFTWARE\wow6432node\Blizzard Entertainment\Starcraft", "Program", WshShell.currentDirectory & "\Starcraft.exe"))

Input settings[edit]

Keyboard and mouse Native Notes
Remapping Native
Mouse acceleration Impossible No mouse acceleration.
Mouse input in menus Native
Mouse Y-axis inversion Not applicable
Controller
Controller support Impossible

Audio settings[edit]

Audio options Native Notes
Separate volume controls Unknown
Surround sound Unknown
Subtitles Unknown
Closed captions Unknown
Mute on focus lost Unknown

Network[edit]

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
LAN play Native 8
Online play Native 8

Ports

Protocol Port(s) and/or port range(s)
TCP (outbound) 6112
UDP (outbound) 6112

Issues fixed[edit]

Color Artifacts on Windows 7[edit]

Information See Rainbow color problems in older games for solutions.

System requirements[edit]

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS)
95
Processor (CPU)
90 MHz Pentium or Equivalent
System memory (RAM) 16 MB 32 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)
80 MB
Video card (GPU)
SVGA video card that supports DirectDraw at 640 x 480 resolution, 256 colors
Mac OS
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS)
Processor (CPU)
PowerMac or Compatible
System memory (RAM) 16 MB 32 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)
80 MB
Video card (GPU)
Video card that supports 640x480 display in 256 colors

References

  1. ↑ http://www.wsgf.org/dr/starcraft