I decided to reinstall Starcraft today and begin playing again a little. So I went to the Battle.net website, where I have registered my game and got a digital copy of the game. Waited a few hours for it to download and then installed it. Right after installing, I poped open the game, got to the menu just fine, but decided to close the game because I was hungry. When I came back, I opened up the game, it got to the load screen and the following happened:

The odd thing is, the game is running just fine, its only the screen thats frozen. The music continues playing just fine and if i move the mouse around, I can hear the sounds as if I were moving the mouse over the 4 icons on the main menu. Even if i click them, I will hear the sound of the next screen coming up, but the screen does not change. Like I said, the game is running just fine, I just cant see what im doing.

My computer specs are the following:
Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bits
AMD Phenom2 X2 545 3.0GHZ
4GB OCZ Platinum @ 800MHZ
Geforce GTX 260 Black Edition by XFX
Satellite 600W PSU
All of my drivers are up to date, and my computer has no problems running any other games.

Ive tried running it in every compatibility mode imaginable, but I get the same problem every single time. Ive run it as administrator, I've run it at lower resolutions, ect. The only time the game ran properly was when I first installed it, and I think it wad cause the cinematics run when you boot the game for first time. Ive also had this same exact problem on the computer I used to have (My current one was bought recently)
Ive googled the problem as well and came up with nothing.
Anyone got a solution?

Hey Nintendo_Confed, I have the same problem. I did some research and apparently it has something to do with the way windows 7 handles 256 bit color schemes. I have not yet find a way to overcome this problem, and Blizzard support obvious does not involve itself in this.

The only applicable solution I have found is by playing SC in window mode. Although this method works, there are still some random instances of crashing. But at least the color schema is correct, and the computer video buffer just doesn't freeze completely. Instead the program crashes instead.

As I stated, I had the same problem on another computer, and that computer runs on XP.

You never said it ran on xp...
But nevertheless, my friend running this on xp never encountered this problem. Now I am led to think that this might be the video card's problem?
Maybe it's too advanced to process such easy games? Just a thought.

I *SOMETIMES* have the same problem when running SC on my piece-of-crap windows vista. I don't know what triggers it, but about half the time I start starcraft, I run into that problem. My theory, is that:
There are two points at which a computer cannot run a game well, or at all.
1 - The computer is too old.
2 - The computer is too new. (Basically)

The operating system is too new. Run in compatibility mode and as administrator if possible.

Starcraft was designed for Windows 95/98. Being too old shouldn't be a problem.

There was a bugfix for this. I have never actually tried it, but it is said to work. It kills Explorer.exe in the background and restarts it and then it will be fine, haha.

taskkill /f /im explorer.exe
c:\"program files\starcraft"\"starcraft.exe"
start explorer.exe

In the bat file.

Does the other computer also have nVidia graphics?

Actually now that I think about it, yea it did. And I just now realized that the problem on that one started AFTER i installed an nvidia grapfics card on it..

This sorta worked. I got into the game without wierd colors, video buffer doesnt freeze but now theres an annoying flicker in the bottom left area of the screen

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Nuff said.

If that explorer trick doesn't work, you could always try using "Starcraft.exe ddemulate".

I changed my colors from 32bit to 16bit in control panel ---> display settings.

It helps me run starcraft when the colors go all whack. I don't think resolution matters it's just the colors.

OK this works but its very annoying to switch colors in Windows7, and especially annoying every time I wanna play Starcraft. Anyway to batch file it?

Enjoy.

Oh, not to necro or anything, but I just uploaded this hack to the DLDB, it's supposed to fix this issue.