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Help & Support => Support Requests => Topic started by: Rit on May 04, 2015, 11:37:59 PM
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So today I installed a preview of Windows 10 on one of my computers. One of the first things I did was install war2. For some reason, every time I launch war2, the start menu pops up and minimizes the war2 screen. When I try to maximize war2, the start menu continues to pop up and minimize it again. I've discussed this a little with iL. From what I understand, he's tried it and he didn't have any problems. Has anyone else had experience with war2 on Windows 10? Does anyone have any thoughts on what might be causing this issue?
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Same issues as windows 8. There are many of these threads now.
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The display bug also occurs sporadically, doesn't it? I think Ryu said he uses 8 and doesn't have that problem.
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i installed war2combat on windows 8 once.
and there's no color glitch, at least to me it didn't happen.
not even if you alt-tab and alt-tab back. even if you are gaming.
the only errors i saw were in the game chat, it was garbled, and some buttons would disappear.
i only installed it once, not using that OS.
i dont remember hearing from anyone complaining about war2 autominimizing itself in any other thread before.
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and there's no color glitch, at least to me it didn't happen.
Yes, color glitch resolved in win8/10 (it's win7 only (not sure about vista)).
the only errors i saw were in the game chat, it was garbled, and some buttons would disappear.
yes, sometimes problem occurs with button (GUI) layer: buttons are located on wrond places or messages are hidden behind the background or w/e.
That works fine for me.
Another bug is chat icons: they are not shown in 8/10, looks like it's a common problem with 8/10.
i dont remember hearing from anyone complaining about war2 autominimizing itself in any other thread before.
Yes, looks like it's the first time with such problem.
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Yes its an issue with windows... Thus sound familiar ??
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windows/en-US/ff0e1dcf-a535-4fbb-8543-de08cf55be9a/windows-81-all-windows-minimize-randomly?forum=w8itprogeneral
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such crappy OSes.....
it will be loooooooooooong before I move from windows7.
probably at least 5 more years.
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I just noticed that it only minimizes and continues to minimize War2 if I try launch it via a shortcut on the desktop. When I launch War2PLoader or War2noCDLoader from the War2Combat folder, it doesn't minimize but it still seems to activate the start menu and it overlaps the game screen. I'm able to get rid of the overlapping start menu by simply pressing the Windows key on my keyboard. However, when I alt+tab to the desktop, the start menu still pops up and I am unable to maximize the War2 screen from there. While the war2 program is running, the start menu continues to pop up even when I try to collapse it.
Also, I've tried to get a recording this issue on my desktop and it cuts off the recording when I launch war2 and starts a new vid.
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So after installing Windows updates, the problem went away. War2 now opens without any problems. I guess I should have installed the updates first. :D
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War2 works good on Windows 10?
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The display bug also occurs sporadically, doesn't it? I think Ryu said he uses 8 and doesn't have that problem.
Yes i have tested war2 comb on window 7 and 8 and 8.1 w/o any major problems....colors need to be fixed but beside that the game is playable. I have yet to test it on 10.
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War2 works good on Windows 10?
Not sure? I think Mousey said she downloaded the developers preview win 10? Mousey?
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So after installing Windows updates, the problem went away. War2 now opens without any problems. I guess I should have installed the updates first. :D
Have any idea what was updated in that windows update? Drivers?
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Maybe you're thinking of tupac? Win7 all the way here. So you still get the rainbow color bug in Win8? It seems like there's a lot of conflicting reports in this thread.
So after installing Windows updates, the problem went away. War2 now opens without any problems. I guess I should have installed the updates first. :D
You're not seeing the chat lobby display issue either? e.g. this (http://en.war2.ru/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/warcraft-windows-8-display-glitches-animated-optmized.gif). (Animated gif, watch it for a sec.) Everything is perfect?
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So after installing Windows updates, the problem went away. War2 now opens without any problems. I guess I should have installed the updates first. :D
Have any idea what was updated in that windows update? Drivers?
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There are 6 updates. I was able to narrow it down to KB3062095 which includes a fix for this problem. A description of this update can be found here: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3062095 (https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3062095)
Maybe you're thinking of tupac? Win7 all the way here. So you still get the rainbow color bug in Win8? It seems like there's a lot of conflicting reports in this thread.
So after installing Windows updates, the problem went away. War2 now opens without any problems. I guess I should have installed the updates first. :D
You're not seeing the chat lobby display issue either? e.g. this ([url]http://en.war2.ru/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/warcraft-windows-8-display-glitches-animated-optmized.gif[/url]). (Animated gif, watch it for a sec.) Everything is perfect?
Yep, that's the exact problem I have when I log in. It seems to start messing up like that when I try to view someone's profile.
If anyone is interested in giving Windows 10 a try, the insider preview iso can be downloaded here: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/preview-iso (http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/preview-iso)
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I have windows 8 on this laptop/notebook thing and it is just messed up on the channel / and when getting ready to host a game. Is there anyone currently working on a Windows 8 fix for that? I hope it's not the same on 10.
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my post over here would be a win8 fix.
[http:] //forum.war2.ru/index.php/topic,897.msg12196.html#msg12196
just set 640x480 on the "Warcraft II BNE.exe" compatibility tab for now.
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the next step IMO would be to intercept GDI and USER in addition to DDRAW.
Replace all Window Device Contexts with Memory Device Contexts to allow GDI drawing to be redirected to an offscreen bitmap.
I've ported over the system window classes from Wine to avoid the need to hook system modules.
However, my attempts to redirect GDI output isn't currently working.
Anybody interested in helping?
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Looks pretty complicated...Maybe IL has the expertise to help or Lance?
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Looks pretty complicated...Maybe IL has the expertise to help or Lance?
It's pretty complicated for me also. Ddraw is very specific part and is not related to anything else.
Aqrit is expert in that ddraw tasks, i'd say the best expert in the world, i hope he will be able (and have enough time) to do that himself.
He already released improved ddraw fix for win7 that totally fixes palette even after alt-tab, but that fix unfortunately breaks SS. I hope he will do something to fix that, otherwise i have no idea who else can do that...
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He already released improved ddraw fix for win7 that totally fixes palette even after alt-tab, but that fix unfortunately breaks SS. I hope he will do something to fix that, otherwise i have no idea who else can do that...
but which SS? my chat SS is already fucked up. Are you talking about the in-game SS?
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(http://s1.postimg.org/yb8v0gbfj/win8.png) (http://postimage.org/)
post images (http://postimage.org/)
The listboxes, buttons on the left. The game on the right. Icons are there and graphics display properly. But the black background behind buttons, listboxes, etc are on top causing it to be broken. Texts displays on top of old text looks like not refreshing....
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but which SS? my chat SS is already fucked up. Are you talking about the in-game SS?
Yes, both. Current in-chat SS shows chat screen without text. New ddraw fix works perfect, but SS in-chat / in-game shows empty cyan / purple screen.
That means SS by request will be impossible, so we can't share that fix between the community.
I'll try to fix that, but it's not so easy for me. So i still hope aqrit can do that himself.
Would be great for all war2 and starcraft players also i think.
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That means SS by request will be impossible, so we can't share that fix between the community.
that fix sounds sexy and this issue could be fixed with warvideo (?). Guy pauses and asks for Ss, i minimize and start warvid at the same time, voila.
warvid > ss anyway. CAN I HAZ?
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Ss don't even matter with clients open...... might as well give the color fix up lol
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The listboxes, buttons on the left. The game on the right. Icons are there and graphics display properly. But the black background behind buttons, listboxes, etc are on top causing it to be broken. Texts displays on top of old text looks like not refreshing....
This has happened to me on windows 7 before.
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In world ranklist is 3 star & italy one 1st and second but they are not playing against eachother..
Is there something wrong or is the war pool random?