Problems with running SC and BW on Vista

[Gforce]

Hey guys recently i installed SC and BW on my new computer. When i started it up and played it seemed fine, but after a while it suddenly stopped in its place and turnerd into a continues small cycle replaying the last few seconds. Any ideas on what's wrong?

[Wlck742]

I've heard things like this happening on Vista. Are you running a 32-bit or a 64?

[Gforce]

give me some more info man, have no idea what you're talking about.

[Wlck742]

Which processor architect are you running on? Is your processor a 64-bit or a 32-bit? Or just tell me how old it is.

I dunno if it has to do with that, but it might be the cause.

[Gforce]

Okay i'll just list my system specs. I have an 32 bit operating system, Intel Core 2 CPU 6600 @ 2.40 GHz, 2 gigs of ram, and a 8800 GTS graphics card.

[BirdofPrey]

Check your video card drivers. Nvidia has been very bad about Vista support

[Gforce]

no that's not it, i've already checked and updated all those already.


Edit: after some searching through my comp i found that an old update was interfering with some of the Sc files. after a while i corrected the mistake and everything is back to normal.

[furrer]

If there come some more problems, you should run it as an administrator/admin, but you probably do that already.

[SuccaMC]

My friend had this problem, this is what I told him and it worked.
Step 1: Install the game
Step 2: Download the patch manually here http://us.blizzard.com/support/article.xml?articleId=21149&rhtml=true
Step 3: Install the patch
Step 4: Open up and hope for the best.