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Revision as of 10:07, 6 February 2014

StarCraft
Cover image missing, please upload it
Developers
Saffire
Blizzard Entertainment
Publishers
Sierra Entertainment
Engines
Warcraft II engine
Release dates
Windows March 31, 1998
Mac OS (Classic) 1999
StarCraft on Wikipedia
StarCraft
StarCraft 1998
StarCraft II 2010

General information

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

Availability

Template:Availability Table

Brood War Expansion

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

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

Battle.net Digital Download

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

Patches

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.

Mods

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

Configuration file(s) location

Save game data location

Video settings

Template:Video settings

Widescreen resolution

Instructions

Windowed

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

Input settings

Template:Input settings

Audio settings

Template:Audio settings

Issues fixed

Color Artifacts on Windows 7

Playing StarCraft or its expansion Brood War using Windows 7 causes the colors in the game to become glitched, this is due to the way the coloring works in Windows 7. To solve this, you must stop explorer.exe, however explorer.exe is a very important file that Windows uses. Using a batch file with the script of starting StarCraft and closing explorer.exe, and upon exiting the game, restoring explorer.exe.

You can find a more detailed explanation in PCGamingWiki's Color Fixes For Older Games article.

Alternatively, you can try this registry fix:
32-bit Windows

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\DirectDraw\Compatibility\Starcraft116]
"Flags"=hex:00,08,00,00
"Name"="Starcraft.exe"
"ID"=hex:ca,89,65,49

64-bit Windows

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\DirectDraw\Compatibility\Starcraft116]
"Flags"=hex:00,08,00,00
"Name"="Starcraft.exe"
"ID"=hex:ca,89,65,49

System requirements

Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 95
Processor (CPU) 90 MHz Pentium or Equivalent
System memory (RAM)
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
Operating system (OS)
Processor (CPU) PowerMac or Compatible
System memory (RAM)
Hard disk drive (HDD) 80 MB
Video card (GPU) Video card that supports 640x480 display in 256 colors

References