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Original Starcraft won't work....
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You can fix it today by reverting to 10.5.2.
We can fix it by changing SC and D2 to avoid 8-bit display depth - this work is in progress. I can't give you an ETA.
Apple/NV can fix it by restoring 8-bit mode to the drivers - I do not know if there is any intent or plan to do this.
We can fix it by changing SC and D2 to avoid 8-bit display depth - this work is in progress. I can't give you an ETA.
Apple/NV can fix it by restoring 8-bit mode to the drivers - I do not know if there is any intent or plan to do this.
Both nVidia and ATi have done this in the past before with PC drivers. It was unintentional and the next release had the modes reinstated.
Hopefully this is just the same case.
Starcraft
When i run starcraft on my computer the screen turns black yet i can hear the sounds of the game intro and i can hear my mouse going over the buttons on the screen and i can press them, so the gaming is running fine its just that something is wrong with the video. And if i put the computer to sleep, while the screen is black, and then wake it up again, then it works fine but i have to continue to put it to sleep and wake it up when ever i go to another screen. For instance, when i choose single player and it goes to the ID screen then i choose my ID i have to do it again at the next screen.
I installed it withe OSX native installer off of the Blizzard website, and i followed their directions with the latest patch. I installed it the same way with a friends mac book and the game works fine.
Heres a link to the Blizzard page http://us.blizzard.com/support/article.xml?locale=en_US&articleId=21149&rhtml=y [/URL]
When i run starcraft on my computer the screen turns black yet i can hear the sounds of the game intro and i can hear my mouse going over the buttons on the screen and i can press them, so the gaming is running fine its just that something is wrong with the video. And if i put the computer to sleep, while the screen is black, and then wake it up again, then it works fine but i have to continue to put it to sleep and wake it up when ever i go to another screen. For instance, when i choose single player and it goes to the ID screen then i choose my ID i have to do it again at the next screen.
I installed it withe OSX native installer off of the Blizzard website, and i followed their directions with the latest patch. I installed it the same way with a friends mac book and the game works fine.
Heres a link to the Blizzard page http://us.blizzard.com/support/article.xml?locale=en_US&articleId=21149&rhtml=y [/URL]
It works kinda....
I have a brand new iMac i5 I bought for Christmas. I wanted to play starcraft for 'ol times sack. I bought the digital copy from blizzard.com. I installed it and everything went fine as far as I know. It started up and played the intro video, after that the screen went black. The background music was playing and when I moved my mouse around I could hear sound effects. Any ideas as to whats goin on?
I have a brand new iMac i5 I bought for Christmas. I wanted to play starcraft for 'ol times sack. I bought the digital copy from blizzard.com. I installed it and everything went fine as far as I know. It started up and played the intro video, after that the screen went black. The background music was playing and when I moved my mouse around I could hear sound effects. Any ideas as to whats goin on?
Starcraft works
I can confirm that the problems the original Starcraft had running on newer Intel macs have all been fixed with the latest Blizzard patch and 10.6.2. I have run the game extensively on a 2008 Mac Pro, i7 iMac, 2006 macbook pro, 2008 macbook pro, and 2009 Unibody Macbook Pros.
It has other minor issues.. Very high cpu usage, even with cpu throttling on that can result in some laptops overheating (looking at you rev 1 macbook pro) after prolonged use. The game still runs at 640x480 which looks comical on a 27 inch imac..
I can confirm that the problems the original Starcraft had running on newer Intel macs have all been fixed with the latest Blizzard patch and 10.6.2. I have run the game extensively on a 2008 Mac Pro, i7 iMac, 2006 macbook pro, 2008 macbook pro, and 2009 Unibody Macbook Pros.
It has other minor issues.. Very high cpu usage, even with cpu throttling on that can result in some laptops overheating (looking at you rev 1 macbook pro) after prolonged use. The game still runs at 640x480 which looks comical on a 27 inch imac..
This is unrelated in this case. slynger, when it has loaded and is black, press Command-M. This will toggle it to a window. Does it work this way?
Should be a few other possible solutions if this helps.
zaphoyd's solution is also very valuable. Make sure both OS X and Starcraft are fully updated. Starcraft updates can be downloaded from http://www.blizzard.com/patches