D/L games through b.net account and none work

[Adrenaline]

I posted this on Blizzard's forum, see if anyone else has these issues and how to address them. I will be messing with my computer a bunch on Tuesday to get this all worked out. Any help on what I can do to not have these issues will be greatly appreciated.


I downloaded all of the files I could from my battle.net account and installed them. I could not connect with any of them to battle.net.

SC/BW continually updated itself and restarted
Warcraft 3 and The Frozen Throne gave a HDD error
Diablo 2 gave an application error

I am now having to install my games from the disc. I loved the other idea but now this is odd that none will work.

I just installed Diablo 2 and it will not even launch. When it does launch I get messed up colors on it. I have no idea what is going on as Left 4 Dead 2 and Torchlight run fine.

Edit:

Running it in windowed mode it runs perfectly fine. Any ideas why?

Edit again:

What I finally did to get it to work was go to my Diablo II folder and run the "D2VidTst" and choose the option it had suggested for me. It ran fine.

This was a huge hassle.

 

[pontifex]

What OS? those are old games and maybe they aren't supported for the OS?

 

[fatpat268]

I get messed up colors with Starcraft in fullscreen on windows 7 x64...

 

[ussfletcher]

I have also had issues with the versions I have downloaded from there, ended up downloading from bittorrent for a working install.

 

[Pantlegz]

I get messed up colors with Starcraft in fullscreen on windows 7 x64...

For some reason if you have the resolution properties open, where you can change the resolution and colors and whatnot, when you start the game it doesn't have that issue.

 

[Adrenaline]

Windows 7 professional 64 bit

 

[bullbert]

Windows 7 professional 64 bit

I am sure if you google, you will find several head-butters who have figured ways to get games to work in Win7 x64, but really, why bother?

Go back to Win XP x32 (or dual-boot), for anything other than the pending games that are (at some point in the future) specifically designed/optimized for a x64 OS.

I would rather spend my time gaming, than debugging...

 

[Maximilian]

Everything ive tried has worked on win 7 x64, including all the downloaded from battle.net website blizzard games. Although starcraft gave a STORM ENGINE error or somthing a few times when it tried to patch, that was down to a bad ram stick i had.

Starcraft has had messed up colors for years though, its just the startup screen occasionally, the planet in the background when hosting/joining a game, and the water in game. Nothing game breaking.

 

[VooDooAddict]

I am sure if you google, you will find several head-butters who have figured ways to get games to work in Win7 x64, but really, why bother?

Go back to Win XP x32 (or dual-boot), for anything other than the pending games that are (at some point in the future) specifically designed/optimized for a x64 OS.

I would rather spend my time gaming, than debugging...

Or take 5 minutes to search and 1 minute to implement ... far less then re-installing an old OS. IMHO it leaves more time for gaming. XP / Vista / Win 7 / x86 / x64 all have quirks, but as long as you are past 98b then it should all be workable.

- Turn off the Vista/7 3D desktop
- Set your windows color depth to 16-bit color and it works fine.

It is a well known issue that has been around for years. Easy fix and keep enjoying Starcraft.