Starcraft Brood War

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I decided I wanted to play the game again, as I hadn't played in years! Went out and bought the battle chest. I installed it (it had the original and BW CD and one CD key) when I finished I ran the game as administrator and went onto battle.net. I said I had to download the patches. I did. It said it was restarting the game. When I got back on, it said something like "STORM_ERROR..." and said there was something wrong with installing the patches. I went onto the internet, downloaded the patches, ran them as administrator, and tried again. This time I thought they worked (went to a black window and said they installed successfully) but when I went onto the game it said that they couldn't locate the application version and to try reinstalling the game and if that didn't work I had a virus on my computer. I reinstalled the game, downloaded the patches from a different source and installed them again. Still didn't work. I tried the original and to my surprise I can play the original. Talk to Blizzard Support and they didn't really have any idea why but said to try and install the game and patches in safe mode. Did it, and didn't change anything. Anyways suggestions on how to get Brood War going? Also, any players? :p
 
Which operating system are you using?
Do you have a up to date virus scanner a firewall in place?
What application is giving you the error message ie, the game, the operating system?
Is there an error number included anywhere with the error message?
 
Which operating system are you using?
Do you have a up to date virus scanner a firewall in place?
What application is giving you the error message ie, the game, the operating system?
Is there an error number included anywhere with the error message?

Thanks for the reply.

I am using 64-bit Windows Vista Home Premium. There is no error number included, but the error message comes up in the game. I was using McAfee free trial, but it ran out so I am using AVG 8.5 anti virus trial. Going to save up and buy McAfee.
 
Right click on the game .exe file and select compatibility and put it in windows xp spk2 compatibility mde and whilst there you might aswell tick the box to always run as admin :). sounds to me like its not 64bit compatible which should be fixed by what I just stated :).
 

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