How do you download Starcraft onto your computer?
Wednesday, December 30th, 2009 at
10:35 am
I have both the Original and the Expansion already downloaded, but I don’t want to keep on switching the CD’s. I heard there was some program that let you download it - can somebody please give me step by step instruction? Thank you!
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The game no-longer requires the CDs as long as you follow the read-me file that comes with the latest patch. Here it is:
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- patch 1.15.2
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Feature Changes
- StarCraft and StarCraft: BroodWar no longer require the CD while playing the game. To play without the CD, please follow the following instructions:
- Windows Users:
- Make sure you have "Hide extensions for known types" unchecked under
Explorer Folder Options.
- If you own only StarCraft, copy "INSTALL.EXE" from the StarCraft CD to your StarCraft folder and rename it to "StarCraft.mpq".
- If you own StarCraft: Brood War, copy "INSTALL.EXE" from the StarCraft: Brood War CD to your StarCraft folder and rename it to "BroodWar.mpq".
- Mac users:
- If you own only StarCraft, copy "StarCraft Archive" from the StarCraft CD to your StarCraft folder.
- If you own StarCraft: Brood War, copy "Brood War Archive" from the StarCraft: Brood War CD to your StarCraft folder.
Make an image file from the CD’s and mount them using Daemon tools. Then you’ll not the CD’s at alll.