Patches

StarCraft / Brood War Patches from Blizzard
The latest patches are always available by logging onto Battlenet or by getting them off Blizzards site. Below is a direct link to Blizzards ftp files. Here you can find older versions of the patches as well as the latest versions. Just save them to your hard drive and click to install.

StarCraft Patches - All the Starcraft patches available for PC or Mac. Grab the latest version to play Starcraft on Battle.net

Brood War Patches - All the Broodwar patches available for PC or Mac. Grab the latest version to play Brood War on Battle.net

Installer Fix
If you're receiving Error 21 while trying to install Starcraft or Brood War download the patches below. If your receiving Error 5 while trying to install Brood War, go here.

Error 21 while installing Starcraft - Run this program with the Starcraft CD in your CD-ROM drive. (253kb)

Error 21 while installing Broodwar - Run this program with the Starcraft CD in your CD-ROM drive. (240kb)

DirectX

This link will take you directly to Microsoft's DirectX website where you can get the latest version of DirectX.

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