Well my disc stopped working so i used the blizzard downlaoder with my legit cd key. Ok so it took like 5 hours to download the stupid game from blizzards stupid site. After i patch the game i get this stupid "storm_error" message. Wtf is this? Ive gotten this in the past but after uninstalling and reinstalling it would usually fix it....not the case now. Anyone else ever have any problems downloading the game from blizzard? i still cant play

Nitrogen

United States5345 Posts

November 28 2009 09:53 GMT

i'm not entirely sure, but i know there is a storm.dll in the sc directory, and i think it has something to do with patching. try downloading the exe patch from blizzard and patch your sc then see if it works.

edit: oh you did try to patch it... i don't know then :p

wok

United States504 Posts

November 28 2009 10:01 GMT

I've never heard of this. Have you posted this in the blizzard support forum?

Fixed

United States174 Posts

November 28 2009 10:04 GMT

No i emailed them and got a cut and paste bs email about sound cards and drivers. The error happens right after i patch the game online.

Mastermind

Canada7096 Posts

November 28 2009 10:16 GMT

I have heard of people getting errors when trying to patch to the latest version form the downloaded version. I dont see why Blizzard wont just upload the current version instead of making everyone patch. I dont remember if there is a solution or not. Good luck.

Fixed

United States174 Posts

November 28 2009 10:18 GMT

im not sure it has to do with downloading the game either...cuz my discs were working a month or so ago and when i installed then...i still had the storm error. Uninstalling and reinstalling a couple times fixed it. However, its hard to do that now since it take 5 damn hours to DL the game from their site. I hate blizzard so much and all their buggy shit

EDIT: now when im trying to do the stupid 5 hours download....on the account management page im getting a 503 error. Wont even let me get to the page. It worked last night. Error....error.....error.

Binky1842

United States2599 Posts

November 28 2009 10:25 GMT

i used to get this a long long time ago. for me, it was caused by the one of the protoss or terran songs. i either had to play with the sound turned off, or had to play zerg (eww)

i got a new cd and never had a storm error since.

EvilTeletubby

Baltimore, USA22261 Posts

November 28 2009 13:02 GMT

Ugh, thought this thread would've been about mis-casting with a High Templar.

Lovin

Denmark812 Posts

November 28 2009 16:32 GMT

On November 28 2009 22:02 EvilTeletubby wrote:
Ugh, thought this thread would've been about mis-casting with a High Templar.

Same here, bro.. Once again I stand in the rain, dissapointed and depressed..

Assault_1

Canada1950 Posts

November 28 2009 18:08 GMT

#10

aw, I thought this was going to be a funny psi storm glitch

Probe.

United States877 Posts

November 28 2009 18:55 GMT

#11

I had that same issue before and never got it to work when i had windows vista. I have windows 7 now and i reinstalled sc and it worked fine.

On November 28 2009 22:02 EvilTeletubby wrote:
Ugh, thought this thread would've been about mis-casting with a High Templar.

ToN

Canada245 Posts

November 28 2009 19:20 GMT

#12

hmm i remember having an error after reinstalling warcraft 3 onto a reformatted pc. I had to change the install path in the registry. Not sure if this has anything to do with it I thought I'd atleast share about it.

Dreadwave

Netherlands254 Posts

November 28 2009 19:42 GMT

#13

I have had the same problem with the digital installation, blizzard's support forum didn't have answers. I finally managed to get the patch to work by starting SC with chaoslauncher and then going on bnet, I don't know why this worked though. It could be that it failed at properly downloading the patch and it just randomly decided to get the whole file the time I started SC with chaos, or it happened because I used a different gateway idk.

If you downloaded SC from Blizzard you should still have the installer on your computer unless you deleted it right after installing.

Fixed

United States174 Posts

November 28 2009 23:55 GMT

#14

SOLUTION!!!

I knew this problem was with blizzards stupid site and had nothing to do with individual comuters, driver, sound cards, or some other BS like they were insisting. I simply downloaded the patch from iccup in 10 seconds and it worked perfectly no more storm error. To anyone else that has this problem this should work as i was getting the storm error 100% of the time trying to patch manually on bnet.