• Log InLog In
  • Register
Liquid`
Team Liquid Liquipedia
EST 05:42
CET 11:42
KST 19:42
  • Home
  • Forum
  • Calendar
  • Streams
  • Liquipedia
  • Features
  • Store
  • EPT
  • TL+
  • StarCraft 2
  • Brood War
  • Smash
  • Heroes
  • Counter-Strike
  • Overwatch
  • Liquibet
  • Fantasy StarCraft
  • TLPD
  • StarCraft 2
  • Brood War
  • Blogs
Forum Sidebar
Events/Features
News
Featured News
RSL Revival - 2025 Season Finals Preview8RSL Season 3 - Playoffs Preview0RSL Season 3 - RO16 Groups C & D Preview0RSL Season 3 - RO16 Groups A & B Preview2TL.net Map Contest #21: Winners12
Community News
Weekly Cups (Dec 15-21): Classic wins big, MaxPax & Clem take weeklies3ComeBackTV's documentary on Byun's Career !10Weekly Cups (Dec 8-14): MaxPax, Clem, Cure win4Weekly Cups (Dec 1-7): Clem doubles, Solar gets over the hump1Weekly Cups (Nov 24-30): MaxPax, Clem, herO win2
StarCraft 2
General
Weekly Cups (Dec 15-21): Classic wins big, MaxPax & Clem take weeklies ComeBackTV's documentary on Byun's Career ! Micro Lags When Playing SC2? When will we find out if there are more tournament Weekly Cups (Dec 8-14): MaxPax, Clem, Cure win
Tourneys
$100 Prize Pool - Winter Warp Gate Masters Showdow $5,000+ WardiTV 2025 Championship Sparkling Tuna Cup - Weekly Open Tournament Winter Warp Gate Amateur Showdown #1 RSL Offline Finals Info - Dec 13 and 14!
Strategy
Custom Maps
Map Editor closed ?
External Content
Mutation # 505 Rise From Ashes Mutation # 504 Retribution Mutation # 503 Fowl Play Mutation # 502 Negative Reinforcement
Brood War
General
BW General Discussion FlaSh on: Biggest Problem With SnOw's Playstyle soO on: FanTaSy's Potential Return to StarCraft BGH Auto Balance -> http://bghmmr.eu/ Anyone remember me from 2000s Bnet EAST server?
Tourneys
[Megathread] Daily Proleagues [BSL21] LB QuarterFinals - Sunday 21:00 CET Small VOD Thread 2.0 [BSL21] WB SEMIFINALS - Saturday 21:00 CET
Strategy
Simple Questions, Simple Answers Game Theory for Starcraft Current Meta Fighting Spirit mining rates
Other Games
General Games
Nintendo Switch Thread Stormgate/Frost Giant Megathread Beyond All Reason Path of Exile General RTS Discussion Thread
Dota 2
Official 'what is Dota anymore' discussion
League of Legends
Heroes of the Storm
Simple Questions, Simple Answers Heroes of the Storm 2.0
Hearthstone
Deck construction bug Heroes of StarCraft mini-set
TL Mafia
Mafia Game Mode Feedback/Ideas Survivor II: The Amazon Sengoku Mafia TL Mafia Community Thread
Community
General
US Politics Mega-thread The Games Industry And ATVI Things Aren’t Peaceful in Palestine Russo-Ukrainian War Thread YouTube Thread
Fan Clubs
White-Ra Fan Club
Media & Entertainment
Anime Discussion Thread [Manga] One Piece Movie Discussion!
Sports
2024 - 2026 Football Thread Formula 1 Discussion
World Cup 2022
Tech Support
Computer Build, Upgrade & Buying Resource Thread
TL Community
The Automated Ban List TL+ Announced Where to ask questions and add stream?
Blogs
The (Hidden) Drug Problem in…
TrAiDoS
I decided to write a webnov…
DjKniteX
James Bond movies ranking - pa…
Topin
Thanks for the RSL
Hildegard
Customize Sidebar...

Website Feedback

Closed Threads



Active: 917 users

The Battle.net launch bug

Blogs > d00p
Post a Reply
d00p
Profile Blog Joined May 2011
711 Posts
April 17 2014 18:02 GMT
#1
This is getting absurd. This bug just keeps randomly appearing no matter the version or the OS or anything at all. I have gotten the bug on Vista, Win 7 and now on 8.1. Actually, I got the bug the first time I installed on a pristine, clean, brand new 8.1 on a brand new SSD. It literally just popped out of nowhere once again. There wasn't any update between today and yesterday evening afaik?

Yet here it is again after being gone for about a week: "Detected a newer version of battle.net BLAH BLAH BLAH....." Then you press "continue with latest version" AND NOTHING HAPPENS!

GET YOUR FUCKING SHIT TOGETHER BLIZZARD! Thanks.

**
JimmyJRaynor
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Canada17149 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-04-17 18:16:41
April 17 2014 18:15 GMT
#2
+1

my experience has not been as bad as yours.
but its been close.

considering the many feats of engineering excellence Blizzard routinely pulls off.
you'd figure a launcher would be a walk in the park.
guess not.

Ray Kassar To David Crane : "you're no more important to Atari than the factory workers assembling the cartridges"
vult
Profile Blog Joined February 2012
United States9400 Posts
April 17 2014 18:19 GMT
#3
Haven't had any bugs. Have you tried reinstalling?
I used to play random, but for you I play very specifically.
d00p
Profile Blog Joined May 2011
711 Posts
April 17 2014 18:51 GMT
#4
On April 18 2014 03:19 vult wrote:
Haven't had any bugs. Have you tried reinstalling?


Oh god yes. It doesn't (permanently) fix it.
surreal1600
Profile Joined June 2013
United States33 Posts
April 17 2014 21:09 GMT
#5
If you change the target for the SC2 shortcut, you can skip the launcher altogether.

"C:\Blizzard\StarCraft II\Support\SC2Switcher.exe"
First round's on me.
d00p
Profile Blog Joined May 2011
711 Posts
April 18 2014 07:15 GMT
#6
On April 18 2014 06:09 surreal1600 wrote:
If you change the target for the SC2 shortcut, you can skip the launcher altogether.

"C:\Blizzard\StarCraft II\Support\SC2Switcher.exe"


That might actually be helpful. Thanks. Anyway, today is a new day and now the launcher magically works again. Whatever might cause this.. fluctuation is a mystery to me.
FFW_Rude
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
France10201 Posts
April 18 2014 09:18 GMT
#7
On April 18 2014 16:15 d00p wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 18 2014 06:09 surreal1600 wrote:
If you change the target for the SC2 shortcut, you can skip the launcher altogether.

"C:\Blizzard\StarCraft II\Support\SC2Switcher.exe"


That might actually be helpful. Thanks. Anyway, today is a new day and now the launcher magically works again. Whatever might cause this.. fluctuation is a mystery to me.


Did you send a request ? I think the launcher is still in beta no ?
#1 KT Rolster fanboy. KT BEST KT ! Hail to KT playoffs Zergs ! Unofficial french translator for SlayerS_`Boxer` biography "Crazy as me".
d00p
Profile Blog Joined May 2011
711 Posts
April 18 2014 11:40 GMT
#8
On April 18 2014 18:18 FFW_Rude wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 18 2014 16:15 d00p wrote:
On April 18 2014 06:09 surreal1600 wrote:
If you change the target for the SC2 shortcut, you can skip the launcher altogether.

"C:\Blizzard\StarCraft II\Support\SC2Switcher.exe"


That might actually be helpful. Thanks. Anyway, today is a new day and now the launcher magically works again. Whatever might cause this.. fluctuation is a mystery to me.


Did you send a request ? I think the launcher is still in beta no ?


What request? It's a well-known bug that they can't seem to fix for months now. I don't see how any request would help. Whether it's still in beta or not I don't know but how hard can it be to code a working launcher? Really hard apparently.
FFW_Rude
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
France10201 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-04-18 13:21:28
April 18 2014 13:17 GMT
#9
On April 18 2014 20:40 d00p wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 18 2014 18:18 FFW_Rude wrote:
On April 18 2014 16:15 d00p wrote:
On April 18 2014 06:09 surreal1600 wrote:
If you change the target for the SC2 shortcut, you can skip the launcher altogether.

"C:\Blizzard\StarCraft II\Support\SC2Switcher.exe"


That might actually be helpful. Thanks. Anyway, today is a new day and now the launcher magically works again. Whatever might cause this.. fluctuation is a mystery to me.


Did you send a request ? I think the launcher is still in beta no ?


What request? It's a well-known bug that they can't seem to fix for months now. I don't see how any request would help. Whether it's still in beta or not I don't know but how hard can it be to code a working launcher? Really hard apparently.


Well... if there is a bug, you can send a request to say there is a bug. So they have more and more people asking to fix it so they can actually take the time to fix it. Or they might help you and call you on that matter.

Having a launcher for multiple games / platform that manage auto-updates with regional download and managing queues to set download for better location etc.. is indeed not an easy thing to do. And i doubt they have many ressources on the project.

Also it is understandable that they have long testing time for feature and bug fix since if it's not working you can't access your games.

Just be carefull if you launch SC2 by bypassing it's launcher because for every minor updates there is you will be unable to access the game. I had that issue a while ago (not the same as you, but problem for the launcher). I'm still trying to remember what was done to it (i e-mail blizzard and ending up with a tech calling me on my cellphone).

If i remember what was the fix for launcher issue i'll post it here. Might not work though since it's not quite the same problem.
#1 KT Rolster fanboy. KT BEST KT ! Hail to KT playoffs Zergs ! Unofficial french translator for SlayerS_`Boxer` biography "Crazy as me".
Rollora
Profile Joined February 2012
2450 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-02-13 18:24:15
February 13 2015 17:09 GMT
#10
Sorry for reviving the thread.
I had this problem ever since this new battlenet came out: it created a shortcut on my desktop for battlenet and for SC2. Both not working.
Reinstalling wasn't of any help but I could manually select a exe file from \StarCraft II\Battle.net\Battle.net.exe

That worked for a couple of months, after that I reinstalled it again, hoping Blizzard finally fixed the bug. Nothing.
So proceed as usual. I hate workarounds.

When I now click on the shortcut or exe, I get a new message:

"We've detected a newer version of Battle.net then you're attempting to launch. You may need to fix your shortcuts"

Dude, I am clicking on the motherf*cking exe provided by you guys, not on a shortcut.

There is a Button
"Continue with Latest Version".

When I click on it, it shows mi the message that led to the workaround in first place:

"Required Battle.net data could not be found. Please check your application directory and try again"

Anyone having the same error and knows a solution?

Temporary solution: opening the support folder and execute SC2Switcher.exe
Please log in or register to reply.
Live Events Refresh
Next event in 1h 18m
[ Submit Event ]
Live Streams
Refresh
StarCraft 2
IndyStarCraft 199
DivinesiaTV 41
StarCraft: Brood War
Sea 16375
Aegong 1955
Horang2 1057
BeSt 459
Hyun 380
Stork 337
Shuttle 258
Soma 256
Bisu 238
actioN 229
[ Show more ]
Rush 146
Dewaltoss 111
Last 101
hero 76
PianO 55
ToSsGirL 55
Killer 49
Barracks 47
Yoon 44
Shinee 42
sorry 36
Mind 33
soO 31
zelot 30
Sacsri 24
Pusan 21
NaDa 19
Snow 19
Movie 14
GoRush 11
HiyA 8
scan(afreeca) 7
SilentControl 7
JulyZerg 6
Dota 2
XcaliburYe1199
LuMiX1
League of Legends
JimRising 439
C9.Mang0328
rGuardiaN57
Counter-Strike
summit1g8991
x6flipin236
Super Smash Bros
Mew2King163
Other Games
B2W.Neo538
Fuzer 392
Happy391
Organizations
Other Games
gamesdonequick555
StarCraft: Brood War
lovetv 6
StarCraft 2
Blizzard YouTube
StarCraft: Brood War
BSLTrovo
sctven
[ Show 15 non-featured ]
StarCraft 2
• StrangeGG 77
• LUISG 39
• AfreecaTV YouTube
• intothetv
• Kozan
• IndyKCrew
• LaughNgamezSOOP
• Migwel
• sooper7s
StarCraft: Brood War
• BSLYoutube
• STPLYoutube
• ZZZeroYoutube
Dota 2
• WagamamaTV1211
League of Legends
• Jankos2166
• HappyZerGling84
Upcoming Events
WardiTV Invitational
1h 18m
Gerald vs YoungYakov
Spirit vs MaNa
SHIN vs Percival
Creator vs Scarlett
Replay Cast
22h 18m
WardiTV Invitational
1d 1h
ByuN vs Solar
Clem vs Classic
Cure vs herO
Reynor vs MaxPax
Replay Cast
2 days
Sparkling Tuna Cup
3 days
Krystianer vs TBD
TriGGeR vs SKillous
Percival vs TBD
ByuN vs Nicoract
Replay Cast
4 days
Wardi Open
5 days
Liquipedia Results

Completed

Proleague 2025-12-22
WardiTV 2025
META Madness #9

Ongoing

C-Race Season 1
IPSL Winter 2025-26
KCM Race Survival 2025 Season 4
BSL Season 21
Slon Tour Season 2
CSL Season 19: Qualifier 2
eXTREMESLAND 2025
SL Budapest Major 2025
ESL Impact League Season 8
BLAST Rivals Fall 2025
IEM Chengdu 2025
PGL Masters Bucharest 2025
Thunderpick World Champ.
CS Asia Championships 2025
ESL Pro League S22

Upcoming

CSL 2025 WINTER (S19)
BSL 21 Non-Korean Championship
Acropolis #4
IPSL Spring 2026
Bellum Gens Elite Stara Zagora 2026
HSC XXVIII
Big Gabe Cup #3
OSC Championship Season 13
Nations Cup 2026
ESL Pro League Season 23
PGL Cluj-Napoca 2026
IEM Kraków 2026
BLAST Bounty Winter 2026
BLAST Bounty Winter Qual
TLPD

1. ByuN
2. TY
3. Dark
4. Solar
5. Stats
6. Nerchio
7. sOs
8. soO
9. INnoVation
10. Elazer
1. Rain
2. Flash
3. EffOrt
4. Last
5. Bisu
6. Soulkey
7. Mini
8. Sharp
Sidebar Settings...

Advertising | Privacy Policy | Terms Of Use | Contact Us

Original banner artwork: Jim Warren
The contents of this webpage are copyright © 2025 TLnet. All Rights Reserved.