I was curious if anyone knows whether or not i could re download the beta and all the patches if i deleted it and re downloaded it from blizzard? Might be a noob question but i wasnt sure if i would be able to re download it all over again if i deleted it as long as i have the beta key. If anyone knows i would appreciate the help, thanks!

Merikh

United States918 Posts

June 22 2010 16:08 GMT

Personally you should just try it and see. (I'm not sure though)

metaphoR

United States199 Posts

June 22 2010 16:09 GMT

i had to redownload and it worked, but was extremely slow for me.

holy_war

United States3590 Posts

June 22 2010 16:09 GMT

Yeah, no reason you shouldn't be able to.

Latham

9593 Posts

June 22 2010 16:11 GMT

Well I downloaded patch 15 or 16? Anyway the newest one, just yesterday so it should be possible to DL all the patches using just the Blizz b.net auto-update program.
If not: http://www.starcraft2patch.net/ do it manually.

Nexrad87

United States57 Posts

June 22 2010 16:12 GMT

alright thanks cuz i had a problem with the map editor and couldnt fix it so i just deleted it and wanted to just delete the beta so i could re download all the patches again

Nexrad87

United States57 Posts

June 22 2010 16:16 GMT

Latham, do you think could just download the patch for the map editor to get it back or would i have to re download everything to get it back cuz all i really want is the map editor

Cofo

United States1388 Posts

June 23 2010 00:33 GMT

If you want just the Map Editor, I suggest looking for a 3rd party mirror to do so (not sure if these exist, but if they do, they shouldn't be too difficult to find). I doubt you can get just the editor from the Blizzard downloader.

redmarine

Denmark165 Posts

June 23 2010 00:50 GMT

Works just fine. I tried it last week.

AioncannonzSC2

United States92 Posts

June 24 2010 04:34 GMT

#10

I reinstalled the beta client. It launches the updater but it does not download any patches and lets me launch the game on the original build (Base13891). This is the only one in my Versions folder. I have downloaded all the patches from 1 thru 16 from the above link and the Updates folder just vanishes after I launch the game, and it's still only using Base13891. I also downloaded the latest B.net cache.

Subversion

South Africa3627 Posts

June 24 2010 04:42 GMT

#11

You'll have no problem doing this.

Just log into ur battle.net account in your browser, click on SC2 and go to download client.

Run it and it'll download all the patches again - this will take a really long time.

Then when beta comes back online you can sign in just as normal. The account is stored online, not in your game.

Aioncannon - maybe it'll only let you download the patches again once the beta is back up.

Jaso

United States2147 Posts

June 24 2010 04:44 GMT

#12

I did it a few weeks ago - it's not slow at all, though the patches take a bit longer. Turn P2P off and use HTTP downloads instead... who's seeding now? XD

Nexic

United States729 Posts

June 24 2010 04:47 GMT

#13

Protip... google SC2 patch mirrors, some guy hosted all of them it will save you a lot of time.

armed_

Canada443 Posts

June 24 2010 04:49 GMT

#14

On June 24 2010 13:34 AioncannonzSC2 wrote:
I reinstalled the beta client. It launches the updater but it does not download any patches and lets me launch the game on the original build (Base13891). This is the only one in my Versions folder. I have downloaded all the patches from 1 thru 16 from the above link and the Updates folder just vanishes after I launch the game, and it's still only using Base13891. I also downloaded the latest B.net cache.

This is my situation exactly. Not really sure what to do.

Waabii

Germany2 Posts

June 24 2010 05:01 GMT

#15

I did re-install and patch yesterday. There was no auto update for me, so i downloaded the patches. First i patched the 1-8 pack. Then it will download the rest automatically but i had an error with file sizes. So i did the same thing again but befor the auto update i deleted the backup.mpq file and then it worked fine for me.

IamOBESE

United States134 Posts

June 24 2010 06:14 GMT

#16

On June 24 2010 13:49 armed_ wrote:

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This is my situation exactly. Not really sure what to do.

Same here. I'm on Win7 64 bit, how about you guys?

Ghier

99 Posts

June 24 2010 06:20 GMT

#17

Same problem im on XP tho. Ive tried everything.

sc2lime

Canada513 Posts

June 24 2010 08:23 GMT

#18

I have the same problem too. The most likely reason would probably be that the Update servers are down and since those downloaded patch files have to be activated by Blizzard's Updater.

So I guess the only time we'll be able to update now is when the second phase of beta is back.

wiesel

Germany727 Posts

June 24 2010 17:04 GMT

#19

On June 24 2010 13:49 armed_ wrote:

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This is my situation exactly. Not really sure what to do.

You can offline patch if you place the update files into the support folder, and then rename the file to "sc2-patch.mpq".Then you start the blizzard updater.
You have to do this for every file afaik.

Rorschach

United States623 Posts

June 24 2010 17:12 GMT

#20

This is the only way to manually patch correctly from my exp:

i uninstall my game completely i downloaded all patches as we told from here http://forums.battle.net/thread.html?topicId=25170841374&postId=251683269625&sid=5000#0

For each file in each patch, do the following:

1) Move/copy the file to the Support folder in your install folder.
2) Rename it to sc2-patch.MPQ
3) Run Blizzard Updater.exe
4) Delete sc2-patch.MPQ.

shouldn't matter what order you execute these files within each patch version. It's VERY important, however, that each patch is done in order and that you don't miss a file in a patch. If you don't know what you're doing, leave it.