Feb 06 - Launcher broke?

KovuTalli

United Kingdom325 Posts

February 06 2013 07:20 GMT

HOTS Went down for downtime yesterday (Feb 05) I woke up this morning and it seems the launcher is broken?

First off it started up as Starcraft 2 2012 Beta.

Then it "Updated" and broke the launcher completely and it crashed. Now it's hanging on "Updating blizzard launcher...." Is anyone else experiencing difficulties? or is it just me?

Subspace

35 Posts

February 06 2013 07:29 GMT

I had exactly the same experience, except for the crash and hanging part, hots is running fine now, so it must be you... Try the repair option?

Unsane

Canada170 Posts

February 06 2013 07:41 GMT

I did not experience this. Today, i first loaded up WoL to communicate with someone, then went into HOTS, i noticed the blizzard launcher DL'd something for WoL, but just won a ladder match on HOTS. I was not paying attention during HOTS's startup.

bobsire

Canada296 Posts

February 06 2013 07:45 GMT

Happened to me too... it just patched it self and that was it.

ysjayc

China70 Posts

February 06 2013 07:51 GMT

yah same experience....now it is updating blizzard launcher...

Targe

United Kingdom14103 Posts

February 06 2013 08:31 GMT

I managed to play last night, I don't think it isn't working.

eduran

Germany4 Posts

February 06 2013 08:37 GMT

ZoneAlarm is what caused the problem for me. After the launcher patch I had to manually unblock it. If you are using a firewall (even the built in windows one) you might whant to check if it blocks the launcher.

KovuTalli

United Kingdom325 Posts

February 06 2013 11:08 GMT

Yeah I had to unblock it all again, but after a restart of the launcher it seems to work now and can get in to HOTS fine.

Rowrin

United States280 Posts

February 06 2013 21:45 GMT

Id try running it in admin mode also. Sometimes Ive noticed that the launcher will try to update but lacks permission to write to my computer so it will just get stuck. Usually Ill get that popup saying "do you want this program to make changes to your computer. . ." but when that doesnt happen i have to run the launcher at least once as administrator to give it the permission to update.

Pulimuli

Sweden2766 Posts

February 07 2013 17:39 GMT

#10

Had to the same problem, launcher game me a message "unable to read blabla file" and just shut down. Works by running it in administrator mode though

Nudelfisk

Sweden104 Posts

February 07 2013 18:32 GMT

#11

i got a beta key today and the launcher wouldnt work lol. found a few possible solutions

1. delete the battle.net cache (on windows 7: c:\programdata - remove the blizzard folder)
2. deactivate antivirus program
3. eject the cd tray, as someone figured the launcher tried to read from the CD-drive where there obviously was no CD
4. what ultimately solved it for me was accidentally restarting the computer when i was going to eject the cd tray, lol. when my computer had rebooted the launcher worked fine.

Callynn

Netherlands917 Posts

February 07 2013 18:32 GMT

#12

I can start it up, but there is no battle.net =(