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reminds me of WoW on patch days
servers crashing constantly...

On May 22 2010 11:30 Turbo.Tactics wrote:


Or even better: WoW on releaseday... God I was so excited to come home and find myself fishing because i had a ping of 1400

On May 22 2010 11:36 R1CH wrote:
It's possible they restricted logins to region now, so my bot can only check US.

only 100? haha. WoW on release day was actually pretty fun because even if you had 0 lag it would take forever to get quest items since all the monsters were camped.

On May 22 2010 11:52 johngalt90 wrote:
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On May 22 2010 12:05 Crucius wrote:
If youre getting the "unable to download authenticator" error, try deleting your cache and doing a dns flush. Worked for me.

On May 22 2010 12:11 B08 wrote:

I´ll try it.

On May 22 2010 12:18 StorkHwaiting wrote:


How do you do that?

YAY! When you win your first game or add your first friend you get to stare at the achievement while all other function in the game are disabled! I WIN! DURRRRRRRRR

On May 22 2010 12:25 FragKrag wrote:


Go through Macintosh HD -> User -> Your user -> Library -> Cache -> Delete

and then Macintosh HD -> Library -> Cache -> Delete

I just did this and it isn't working. I've probably restarted SC2 and tried in the area of 20 times now -_-

On May 22 2010 11:36 R1CH wrote:
It's possible they restricted logins to region now, so my bot can only check US.

On May 22 2010 12:48 Xma wrote:
so wtf do u do if your on a mac, tried the cache thing and no luck, any mac users working?

On May 22 2010 12:21 kathode wrote:
haha bnet is so messed up...

my minimap disappeared for 2 games. hardest thing ever to play without a minimap on 3v3 when you dont even know the map ._.

On May 22 2010 13:14 FragKrag wrote:
Reinstall has failed.

;____; All of that waiting for nothing

On May 22 2010 12:59 w(oO)t wrote:
Hey guys

My starcraft2 isn't even updating

it opens up and then when i try to log in it tells me I have the wrong patch...

anyone got any ideas?

On May 22 2010 13:55 PhoR11 wrote:
Protip: If you can't log on, run sc2switcher.exe from the support folder instead of Starcraft II.exe.

Reinstalling is not necessary.

On May 22 2010 13:58 Ftrunkz wrote:
didnt work for me...

I get stuck at the first instance of just clicking 'connect' when i first open sc2... been trying for like 3 hours now T-T

On May 22 2010 13:32 grog wrote:
My starcraft is not updating.

After waiting 1 minute it opens the game and log-in screen.

But I can't log-in because of lag.

it tells me to check my connection

On May 22 2010 11:26 R1CH wrote:
Also don't worry if it says play time remaining it's just some test beta thing! It probably doesn't mean anything! Just relax and enjoy the game!

On May 22 2010 13:55 PhoR11 wrote:
Protip: If you can't log on, run sc2switcher.exe from the support folder instead of Starcraft II.exe.

Reinstalling shouldn't be necessary.

On May 22 2010 14:18 numberThirtyOne wrote:


Ahhh, but what would they be testing exactly? Pay to play model? :/

On May 22 2010 14:26 Celestial wrote:


I believe certain versions of Starcraft 2 will be cheaper than a standard full price model, but will not have indefinite battle.net play time to compensate, these versions can I believe upgrade into a full version or buy more time. It's nothing to particularly worry about.

On May 22 2010 14:33 torahteen wrote:
Yeah, I've called it quits for a bit... I've either owned or been owned, almost exclusively due to lag. Basically it's whoever the lag affects the most loses. Way to go Blizzard, I hope you're working really hard (I'm sure you are though, excuse the NERDRAGE!!!!11!1SHIFT+1)

On May 22 2010 14:36 ShadezOwnage wrote:


let me remind you of exactly why you are an idiot.

its a beta. they just patched it.

does anyone else have a problem where it says your video card is out dated when everything worked great not that long ago?

On May 22 2010 14:43 Innovation wrote:


I have that same problem and I also have the "cannot download authentication...." it's annoying because I don't even have one tied to my account....cannot log in at all because of this error. Anybody know how to fix? Other option of course is just not being able to play until patch to fix the latest patch comes out

Edit: Found the fix to the authentication error, simply uncheck the remember account box before logging in.

On May 22 2010 15:07 Iri wrote:
Are we allowed to complain because we log in and get this?
+ Show Spoiler +

Oh, and can't even report it on the forums because no profile in SC2, even though it's still on my Bnet account.

On May 22 2010 14:37 HoroBoro wrote:
Anyone getting this bug where the game just gets stuck?

Like SC 2 uses 0% of your cpu and you can move around the map, but game just basically freezes. You can even go into options etc., but when you try to surrender, it won't do anything. Basically you have to control-alt-delete.

I've never had this happen before, just wondering if anyone else getting the same thing with this new patch.

Kinda annoying as I've lost a placement match and 2 ladder matches because of this already.

Lol just as I was writing this, I managed to get dropped with the message "unable to load screen" after the long (>5 min) wait time.

On May 22 2010 15:10 Two_DoWn wrote:

That happened to me, I just had to end the program in ctrl alt delete, then opened it up again and the problem was solved.

On May 22 2010 14:33 torahteen wrote:
NERDRAGE!!!!11!1SHIFT+1)

On May 22 2010 16:35 Iri wrote:


Holy crap dude, you're my hero. I didn't have any issues exiting the program, so I never would have tried this. Thanks a ton.

On May 22 2010 16:58 arew wrote:
Is it only me or someone has this problem too?
When I try to patch 13, I click on SC2 icon and then the patching screen appears and after few seconds it closes, I can click on it as many times I want the same problem repeats. It closes for no reason..

Sorry for my English

On May 22 2010 11:26 R1CH wrote:
Can't download maps?

On May 22 2010 17:31 Legendary- wrote:



Go into your documents/SC2/Maps/Cache folder and delete EVERYTHING.

then you should have no issue and the map will actually download instead of hang like they did for me.

On May 22 2010 19:08 kavaron wrote:
I was dropped twice on my placement matches EU server.. Going straight to copper if this keeps going. I will rest for a few hours and try later. Damn.. It will be so embarrassing if I go to copper or bronze.

On May 22 2010 21:21 NB wrote:
this is no longer sever/connection problem since i woke up early this morning and still get the unable to download shit

On May 22 2010 22:24 theSAiNT wrote:
EU server seems to be pretty unstable atm. Probably due to traffic but I'm watching Europe vs Asia tournie atm and they seem to be running fine on US so it might just take a while to stabilize.

On May 22 2010 22:47 roemy wrote:
has anyone been able to finish a game on EU yet?
(if so, was it "more" than a 6 pool... )

On May 23 2010 00:40 skronch wrote:
i still haven't been able to get around the authentication module error

i don't even have a firewall on

On May 23 2010 00:48 zakkssst wrote:
what if you cant hit the login button?

On May 23 2010 00:54 murd3r3r wrote:
SC2MASTER_SERVER_ERROR_INVALID_DATA

On May 23 2010 00:59 SichuanPanda wrote:
Ever since WoW came out it seems like Blizzard has forgot how to do networking or hire competent networking staff. Every single week without fail WoW comes down for 'some maintenance' as a network admin myself I can safely say a load-balanced network appropriate to the number of users connecting should not need weekly maintenance or even monthly maintenance, in fact the only thing I have ever to do with servers I run is a restart every now and then, which takes ~ 15 minutes per server. With remote server consoles you can easily restart all your servers simultaneously. But yet Blizzard still finds a way to take WoW servers offline every week, every Tuesday for extended periods of time.

Sadly, it appears that this trend is moving towards SC2 already in Beta. Now don't get me wrong extended down times in a Beta are to be expected. I guess. I say this because Blizzard knows EXACTLY how many users are connecting because they know how many keys they have given out as well as access logs etc. - that said and as a result should easily be able to determine how much network access is needed to support the users, massive random server lag shouldn't happen. But it did in WoW Beta and first few days of release, and we can almost be 100% assured it will in SC2. This also comes with the random 'service updates' which Blizzard releases in both games already quite frequently, on WoW these are server side completely and you don't even download a patch. However every time, every single time Blizzard releases a patch on WoW there's extended downtime for 'an forseen issue' - I really hope this trend is not continuing into SC2.

On May 23 2010 01:06 Senx wrote:
Then again, this being the unlucky number 13 patch, this seems to be the most convenient time to have a patch that is truly broken

On May 23 2010 00:59 SichuanPanda wrote:
Ever since WoW came out it seems like Blizzard has forgot how to do networking or hire competent networking staff. Every single week without fail WoW comes down for 'some maintenance' as a network admin myself I can safely say a load-balanced network appropriate to the number of users connecting should not need weekly maintenance or even monthly maintenance, in fact the only thing I have ever to do with servers I run is a restart every now and then, which takes ~ 15 minutes per server. With remote server consoles you can easily restart all your servers simultaneously. But yet Blizzard still finds a way to take WoW servers offline every week, every Tuesday for extended periods of time.

Sadly, it appears that this trend is moving towards SC2 already in Beta. Now don't get me wrong extended down times in a Beta are to be expected. I guess. I say this because Blizzard knows EXACTLY how many users are connecting because they know how many keys they have given out as well as access logs etc. - that said and as a result should easily be able to determine how much network access is needed to support the users, massive random server lag shouldn't happen. But it did in WoW Beta and first few days of release, and we can almost be 100% assured it will in SC2. This also comes with the random 'service updates' which Blizzard releases in both games already quite frequently, on WoW these are server side completely and you don't even download a patch. However every time, every single time Blizzard releases a patch on WoW there's extended downtime for 'an forseen issue' - I really hope this trend is not continuing into SC2.

On May 23 2010 03:17 kWak wrote:
Anyone else having issue disconnecting while playing on EU bnet ?
Already dc'ed like 10 times on ladder...

On May 23 2010 04:08 T)AK47 wrote:
I just disced from a game with me and 3 AI computers.

FAIL, BNET.

On May 23 2010 01:16 Uriel_SVK wrote:



Patch 13 was major patch thad did somes changes to improve latency and lag. Might be something went wrong there. I think most patches in the future will have nothing to do with this type of changes.
For the weekly maintenance - its pretty common for every MMO not just WOW, so i dont believe it wold be because of Blizzard staff incompetence

On May 23 2010 05:51 Two_DoWn wrote:

lol you just said that blizzard improved lag in the new patch.

On May 23 2010 05:51 DarkWingDuck wrote:
5 games, 2 discs -> gold league i hope there will be a ladderreset^^

On May 23 2010 07:21 teamsolid wrote:
Is anyone else getting S2_MASTER_SERVER_ERROR or some shit like that every time they search a game?

On May 23 2010 07:21 teamsolid wrote:
Is anyone else getting S2_MASTER_SERVER_ERROR or some shit like that every time they search a game?

On May 23 2010 07:23 Pablols wrote:

yep

On May 23 2010 07:21 teamsolid wrote:
Is anyone else getting S2_MASTER_SERVER_ERROR or some shit like that every time they search a game?

On May 22 2010 11:26 R1CH wrote:
Unable to download authentication module? Can't download maps? Buttons greyed out? Terms and conditions not loading? This is because battle.net is overloaded, so please stop posting about it and just wait and everything will be fine once the initial load wears off.

Also don't worry if it says play time remaining it's just some test beta thing! It probably doesn't mean anything! Just relax and enjoy the game!

On May 23 2010 07:25 DarkFenix wrote:


+2. I saw it earlier. Haven't try again

On May 23 2010 07:37 iCCup.Nove wrote:
Mac users should be able to log on now but it's still probably really laggy so I don't plan on playing any games tonight.

But it is important to note that THEY ARE WORKING ON IT.

On May 23 2010 08:32 WiljushkA wrote:
youre playing it for fucking free. and youre here to test, not as a consumer.

On May 23 2010 08:49 djd1291 wrote:


I'm not really playing it for free, i had to pay 60 bucks to pre order sc2 in order to get a beta key. Thus, i payed money to play the beta, so i kinda feel like a consumer.

On May 23 2010 06:48 Mohdoo wrote:


No, he said that Patch 13 was a major patch which made changes to improve latency and lag. That is all true. There were changes done in hopes of it helping. We should all be extremely excited that Blizzard is doing this.

I think a lot of people don't quite understand what it is that caused this, so I will do my best to make it in a more easily understood way.

Basically, the old sort of networking stuff that Blizzard had (TCP) was a slow, outdated, silly sort of network thing to use. Lots of other games use UDP, and as a result, they have much better ping and way less lag. We have wanted Blizzard to modernize their games and go to UDP, but they have just stuck with TCP. Now, they are ready to make the change to UDP. This is suuuuch a good thing. Sure, its buggy and messed up now, but it will be much better later on. This is an investment in a much better online environment in the days to come.

On May 23 2010 09:22 Aether wrote:
Yeah, I'm just going to wait until they clear this mess up to play any more. During patch 11 I got a ridiculous amount of crashes, forcing me to do hard shut-downs and ultimately frying my power source and a harddrive.

On May 23 2010 09:22 Aether wrote:
Yeah, I'm just going to wait until they clear this mess up to play any more. During patch 11 I got a ridiculous amount of crashes, forcing me to do hard shut-downs and ultimately frying my power source and a harddrive.

On May 23 2010 07:21 teamsolid wrote:
Is anyone else getting S2_MASTER_SERVER_ERROR or some shit like that every time they search a game?

On May 23 2010 09:56 Tone_ wrote:


Your problems are bigger than sc2 ^^

On May 23 2010 11:30 Aether wrote:


No, they definitely weren't. The repeated hard shut-downs caused power surges with caused my power source to start fluctuating output very badly. I took it in and tested each of the outputs and where they worked perfectly the day before there were massive fluctuations in the output of half of plugs with my +2 completely shutting off. This was definitely the result of power surges as a result of the repeated crashes.

Every single crash was a direct result of SC2.

On May 23 2010 12:20 sith wrote:


Wait, so you were using beta software and it crashed? Fuck blizzard, those inconsiderate pricks, how dare they allow this to happen!

On May 23 2010 12:45 Aether wrote:


Is there any point to your post or do you just like to make sarcastic, aggressive, idiotic, and utterly pointless comments in a discussion of which you're not a part and of which you have no understanding?

I didn't express any kind of outrage or blame blizzard for anything, someone explained that they thought the problem was unrelated to the patch and I expounded on the situation, nothing more. If you're just going to spew idiocy, don't bother talking at all please, you haven't contributed anything to the discussion.

On May 23 2010 13:44 sith wrote:


Well you were acting like Blizzard and SC2 personally shit all over your hard drive and power supply. I've never heard of a hard shutdown (using the button on the front of your PC) causing "power surges" before in my life, it sounds like your components were going bad anyway.

On May 23 2010 19:40 Orome wrote:
I could live with not being able to play but SC2 crashes every time I try to start a replay from an older patch. Anyone else experiencing this? -_-;;

On May 23 2010 15:57 Spike wrote:
Question.

When I try to logon to SC2, I get is: Invalid Version. Please Try Again Later.
So I can't even download the new patch.
Am I suppose to DL the patch somewhere manually or something?

I even tried running sc2switcher.exe from the support folder instead of Starcraft II.exe
Anyone know what I should do?

On May 24 2010 01:48 travis wrote:
everyone who is complaining about how they disconnect in most of their games is ridiculous. why are you guys still playing then?

i understand, ur addicted. but still, ur complaints are hilarious. u know whats gonna happen yet u keep doing it.

On May 24 2010 02:36 stroggos wrote:
i don't know how this can be server overloard issues