Alright, I'm having trouble logging into Starcraft II. Everything loads fine, but when I press login after typing my password, the game just freezes and then crashes. I tried sending an e-mail to blizzard, but the guy just copied and pasted off other sections of the website that I already did. I've done the following:

1.Reinstalled 6002183902812390281294032 times
2.DMZ mode on my router, Disabled Windows Firewall, Disabled ESET Antivirus
3.Selective Startup
4.System Restore
5.Memory and Disk check
6. Replaced Graphics card with ATI Radeon HD 4650
7.Port Forwarder for 6119 TCP/UDP

Absolutely no luck. This started happening after patch 13, and I heard they switched from TCP to UDP, or the other way around. Perhaps theres a hidden firewall somewhere that I'm missing?

Thanks in advance!

omfghi2u2

United States831 Posts

May 31 2010 01:43 GMT

Wish I could help you out, but I think you may have to blog this.

GiantEnemyCrab

Canada503 Posts

May 31 2010 02:54 GMT

wrong section

RaysAran

41 Posts

May 31 2010 03:11 GMT

Sorry, New to TL. How do I move this and to which section?

FakeSteve[TPR]

Valhalla18444 Posts

May 31 2010 03:14 GMT

starcraft 2 section, moved it for you

RaysAran

41 Posts

May 31 2010 03:26 GMT

Alright, Thanks. Still no answers to my problem though :/ Pretty much a last resort here before I throw in another hard drive.

loadme

171 Posts

June 03 2010 10:59 GMT

i am pretty sure, its because of the firewall settings

after every patch you need to allow your game through the firewall

and when you press "log in" its the same moment, when your client trys to make that connection
it will always freeze, until you allow your firewall the new patched client exe to go through.

so: if you have any software firewall /windows firewall / bad-router / port blocker or anything like this, you need to make those settings after every patch again.

same goes for:
playing games (another IP adress)
looking for league informations in your profile (yet another IP adress)

but: if you only use windows firewall, you only have to do 1 thing.
press "log in"
press ALT TAB
there should be the "do you really wanne allow your client to connect.."

and press "yes always"

grtz

loadme

171 Posts

June 03 2010 11:00 GMT

oh, just read your topic again

there is a topic in TL
where a little tool is provided, that disables UDP for your machine by default
forcing your client to automatically use TCP again

greetz

Beyond the complete game drops that seem to be the result of a the game servers at Blizzard crashing, there still seems to be a high amount of in-game lag (slow unit response / minor freezing / random drop screens / etc) in Patch 13. I suspected this was the result of poorly implemented UDP networking code, so I wrote a program to test this theory.

By default, if SC2 detects you are able to send and receive UDP packets, it will default to the new UDP netcode in Patch 13. If your UDP is not usable, it reverts to TCP as in previous versions. By blocking UDP, you can force Starcraft II to use the old TCP code. After very early testing in a few 4v4s, this seems to have helped reduce the amount of in-game lag.

EDIT: Note that this won't magically fix all lag instantly, as other players in the game may still be using UDP. See this for more information. At best it prevents you from causing lag or dropping.

Use at your own risk, etc. Requires Visual C++ 2008 runtimes. Please post feedback whether this helps or not, it will be useful to know if this is actually the reason as I am not able to do enough testing by myself.

http://www.teamliquid.net/staff/R1CH/Sc2UDPBlocker.7z

Reno(TE)

United Kingdom434 Posts

June 03 2010 11:33 GMT

This happened to me like ~5 times last night. Initially it was an error message saying that there was a sound file corruption and I needed to reinstall sc2. But after restarting a few times, it eventually loaded up and the next problem was that after I logged in, it kept freezing ... So after further restarts, everything began working again.

So my advice, just keep restarting or shutting down computer until it works! I think it's just a glitch with new patch =//

Conventer

Poland72 Posts

June 03 2010 11:47 GMT

#10

hmm i have never had this kind of problem in any patch without including when you were logging on someones acc

RaysAran

41 Posts

June 09 2010 00:31 GMT

#11

I fixed it....1 day before Beta ended. I tried using selective startup over 10 times, and it still didn't work, So I uninstalled ESET and It worked. I guess ESET somehow still functions even over Selective startup?

xxgodzillaxx

Romania1 Post

December 07 2010 00:19 GMT

#12

I have the same problem. It just happen with no reason .
I tried to disconnect the wifi , enter SC and after that connect to wifi and it worked. Can someone help me out?

BillyHardcore

Denmark104 Posts

December 07 2010 00:20 GMT

#13

godzilla, theres already a lot of _new_ threads on the subject. Appears to be Battle.net issues, possibly regarding the 1hr20min old launch of Cataclysm

HarmoniCa

Sweden33 Posts

December 07 2010 00:20 GMT

#14

Its fixed now i can log in normal my frend also.

Alejandrisha

United States6565 Posts

December 07 2010 00:22 GMT

#15

This happened to me a few weeks ago and it was actually because the image that comes up the little news feed crashed my game (wtf..?) so I had to spam one of the other tabs ie matchmaking before my game would try to load it