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"Fake" patches "crash" the game... Please read on

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notfge
Profile Joined April 2022
11 Posts
April 19 2022 16:28 GMT
#1
Hello again forum,

I will explain the situation in full since, from the title, it is not obvious.

My setup:

* computer runs Windows 10;
* bnet client is run in French, I installed SC2 using this client;
* I elected the game to run in English.

I do not play the game 24 hours a day, but when I do, one of these happen:

1. I launch the game, bnet client tries and launches the game but tells me there is a patch... I have to update, but even when the update is installed, the version of the game remains the same: 5.0.9.87702 (I've seen this version so often that I know it by heart now); or
2. I am in the game, playing it, all of a sudden all graphics are gone, I can still interact with the game via hotkeys (I recognize the audio clues), but I'm forced to kill it, and when I relaunch it, here is yet another of those useless patches again; when I kill it and I relaunch, back to point 1

I do not have the faintest idea as to why this happens. At a first glance I'd blame the language discrepancy between the game and bnet client, but that's about it.

How can I diagnose this problem? Has any of you encountered this yet?
Ronski
Profile Joined February 2011
Finland266 Posts
April 19 2022 17:49 GMT
#2
https://eu.forums.blizzard.com/en/sc2/t/sc2-wont-update-or-install/1329/10

Could be this, take ownership of your SC2 folder in C:\Users\Name\Documents\StarCraft II

Or just rename the folder to something which causes Blizz to automatically create another folder.
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bela.mervado
Profile Joined December 2008
Hungary406 Posts
April 19 2022 18:26 GMT
#3
i had a similar problem, i removed the sc2 directory and let the game recreate it.
i actually reinstalled the game. the download speed were so low, that made me look for other problems, that's how i found the ownership or permission issue, i do not remember what exactly it was.

do you, by chance, have some long path names in your replay folder?
in my case the long replay path names might have caused this behavior.
CluEleSs_UK
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
United Kingdom583 Posts
April 23 2022 09:25 GMT
#4
I had the same problem after an update on linux via wine - once I ran `chmod 755` on the starcraft 2 directory it worked againi
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Balnazza
Profile Joined January 2018
Germany1262 Posts
April 23 2022 13:38 GMT
#5
Also, as per usual, check if your windows and graphic drivers are up2date. Blizzard and BNet especially are really a bit stingy about that kind of stuff
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emilyjohn
Profile Joined April 2022
1 Post
April 30 2022 05:19 GMT
#6
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jamesjoker1
Profile Joined April 2022
1 Post
April 30 2022 05:40 GMT
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Sceenbal
Profile Joined May 2022
United States2 Posts
May 02 2022 16:22 GMT
#8
The first thing you need to pay attention to is the drivers, in case of any conflict with clients, run Windows diagnostics for updated or driver checks. It still does not hurt to reinstall not only the game but also the client itself. And then just look at the game files, wrong paths and broken folders.
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