Is anybody able to play at the moment?

Mine keeps crashing 1 second after seeing that planet thing. :/

Seriously, it's not getting past 1 second of showing that planet after the loading screen.

Why can't anybody at least tell here if they can still play? >_<

 

i dont have key, so no.

 

I just got my Beta key and I can't even get the game to run yet, I'm stuck downloading patch 9 over and over and over and over. I'd like to hear when someone gets this working. Waited so long for that key just for this torture! =(

 

I can't even post on the official forum about this, because I can't make a starcraft 2 account. You need to start the game for that. :/

 

I am no longer caught in that infinite patch loop, but now when I start the game and click connect a few seconds pass by; then I see a message essentially saying "either Battlenet is down or your connection is broken" - and my connection is certainly not broken.

I'm sure Blizzard is trying to fix the multitude of problems patch 9 caused but they must have missed something fairly big to have caused all these issues lol. I just wish the "latest news" section on the Starcraft 2 Beta forums was more updated. Even to say something like, "we are aware of the internet connection issues and are working on the problem" - any update would be nice.

 

yea the problem is server side im in california the current time in 2:14 at abot 10:23 am i logged in and was playing since im home sick i took a nap for about an hour then it hasnt worked since. yesterday i was in the loop but the loop is no more for me.

 

Well I don't even get to see any kind of menu at all. Only 1 second of that planet with some music or sound stuff, then it crashes.

 

From what I've heard it seems that people are experiencing a whole range of issues. Unfortunately, all we can do is sit tight.

 

So I just start the game from time to time and hope that some patch pops up before it loads?
Or do we have to install it over and over again? :/

 

I had crashes like you did all day ... then I decide to fiddle around with my hardware configuration. I found that disabling my soundblaster audigy card fixed everything.

You might want to try something similar. Apparently, their new voice chat technology is screwy with many cards.

Also, I HAD NO IDEA YOU WERE IN BETA!!! YOU AND ME 1V1 NOW!!!

I'm ranked 9th in my platinum division so I'm sure I can be worth your time.

 

I only just found my key here 1,5 days ago. /cower

Anyways, I'm gonna try that card thingy.
Edit: where do I do that?

Also: I don't even have a separate sound card. I think.

Disabling all sound devices in the hardware tab did nothing, except for removing my pc's capability to play sound. Beta still won't get further then a flash of the planet thing after the loading screen.

QQ

 

If it comforts you, I'm having the same issue. I thought it was related to my friend offering a fix to patch the game by removing \StarCraft II Beta\Support\realmlist.stf to being able to patch, but unless you've done it - it probably is not that.

What happened to me was:
1) I removed it
2) I patched the game
3) It showed me the login screen, but upon login told me I had the wrong version
4) I then found out that it had patched the game with the US patch instead of the euro patch
5) I then continued to uninstall the game
6) I reinstalled from scratch, no help there.
7) I removed the game again - this time I went through registry with regedit to remove EVERYTHING. I also removed the SC2 folders under My Documents and Program Data to be certain.
8) I then reinstalled again, getting the same result: It flashes the planet thingie and crashes.
9) I can't even post about it to Blizzard yet because I have my Beta key stored on my other comp which I can't access now, so I can't post my configuration info or the problem to the official forums - EU asks for the CD-key while the US server does not which is weird.

Would somebody be kind enough to do that and post the link to the thread here?

But it's safe to assume that my friend's "fix" didn't screw up my system, amirite?

But the little information to gather from this is however that:

The US patch (which was delivered before) did NOT crash before the login was displayed

 

Hmmm, that sucks. Whenever you get it fixed, you and me really to need to game. Don't let the rank fool you. I still have a lot to learn. I just said that in case you were a high rank that you wouldn't think I wasn't worth the time which is often to happen in other communities.

 

I checked the Launcher log and found this:

#-----------------------------------------------------------
# System started at 2010-04-24 00:37:34.5923
# system: ---
#-----------------------------------------------------------
00:37:34.5930 Launcher version 2.1.2.1533
00:37:40.4180 Failed to retrieve version information from Battle.net.
00:37:47.1549 Failed to retrieve version information from Battle.net.
00:37:53.9068 Failed to retrieve version information from Battle.net.
00:38:02.5521 Failed to retrieve version information from Battle.net.
00:38:09.2830 Failed to retrieve version information from Battle.net.
00:38:16.0439 Failed to retrieve version information from Battle.net.
00:38:23.0897 Failed to retrieve version information from Battle.net.
00:38:29.9758 Failed to retrieve version information from Battle.net.
00:38:36.7459 Failed to retrieve version information from Battle.net.
00:38:45.3409 Failed to retrieve version information from Battle.net.

 

I haven't been able to play for even a second yet. The game has never started properly. >_>

 

Hey Aurora, could you post your device configuration? Maybe we can find a common denominator there. Here's mine (from the Beta Opt-in @ Battle.net account management). If there's nothing common in these, I'm sure we can indulge deeper as well. (And yea, this is Vista)

# Operating system:Windows 2.6.0.6001 (SP 1)
# CPU type:Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU P8400 @ 2.26GHz
# CPU Speed (GHz):2.288
# System memory (GB):3.998
# Graphics card model:NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GT
# Graphics card driver:nvd3dum.dll
# Desktop resolution:1680x1050
# Hard disk size (GB):149.041
# Hard disk free space (GB):97.076

 

That's a ***** if I ever saw one.

 

Operating system:windows 2.6.1.7600 ()
cpu type:intel(r) core(tm) i5 cpu 750 @ 2.67ghz
cpu speed (ghz):2.813
system memory (gb):3.996
graphics card model:ati radeon hd 5800 series
graphics card driver:atiu9pag.dll
desktop resolution:1680x1050
hard disk size (gb):931.413
hard disk free space (gb):707.471

It finally started to patch again, but now it's kinda stuck on downloading by 0.10.0.14803 towards 0.11.0.15097.
It thinks I'm behind some firewall suddenly.

 

Other than the HD, we have the same specs Aurora. Nice

 

I did get exactly the same problem yesterday night, I just see the planet for one second and nothing more. Windows tells me that SC2 has stopped to work... This morning my computer runs badly. Maybe a coincidence...Oh my computer just starts correctly fter six tries. SC2 patchs. Hope no more problems because it did not start very well.