Blizzard Details StarCraft 2 Bugs and Temporary Fixes

This game really taxes my 4ghz quad core i5 750 with 5870

hard to keep 300fps on max detail.

Using Reatek HD Audio (on board) I just horrendous dialogue clipping at the end of every piece of dialogue. I hear there was a similar issue with Mass Effect 2.

WON'T RUN PROPERLY ON my monster gaming PC with ATI 2 x 5970 WITH Ci-7 YET IT RUNS GREAT ON MY crappy DELL....Posted this on battlenet and they deleted it.....

Your all making me very scared...I'm running a W7 with a 9600M. Guess I just cross my fingers when the UPS man gets here.

Also, like every other game now has serious issues with Nvidia cards, big releases and all. After this past year and half I've ran into enough issues to switch back to ATI.

I have what seems like ALL reported SC2 problems and the single player campaign is even worse than the Multiplayer Beta was. I also get the hang on exit and I have to ctrl+alt+del. I have the latest nvidia drivers, tried several different versions. I get artifacting like flashes of lightning constantly, eventually I get artifacting that is not limited to the game and is dots everywhere, I have to restart my comp to fix the problem. Happening throughout Beta.

I also can't quit the game or ctrl+alt+del the game when an in-engine cinematic crashes (this happens often)

System specs:

Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit
Core i7 2.67ghz
12gb DDR3 1600 ram in triple channel.
2x 60gb Intel SSD in Raid 0
nVidia Geforce 285GTX latest drivers 258.96. I have also tried 197.45 and 257.21


This game is very unstable. No other game I have does anything like this.

Other games I play often:

HL2 max settings
TF2 max settings
Unreal 3 max settings
WoW max settings
Warcraft 3 max settings
Crysis max settings
Battlefield: Bad Company 2 max settings
Mirror's Edge max settings
Portal max settings
Street Fighter IV max settings
COD: MW2 max settings
CS: Source max settings

SC2 has more performance problems on my computer than Crysis... which has none.... and that is probably the sloppiest resource-hogging game I've ever played...

I'd love it for the Blizz dev's to patch this game and fix these problems as soon as possible, OR at least recommend what hardware I need to have for the game to run correctly. Right now I don't have any piece of hardware that isn't 'supported' but I have a ton of issues.

W.

On a side note...anyone having problems with visual "glitches" with SC1? I got the collector's edition, and installed SC1 off the USB drive. in the menus & cinematics, I get a lot of color issues...like the game is running in 8-bit color or something. IN-game is fine...just the menus & cinemas are fucked. ATI 4870HD here.

OSX stills seem to run into memory leak issues. After playing multiple games in a row, my performance just drops. My overall performance still isn't as stable as in Windows. Disappointing :(

I can't play the game because Battle.net has added a key authenticator to my account that I have not requested nor do I own the device, and I can't log in anymore. Is anyone else having this problem?

Im eyeballing the digital version from Battlenet, good idea? Price?

will this run on a Macbook pro 2.24 ghz? 2 gig ram 9400 nvidia

Game runs fine for me on my Packard Bell 220 mghz. Dunno what the fuss is all about.

I can't get a worker to stop building a building to do something else.

I'm not really having bugs, and I also realize I will be in the minority here and will likely get mobbed by Blizzard fanatics. While the game game feels very nostalgic and true to the original, this model also has not aged well. It feels like I'm playing the same exact game from years and years ago. They really haven't kept up with this genre at all.

I'm sure most of these people who have bugs and issues are trying to use the exact same computer that ran SC1 with no upgrades.... put an extra stick of ram in there and invest in a real video card people.... that GeForce 5200 fx needs to be replaced !!!

Running like a champ for me. No issues at all. Install went smooth, game runs well.

E8500 @ 4ghz
5770 (x2) CF
1920x1200 on Ultra quality

I did get a spot or two of slowdown so I may tweak it down slightly. In MP beta I had quality set down a bit, but I just updated drivers and downloaded the Crossfire profiles (I had never downloaded the CF profiles, whoops?). I'm a bit less sensitive to framerate in SP, but I do think overall performance is great for me.

I'm probably 8-9 missions in. Stopped playing last night after the mission with the giant laser thing against the Protoss.

I do notice it seems like when I exit the game my video card fans are spinning moderately fast when I get back to Windows desktop (not sure I can hear them over the background music in game), even when I've been staring at a menu for a few minutes, which seems to jive with the post.

The only issue I have is when I first load the game, my screen flickers every second. The intro video also flickers/stutters. Once I'm at the main menu however, everything else is smooth-sailing and works flawlessly.

"...potential overheating issue if the player spends too much time looking at game "screens that are light on detail" as the "game has nothing to do so it is primarily just working on drawing the screen very quickly."

That's kind of hilarious, though something similar happens in Dead Space if you don't enable V-Sync.

I've not had a single problem and played the shit out of the game (mp) into the wee hours of the morning.

I played 10 missions already and didn't have any of the described problems. The missions are really fun. I really loved the zombie outbreak mission! <3 Every game is better with zombies ;D I think Blizzard really out did themselves with these game movies and cut scenes I've never seen a game with that many movies in it:))) Anyway I like them all!

Im getting random hard locks =(. Its really pissing me off.

The biggest issue i'm having is getting time to play it. I went through 3 missions of the sp which were very fun. It seems like the units are less clumsy than WC3. My medics had no problem retreating to the back whereas in WC3, my priests would get slaughtered if I had them in the wrong position when attacked. Awesome menu, cool cinematics and nice graphics. Gameplay is fun so far despite the hand holding.

First time I installed SC2....

1.) the whole install failed. had to install it again.

2.) after installing the 2nd time, the updater would download part of the update and just stop. This happened during the beta as well.

Id have to kill the updater, re-launch it and pray it would download a little bit more. Repeat x 5.

-_-

While watching the campaign opening cinematic, my comp simply reboots itself right when Raynor shoots the TV. It's done it twice so far... at the exact same point. Dare I try a third time or just skip the damn thing?

I get the same crash on exit as I did in beta. just hangs. then I have to cntrl-alt-del.

About 10 missions in, no crashes so far. Man, it feels like it'll be a looong game (on Hard anyway).

loaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaading

maybe my computosaur is too old but god it takes forever to load a map/ quit the game

it crashed 3 times in total for me. Seemed to be a HDD issue (once was as my mate was leeching off me).

The biggest problem i have is that Bnet keeps going down and that kills your access to achievements. I mean i have now finished the game (it rocked hard) and there were about 5 hours of play where achievements were down.

The same problem goes for playing with mates. I have 3 mates here in my house for the launch, we attempted to play with each other but i was getting worse lag to my friend less than a meter to my left than i used to playing SC1 with a 56k modem! Why, oh why didn't they put LAN in? (i know why, stupid DRM, but still) Or at least a 'network latency' function like in the original.

It also appears to minimise incredibly well but then when you try to get back into it it black screens you for an indeterminate amount of time.

It seems to have a memory leak or something.

It runs great for a while, then after about an hour it'll hitch occasionally and it takes a really long time on loading screens, then when I quit it took FOREVER to give me a working menu screen and EVEN MORE FOREVER to actually quit to Windows.

Campaign is fun so far though.

This game rocks!!!!

Thank you all for beta testing this for me =)