Since the campaign maps exist locally (viewable within the editor) and are available offline, why does the game need to stream in additional information? What happens if I 'Cancel' this?
Oct 5, 2012 - Hi i have been trying to help my friend fix his starcraft 2 for the past couple days. It keeps giving us a strange error message after you hit play. StarCraft II will no longer download upcoming patch data while the game is running. Fixed an issue where players would be unable to change their language if patch data was not 100% downloaded via the game launcher.
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Blizzard adopted this model on World of Warcraft and Diablo 3 a while back. It works in co-junction with the launcher for big patches and digital downloads.
The system allows you start playing the game without downloading it entirely. If you reach a point where missing data is required, it will download it then. (It will also continue to download the rest of the data in the background, as well). https://meetintensive653.weebly.com/grave-of-the-fireflies-download.html.
I saw the 'streaming data' message once after I had already downloaded everything, checking my bandwidth monitors confirmed it was not downloading from the internet.
Therefore, we can conclude that when the 'streaming data' message appears the game first searches for the required data locally, if it finds it is available, it then loads it into memory, if it is not, then it can fall back to downloading from the internet.
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This is from the patch notes for the update that introduced this feature:
New Streaming Launcher
A new StarCraft II Launcher will allow game data to stream during play. This should reduce download, install, and patching times. We look forward to your feedback on the new launcher! Please visit the StarCraft II forums to share your thoughts.
These are small updates and patches that don't constitute a full update. They're likely negligible on the whole, so if you were to cancel it you shouldn't encounter any problems.
I believe that it does not only check if the downloadable cache files are on the disk, but also checks the content of the files by calculating some kind of a checksum. It might be also possible that the downloaded files are digitally signed and it verifies the file signatures before using the files to prevent hacking, modification or piracy.
Merely checking the existence of the files should take only some seconds, but if it also checks the content the files, it can take up to a couple of minutes to verify the files, especially if the game cache files are on a slower HDD.
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Need help with offline mode
Hey guys, I need some hepl with the offline mode. I am on vacation and wanted to play Starcraft Campaign a little. So i downloaded the game completely ( I have all 3 Campaigns) and updated it. I have no internet here (except 1GB Smartphone Volume ), so I have to use the offline mode.
When I start the game via Battle.Net Client or SC2Switcher.exe the game doesn't start at all and a window pops up: 'Unable to download game data from Blizzard's servers..', which doesn't make sense to me, because everything is up to date. Even starting the game while being connected to the internet (using my smartphone as a hotspot) doesn't work, because I can't choose offline mode when being online, but as soon as I disconnect the game wants me to log in again..
Is there any way to get rid of the 'Unable to download game data from Blizzard's servers' Error? It only appears when I am not connected to the Internet. Disabling the firewall didn't work.
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