General information
- StarCraft II section on Liquipedia
- Official technical support forum
- Official forums
Availability
- All versions require Battle.net DRM, as well as periodic online re-authentication every 30 days.[1]
Monetization
Type |
Notes |
Expansion pack
| Expansion packs come with new campaigns. Before the 2017 content streamlining, they had exclusive units and separate multiplayer lobbies as well. |
Free-to-play
| As of November 14, 2017, the game is free-to-play with the Wings of Liberty content being available in its entirety, as well as most multiplayer content, access to ranked online play, co-op commanders up to a certain level, and Arcade mode access. |
Microtransactions
Type |
Notes |
Cosmetic
| Skins for units and UI elements, as well as announcer packs. |
Unlock
| Most co-op commanders are locked otherwise. |
DLC and expansion packs
- Other DLC include individual co-op campaign commanders, skins for units and interface elements, and alternate announcers.
Essential improvements
- StarCraft II code is optimized to run in 2 cores. If playing online matches with a CPU with multiples cores, it is recommended to set the core affinity to only 2 cores in the Task Manager.
- This fixes performance issues.
Game data
Configuration file(s) location
System |
Location |
Windows |
%USERPROFILE%\Documents\StarCraft II\Accounts\ |
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Save game data location
System |
Location |
Windows |
%USERPROFILE%\Documents\StarCraft II\Accounts\ |
macOS (OS X) |
$HOME/Library/Application Support/Blizzard/StarCraft II/Accounts/ |
Video
Input
Audio
Audio feature |
State |
Notes |
Separate volume controls |
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Surround sound |
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Will use Windows' channel count. |
Subtitles |
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Unit phrases are not included. |
Closed captions |
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Mute on focus lost |
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Can be enabled or disabled. |
Royalty free audio |
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Localizations
Language |
UI |
Audio |
Sub |
Notes |
English |
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US, EU, and SEA |
Simplified Chinese |
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Traditional Chinese |
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French |
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German |
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Italian |
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Korean |
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Polish |
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Brazilian Portuguese |
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Russian |
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Spanish |
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Latin American Spanish |
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Network
Multiplayer types
Connection types
Ports
Protocol |
Port(s) and/or port range(s) |
TCP |
1119, 6113, 1120, 80, 3724 |
UDP |
1119, 6113, 1120, 80, 3724 |
- Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) support status is unknown.
VR support
Issues fixed
Repair tool
- In
<path-to-game>\Support
, the Repair.exe
tool exists for repairing file corruption. Use this before reinstallation attempts to save time.
Unable to download game data from Blizzard's servers
Disable firewall or add the installation folder to its whitelist[citation needed]
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Trouble installing game
- If an error similar to "The file
<name of file>
could not be written" is shown, follow this guide.
Run as administrator[4]
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- Right-click the installer and choose Run as administrator (not applicable to Windows XP).
- Choose the installation options.
- Once it begins installing, minimize the installer until the installation is completed.
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Jumping/jittery/lost mouse cursor (OS X)
There are a ton of threads that boil down to it being a problem with mouse acceleration screwing up when there is a high CPU load.
The problem with turning mouse acceleration off is that StarCraft will turn it back on, even if you disable the option for OS mouse control override.
The solution is a program available here. This program turns off mouse acceleration in StarCraft II after the game boots.
Language pack issues
If upon logging into Battle.net, the error dialogue "You need an authorized language pack from Blizzard Entertainment to use this language" appears, use the following instructions to modify variables.txt
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Edit variable.txt file[5]
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- Go to
%USERPROFILE%\Documents\StarCraft II\
- Open
variables.txt in a text editor and locate the following lines: localeidassets= and localeiddata=
- In each of those lines, insert the language code after the equals sign from the table below this fixbox.
- Save the file and start the game to test.
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Region |
Code
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Americas |
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American English |
enUS
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Latin American Spanish |
esMX
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Brazilian Portuguese |
ptBR
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Europe |
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German |
deDE
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European English |
enGB
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European Spanish |
esES
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French |
frFR
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Italian |
itIT
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Polish |
plPL
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Portuguese |
ptPT
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Russian |
ruRU
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Korea |
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Korean |
koKR
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Taiwan |
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Traditional Chinese |
zhTW
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Southeast Asia & Australia/New Zealand |
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Southeast Asia English |
enSG
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- If this does not fix the issue, close the game and create a backup of the
variables.txt
file before deleting it. Restart the game and attempt to login; this will automatically create a new variables.txt
file and often fixe the issue. This will, however, reset any custom settings.
- Deletion and re-creation of the
variables.txt
file should also resolve any issues with Region Limited licenses that have recently upgraded to Region Unlimited licenses.
Steam overlay issues
Using the Steam overlay (when adding the game as a "Non-Steam Game" in the client) may result in in-game commands behaving as waypointed instead of direct (i.e. handled as if the ⇧ Shift key is being held down.
This has been found to be as a result of the default Steam shortcut to enter the overlay (⇧ Shift + Tab ↹), which makes StarCraft II assume the ⇧ Shift key is being held down. When the overlay is exited, the game does not note the lifting of the ⇧ Shift key, and assumes that the ⇧ Shift key is still being held, thus creating this issue.
Change the Steam overlay shortcut
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Redirect the Non-Steam Game Overlay to separate executable[citation needed]
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- Click on "Add a Non-Steam Game"
- Browse for
SC2Switcher.exe in <path-to-game>\Support\ .
- Add selected program
Notes
- The game will require a manual login on every launch.
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Other information
API
Technical specs |
Supported |
Notes |
Direct3D |
9.0c |
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Metal support |
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Executable |
32-bit |
64-bit |
Notes |
Windows |
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Mods
- StarCraft Mass Recall is a fan remake of the original StarCraft with the Brood War expansion in StarCraft II's engine.
System requirements
Windows |
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Minimum[6] |
Recommended |
Operating system (OS) |
7, 8, 10 |
10 |
Processor (CPU) |
Intel Core 2 Duo AMD Athlon 64 X2 5600+ |
Intel Core i5 series AMD FX series |
System memory (RAM) |
2 GB |
4 GB |
Hard disk drive (HDD) |
30 GB | |
Video card (GPU) |
Nvidia GeForce 7600 GT ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT Intel HD Graphics 3000 128 MB of VRAM DirectX 9.0c compatible
| Nvidia GeForce GTX 650 AMD Radeon HD 7790 1 GB of VRAM |
- Support for Windows XP and Vista was dropped some time in 2017. The game will no longer run on these versions after this change.[7]
macOS (OS X) |
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Minimum |
Recommended |
Operating system (OS) |
10.11 |
10.13 |
Processor (CPU) |
Intel Core 2 Duo
| Intel Core i5 or better |
System memory (RAM) |
4 GB |
8 GB |
Hard disk drive (HDD) |
30 GB | |
Video card (GPU) |
Nvidia GeForce GT 330M ATI Radeon HD 4670
| Nvidia GeForce GTX 780M AMD Radeon HD 6970 |
- Originally supported OS X version 10.9.5 as minimum and 10.11 and recommended configurations.
References