Preparing game data

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Greetings.

Every time I start the game, a window appears that says “Preparing game data,” and 598 MB is downloaded at a very slow speed, so I have to wait almost 10 minutes to enter the game. But the worst part is that the game runs in English, even though I chose Latin American Spanish when installing it. And even if I change the language within the options, when I run it after a restart or shutting down my PC, it goes back to English.

I have uninstalled and reinstalled both the application and the game several times. I also tried downloading the game on other computers, two in particular, and the same thing happens. My conclusion is that something is wrong with Blizzard’s servers.

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do you have one drive

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Thanks for responding, although I don’t understand your question.

The game is installed on my hard drive, in “C:\Program Files (x86)\StarCraft II”.

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One Drive is like The Cloud System but more advanced or something and Onedrive can sometimes mess your Loading while making Lobbies and other stuff and if u don’t have it Active then that won’t happen

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It has to be unsynced or shut off complete. Onedrive is microsofts stupid cloud storage option, that will auto upload stuff just like your c drive, except its not on your comp.

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I don’t use OneDrive or any other cloud file sync software. OneDrive is installed on my PC, but it’s disabled. I don’t have a Microsoft account linked to my Windows 10 account.

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I have the same issue. After pressing “Play” in Bnet at SC2, a dialog appears, where 605MB get downloaded with very low speed (takes 5-10min). And afterwards, the game launches, but not in the selected language (GER) anymore. Tried out several reinstallations, language changes etc, but it didn’t helped. A quick fix will be appreciated. Thx.

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same issue. did you solve it?

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Нет. Проблема не решена (у меня также идёт всё)

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same issue here. whenever I start Starcraft 2, I get the “preparing game data” window to download 605MB for ~10 minutes…

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same issue here… if anyone can bring solution it would be great, ty

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solved when i pick my native language in the option menu and restart game. i had to manually select the windows who can allow the game install something (i think it was on administrator way) when it restart.
sry bad english :slight_smile:

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same issue here, and my situation is much longer than 10mins, the download speed is around 5kb/s

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i find a way to fix, just change the game language to English and start the game

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Hello, had same , problem and found a way to fix it, basically the game got put in english while the english language not downloaded, just go in game and go to settings and change the game language to the one of your client. then restart and it should be all good

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i have same F. problem, really annoying, i cant understand how this bug keep being a problem still 2025… wtf blizz?

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jep - same here! u found a solution alreadi?

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same - i have to wait like 30-40 minutes sometimes b4 the game actualli starts

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Anyone found the solution?

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This one worked for me. Had just the german version downloaded. Switched to English, started the game, switching ingame to german and start again.
Maybe works for other languages too. So just install it in english first and switch to you language ingame. :smiley: