Starcarft II will not launch after fresh install

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I have restarted, reinstalled on another drive and updated graphics driver. All of other games work with no issues including all other Blizzard games

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i have encountered that issue. in order to solve it however, i need to know more about your specs. primarily your gpu and operating system. that is because the problem is gpu related.

I have the same issue.

Windows 11 Pro Version 23H2. OS Build 22631.4460
13th Gen Intel Core i9-13900H 2.60 GHz

NVidia GeForce RTX 470 Laptop GPU

the game usually defaults to direct 3d 9 which your cpu is not compatible with. it is also badly optimised. in your starcraft 2 settings folder in your documents folder, there is a variables.txt file. there you can change it. GraphicsApi=Direct3D11
change it so that it looks like i posted.