Starcraft – Replays freeze/don’t work after upgrading to Windows 8!

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Originally I ran StarCraft 2 on Windows Vista and everything worked fine.

A couple of months ago, however, I upgraded my PC to Windows 8. I run Starcraft 2 without any issues, but replays now are working very bad; after 2-3 minutes of playing (usually on x2, x4, x8 speed) it hangs for a while. During the hang-time music is still playing, but the game in fact is frozen. It restores in 30-40~ seconds and after a while it hangs again.

How can I solve this problem?

However, upon my upgrading to windows 8 I didn't re-install StarCraft 2. Do I need to?

Best Answer

You should

a) Reinstall SC2
or
b) Contact the blizzard support via ticket

Often times they can help you regardless of whether it is a known issue or not. (You can write a ticket from your battle.net Account and can also check, if there is a similar problem there)