DarkBlizz

After some trial and error and some help from people on the forums i manged to get this working and can now run the game from my USB hard drive with the 0.19 launcher and the following map pack.

Needed Files:

http://darkblizz.org/Forum2/sc2-tools/starcraft-ii-beta-launcher/

http://darkblizz.org/Forum2/ai-scripts/starcraft-2-beta-offline-ai-maps/msg4109/#msg4109

http://www.mediafire.com/?im2tdqm50me

Here is what I did from scratch:

1) Install StarCraft II Beta on a WINDOWS XP PC (i had problems initially with the reg fixes when changing platforms so good luck if you install in win 7 and then try to run on win xp or vice versa or any vista combinations - it might work i havent tried it yet)

3) Copy and paste the installed "StarCraft II Beta" folder into your USB drive.

2) Extract the map packs, beta launcher and registry file using the links above into your game directory in your USB drive (E:\StarCraft II Beta\ - e.g. where E is your USB drive, place the maps in their own folder to avoid cluttering your game directory (E:\StarCraft II Beta\Maps\).

3) Plug into the computer you want to play StarCraft II on. Right click on the "StarCraft II Beta reg.reg" file in the game folder and choose "edit" - make sure the paths are correct for your USB drive, save and close, then run it to merge with the registry on the PC. (e.g. If your USB drive is the "F:\" drive then change all the paths from "E:\" to "F:\"

4) Incase the entry you just made doesnt have the right permissions for you, click start>run type regedit, then find the [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Blizzard Entertainment] folder and right click it and set full control permissions for yourself.

5) Run StarCraft II.exe once then quit it so that any registry entries that need to be created are made (im not sure about this but seems a reasonable precaution-would be helpful to know what is created if anything).

6) Use Starcraft II - Beta Launcher.exe as normal from the USB game driectory - Enjoy! 


N.B. If you are worried about being being traced (e.g. if you were using this on a computer you shouldnt have) you can just delete the [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Blizzard Entertainment]registry entries using regedit.
In this case you might also be interested to know that you can run SCII in a window from the options menu (F10) for extra stealth  , though if you run it in non-fullscreen window the scrolling is annoying where you have to put your mouse to the endge of the window to scroll, moving the mouse out of the window wont scroll it  .


Thanks to "getITdone" and "paranoid" for their help.

im a dual booter myself ubuntu 9.10/win7 64bit on my laptop 

unfortunately I dont have any idea what keys are needed for the XP - all i know is i get that message which says i need write permissions on the registry key.

I might have access to a windows xp pc/registry key if i can get to a friends house and then could install it on there, but dont know when ill be able to do that.

so would be great if someone could find they keys and post them

hi,

Im trying to get starcraft II working in window XP from just copying the install folder from my windows 7 pc. this is without using admin priveleges but with some registry control (on a university computer), see my reply to this post for the full details:

http://darkblizz.org/Forum2/not-enough-pylons/run-without-registry/

Basically though, I think I need the registry entries for the XP install - would be great if someone could find the registry entries and export then (from regedit) and either upload the file or open the .reg file for editing and paste the text in reply.

would be much apreciated!

I was planning on running SC2 on my UNI comps so I copied the SC2 install folder to my usb hard drive (along with launcher etc.) then took it to the library.

Heres what i tried.

*Running from usb - tried using the launcher (0.17) got error with lazylaunch2 - crashes and doesnt load sc2

*copying folder onto desktop - tried using the launcher (0.17) got error with lazylaunch2 - crashes and doesnt load sc2

*using the copied desktop folder - running the starcraft II.exe directly - gives me the following message:

"Launcher requires write permission to the StarCraft II Registry key to succesfuly locate and run the game. Please enable write access to the Registry key using an administrator account."

As you might have guessed i just logged in as a user so dont have admin access, so cant do this.

However i anticipated a registry problem so i exported what i thought were the registry entries required from my computer onto the usb and merged the entries to the computer (I can run the .reg files and also can access registry where I can create reg entries and seem to have full control over the entries that i create-i can set full control permissions)

Despite this it still gives me the same error message. I figure this is likely because im using win7 64bit at home and the UNI pc is winxp sp3. So i tried adding the keys to the usual HKLM software windows xp registry directory into a blizzard folder i made myself. STILL doesnt work!

so im stumped. What would be really helpful is if someone who is running the game on XP could export their starcraft II registry keys and/or post where they think they are all located so i can re-create them on this pc.

here are the entries i added in the .reg file:

(FROM WIN7 64bit)

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\MuiCache]
"LangID"=hex:09,04
"C:\\Documents and Settings\\myusername\\Desktop\\StarCraft II Beta\\lazylaunch2.exe"="LazyTown Launcher"
"C:\\Documents and Settings\\myusername\\Desktop\\StarCraft II Beta\\StarCraft II.exe"="Blizzard Launcher"
"C:\\Documents and Settings\\myusername\\Desktop\\StarCraft II Beta\Starcraft II - Beta Launcher.exe"="WindowsApplication1"
"C:\\Documents and Settings\\myusername\\Desktop\\StarCraft II Beta\\versions\\base14133\\sc2.exe"="StarCraft II"


then i did the same again but i changed the directory to be written to to a ~hklm\software\ and guessed blizzard directory structure )

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Blizzard Entertainment\Starcraft II Beta]
"LangID"=hex:09,04
"C:\\Documents and Settings\\myusername\\Desktop\\StarCraft II Beta\\lazylaunch2.exe"="LazyTown Launcher"
"C:\\Documents and Settings\\myusername\\Desktop\\StarCraft II Beta\\StarCraft II.exe"="Blizzard Launcher"
"C:\\Documents and Settings\\myusername\\Desktop\\StarCraft II Beta\\versions\\base14133\\sc2.exe"="StarCraft II"



I might be doing something realy wrong so if anyone know sanything about regediting let me know, i dont really know much at all aboul registry stuff.