Starcraft 2 freezes my PC when I exit

[jasper1605]

As the title says, every time I try exiting the game it freezes. I've tried "getting around it" by alt tabbing to the desktop and closing it once there but then it freezes my desktop. Any ideas on what to do to fix it? I've emailed blizzard too, I'm waiting on the response.

 

[PVTCaboose1337]

Try logging out before you exit the game. I had the issue in beta, and that was the way I fixed it. Don't have it anymore but that fix worked for me!

 

[jasper1605]

I'll give it a shot and update w/ the result. That's mildly annoying that I would have to do that, but w/e I guess I'll have to spend an extra second of my life exiting a game that I will have played for probably 6 hours. That's a pretty good ratio haha

Edit: BRILLIANT!!! It worked. Thanks a bundle caboose, I can't tell you how many times the game went corrupt from me having to force restart my computer when it froze.

 

[PVTCaboose1337]

I'll give it a shot and update w/ the result. That's mildly annoying that I would have to do that, but w/e I guess I'll have to spend an extra second of my life exiting a game that I will have played for probably 6 hours. That's a pretty good ratio haha

Edit: BRILLIANT!!! It worked. Thanks a bundle caboose, I can't tell you how many times the game went corrupt from me having to force restart my computer when it froze.

Yeah no problem, glad to see it worked. I had the problem in beta so I know how frustrating it can be.

 

[Kursah]

The reason it freezes is once you're in SC2, you're never supposed to leave....



.....ever!

Yep what PVT said works, had it happen to me before too. Glad to see ya got it sorted jasper!

 

[jasper1605]

The reason it freezes is once you're in SC2, you're never supposed to leave....



.....ever!

most of the time I can't. I'll start playing at 10 in the A.M. telling myself just a couple games. Next thing I know people are calling me wanting to get dinner. Dinner at 11 A.M. you ask?! No, somehow starcraft created a wormhole in time and I found myself at 6 P.M. lol

 

[RoutedScripter]

That was happening to me a lot of times in the beta , patches came and went by, sometimes it came back , sometimes even caused a BSOD when exit (but that was my bad ram settings) , it's just bugged game , it's not your pc. but it doesn't whine for everybody.

 

[BababooeyHTJ]

If a game froze up my PC I would be looking at my system, not the game.

 

[RoutedScripter]

If a game froze up my PC I would be looking at my system, not the game.

if it happens only with a certain game , it's not your PC.


a lot of times people think their PC is the cause , but there are a lot of bugged games out there.

 

[jasper1605]

If a game froze up my PC I would be looking at my system, not the game.

And I can guarantee it's not the PC either. After I had to reinstall the game for the 3rd time I completely reinstalled windows and alas after doing it again there was no fix. And from this lesson I will take an opposite of your approach. If a game freezes up my PC I would be looking at my game, not the PC. This is not the only game to fail for me either, BFBC2 broke too because of how piss poor EADM was it sent me a bad install file not once not twice but THREE times, so I refunded it.

 

[BababooeyHTJ]

if it happens only with a certain game , it's not your PC.


a lot of times people think their PC is the cause , but there are a lot of bugged games out there.

If it were a crash to desktop I would agree with you. I have never had a game crash a stable computer. The OP's computer is even overclocked. He makes no mention of the stress testing done on his part. I guarantee that it wouldn't pass a long Linpack run or a long Prime blend. It could even be some sort of driver issue but I would start with some stress testing.

And I can guarantee it's not the PC either. After I had to reinstall the game for the 3rd time I completely reinstalled windows and alas after doing it again there was no fix. And from this lesson I will take an opposite of your approach. If a game freezes up my PC I would be looking at my game, not the PC. This is not the only game to fail for me either, BFBC2 broke too because of how piss poor EADM was it sent me a bad install file not once not twice but THREE times, so I refunded it.

The EADM version of BFBC2 worked fine for me. It's two games now. Like I said I would be looking at your overclocked computer.

 

[jasper1605]

The OP's computer is even overclocked. He makes no mention of the stress testing done on his part. I guarantee that it wouldn't pass a long Linpack run or a long Prime blend. It could even be some sort of driver issue but I would start with some stress testing.

To counter your statement on stability of system. I've pushed this through intel burn test, and prime for 24 hrs + and not had an issue. And yes, it was EADM that faulted it because it was something that they even admitted to once I emailed them; apparently something was wrong in a file (I remember it being a fourth of something but not the specifics) after googling I found that it was an incredibly common problem for EADM people.

If you'd like I'll pull everything down to stock and try this out again, but I can almost guarantee you that it won't change anything.

Fact of the matter is, caboose's solution has fixed it 100% so why worry about it now?

 

[Kreij]

I used to have my PC freeze whenever I exited a game (can't remember which one anymore).
Turned out that shutting off Catalyst AI resolved the problem. (shrug)

I know that has nothing to do with your problem, but I agree that we tend to think hardware/driver first before just a setting or exitting in a certain manner.

Okay I'm done rambling ... get back to gaming.

 

[BababooeyHTJ]

To counter your statement on stability of system. I've pushed this through intel burn test, and prime for 24 hrs + and not had an issue. And yes, it was EADM that faulted it because it was something that they even admitted to once I emailed them; apparently something was wrong in a file (I remember it being a fourth of something but not the specifics) after googling I found that it was an incredibly common problem for EADM people.

If you'd like I'll pull everything down to stock and try this out again, but I can almost guarantee you that it won't change anything.

Fact of the matter is, caboose's solution has fixed it 100% so why worry about it now?

Your, right it probably isn't your hardware. Sounds like you've done some thourough stress testing.

I used to have my PC freeze whenever I exited a game (can't remember which one anymore).
Turned out that shutting off Catalyst AI resolved the problem. (shrug)

I know that has nothing to do with your problem, but I agree that we tend to think hardware/driver first before just a setting or exitting in a certain manner.

Okay I'm done rambling ... get back to gaming.

So it was a driver issue and not the game.

 

[Mussels]

If it were a crash to desktop I would agree with you. I have never had a game crash a stable computer. The OP's computer is even overclocked. He makes no mention of the stress testing done on his part. I guarantee that it wouldn't pass a long Linpack run or a long Prime blend. It could even be some sort of driver issue but I would start with some stress testing.

i certainly have. you just haven't been playing the 'right' games.

supreme commander 1 in its early patches hit the 2GB limit all the time and crashed. stalker was the same. hell even the sims 3 did it.

oblivion/fallout 3 dont like kaspersky, and crash sometimes when they're both running together.

i've had other issues like those EAX emulator programs for vista/7 causing certain games to crash as well.