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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?

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If you upgraded Windows Vista to Windows 8 then you should have had to reinstall ALL your applications since NONE of your applications are transfered over. Its also entirely possible this is a hardware issue and has nothing to do with Windows 8 – Ramhound Jan 28 at 15:16

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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)

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Ok, thanks, will try to submit report to blizzard and see if/what they recommend. – Budda Feb 4 at 2:48
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What helped is full Windows 8 re-installation. Potentially, problem could be that my previous version of windows was 'developer edition'. I installed the standard one and now everything is fine. Don't know what exactly happened, may be it just pulled better drivers for my SSD...

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