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How To Play Starcraft 2 Without Internet

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I decided to test the 'offline play' feature of Starcraft 2 (for the single player campaign); so I unplugged my network cable and launched the game.

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I was met with the 'Can't connect to Battle.Net' message and was asked if I wanted to play offline. I clicked the 'Play Offline' button and was taken to the login menu.

How To Play Starcraft 2 Without Internet Connection

When I tried to login with my battle.net account name, I was met with a 'You must log in to battle.net first and acitvate your game, then connect at least once with that account.' message.
This made no sense to me, as I'd already connected with the same account on two different computers and had their 'cloud' functionality let me continue where I'd left off on the other computer. So I know the connection they were talking about had already been made.
How To Play Starcraft 2 Without Internet
Turns out there is a defect in the product as of this writing, where you have to click 'Play as Guest' while connected to the internet and click to activate one of the Guest accounts first to get offline play enabled (for both Guests and your battle.net account.)
Note, you don't have to actually start the campaign on the Guest account, but simply getting to the in-game menu with that 'profile' seems to activate the offline play ability.
So, to get the Starcraft 2 Offline Play enabled for the single player campaign:
  1. Launch Starcraft 2 with a working connection to the internet.
  2. At the login menu, click 'Play as Guest'
  3. Click on one of the Guest profiles (I did Guest 1)
  4. Once in the menu that allows you to 'Start Campaign', you can exit the game
  5. Disable your internet connection.
  6. Launch Starcraft 2 without internet
  7. Login with your battle.net account or Play as Guest (offline mode should be enabled now)
Now I don't know if you actually have to click into one of the Guest profiles, or if you can simply click 'Play as Guest' and be good. If someone has tried it without actually going into one of the Guest Profiles, please post a comment here to let everyone know.
I still wish Blizzard would give us LAN play without an internet connection. here's to wishful thinking! It's a killer game otherwise. I'm loving the Single Player campaign.
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1. Introduction

StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty is a terrific game. It's almost perfect except for a single flaw: it does not support multiple displays because Blizzard decided that 'multi-monitor support for StarCraft II may be too great of a tactical advantage over other players without more than one monitor'. Thus, the game occupies only a single screen on dual-monitor stations, whereas the second monitor stays free and may be used for a parallel web-surfing, chatting or even working.

If you have dual, triple or more monitors and want a better control on StarCraft 2 - we are ready to help you: new features added in the version 2.3 of Actual Multiple Monitors are intended to make playing StarCraft 2 more comfortable in a multiple displays environment.
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2. How to Let the Mouse Go Out of the StarCraft 2 Window and Prohibit StarCraft 2 Minimizing When Clicking Outside Its Window

How To Play Starcraft 2 Without Internet
Turns out there is a defect in the product as of this writing, where you have to click 'Play as Guest' while connected to the internet and click to activate one of the Guest accounts first to get offline play enabled (for both Guests and your battle.net account.)
Note, you don't have to actually start the campaign on the Guest account, but simply getting to the in-game menu with that 'profile' seems to activate the offline play ability.
So, to get the Starcraft 2 Offline Play enabled for the single player campaign:
  1. Launch Starcraft 2 with a working connection to the internet.
  2. At the login menu, click 'Play as Guest'
  3. Click on one of the Guest profiles (I did Guest 1)
  4. Once in the menu that allows you to 'Start Campaign', you can exit the game
  5. Disable your internet connection.
  6. Launch Starcraft 2 without internet
  7. Login with your battle.net account or Play as Guest (offline mode should be enabled now)
Now I don't know if you actually have to click into one of the Guest profiles, or if you can simply click 'Play as Guest' and be good. If someone has tried it without actually going into one of the Guest Profiles, please post a comment here to let everyone know.
I still wish Blizzard would give us LAN play without an internet connection. here's to wishful thinking! It's a killer game otherwise. I'm loving the Single Player campaign.
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1. Introduction

StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty is a terrific game. It's almost perfect except for a single flaw: it does not support multiple displays because Blizzard decided that 'multi-monitor support for StarCraft II may be too great of a tactical advantage over other players without more than one monitor'. Thus, the game occupies only a single screen on dual-monitor stations, whereas the second monitor stays free and may be used for a parallel web-surfing, chatting or even working.

If you have dual, triple or more monitors and want a better control on StarCraft 2 - we are ready to help you: new features added in the version 2.3 of Actual Multiple Monitors are intended to make playing StarCraft 2 more comfortable in a multiple displays environment.
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2. How to Let the Mouse Go Out of the StarCraft 2 Window and Prohibit StarCraft 2 Minimizing When Clicking Outside Its Window

The 'Fullscreen' display mode provides the fastest video output and the smoothest game experience. However, in a multi-monitor environment some issues arise:

  • while active, StarCraft 2 locks the mouse within its host screen, so that you are unable to operate windows on other screens
  • if you click Alt-Tab trying to switch to another window - the game will minimize automatically, thus blocking the ability to observe its state in background
  • the minimization/restoration of the fullscreen StarCraft 2 is time-consuming, as the game is resource-intensive and it should release the used resources when it becomes inactive and renew them upon re-activation

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Playing StarCraft 2 fullscreen on dual monitors

To resolve all these issues, you just need to do the following:

  • launch Actual Multiple Monitors
  • launch StarCraft 2
  • press the Ignore deactivation hotkey (Ctrl-Alt-Shift-I by default)

After that, you will be able to easily drag the mouse out of the StarCraft 2 window and work with windows on other monitors. This also prevents the StarCraft 2 minimization when you activate another window.

To restore the usual functioning of the fullscreen StarCraft 2, press the Ignore deactivation hotkey again when StarCraft 2 is active.
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3. How to Launch StarCraft 2 on External Monitor, Panel or TV

Another issue of the fullscreen mode is that StarCraft 2 runs it on a primary monitor only. Thus, if you run it on a notebook with a large external screen attached - there is no general way to force StarCraft 2 run on that screen. One solution is to switch the primary monitor from notebook's internal display to external screen. Ghostnote 2 2 3 x 4. You can make it easily via Actual Multiple Monitors system tray context menu:


How to launch StarCraft 2 on external monitor, panel or TV:
Switch the primary display via Actual Multiple Monitors context menu

However, on some laptops you cannot make primary any monitor other than the internal screen. In such case, you should switch the StarCraft 2 display mode from 'Fullscreen' to 'Windowed (Fullscreen)'.


StarCraft 2 Options: Switching display mode from 'Fullscreen' to 'Windowed (Fullscreen)'

Then, you can move this window to the external display using the Move to Next Monitor hotkey (Win-/ by default). If your external screen has the different resolution - the StarCraft 2 fullscreen window will be adjusted automatically to fit this resolution.
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4. Conclusion

How to cut video in adobe premiere pro cc 2019. Hope the advices above will make your dual- or multi-monitor StarCraft 2 experience more convenient and exciting. You may question about any other subjects related to running StarCraft 2 along with Actual Multiple Monitors in the Technical Support forum section or post your ideas in the Tips and Tricks forum section.
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