When a player launches StarCraft 2, the game client needs to load a vast amount of data into memory, including game assets, maps, and metadata. This data is stored on disk and must be transferred into memory before the game can start. The process of preparing the game data link is responsible for loading this data into memory.
Because a definitive developer-side patch has remained elusive, the community has engineered several workarounds to bypass this loop: Preparing game data - Technical Support - SC2 Forums starcraft 2 preparing game data link
: Navigate to your StarCraft II installation folder, open Support64 , and run SC2Switcher_x64.exe to launch the game directly. When a player launches StarCraft 2, the game