Replays in windows breaking on update

[simbu95]

I can't get my c++ code to play replays unless they are the newest version, I keep getting the same error as posted here.. https://github.com/Blizzard/s2client-api/issues/220 , specifically

WaitForReplay: start replay contains an error: 7 WaitForReplay: error details: The launch of this game makes reference to mod or map dependencies which are no longer available.

From what I understand, the older versions are no longer allowed to connect the the battle.net servers and thus can't get the map data. I have tried changing the battle.net cache using the commandline arugment -PrePopulateCache as mentioned in the middle of this discussion... https://github.com/Blizzard/s2client-proto/issues/12 and I even downloaded the replay packs and used the cache files they have (for those specific replays), but that doesn't work either.

Even more interesting, my second computer, which I have made all attempts to not update, is able to still play the replays of its own version (specifically referring to the WCS Leipzig 2018 replay pack that Blizzard released a couple months ago. ) Both computers where able to run the replays prior to the update.

I have attached several images showing various things I have tried....

First, the replay still working on my non-updated computer

Second, the error on my updated computer, you can see it switch to the same version as the non-updated computer...

Here is me trying to use the PrePopulateCache command and it seemingly working...

Finally, here is the relevant code section showing I am using the default replay file, which should allow for PrePopulateCache to work, and a picture of the directory for good measure.

sc2::Coordinator coordinator;
coordinator.LoadSettings(argc, argv);
Replay replay_observer;
coordinator.AddReplayObserver(&replay_observer);
if (!coordinator.SetReplayPath("C:\\Program Files (x86)\\StarCraft II\\Replays\\")) { // attempts to load replays, this path has to be changed to the replay location
    std::cout << "Unable to find replays." << std::endl;
    return 1;
}
while (coordinator.Update());

Any assistance getting the replays working would be appreciated, especially the replay packs (which are completely unplayable through the c++ code for me). I am trying to extract data from the replays for supervised learning, but can't do so if I can't use most of the replays.

[simbu95]

I finally figured out what was wrong, my windows client was for some reason not reading from the install directory, instead it was reading from C:\ProgramData\Blizzard Entertainment\Battle.net (Note that ProgramData is a hidden file, so you may have to enable viewing hidden files to find it.

I tested this with the replay packs and their cache files, along with using the -PrePopulateCache command line argument, then taking the cache files it generates in the install directory (Program Files (x86)/Starcraft II/Battle.net for me), and using those in the ProgramData directory.

I had to use a program called process monitor https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/procmon to find out what files SC2_x64.exe was using, but after searching through that I finally found it using the wrong cache files. If for some reason C:\ProgramData\Blizzard Entertainment\Battle.net doesn't work, I recommend seeing if it uses a different directory.

Anyway, here are a few images of me getting everything working.

[herodrigues]

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