Multiple technical issues since patch

Since the latest release I’ve had several in game issues occur:

  • Not loading any Heroes whatsoever, meaning I can’t play. Only way I’ve found to fix that was a full clean install.
  • No sound (game doesn’t even recognize my output devices no matter what I do). I have yet to find a solution for this. I’ve tried scan and repair, updating drivers, full clean install, restarting, changing in game options. Absolutely nothing helps, the game just straight up doesn’t connect to audio devices.
  • Occasionally the game freezes just as a match starts and doesn’t reconnect unless I force close the game and restart. When I reconnect I then always get the chat bug, where chat doesn’t work.

HotS has always had a few minor hiccups here and there, but since this latest patch most of the time I can’t even play the game because there’s always something wrong

I also have the sound issue. No output device recognized for game sounds, in sound settings only “default” is listed and nothing else.

Voice chat works fine and recognize output and input devices.

I managed to fix it by running the game as administrator.