diff --git a/sc2/ChangeLog b/sc2/ChangeLog
index c61dc1c60..2b4ce74c8 100644
--- a/sc2/ChangeLog
+++ b/sc2/ChangeLog
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 0.2:
+- Clock semaphore is now created with a value of 0 -PhracturedBlue
 - Rewrote Semaphore debugging code to be more useful - PhracturedBlue
 - Better fix for clearing load/save screen - fOSSiL
 - Implemented bilinear scaling in pure SDL mode - Mika
diff --git a/sc2/src/sc2code/init.c b/sc2/src/sc2code/init.c
index 2cf684185..c70c70e90 100644
--- a/sc2/src/sc2code/init.c
+++ b/sc2/src/sc2code/init.c
@@ -264,6 +264,9 @@ InitGlobData (void)
 	GLOBAL (glob_flags) = (BYTE)i;
 
 	GLOBAL (DisplayArray) = DisplayArray;
-	(GLOBAL (GameClock)).clock_sem = CreateSemaphore(1,  "Clock");
+	// The clock semaphore was initially initialized as '1'
+	// but it is always cleared before set, so it toggled between
+	// 2 and 1, which doesn't actually do anything
+	(GLOBAL (GameClock)).clock_sem = CreateSemaphore(0,  "Clock");
 }