Forever Beta crashes immediately on launch — BEX64 / dbghelp.dll / 0xC0000005

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WoW Forever Beta crashes immediately on startup before displaying a window.

When I click Play in Battle.net, WowB.exe appears in Task Manager for approximately 1–2 seconds and then terminates. The same thing happens when launching WowB.exe directly from the classic_beta folder.

Windows Reliability History reports:

Problem Event Name: BEX64
Faulting Application: WowB.exe
Faulting Module: dbghelp.dll
Exception Code: 0xc0000005
Exception Offset: 0x0000000000000110
Locale ID: 1033

Troubleshooting already attempted:

  • Scan and Repair
  • Complete uninstall and reinstall of the Forever Beta
  • Updated NVIDIA graphics drivers
  • Multiple PC restarts
  • Multiple battlnet restarts including logging out and back in
  • Directly launching WowB.exe, both with battlenet opened and closed
  • Updated pc’s security program
  • Installed latest Forever Beta update

None of these changed the behavior. Other versions of WoW launch and run normally on the same PC.

Each attempted launch also creates a new timestamped folder under classic_beta\Errors containing an empty crash.txt file.

The Forever Beta never reaches a visible game window; WowB.exe terminates almost immediately after launch.

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I am having this same problem. I saw another thread with the same problem reported.

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Same Problem here

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Yup, same issue here. Has anyone been able to play today yet?

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Having same issue since yesterday

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Hi there! I was having this issue as well and was able to get in after:

  • Making sure WoW was closed in task manager
  • Deleting the cache WoWB_Loader.dll and Cache folders for _Classic_beta_ (Unsure if this was the actual fix, but I found that WoW was running when I attempted the deletion)
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I deleted those files and still no dice :frowning:

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I too am in the club on error folder no lauch or joy

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I have found no credible posts about general fixes that work for everyone. So I still can’t launch. I’ve tried a few things individuals claimed worked for them, but did not solve my problem.

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This didn’t work, gave me an error message when I tried to launch again. Had to reinstall.

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I’ve managed to get in, made an exception in my antivirus for it and it seemed to work even though it wasn’t reporting that it was blocking it

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this worked for me

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this worked. specifically I added an exception for the entire WoW folder and that fixed the problem.