When I try to launch the game from the battlenet launcher, or directly from the WowB.exe, it crashes immediately. It is creating empty txt files in the Errors folder and terminates with an Access Violation (0xc0000005).
Log from Windows Event Viewer:
Faulting application name: WowB.exe, version: 160.1.6991.3, time stamp: 0x6aac89f8 Faulting module name: WowB_loader.dll, version: 0.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x6a5938c1 Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x000000000201d478
Faulting process id: 0x39AC
Faulting application start time: 0x1DD47E12290644A
Faulting application path: C:\C_Drive_Games\World of Warcraft\_classic_beta_\WowB.exe
Faulting module path: C:\C_Drive_Games\World of Warcraft\_classic_beta_\WowB_loader.dll Report Id: 62e303ea-4ad0-4ca6-ab10-4318679ec98e
I have tried extensive troubleshooting with the assistance of AI, and nothing has worked. Things like deleting Cache folders, deleting .idx files in Data/data folders, adding exceptions to and deleting anti-virus, playing around with Windows User admin permissions etc. Nothing worked/works.
The ONLY thing that didn’t cause it to immediately crash was when the PC was booted up in Safe Mode. It did not immediately crash resulting with empty error .txt file, but instead failed when it did not detect an appropriate GPU (which as far as I’m aware, is bypassed when PC is in Safe Mode) and instead resulted in a visible on screen failure.
I’ve seen a couple of other people with a similar issue in the forums, but for different errors. These different errors I also ran into over the past couple days, and managed to get work-arounds, but today has now hit a dead-end. It just confuses me why there are only a few people experiencing this.