I keep getting constant crashes either with the game client or the battle.net launcher. As a returning player after almost a year you can potentially understand how frustrated this makes me after subscribing again.
For the launcher it will sometimes never load. To explain it just pulls the window up but doesn’t load any text, buttons, etc…just the spinning “loading” icon. I try to restart it, repair, reinstall it, close all instances using task manager etc…Still does it.
I also get a TAC error: “The CAS system was unable to initialize: tact instance creation failed. Error (16): container locked Tact instance creation failed. Error (16): container locked.” This as Chat GPT has stated tells me, is Windows potentially blocking access to files etc…Just know I went through all steps I was provided and still run into this occasionally including whitelisting all instances of WoW and Battle.net. No idea what to do with this because it constantly comes back up.
Last thing is the “ACCESS_VIOLATION - The instruction at “0x00007ff767304421” referenced memory at “0x0000000000000000”. The memory could not be “read”.” Or some variation of that. I have an asus rog strix Scar 18 2024 laptop with a 4080 in it and the Intel 14900HX in it. I have seen lots on how there is an issue with these CPUs and some recent wow updates since that is the only thing to crash and no other games do. Anyhow, I went through a massive amount of steps for this one and still get it. BIOS updated, VBS turned off, drivers updated, game reinstalled, game repaired, all old files and folders deleted before reinstalling, wiped my laptop entirely and started fresh, changed a million settings, turned off the new graphics options in the wow client, removed addons, removed interface wtf and cache folders, and probably a hundred other avenues. I’ve done a lot to try and make this work and all I’m left with is more frustration. I know part of it is on Windows and Intel for a chip that is unstable. (I even utilized the underclocking method using Intel Extreme Tuning Utility). But something has to be on Blizzard too with some update recently. Before I quit last time it worked perfectly fine. I come back with the same laptop and settings and whatever mix of windows updates and blizzard updates has made the game unplayable. I’m lucky to get 15 minutes in it let alone even logged into a character for more than 20 seconds. Areas, items, etc don’t seem to be triggering this that I can tell but I could be wrong. I’ve tried to check but most times it is when I’m not moving or doing anything or hovering/clicking anything. I dunno…