Since last patch I’ve been having major UI issues, any addon, will result in my UI bugging and blocking my abilities saying they’re protected functions. If it doesn’t block the buttons outright it will stop updating one of my action bars so I can’t see any CDs.
Reloading fixes the issue, but can occur multiple times a raid night and also usually upon starting combat. Also can happen randomly sitting in Valdraxxus and try to fly off and my 2 button is blocked.
I have done a full UI reset, uninstalled and reinstalled the game. I’ve also reset the CVARS. Downloaded minimal addons from scratch [brand new install, wtf/interface folders backed up to a different folder] and had the issue occur again. The latest one was with just simulationcraft activated. I’ve also used a backup UI from November I had and after updating the addons it happened within two skirmishes. I have the bug reports from buggrabber below. So far tonight I’ve been using no addons and have not had any issues, but I kind of need addons for mythic prog.
At this point I have no idea how to fix this and I’m thinking it’s an issue on Blizzards end as a full UI reset and fresh addons still has the issue occurring.
Operating System
Windows 10 Home 64-bit
CPU
AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 62 °C
Matisse 7nm Technology
RAM
16.0GB Single-Channel DDR4 @ 1596MHz (22-22-22-52)
Motherboard
ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. GA15DH (AM4) 61 °C
Graphics
ASUS VS247 (1920x1080@60Hz)
K242HQL (1920x1080@60Hz)
4095MB NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER (ASUStek Computer Inc)
So you deleted/renamed the WTF/interface folders, made 100% sure you weren’t running something like Overwolf or Onedrive that might automatically repopulate the folders, logged in and ran /console cvar_default followed by /reload to make sure the settings saved both locally and to the server?
EDIT: Oh and one more thing, when you say you reinstalled the game, did you completely delete or rename the old WoW installation? If you didn’t, some addons leave content in non-interface folders, things like fonts, LUAs and such.
Well then it sounds like your addons that you’re trying to use are ones that need you to okay the use of custom scripts. Usually, a warning popup happens the first time telling you that allowing yada yada can potentially result in you losing gold or items, etc etc, and you have to click yes to it.
I’ll edit this with a screenshot of the message popup
EDIT: It will look like this https://imgur.com/a/bL6B1FG
That’s definitely not it, the only time I’ve got the custom script warning was after I used my vault macro after the CVAR reset.
I did the full UI reset again and it worked for 2hours before I went into a Skirmish and it instantly bricked my UI. Uninstalled Bnet and WoW again and wiped out both folders, going to reinstall and test again tomorrow.
Does WoW do this, after a full UI reset, but before putting back any addons? Because that’s the only time you have a fresh, stock UI. And a fresh, stock UI cannot possibly be giving you addon errors, because you wouldn’t be running any addons at that point.
The point is to do the full UI reset and then test before any addons are replaced.
Full UI reset. (Optional CVAR reset; I always recommend it but I don’t believe that to be the issue here.)
Make sure addon managers are disabled. If a manager is set up to auto-launch and then also auto-update your addons, it’ll just put back everything you removed in the last step, including any corruption.
Reboot your machine (for good measure).
Head back into WoW and test. If you’ve done the Full UI reset properly, you’re going to get the opening cinematic and “please accept these agreements,” as if you just installed the game for the first time.
Blizzard doesn’t offer support for 3rd party addons. For addon issues, such as you getting the warning error that an addon tried to call a protected function, you need to ask the addon authors for help.
As you mentioned, SimC is causing issues. So you’ll need to post the info you have on SimC’s GitHub, and have the SimC author(s) take a look at it. You’ll also generally find quite a bit of help from the community when taking this route for a fix.
Here’s the link: https://github.com/simulationcraft/simc/issues
Follow the same procedures for any other addon giving you issues.
SIMC was the latest one to do it, I figured it was a taint and went through trying to figure that out, but a fresh install, everything wiped out and: DBM, Bigwigs, SIMC, Handynotes all individually caused the issue on brand new installs. I even installed ELVUI and PAWN, both addons I have never used and it still happened. Edit: These were all the only addon active at the time.
If this was a taint wouldn’t two full reinstalls, like my 7-8th set of WTF/Interface folders and brand new addon installs have fixed this?
I doubt it’s an addon issue at this point, and I’m thinking it’s a server side setting. I just have no idea how to reset all of that.
I explained what to do in this post, plus making sure that the whole WoW folder is clean of any vestigial remnants of addons that put files in non-interface folders:
Here’s the official help page, which will tell you what I have already said, make sure to read and perform the advanced troubleshooting part of it:
As I’ve already said, I’ve done that twice. The last reinstall I did yesterday, I’m on my 6th+ fresh set of WTF/Interface folders, the entire WoW folder was wiped out twice, including the empty parent file. I downloaded one addon (PAWN) that I have never used before and it bugged out my 2nd action bar so I could not see any CDs.
The advanced is literally to type that in, it’s not a difficult process. I’ve watched the load cinematic and reset my sounds settings multiple times.
That’s the command that will fully reset the game on both the client and server. If you’ve followed that, along with fully deleting the WoW folder to remove any remnants and have made sure to disable any external backup programs from autopopulating the folder again, then that’s like as far as you’ll be able to go here; in terms of tech support.
At this point, it’s looking around 99% positive that it’s a bad addon. Some addons can brick functionality of other addons, even if they aren’t related. Like a name plate addon like Plater might clash with some old version of ElvUI, even though they aren’t the same addon. Anyways, the moral of the story is that this isn’t an issue on Blizzard’s end, this is an issue on one of the addon creator’s ends. I’d advise you to try investigating more to figure out exactly which addon is causing the problem and then contact them about it, since the tech support forums here do not officially help with addon related issues.
It definitely does not fully reset the game, the blizzard UI, keybinds and a few other things have not been reset. The blizzard UI I had to delete the editmode in game and recreate it.
And so far I have:
Elvui (never used before, only addon installed after 1st reinstall)
Handynotes
DBM
Bigwigs
Simulationcraft
PAWN (never used before, only addon installed after 2nd reinstall)
All causing the issue, each with them being the only one active, and two of them being the only thing installed after a fresh install. I dunno, seems unlikely that all of these highly popular addons are breaking the UI.
The CVARs all get reset. The binds and base blizzard UI are their own things, but wouldn’t cause this issue and if there were something broken in the stock UI, everyone would be facing these problems.
You could have something else going on with folder permissions or some other external program that you don’t know or think is running.
Try this:
Make sure the game and battlenet client are completely closed out of and verify with the task manager
Cut and paste your \World of Warcraft\Data\ folder to somewhere else like the desktop (so that you don’t have to redownload the entire game again)
Backup your WTF folder to there as well, if you want to keep stuff
Delete the entire World of Warcraft folder, everything inside it
Open Battlenet and reinstall WoW to a completely different folder than it normally defaults to
Wait for the actual download stuff to start after the intial preallocation stuff and index fetching, as in it downloading the 80gb of the game
Pause the download and close bnet, again, making sure it’s 100% closed out of it in the task manager
Cut and paste that Data folder you moved earlier back into the WoW folder
Open bnet again and it might automatically start repairing or downloading the last bits it needs, if not, run the scan and repair (should be much much faster than redownloading the whole game again)
This way, this makes sure that the game has all the proper folder permissions again for read/write operations and it makes sure that if any autobackup stuff is running in the background without you knowing, they won’t have the hard reference to that folder anymore and hopefully won’t mess with anything again.
After all THAT, then try adding the addons back in one at a time.
Trying this now…hopefully will have time to test it tomorrow. If that doesn’t work I’ll try downloading to my HDD instead of my SSD and hope that works.
Thanks for taking the time to try and help…I’ve been going crazy the past few weeks trying to sort this out with my limited knowledge!
Didn’t work Created a new account and downloaded onto my HDD, Z-perl and DBM both caused the issue by themselves (Z-perl first and then DL’d DBM by itself after). At this point I’m going to have to completely wipe my PC to see if that fixes it which is absurd and a huge pain.
Created a new account and downloaded onto my HDD, Z-perl and DBM both caused the issue by themselves (Z-perl first and then DL’d DBM by itself after). At this point I’m going to have to completely wipe my PC to see if that fixes it which is absurd and a huge pain.