UPDATE: Avast was definitely the issue. Game is loading now and I should be good to go, so thanks for weighing in. Turns out that all of those previous downloads had been corrupted and there were little fragments of them all over the system… needed to go in and find them all in safe mode and then delete them. There’s a few hours of my life I won’t get back, but now at least I can play again!
I have wiped my computer multiple times, installed Blizzard and Wow, uninstalled, reinstalled umpteen times. I even relocated to the west coast in the months this has been going on - not a connection issue.
As far as I have been able to get it to go is to the video queued to launch at the beginning of the game. I can watch the video or interrupt it, but as soon as I try to move it along, the game just stalls and sits there. If I click it again, the screen goes white and tells me the program is not responding.
My machine is not the issue. 12th Gen Intel Core I9-19000K. 1 SSHD with 1.41 TB free and another standard drive with 3.8 TB free. AMD Radeon RX7900 XTX. All drivers updated. I run Avast Premium Security. Windows 11.
This is the only game this is happening on, with one weird quirk. As soon as I stop trying to open the program after it fails, I have tried to open Task Manager, but that always freezes up as well. The system then gets clunky until I restart.
If anyone has an idea of a plan I can follow to fix this, I am all ears. My equipment exceeds my knowledge on this. But I am getting tired of paying for a subscription I can’t use. Thanks!