So I had a lot of trouble with my PC today, crashing over and over, and ended up cleaning it ( In real life with an air spray ). Now my PC isn’t crashing but Bnet cannot recognize any games, I can open World of Warcraft fine from the file.
I tried looking for help as other people already experienced that, and in May 18th someone posted about it. Blizzard tech tried helping, but their help didn’t help at all that person, and that person kept having these problems for well over a month, no idea if it’s fixed yet. I don’t want to reinstall Retail/PTR, and I believe It won’t do anything if I reinstall Bnet as a lot of people in that past forum were having that problem, reinstalled Bnet and it never helped even after multiple reinstall.
In battle.net left top …
GAMES tab.
There should be a menu.
Once in the menu .
" find my games "
Should be a option to manually search computer.
Since you know where it is.
Otherwise you might need to do the uninstall the Battle.net.
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Yeah, searching with it doesn’t find anything
Sorry my communication skills…
The option should let you search your computer for the directory the wow is installed in.
It will open a box ; like you would find a place to store a file, but it has you locate it.
I know, I understand that, yet it cannot find it, even if it’s exactly the file required
" , I can open World of Warcraft fine from the file. "
Mine is
C:\wow\World of Warcraft\wow.exe
Yours might be
C:\program files\World of Warcraft\wow.exe
If the Battle.net can not find it.
You could copy the entire directory of “World of Warcraft” to a new directory that you make.
Like
C:\wow
Then run battle.net again to point to it.
I am sorry if this is confusing.
my wow.exe is there :
C: \Program Files (x86)\World of Warcraft\retail\wow.exe
Yet when I direct bnet there it cannot find wow.exe
yet again I can still open wow with that wow.exe and run it perfectly fine, proof is I’m raiding right now.
Okay…
Well it is fine to run game that way. Battle.net just will not update it for you.
I currently run the game the way you do as well.
how do you update the game then ?
I run battle.net, lol.
The realm select screen will say they are not compatible or something like that.
So I fire up battle.net mostly Tuesday’s.
Well yeah I can’t update my game
so I’m just coked
Not fix from Blizzard yet it’s been posted and asked to technical support since a long as time
I just thought of something.
Just the directory and not the retail\wow.exe
It is asking for the directory.
C: \Program Files (x86)\World of Warcraft\
Yup the above line should be in the box labeled
INSTALL LOCATION
Got to head home…
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If you’re pointing the Bnet launcher to the correct wow.exe location (retail folder), and it’s not working, it is likely the permissions on that folder are inaccessible to Bnet. It could be a security app interfering, a drive sync (like Dropbox), or the data is corrupted.
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And how can I fix any of these ?
Home now.
I edited my post above.
Click on blue swirly icon ; top left
Settings
Game settings
World of Warcraft ( on right side)
Install location
C: \Program Files (x86)\World of Warcraft\
That in box.
If you have enough space. You can copy the directory and paste it into a folder that you create. It’s nice to own something. Once you create it useing Adminstrator login.
Create c:\wow
Then copy;
Your World of Warcraft to it.
Rember it’s admin .
That’s if you have 70 gigs available on your SSD.
Removing the old one will be simple after… You make sure you are up and running battle.net as normal again.
If you don’t have the space to copy bring to a good computer tech. Please do not do this by cutting the directory, you most likely loose everything.
Cut bad.
Do not do.
I’m having the same problem and it tells me I don’t have the correct version of the game
my “game settings” option is greyed out.
If it is grayed out it might mean that you are not logged into battle.net
Your avatar should say online/away etc. If it is not you will need to click login.
Also wowhead has a write up.