my friend cant post here but he needs help.
his account wont install dragonflight. fresh download, goes initializing and then gets thru the first series of indices then… goes back to initializing, we’ve tried everything. VPN, fresh install, total wipe of the computer and scrubbing registries. its looking like an agent error, but no matter how much we reinstall bnet client it doesnt fix it.
he says it is getting stuck on indice 2145581. so it says “initializing (2145581/2145581)” it goes from 0 to 2145581 then goes back to “intializing…” with no numbers.
it starts to update for a nano second, then doesnt. then goes back to initializing, where it counts the numbers off… then to the initializing… then drops it and restarts.
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reinstalled the game last night due to various bugs i was having…
mine did the same thing… it actually seems to go thru the initialization process several times thru the download, mostly between different indices of the download
installing on my hdd (old school harddrive) took forever to go thru that phase each time.
switching the install to my ssd (solid state drive) still took awhile but was much faster, was able to fully download the game (80ish gigs or so) within around 30 mins on gig speed, compared to the 1hour plus i was waiting for it to finish on my hdd
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thats not a solution, we’ve done all the trouble shooting that blizzard has out there. we’ve been scouring for fixes.
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Seeing the exact same behavior here with the same number, 2145581, endless loop, let it run for hours with no change.
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I have the same problem. I just bought the game and renewed my subscription but when I started to install, I keep getting stuck in the same spot. It basically repeats itself endlessly. I uninstalled and deleted any wow folder I found and it still gets stuck at the same spot everyone is describing here.
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I am also having the same issue and have wiped battlenet and fresh installed with no success
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same here…was about to resub and buy expansion, glad to know that theres many others who has this problem right now…can’t figure a way to fix at all. what is goin on!! good thing i didnt resub yet , whats going on with the blizz support
I’m sitting at the same issue here, I left the game installing last night, after I went to all the troubles of following all the suggestions regarding how to fix the “initializing” problem, deleted all the appdata, localappdata, temp, etc related to battle.net, rebooted the pc, the router, the wifi, reinstalled battle.net app, re-logged in (it even asked me to authenticate through the mobile authenticator app), and its doing the exact same thing it did last night, its stuck on Initializing ( 0/2145581) gets to 2145581/2145581) and goes back to 0 and its an endless loop of not doing nothing.
After so much trouble of considering if it was worth to come back to wow, thank god I decided to install first, then go through the dragonflight purchase and the resub, if not I’d feel I’ve been scammed out of my money.
worth mentioning though, It updated diablo 2 resurrected, diablo 3, starcraft, starcraft 2 with no problem at all, it only happens on world of warcraft full reinstall, changing the folder permissions wont work, running the battle.net app as administrator wont work either.
Computer hardware:
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 8 core 64 bit cpu
Motherboard: Asus ROG Strix X570-E Gaming
RAM: 32 GB Corsair Vengance LPX DDR4 3200
GPU: Asus ROG Strix Radeon RX 6600 XT 8GB
Screen: Asus TUF VG32VQ1B 32" curved monitor
Storage Unit: M.2 Samsumg 970 EVO Plus 1TB
Mouse: Logitech G502 Hero
sysinfo: imgur[dot]com/Q6Og29W
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we are all on he same boat. I’ve got the same issue, thank god I tried to install first instead of purchasing the game and re-subscribing.
I’m having this exact same loop issue (my last reply had more details but it was removed maybe due to the link to the sysinfo, wont retype again the whole thing), I went through all the recommended troubleshooting steps, no luck.
I went a step further, to see if the issue was the drive, or the folder depth, and removed everything I had “so far” about wow (close to 610mb), and selcted a different folder, no dice, repeated the delete process, and selected a different drive (C this time, which actually resides in its own M.2 drive), no dice, went back to my M.2 drive for games (yes I got a dedicated m.2 drive for games a 1TB M.2 SSD Samsung 970 EVO Plus, same as the SOS drive), no dice.
Turned off the pc, and added my 2 old SSD drives (SATA drives), no chang whatsoever, rebooted again, and created a raid array (raid0 strip array) and the infinite loop remained, so no dice.
so I discarded it being a drive issue (as in neither of the 2 m.2 drives it installed, I added 2 new drives, standalone or on RAID0 array, it didnt install either), also its worth to keep in mind that my windoze is a fresh install so its very unlikely it is a virus or any other kind of malware issue, I changed folder permissions, I ran the battle.net app normally and as admin, no luck at all. my connection is not the issue, nor are my network dns resolvers, I tried every trick in the book regarding those aspects too.
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Also getting this same issue. Have attempted all of the troubleshooting steps on articles linked to this. Have attempted to find the voice process running to see if that would fix it; haven’t seen that running on my PC. I am unable to play any game once it needs an update. Are we going to get this fixed / those of us who are subscribed are we going to get credit for game time being unable to play? Thank goodness I tried to install before purchasing Dragonflight, I’d’ve been big mad.
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I am having the exact same issue. Multiple trouble shooting steps. Still no progress
My whole interface took a dump and nothing fixed it.Last resort was a clean install,now stuck at this BS update loop again. This crap has been going on since day 1 of DF patching.The game is a hot mess hence why no admin or support officer will comment on these posts.God forbid you put a ticket in,all you get is a cut and paste response with the steps “everyone” does to self help/diagnose wow issues.Might be time to end wow for good…
Same issue here. I was having some minor graphical glitches and after reinstalling my graphics driver they didn’t go away, so I figured I’d try a scan and repair. That kept crashing with the error code ending in BB8. I then proceeded to:
-reboot the PC. When it came back up it said it couldn’t update WoW while WotLK Classic was doing an update. which it failed, same error code (BB8)
-force quit battle.net, deleted the WoW folder in Program Files (x86), prevented all addon managers from starting at boot, tried again. Now I got stuck in the Initializing 2145581/2145581 loop.
-tried uninstalling from the battle.net app. Didn’t do anything.
-force quit battle.net, uninstalled Battle.Net, deleted everything related to WoW and WotLK Classic and Battle.net in Program Files (x86) and Program Data.
-redownload a fresh battle.net installer. Immediately when trying to install WoW again, straight into the Initializing 2145581/2145581 loop.
-attempted install on a laptop that never had any WoW or Battle.net software on it before. started installing right away. desktop still borked.
This all started when I initiated a scan and repair; the battle.net update agent did something to break it and I’m not sure how to undo that without reinstalling windows to this PC. And I’m not gonna do that today.
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Tried disconnecting the router while it was stuck in this loop, and it continued on in the loop like nothing had happened. So whatever the app is broken doing happens regardless of internet connectivity.
have you considered copying the laptop install into your desktop over network (or plug the hard drive from the laptop into the desktop)? it might save you hours of work.
Yep for 12 days now , just going to play new world instead
I did that this morning, and it worked just fine. So i’ve got it running at least on the new PC; but whether or not it installs future updates or a future scan and repair breaks everything again is still an open question I think.
for now I guess i’ll just keep the game installed on the laptop also so I at least have a source of game files.
you got lucky indeed, my old laptop is both old and broken so cant use it, I tried to virtualize an environment to try to emulate a new pc, but it didnt work either, same problem inside a vbox image. so it seems I’ll remain away from wow, just when I thought “it seems the game got at least decent enough for me to return and try it”. it is a real shame.