Game wont launch

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the launcher comes up fine, but when i hit PLAY, nothing is

help?

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Able to login without any issues. But trying to switch realms just sits there. Show no characters on any realms. When I try to login with character just kicks me back to the character screen.

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I am also unable to log in, though I reach the character select screen just fine. The loading bar stops at max and then disconnects me after a minute or two

Edit: I tried closing out of the launcher completely and reloading it, but nothing changed.

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Im stuck on loading screen.

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Completed logged out of launcher and came back in and was able to get into the game this time.

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Same issue here, characters dont appear on the server select screen but load, when i try to get into the server, get stuck at loading screen.

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I can load the character screen, but once the load screen gets to around 80% it freezes then I get the disconnect screen. Super fun.

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I canā€™t get in either, but perhaps itā€™s hit or miss.

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I Been stuck for over 15mn now.

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Took a LONG time switching realms. Shut down and rebooted a couple of times. Then I finally got to the right realm and when I tried to log in my Lvl 60 Toon it said ā€œA character with that name already exists.ā€ Not making a new Toon. Same Toon Iā€™ve been playing for a while. Yes. There is already a Toon with that name. MINE!

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So far I been on load screen two time 20min each time still not got in.

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Having same problem. on US-Malā€™ganis and the loading screen gets near the end, then disconnects. Happens on all my characters, all addons disabled

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Experiencing the same with Darkspearā€¦ sigh

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I can get in on classic.

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Same, i hit play it switches and says launching but does nothing and after afew secs changes back to play

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Iā€™m dealing with the same issue. Iā€™ve opened a ticket with the following information:

World of Warcraft no longer launches after Tuesdayā€™s (7/30) patch. When I press the Play button, it changes to Launching for about 10-20 seconds, then turns back to the Play button without actually running the application. I have completed the following troubleshooting steps:

(All testing was done with no antivirus software installed and windows defender disabled. No other applications were running during testing.)

  1. Rebooted the system
  • Issue remains
  1. Used the launcherā€™s scan and repair tool
  • Issue remains
  1. Checked and updated my graphics card drivers. Rebooted and tested again.
    -Issue remains
  2. Uninstalled and reinstalled World of Warcraft
  • Issue remains
  1. Uninstalled and reinstalled the Battle.net launcher
  • Issue remains
  1. Attempted to run worldofwarcraft.exe in the retail folder and recieved a Windows message ā€˜This app canā€™t run on your pc.ā€™ My pc has run wow consistently at over 100fps. It has an Nvidia GeForce 2070 super, 32 gigs of Ram, a 10th gen intel i7 10700, and a terabyte of SSD.
  • Issue remains
  1. Deleted WTF, Cache, and Interface
    -Issue remains
  2. Added the dx11 force launch in game settings (-d3d11)
    -Issue remains

Please assist, Iā€™m unable to launch the application at all.

BB-area52 - Iā€™ve seen other people mentioning the steps Iā€™ve tried as helping them, maybe give them a try yourself and let me know if any of them work for you? Good luck!

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I had this issue a few weeks ago, and it went away with time. I also contacted Blizzardā€™s support and they just told me to ask in the community.

The issue has now come back, (was able to run it fine yesterday morning, so maybe not Tuesdayā€™s patch) except whereas with the first issue, my computer would tell me it canā€™t run WoW when I try running it from the folder, now, my computer says ā€œInvalid access to memory location.ā€

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No one has a solution for this?

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Has anyone found a solution? Iā€™m having the same issue as Aquinas. I press ā€œPlayā€, it changes to ā€œLaunchingā€ for 20 seconds, and switches back to play. When I try running wow.exe directly it says ā€œThis app canā€™t run on your PCā€, even when running as administrator. Iā€™ve tried everything Aquinas lists in his troubleshooting steps, and Iā€™ve clean installed the game twice now, still nothing.

I have a 3070 ti, ryzen 7 5800x, 32 gigs of ram, 2 TB ssd, and Windows 10 64-bit. I donā€™t think it has anything to do with my specs. All of my drivers are updated. Please help. Thanks.

Edit for anyone who has the same issue: I used the ā€œScan and Repairā€ option in bnet launcher, and when it was done and said ā€œUpdateā€, I instead closed out of bnet, shut down any instances left in task manager, launched up a VPN, and then relaunched bnet and pressed ā€œUpdateā€. For whatever reason that fixed it for me this time. Hopefully if this happens again that will work.

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This just worked for me