Whats up with the (hardware changed, reload default settings?) message that pops up after you click the play button on the launcher?
This seemed to have started about a week ago and seems like a constant thing now.
I always click NO for it.
I never changed anything on my computer at all or modified any computer settings in months.
Gilither,
This was a bug over 10 years ago that's long been fixed as far as I can tell.
I can reproduce it if I go in and alter a registry setting value for my video card that the game client checks, but it changes it back after generating the dialog box and doesn't seem to really care how I answer it. I can only guess you might have a permissions issue with the Windows User account you're using? Try creating a new one, exiting Windows, and getting back on with the new account and see if it does it again on the second try at logging in.
https://us.battle.net/support/en/article/Creating-a-New-Administrator-Account
You may also need to ensure you have the Windows Secondary Logon Service enabled.
https://us.battle.net/support/en/article/Secondary-Logon
This was a bug over 10 years ago that's long been fixed as far as I can tell.
I can reproduce it if I go in and alter a registry setting value for my video card that the game client checks, but it changes it back after generating the dialog box and doesn't seem to really care how I answer it. I can only guess you might have a permissions issue with the Windows User account you're using? Try creating a new one, exiting Windows, and getting back on with the new account and see if it does it again on the second try at logging in.
https://us.battle.net/support/en/article/Creating-a-New-Administrator-Account
You may also need to ensure you have the Windows Secondary Logon Service enabled.
https://us.battle.net/support/en/article/Secondary-Logon
Thanks, that seems to have worked.
I'm having the same (or very similar problem) as detailed here, and it's permanently set my gameplay to very low performance:
It began randomly this week, the first time I declined to reset to defaults. Then the next day I did the same, but since then my game has been running in really poor quality graphics and low FPS. If I manually set graphics to higher quality it just about ceases my gameplay (~10 FPS). I have a brand new computer that was previously running at ~80 FPS consistently on mid-settings. I have re-installed, and tried the solutions mentioned (creating new user account and confirming secondary login).
Very sad to be stuck on such poor-quality. :(
Help?
05/11/2017 04:38 PMPosted by GilitherWhats up with the (hardware changed, reload default settings?) message that pops up after you click the play button on the launcher?
This seemed to have started about a week ago and seems like a constant thing now.
I always click NO for it.
I never changed anything on my computer at all or modified any computer settings in months.
It began randomly this week, the first time I declined to reset to defaults. Then the next day I did the same, but since then my game has been running in really poor quality graphics and low FPS. If I manually set graphics to higher quality it just about ceases my gameplay (~10 FPS). I have a brand new computer that was previously running at ~80 FPS consistently on mid-settings. I have re-installed, and tried the solutions mentioned (creating new user account and confirming secondary login).
Very sad to be stuck on such poor-quality. :(
Help?
10/24/2018 08:56 AMPosted by WholégrainI'm having the same (or very similar problem) as detailed here, and it's permanently set my gameplay to very low performance:05/11/2017 04:38 PMPosted by GilitherWhats up with the (hardware changed, reload default settings?) message that pops up after you click the play button on the launcher?
This seemed to have started about a week ago and seems like a constant thing now.
I always click NO for it.
I never changed anything on my computer at all or modified any computer settings in months.
It began randomly this week, the first time I declined to reset to defaults. Then the next day I did the same, but since then my game has been running in really poor quality graphics and low FPS. If I manually set graphics to higher quality it just about ceases my gameplay (~10 FPS). I have a brand new computer that was previously running at ~80 FPS consistently on mid-settings. I have re-installed, and tried the solutions mentioned (creating new user account and confirming secondary login).
Very sad to be stuck on such poor-quality. :(
Help?
This started today for me. exact same experience
11/09/2018 09:00 AMPosted by Fante10/24/2018 08:56 AMPosted by WholégrainI'm having the same (or very similar problem) as detailed here, and it's permanently set my gameplay to very low performance: ...
It began randomly this week, the first time I declined to reset to defaults. Then the next day I did the same, but since then my game has been running in really poor quality graphics and low FPS. If I manually set graphics to higher quality it just about ceases my gameplay (~10 FPS). I have a brand new computer that was previously running at ~80 FPS consistently on mid-settings. I have re-installed, and tried the solutions mentioned (creating new user account and confirming secondary login).
Very sad to be stuck on such poor-quality. :(
Help?
This started today for me. exact same experience
Same here. The game randomly crashed on me last night and when I went to log back in I got the "hardware has changed" error, my settings were all changed from high/ultra to low/fair and my fps has dropped from an average of ~90-100 to only 10-15 and any type of movement is choppy and lagged. I'm running the game on a brand new (2 months old) Asus gaming laptop and I never had any issues running WoW until last night.