Help! Classic WoW crashes with Error 132

[Thantore-scilla (Thantore)]

That was where I disabled startup addons? Yes I had disabled all of them and restarted the computer but not luck

[Tratt-4833 (Tratt)]

No - the Selective Startup disables most processes running on your computer.

Follow the instructions on the first portion of this support page carefully. (The other sections are for pinpointing troublesome processes later)

Closing Background Applications

[Thantore-scilla (Thantore)]

Im sorry, all this article says to do is this, am I missing something?

Windows® 10

Before trying the steps below, close unnecessary programs and restart your computer.

Identify Problematic Startup Items

1. Press Ctrl+Shift+Esc to open the Task Manager.
2. Click More Details.
3. Select the Startup tab.
4. Right-click on each item and select Disable .
5. Restart the computer.

If this resolves the issue, enable the startup application one at a time to determine which one is causing the problem. You will need to restart between each application you enable.

Note : To re-enable startup applications, follow steps 1-4 and select Enable .

[Tratt-4833 (Tratt)]

Yes follow that exactly. If you no longer crash then we know it is one of the programs you disabled that is causing the crash. It’s detective work.

[Thantore-scilla (Thantore)]

Ok I opened task manager, went to the start up tab and disabled all start up processes. Restarted the computer and still crashed. Under the processes tab, there are 54 active background processes. Am I supposed to do anything with them? or just make the adjustments in the start up tab?

[Tratt-4833 (Tratt)]

Hi again Thantore

This recent thread here. The error is identical to yours - pointing at same ATI dlls. Notebook with onboard AMD graphics.

Error 132 classic wow

hi, I get a 132 error when starting classic on my laptop. here is the dxdiag ------------------ System Information ------------------ Time of this report: 8/15/2019, 14:59:37 Machine name: DESKTOP-33BFI9V Machine Id: {35421ACF-2841-4CD8-B2BC-15400F9FF4B2} Operating System: Windows 10 Home 64-bit (10.0, Build 17763) (17763.rs5_release.180914-1434) Language: English (Regional Setting: English) System Manufacturer: ASUSTeK Computer…

I think this is beyond my fixes and we have tried a good number of those. Let’s get a ticket open:

https://us.battle.net/support/en/help/product/wow/158/164/channels

I would provide the link for this troubleshoot in your ticket. May save some back and forth.

[Junna-dragonblight]

It could be something with windows update. Last weekend I decided to let windows update my video driver (ATI HD 6670) and it does use the latest AMD WHQL driver from Nov. 2015.

If I install the driver from AMD, it works fine. The same driver installed by windows update however, does crash in WoW Classic. It crashes on the ati driver.

It is something with the windows driver that does not install correctly.

[Nathardrick]

Hey there friends,

Thanks for working hard to find an answer for this. Something to try that we have seen success with is forcing windowed mode for classic.

1. Go to Blizzard Battle.net Desktop App WoW tab
2. Select Game Settings from Option dropdown
3. in Game Settings, activate the option “Additional command line argument.” Type in:
   -windowed

Just chiming in to help out if we can.

/Nathardrick

[Thantore-scilla (Thantore)]

OMG it worked!!! I was thinking I was never going to see that classic login screen! Thank you so much and thank you so much to Tratt who worked so hard and helped me so much. You guys are amazing!