My WoW game recently started minimizing itself to the task bar randomly. I thought maybe using the scan and repair tool might detect what was causing it and help try to fix it. It didn’t. It completely broke my game and rendered it unable to even do anything other than try to patch (for some reason). So, i completely uninstalled it, and all other Blizzard games attached to Battle.net and even the launcher itself and removed and deleted all folders for everything Blizzard based. Reinstalled the launcher. Reinstalled Hearthstone. It installed and plays just fine. WoW will NOT go any farther than getting stuck in a permanent initialization loop. Until i can find a way around this problem, the game is useless to me. I’m installing it with no anti virus or firewall active, to make sure that isn’t the problem. It obviously isn’t. Someone, please help.
My WoW patching always gets stuck at initializing. I click pause and resume and that fixes it.
Might need to exit out of battle.net entirely, and then check the task manager for battle.net processes. End them, restart battle.net.
I’ve had to do that a few times… But minimizing constantly isn’t one of the problems I’ve run into before.
Weird =/
In Jesus name I wish they would just support Linux already. I am so sick and tired of having to reboot into Windows, wait for updates, deal with Windows issues, etc. I use Linux at work, just support Ubuntu for all I care but we need something more stable than Windows.
I don’t have no problem playing in Linux.
It’s even super simple if you have an AMD card. But I have a Nvidia card and I have no problems.
I can’t seem to get it to work anymore after an update. The battle.net launcher will not launch in proton anymore.
I just download thur lutris script and go through that way and I think it’s on wine version 7.1
I tried on Lutris and the game will freeze after about an hour of gameplay and then it wont launch requiring I remove the game and reinstall everything.
Oh wow, thank god I don’t have that problem…but my distro of choice is fedora
I will check into RHEL which is what I use at work or Fedora.
OP, Have you tried another keyboard to see if it continues? What mode are you playing in?
I’ve never had the first issue in Windows. Is it possible you’re just a Linux fanboy?
ah the “works on my machine” fallacy, good argument much good, wish I was you.
Edit… You know you may be right. I hadn’t considered that before.
I will just never understand the argument against supporting Fedora or Ubuntu. I say Ubuntu because snaps fully support DRM and closed sourceness. It is trivial to add snapd to any systemd distro. It resolves dependency hell. It makes it work uniformly and would resolve 99.9% of the issues I face in any given day. Just add vulkan support and support Snap.
Also check to see if you have sapi.dll
That was causing me to crash a little bit too. Added that DLL through wine tricks, not a problem.
Post in the technical support forum where you find people who have seen pretty much everything.
The only time i have had this happen was my computer was running some idiotic process that grabbed focus.
Been a while but i hunted it down and made it stop, so i don’t recall exactly.
Check events folders to see what just ran if you manage to get wow running again.
It’s been stuck in an endless initialization loop for hours now. All i want is to play the game, and i can’t.
Move this to texh support so they can help you better.