ever since i downloaded wow, i keep getting the notification that “important game data is still being downloaded” even though ive downloaded all the requisite patches and everything else. i heard that this might be fixed by running the scan and repair tool, but it’s greyed out for me. any ideas?
Hi Indigotears
If wow was recently installed there are some files - cinematics and what not - that are slowly streamed in afterwards. That can take awhile. Was this a recent install?
Is this a spinning icon you see in-game on occasion - that would be your game cache rebuilding itself.
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not too recent, it was about a week ago. and ah okay, i was just curious because before i uninstalled the game that icon would never display itself, and recently my game has been lagging and the icon started showing up so i wasnt sure if there was some sort of thing downloading in the background that i couldnt find, since it wasnt showing up in battlenet, so i opted to scan and repair
Hmm. Week ago the background download should be finished. That would be the only thing I can think of that would mess with the repair function. The ingame spinning icon is likely the cache filling itself as I mentioned.
Try this. Close out of game completely. Restart computer to end any running Blizzard processes. Then right click on the desktop Battle.net Icon. Select “Run as Administrator” from the context menu that appears. Then see if the repair function is available.
When you first open the Battlenet app - check along the left side. Do any games have a bar that is filling - is the Battlenet bar itself filling in the top left corner. That would be patching going on.
I have a question about this option, now that I have 3 folders (classic_beta, ptr and retail), if i have say for example “WoW1 (US): Battle for Azeroth” selected in the drop down, does the scan and repair option only scan that bit of the client? or will it scan the whole WoW folder? (including the ptr and classic files) … or do i need to select each one and do a “scan and repair” for all of them
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