PSA: SET gxAdapter issue

With an auto update today, WOW began crashing at application launch (from bnet, from app folder, from terminal with nice command even).

The fix is related to AMD video card. Go into your config file and change the following line:

SET gxAdapter “AMD Radeon Pro 5500M”
to
SET gxAdapter “Intel(R) UHD Graphics 630”

Be nice if I could use my actual video card though.

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This fix also worked for me, though my issue is specific to launching Burning Crusade Classic. Retail still launches without any crashes, while using the AMD card according to Logs/gx.log.

Worth noting that the line above should be added to WTF/Config.wtf. If you don’t already have a SET gxAdapter line, you can just add it to the end of the list (or create the file if it doesn’t already exist, if you tried re-installing like me). If you copy/paste from the forum post, the line may contain incorrect double quotes, so you might have to re-type those. In addition, if you change system settings after you do finally get the game open, it seems to overwrite the manually added line (making it crash again the next time you open the game).