So I’m in a bit of a pickle here in regards to patching World of Warcraft and could really use some feedback, as most of the solutions I’ve found and tried have been to no avail.
WoW has been trying to update through the launcher but has been stuck on “initializing” for far too long.
I’ve tried uninstalling and reinstalling WoW.
I’ve tried to scan and repair but that just puts me in the same boat of staring at “initializing scan” forever, or it says I can’t scan the game while it’s updating (despite pausing the update), or the scan just breaks at some point.
I’ve tried running battle.net in administrator mode.
I’ve tried temporarily disabling any security programs.
I’ve tried ending every background process, restarting my computer, and even deleting the entirety of the battle.net folder.
Kind of at a loss for what to try next. Any suggestions?
I am having the same problem with the retail patch. It did the initializing as a loop to 10% and kept telling me that another download was going on when it wasn’t. I used task manager. I tried the scan and repair which looped as well. I cleaned out the cache. I opened up the all the firewalls and checked the update settings. My classic games worked fine. Finally, went to update Windows and was told that my computer was not fast enough for windows 11, when it is. I finally uninstalled WOW and battlenet . I reinstalled battlenet. Now I can’t install any of the classics or retail. All the things you have done . I am also at a loss. I going to try to copy over from my husband’s computer, because his game is working. I hope I don’t mess his up.
I am back and I got it to work!. I ended up deleting battlenet folder and files, all of the WOW folders and files. I moved my interface/addons and WTF folders to another folder. Disabled all my firewalls. Scanned my hard drive defragged and optimized. Restarted the computer.
Then I reset the WMI repository. Following the instructions from this article https://us.battle.net/support/en/article/000257703 I restarted and then redownloaded the Battlenet. app and check on keeping myself logged into the app. Then I logged in and downloaded Classic Wow, TBS, and finally retail. I unchecked the option of updating for all of these. I put them into an entirely new location folder that I made. I made sure that that before I click to begin the install that the initialization gave me the file size and then I clicked start. I think if you don’t wait for the program to give you the file size it will not work. And if the program does not give the file size , I think it will stay in that loop sequence. This worked for me. Good Luck.