Hi,
Since the most recent weekly downtime around June 4th, I have been unable to play at all. I click “Play” and then the button goes transparent saying “Launching” for around 10-15 seconds and then either one of two things will happen. Either the button will go back to “Play” and nothing else, or the I will be prompted with an “Update” which then finishes immediately and I am then returned to the “Play” button once again. No window opens up, I am just stuck in the Battle.net launcher. I was playing perfectly fine before the reset but I have no idea what to do now.
I have run the “Scan and Repair” function a few times with no changes at all. I have also attempted using the additional command line “-d3d11” as well as resetting in-game options, as they have been potential answers that I have found on these forums but nother option has helped. Is there another workaround for this?
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Same thing is happening to me. Do you have an Nvidia card and did you update your drivers recently? That is the only other thing I did before this started happening, so maybe an issue with the new driver?
I’m using AMD and I’ve just updated my drivers but nothing has changed. I’ve also uninstalledand reinstalled Battle.net (and have tried the above tricks again) with no change.
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I didn’t install the new drivers on my laptop, and it launches fine. I tried the same things as you did, disabled AV and even completely uninstalled the game and deleted the directory and reinstalled. Nada, still same behavior. I’m going to try and track down the previous version of the drivers and install those next. Hopefully someone figures this out soon.
I am having the same problem. I have not updated my drivers recently and this all started after I downloaded the Beta for TWW. I end up having to close battle net several times and end up with all the launch screen based on how many times I closed out and restarted. Hopefully blizzard can figure out what is causing this issue.
Yes, same problem on my end, Monday night before the patch, everything worked just fine, then Blizz Patched me out of the game. I am, for lack of a better term, getting sick of this. Haven’t seen past the first screen since Tuesday, so…
And none of their lame suggestions work. I do not even have the Beta for the TWW, though I pre-purchased ages ago. I don’t have time for that anyway. I just want to be able to log in, and relax and do simple old quests. If I am no longer able to do that, then at least let me get to my char screen so I can make figurines of all my chars before I delete the game and cancel you off of Payment. (52 chars. It’s gonna take a while, and a few rolls of filament.) Shame too, being treated this way, after 20 years of subscription to this game too. Guess that and a couple silver won’t getcha an ale, eh?
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I have my game up and running now. After completing all of steps that I described above, I completely deleted my World of Warcraft folder. I then got a hold of my brother’s World of Warcraft files as he always has his game up to date, then copied those files and placed them where my old files went. I had to wait for everything to move over but it’s working for now.
Yeah I did a complete uninstall, deleted the entire folder and downloaded again. I’ll have to try the copy of the files from my laptop to see if that works, otherwise maybe just not deal with until Tues.
Welp, here’s a new one. I play D4 and this started happening on that game as well today. It was right after it downloaded a new update. After the update Windows was complaining that the D4 exe was a 16 bit app and to ask the vendor for a 64bit compatible version lol. I did a scan/repair and after that was completed, I’m on the click play, wait for launch, back the the play button thing.
So, I copied the entire WoW folder from my laptop and copied it to my PC. The game now launches. So, a completely fresh install of Windows and BNet and the game didn’t do anything, but copying from somewhere else did? Going to try this on D4 to see if this “trick” works there as well. In any case, super LAME.
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Also having the same issue - every game I have runs perfectly fine except for anything to do with the Bnet client. I’ve tried to force start the application through the file itself but it says ‘invalid access to memory location’, which leads me to believe that the awful bnet client is trying to install a 32-bit application on a 64-bit machine or something equally dumb.
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Just and FYI, this worked for D4 as well.
The same issue has poppued up after the most recent patch. Downloaded the latest patch and I can’t launch the game. Will have to uninstall and reinstall again in the hopes that it works. I wish that there was a permanent fix for this, it’s really annoying.
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This is happening to me, as well. I’m on macOS. Game won’t launch, but I don’t have another WoW to copy. I’ve exhausted every single guide to get it to launch.
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Same issue here. Everything was working fine now suddenly can’t launch the game. I’ve tried all of the solutions suggested in other forums with no luck.
Would love some new solutions. I was looking forward to playing this pre-launch patch =(
Same issue, at this point I’m just tagging in every forum that mentions this because the solutions didn’t seem to work and Blizzard’s CS is out of ideas.
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I’ve put in two tickets on this issue and got a canned response (with typos -.-) mentioning everything that has been said here, along with the recommendation to check the forums. The issue gets marked “solved” lol. The only games that do this are Blizz titles from Bnet launcher. There is a goofy file or something on their end I’d really like to see this taken seriously and resolved. Some reinstalls (not fixes but complete reinstalls) have temporarily fixed WoW until the next update is pushed out. Every update lately is causing this issue again. I don’t want to reinstall every Blizz game every time there is an update, especially when I am paying monthly!
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While I have no evidence of this being the problem at all, I’ve just sorta been launching WoW from the folder and avoiding bnet. I remember a week or two ago while trying to find some kind of fix for this, I saw someone mention bnet and 32-bit and now my guess is that happened due to Bnet thinking I have a 32-bit version of WoW or something.
it won’t allow me to launch from there…that worked for me a couple times, but now no such luck. I generally have to do a scan/repair or a full reinstall each time they update.
todays message is somehow it wont run on my computer now…what??? I, like others above, would really love it if someone in Blizz took this seriously…as Im scanning…again…
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The problem seems to be getting worse. Reinstalls are no longer fixing it and neither are the scans. We are paying money for this game, Blizzard really needs to look into this
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