Did you guys try that suggestion? My friend was stuck and tried a lot but once he tried that one it began installing.
Try converting your bnet client to beta in the settings. Worked for me once it switched over.
Thanks for the suggestion, but it has not worked for me.
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Hi Reckin, I gave this another try and I am still stuck at 2145581/214551. I appreciate your suggestion.
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This just worked for me, after throwing the kitchen sink at the problem: https://battle.net/support/article/200483. Specifically, running blizzard app in a selective startup.
Hi Teach! I appreciate you posting this. Unfortunately, that solution did not work for my wow install, but it did help me understand how much bloating I had on my startup. Thanks for that!
eyyyyyy it worked for me! appreciate it
I found a workaround that worked for me. Restart the computer in safe mode with networking, launch bnet and BAM! I hope this helps other people and can be put to use to help find the root cause.
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Can confirm that this has worked for me when nothing else would! Thank you!
What that means is that something that loads on your computer in normal boot, is not letting battlenet update. By booting in safe mode with networking, you are bypassing the issue.
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this work for me thank!
nothing worked so I installed it on a external drive with an old laptop and copied the installation folder to my current computer.
I’m on windows 11 with the new 22h2 update. The old laptop was windows 8.1
Thanks for the story.
Hope everyone in this thread got the game downloaded and is enjoying themselves.
I dont know about the battlenet issues as i have it, but i can lauch the game from the wow launcher in main retail directory
it got about 60% thru and stopped, i get play the game thru the wow.exe in retail file, so it battlenet screwing up
“This topic has been solved”… The **** it has Blizzard.
How do you get WoW to update without BNET, using just wow.exe to launch?
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I tried just about every suggestion I saw on here:
- Run as Admin
- Boot into Safemode
- Uninstall Battle.net, clear out all the WoW folders per Blizzard blue-post instructions, reinstall
- Scan/Fix
- Create another ‘administrator’ account on the machine and use that instead
- Close other applications (Steam, etc)
- Switched to Google’s DNS
- Uncap download speed in Battle.net
- Various restarts / killing agent from task manager
None of that worked. The only thing that ended up solving my issue was updating from Windows 10 → 11.
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World of Warcraft initial download / install is stuck on Initializing (2145571/2145571) 0% after 21 hours of running.
A number of fixes are also talked about in this thread https://eu.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/wow-download-stuck-on-initializing/402185 none of those have worked.
I’ve removed every trace of battle.net / WOW / Blizzard from my PC three separate times to no avail. I’ve tried starting battle.et as an admin, in online and offline mode, in beta version, in compatibility for windows 8. I’ve updated my pc.
According to the task manager the download / battle.net update agent is no linger using any % of my network.
As an update, Battle.net Agent / Agent.8067 is crashing roughly every minute and creating a crash log.
An application encountered a critical error:
Program: C:/ProgramData/Battle.net/Agent/Agent.8067/Agent.exe
Exception: 0xe06d7363 (unknown exception) at 0023:0x75a3e092
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So I don’t know if this comes into play with any of this issues but I recently was roaming through my setting (also having the initialization issue and wondering if I could do anything to fix it through there) and saw the beta tab in the battle.net launcher settings. Out of curiosity clicked on it and saw there was something going in there. There is a percentage as if its downloading something but I can’t stop it from doing things not sure if that is part of the issue but maybe.
So I have managed to find a way to force the patches, not going to say it will work for everyone but eh its a thing.
Delete the files in program data, stop all antivirus things, turned off pc and un plug it from power. Turn pc back on start battle.net and wait took 5 ish min to start patching after that…
This is dumb to have to do all this to patch WoW sure there might a better way to fix this but really. Only mmo I have this level of issues its dumb on so many levels to have to find work arounds to patch a game because the launcher is bad but life.