What is a realistic time frame that we should be waiting out this “Initializing…” phase?
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So aside from sitting at initializing, is this issue also affecting connection speed? I’ve finally starting downloading everything 84.24 GB in total, and I’m sitting at an average speed of 100 KB/s on a Gig connection. At that rate I should be able to play sometime around Christmas.
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Just decided to resub today and redownload everything. Currently sitting at 140KB/s on a gig connection. It’s great 
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I see the Blue post saying that this issue may be cause by something else an hour ago, but my battle net has been sitting on initializing for 20 minutes.
Yep. Still initializing. Havent had any problems updating before.
been waiting a while now.
*been waiting for over an hour now.
Im wainting here for four hours. And there is more posts about eternal loops
I reinstalling bnet app, it is taking forever, but is moving, very slow, THANK GOD I didnt deleted the entire game T.T
I am installing at about 75kb per h… long time, lol.
Sitting at initializing. Did the whole stop the app and kill the processes thing several times to no avail. Not uninstalling as it shouldn’t be a corruption.
Watching the processes it went from Agent and two Battle.net.exe processes to forking another five bne processes. It is trying something behind the scenes but isn’t overtly indicating success at anything other than spinning a circle.
Finally started working. Download speed is about 700 KB/s. Update is over 4GB for me. Tempted to just hit play but worried it’s gonna mess up the download. Guess I wait…
edit: spoke too soon, down to 300 KB/s already.
lol 17 kbs
After 24hrs of playing “do this, it fixes it” post, I decided to pop in a newly formatted HD, load a fresh Win11 OS and see if the issue still persist. No AV, no previous installs, no Windows update, just BNET and WoW, guess what? Yep, still exist.
It’s not us, it’s them.
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been waiting on update for an hour.
looks like you called it.
I am finally installing
At 20% of update
I’ve been stuck for a few hours…
Not sure if this is related, or if I have a different or bigger issue. At first when I tried to go in I was getting an error that said “CAS system was unable to initialize” and also said “Tact instance creation failed” and “Error (16)”. However, shortly before that I had left my computer unattended and instead of it just logging me out, everything froze and I had to restart the computer. I’m trying to figure out if I have a bigger issue and may need to take different steps.
It has stopped giving that error when I try to go into the game, but it is also not letting me in. It says it is starting, and then does nothing.
So, it took me 1hour only to reinstall bnet app, now ill wait for the download of the new content to initiate