Is anyone else getting this when they try to launch?
Very aware maintenance is happening but never seen this error when I try to launch the game before. Thanks.
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yes I do have the same error since they started Maintenance
I have the same problem since last night
That’s a relief… was worried I had a corrupted driver or something on my end
I have the same issue. I was in the Beta and I started getting that error several weeks ago and it looks like it did not get fixed for release …
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I had the exact same problem in beta a few weeks ago when I tried logging in. Didn’t think twice about it cuz I didn’t care that much but if it got carried to retail that’s going to suck… makes sense now.
yeah… yesterday I installed PTR in my folder for the first time, and I had a similar error, its not the exact same thing but very close. I did not worry too much then as I could still play normal retail. But if it carries something similar to retail after maintenance, kinda sucks.
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I just updated my machine and I am getting this same error.
Full errors are as follows:
1st error is as follows:
World of Warcraft: Wow.exe - System Error
(X) The program can’t start because api-ms-win-core-com-I1-1-0.dll is missing from your computer. Try reinstalling the program to fix this problem.
(OK Button)
2nd error is as follows:
Wow
(X) This application has encountered a critical error:
ERROR #132 (0x85100084) Fatal exception!
Program C:\Program Files (x86)\World of Warcraft_retail_\Wow.exe
ProcessID: 2288
ThreadID: 3672
Exception: ACCESS_VIOLATION
The instruction at “0x00000001418f126a” referenced memory at “0x0000000000000020”.
The memory could not be “read”.
Press OK to terminate the application
(OK Button)
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Exact same issue here, every time I try to launch. First I get the missing .dll error, then ERROR #132. It just started today, the game was running fine last night.
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Go in to your game settings and change the Directx12 back to 11 or 11 legacy… that fixed it for me. On a older machine myself.
How did you do this without getting into the game to change the settings? is there a way to change that without loading the game?
Edit: https://us.battle.net/support/en/article/56554
Found this article on how to do it out of game. Tried both 11 and 11 legacy with no luck. not sure what else to try.
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I had to set my DX to -d3d11legacy in Game Settings to get it to load. Strange it only started today…
Well here’s hoping this gets resolved.
Another forum thread said that this might be a windows 7 issue and that windows 7 while being listed as the min OS for Dragonflight may not actually be supported.
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Having Windows 7 here, it could be.
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Anyone tried re-installing…? if it fixes this for windows 7 folks
I’m on windows 7, trying to help my bro get his going, but i was actually able to get to the log in screen and change the settings back to Dx11 legacy, I got the error at first when i pressed play on the blizzard app, but when i closed the error the wow login screen still turned on for me after my screen flickered black a few times… idk why.
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Gonna wait for the inevitable “upgrade to Windows 10”. If I can run it in DX11 legacy mode, so be it. I won’t notice much difference in graphics display.
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I reinstalled and it didn’t fix. Windows 7 as well. I just started getting the error today. I ran the game just fine yesterday.
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I think a reinstall is a drastic action, which is why I didn’t do it. For me, using legacy DX worked. The thought of having to redownload the entire game has me hurling daggers at the screen.
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I certainly didn’t want to! Hopefully it will prevent someone from the going through the trouble, though.
I didn’t know “legacy” was an option. Just 11 didn’t work for me, but I’ll try legacy as soon as I get home.