Same here. Even started a clean Config.wtf since my older one had quite a bit of configuration info. Same issue: Starts up, initializes screen around the edges, then crashes out with crash reporter.
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That is being investigated, it should not have happened for sure. they absolutely don’t need to be using avx2
I’m lucky coffee lake has avx2, so my intel cpu isn’t having the crash.
Tried the config.wtf edit. Not getting an immediate crash, but game just… hanging and not opening.
Very frustrating. WoW has consistently been one of the few major MMOs that supports Mac players, but that support has been increasingly thin.
The fact that we’re on the second day after release and there has been absolutely zero communication from the devs on major issues stopping mac players from even getting into the game is… disappointing, to say the least.
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mine hung for about 20-30 seconds and then i saw the wow icon in dock and clicked it, and it took me to the character screen
Mine hung for a lot longer (30+ minutes), but I was able to get in directly bypassing the launcher.
There seems to be a major issue with fullscreen vs windowed mode- the game was hanging really badly in fullscreen, but works OK now that it’s windowed.
Hey all,
Just chiming in here to say we’re aware of the issue with the intro cinematic causing a crash on launch for certain older Mac models. Our WoW team is investigating and working on a fix.
Thanks to Omegal for providing a workaround earlier in the thread. If you have any trouble locating the config.wtf file you can get to it easily by opening the Battle.net app, click on Options (next to the Play button), then Reveal in Finder. Open the World of Warcraft\_retail_\WTF folder to find config.wtf. Then change SET playIntroMovie to "10" and save the file, then re-launch via the Play button.
If you haven’t seen the Dragonflight intro cinematic already and would like to view it out of game, it can be found on Youtube here.
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Fixed!!!
SET playIntroMovie “10” – got me into the game for the first time since patch.
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Have done just that and no changes. It’s still crashing. Will hold out hope for a fix. I am submitting the crash reports for each crash so you guys should have that info sent to you.
I’m up to date on everything for my M1 Macbook Air and I’ve been getting the loading screen before being d/c’d. I was able to play last night when the servers went up. I will mention I have wow on a separate hard drive.
Created the config.wtf file which got me as far as asking for region then a black screen (waited in anticipation) then error.
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That’s where I’m at. I made a new ‘config.wtf’ file in WTF & added the workaround text but the game won’t load far enough I think.
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You don’t name it Config.wtf, you change the file extension to wtf from txt.
Go to Finder-> Preferences-> Advanced and then click the box that says ‘Show File Extensions’
That’ll let you see the txt that needs to be changed to wtf
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Me too- I had the exact same issue.
Jesus Christ, after I got into the game using the above’s example, setting the variable to 10, I had 37 in-game crashes in 1 hour. Even if I stood still in a place no players were seen, I still crashed. Just went to my Error folder and found 37 error files.
Crashed Thread
Exception.Assertion:
Thread 0x00000307 [Stack Base: 0x00007FFEEB3BC000 Used Space: 66464/67104768 bytes]
0 0x0000000106136FE5 “com.blizzard.worldofwarcraft”
1 0x00000001061EB8D0 “com.blizzard.worldofwarcraft”
2 0x00000001068638EB “com.blizzard.worldofwarcraft”
3 0x0000000106885406 “com.blizzard.worldofwarcraft”
4 0x00000001055AB139 “com.blizzard.worldofwarcraft”
5 0x0000000106C96F37 “com.blizzard.worldofwarcraft”
6 0x0000000106C9530B “com.blizzard.worldofwarcraft”
7 0x0000000105422E89 “com.blizzard.worldofwarcraft”
8 0x0000000105F01F04 “com.blizzard.worldofwarcraft”
9 0x0000000105F03D56 “com.blizzard.worldofwarcraft”
10 0x0000000106392B7E “com.blizzard.worldofwarcraft”
11 0x0000000107FE0C77 “com.blizzard.worldofwarcraft”
12 0x0000000107FB61EC “com.blizzard.worldofwarcraft”
13 0x00000001049C5C35 “com.blizzard.worldofwarcraft”
14 0x00007FFF6E5A7CC9 “libdyld.dylib” start + 1
<:Exception.Assertion>
Assertion
Exception Raised!
App: /Applications/World of Warcraft/retail/World of Warcraft.app/Contents/MacOS/World of Warcraft
Error Code: 0x85100086
Exception: EXC_BAD_ACCESS
Description: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at 0x00000000000000F2
Registers
rax : 0x0000000000000000 rbx : 0x0000000000000000 rcx : 0x00007FC1D4593FD0 rdx : 0x00007FFEEB3ABCF0 rsi : 0x00000000000000C9
rdi : 0x00007FC1A91E1348 rbp : 0x00007FFEEB3ABCE0 rsp : 0x00007FFEEB3ABC60 r8 : 0x0000000000000001 r9 : 0x0000000000000000
r10 : 0x0000000108511740 r11 : 0x0000000108511738 r12 : 0x00007FFEEB3ABC88 r13 : 0x0000000000000000 r14 : 0x0000000000000400
r15 : 0x00000000000000C9 rip : 0x0000000106136FE5 rflags : 0x0000000000010246 cs : 0x000000000000002B fs : 0x0000000000000000
gs : 0x0000000000000000
mxcsr : 0x00001FBF mxcsrmask : 0x0000FFFF
xmm0 : 0x43BEEF6A 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 xmm1 : 0x43F0402E 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000
xmm2 : 0x45A2DEA1 0x453B460E 0x00000000 0x00000000 xmm3 : 0x45A2DEA1 0x453B460E 0x00000000 0x00000000
xmm4 : 0x459EEB32 0x4533D635 0x00000000 0x00000000 xmm5 : 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000
xmm6 : 0x43CC985F 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 xmm7 : 0xBFC79597 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000
xmm8 : 0x01000001 0xC3800808 0x2000001E 0x00001004 xmm9 : 0xBF000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000
xmm10 : 0x3F800000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 xmm11 : 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000
xmm12 : 0x45157440 0x45157440 0x00000000 0x00000000 xmm13 : 0xC65BB400 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000
xmm14 : 0xC3C1A200 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 xmm15 : 0xC3895FE0 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000
================================================================================
<Exception.IssueType> Exception
Crash
<Exception.PrimaryAssignment> .Mac Team
Exception.Summary:
ERROR #134 (0x85100086) KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at 0x00000000000000F2
EXC_BAD_ACCESS
<:Exception.Summary>
Thank you! This really helped a lot! I am not as skilled in the Mac environment as I should be.
I got in… finally. Everything sort of okay, tho the interface seems a little messed. Really wanted to be chilling w Halloween content rn. Thanks all for the help.
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What did you do specifically? none of the fixes has worked for me.
Appreciate that you shared the fix Omegal! Works great.
I reinstall and don’t have a config.wtf file at all. Is there something I can copy paste over that’ll get me going?
still getting 6B1B746B-8F06-4DA7-BDFE-A99AD76AB55A error
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