Fun little Easter Eggs in WoW

Chaos · 5 Mar 2007 at 13:54

Have you tried memtest, some folk with that error had issues with there memory.

Agent_matt · 5 Mar 2007 at 14:08

@ YoungBlood

Try using another cd drive to install them if you can.

Dj_Jestar · 5 Mar 2007 at 14:14

Check you have plenty of virtual memory left (is page file full?)

That error message is all but helpful.. it doesn't tell you what the error was, only what stage the install was at. *shakes fist at lowsy developers*

YoungBlood · 5 Mar 2007 at 14:17

Agent_matt said:
@ YoungBlood

Try using another cd drive to install them if you can.

Im installing it from the cd's onto a friends laptop, the plan is to then network it and copy the folder onto my harddrive.
Also the CD version of the game I have is from the initial launch of the game, how much in the way of patches is there gonna be to DL before it lets me in?

YoungBlood · 5 Mar 2007 at 14:19

Dj_Jestar said:
Check you have plenty of virtual memory left (is page file full?)

That error message is all but helpful.. it doesn't tell you what the error was, only what stage the install was at. *shakes fist at lowsy developers*

VM is fine, one thing I notice though is that when the installer hangs it puts my dual core CPU at 50%, so its maxing one of the cores. Im thinking all my problems are from it being installed onto a dual core machine. Does WoW have issues with dual core, surely not...

Chaos · 5 Mar 2007 at 14:30

YoungBlood said:
Im installing it from the cd's onto a friends laptop, the plan is to then network it and copy the folder onto my harddrive.
Also the CD version of the game I have is from the initial launch of the game, how much in the way of patches is there gonna be to DL before it lets me in?

Theres quite a few patches to download after the install

chimaera · 5 Mar 2007 at 14:36

YoungBlood said:
VM is fine, one thing I notice though is that when the installer hangs it puts my dual core CPU at 50%, so its maxing one of the cores. Im thinking all my problems are from it being installed onto a dual core machine. Does WoW have issues with dual core, surely not...

I may be wrong but can't you tell it to run on a single core only, might help.

Also are your dual core drivers up to date?

platypus · 5 Mar 2007 at 14:37

YoungBlood said:
Also the CD version of the game I have is from the initial launch of the game, how much in the way of patches is there gonna be to DL before it lets me in?

You're looking at almost another GB in patches.

I'd highly recommend you use a mirror and not the blizzard patcher.

YoungBlood · 5 Mar 2007 at 14:47

chimaera said:
I may be wrong but can't you tell it to run on a single core only, might help.

Also are your dual core drivers up to date?

I just tried that, hangs at the same place.
It has just finished installing onto a laptop and is now being copied to my HD, so far so good. Slow connection though, gonna take about 2 hours to copy the folder over.
All I gotta do then is patch it (thanks for the mirror links) and away we go

You watch something go wrong and I never get it to patch

Running version 1.1.2 dated Dec 6 2004

chimaera · 5 Mar 2007 at 15:27

It'll be worth it when you get the game running, just remember to play as the horde and you'll be fine

don't want you turning into another alliance wimp after all this trouble do we? or else i may have to introduce you to my axes

YoungBlood · 5 Mar 2007 at 16:12

I got it installed and running, I have also downloaded a patch 1.12 >> 2.01 however inside the zip file I had only 2 files called wow-partial1.MPQ and wow-partial2.MPQ, does anyone know how I apply the patch.

I have tried google and it says to run updater.exe from inside the WoW folder but I have no such file. No such file came with the patch either.

platypus · 5 Mar 2007 at 16:26

Stick it in your wow directory and launch the game.

YoungBlood · 5 Mar 2007 at 16:36

Tried that but it still starts the auto patcher from version 1.12. I'll just leave the auto patcher running overnight. Speed seems to top out at 32kb/s so gonna be awhile.
Thanks for help all, I would have just gave up long ago if left to my own devices.

chimaera · 5 Mar 2007 at 18:39

YoungBlood said:
I got it installed and running, I have also downloaded a patch 1.12 >> 2.01 however inside the zip file I had only 2 files called wow-partial1.MPQ and wow-partial2.MPQ, does anyone know how I apply the patch.

I have tried google and it says to run updater.exe from inside the WoW folder but I have no such file. No such file came with the patch either.

looks to me as though the download didn't finish properly, fileplanet have the whole set and are fairly reliable when the queues arn't too bad.