Wow

[davebebbz]

yesterday i wrote about how i was having problems with my pc and WOW. i plessed to say with alot of help my pc is now runnign smoother i just have to buy more cooling and a better power supply. but WOW still wont install correctly its always corrupting. Now i looked on there forums and they say any hard drives over 127 Gig amy have problems with corrupt files which is what im having, the drive im installnig on is 149 gig, is there any1 who can conferm or deny what i have found because im a bit skethcy. thanks alot

[Azazel]

i have a 250 gb hard rive and mine is fine...apparently they have been having problems ever since patch 2.4

[xylomn]

never had that problem related to large hard drive its running fine on 2 pcs with larger than 129GB hdds here (a 250GB and a 500GB).

[davebebbz]

well i have starting the install on a 49 gig partiotion lets see what happens

[davebebbz]

well i dont know what is going on but no mater how i install warcraft it gets damaged during install, i have the downloaded install file that doesnt work and hte discks dont work and blizzard tech support jsut dont e-mail back which is great

[Evo85]

I have a 250gig HD and never had a problem with corrupt files while installing WoW.

Perhaps one of the CD's are bad?

Have anyone you could borrow CD's from?

[Azazel]

I have a 250gig HD and never had a problem with corrupt files while installing WoW.

Perhaps one of the CD's are bad?

yeah...try another client

[ShadowFold]

https://www.worldofwarcraft.com/account/download_wow.html

DL the client from there :) I use that instead of CD's now.

[davebebbz]

i have tried the discs and the downloaded install files il ltry to get my friends copy but its starting to wind me up i amy jsut find a diff mmo that runs properly lol

[TechnicalFreak]

Have you tried any "tools" to check surface of the hdd, and got any reports from S.M.AR.T. feature (if available on your disk)?

I do not know the age of your disk or anything what so ever, that's the main reason for my question.

Next question is, what brand? If you have multiple harddrives, have you tried the manufact. tools for installation under your OS?

A friend of mine, his son plays WoW, and I have noticed that it's a bit "slow & choppy" from time to time. But that's about it.. 500Gb SATA disk used on a HP machine.

Good luck anyway, hope you manage to solve the issue.

[Azazel]

em get the trial dvd...it costs £1 $1....and it has the whole game on it

[Evo85]

Tech Freak has a good point. First thing I do if I start getting corrupted files is run WD lifeguard.

[davebebbz]

its a seagate 320G drive about 6 months old. i have the seagate tool and it passes all the tests im runnig defrag adn scan disk at the moment to double check. i have just partioned it

[davebebbz]

As i may give up on WOW soo ncan any1 recomened a replacement MMORPG

[Evo85]

BTW, dont expect much from Blizz Tech support.

When 2.4 came out, my comp started hard locking at WoW start up. Tech support swore it had to be my comp. Even though it has over 60+ hours of stress testing and never did it before..

It stopped when they released 2.4.1 bug fix patch.... ME :slap: Blizz


Edit: I remember a bud of mine had a similar problem and it turned out to be his IDE cable. Worth a shot anyways. ;)

[davebebbz]

i think im just gonna cancel my subcription and pack away my games cos i cant get it to work

[davebebbz]

well chk disk has passed my drive i wil lbuy a ide cable and try that the only thing i havent tested is my processer

[davebebbz]

Ok so i just ran Prime 95 for abut an hour and it found no faults.I have also ran MEM test on my ram - no faults, i have used the seagate tools and chk disck on my hard drive - no faults. i have tried installing to an external hard drive to see if that would help and it hasnt, Has any1 got any more ideas cos i jsut dont know what to try i may go down to 1 gig ram and try each stick on there own to see if i can get WOW to install without corrupting, but im running low on ideas now.

[CrackerJack]

what shape is the dvd in?

[King Wookie]

davebebbz are you able to try and install on a friend's pc? Just to check if the dvd is kosher?

Otherwise maybe check with http://www.wowwiki.com.

I find fellow gamers give better support than the game publishers.

[davebebbz]

its fine but it does not matter if i install from disk or from file. i was running my pc over what it could handle(i didnt realise) so the power supply was stuggling. this is when i downloaded the install fiel could i of messed the install file up?

[CrackerJack]

maybe, i would redownload it. just to be safe

[W1zzard]

never had any problems either. try downloading the trial client. its the normal client, so with your account login its a full client

[Azazel]

never had any problems either. try downloading the trial client. its the normal client, so with your account login its a full client

i thought the trial client only gave you part of the game..then it downloads the rest as a big ass patch if you have a full one...

[davebebbz]

well i jsut installed NWN and the expansions with no trouble at all

goona try BF2142 now

[davebebbz]

BF2142 just installed without a glitch, how can this happen when warcraft wont install without corrupting

[Azazel]

delete any bit of wow you have left on your hdd..search for anything to do with wow..then reinstall

[davebebbz]

also 1 other thing i was amazed how fast WOW manages to delete itself i mean 7 gig with BC and Pathcs and the unistalled deleates ti a mater of seconds any1 got a program that will do a better deleation because im sure ti cant do that and delete it properly

[King Wookie]

also 1 other thing i was amazed how fast WOW manages to delete itself i mean 7 gig with BC and Pathcs and the unistalled deleates ti a mater of seconds any1 got a program that will do a better deleation because im sure ti cant do that and delete it properly

Something's wrong there, as it's not possible to uninstall that fast.

I use CCCleaner, but maybe someone else has another recommendation.

[davebebbz]

ill try that thanks

[davebebbz]

how safe is the CCCleaner registry deleation tool? can i jsut run it with al lthe tick boxes used?

[CrackerJack]

i would search for any traces of wow in the you registry.

[davebebbz]

im jsut searching the pc with the serch tool lots of files coming up none massive but it jsut shows how much is being left behind

[davebebbz]

any good registry serching/ deleation programs that are free? forget this post

[CrackerJack]

any good registry serching/ deleation programs that are free?

yeah, but i would do it myself. Alot of them won't find or delete game registry

[davebebbz]

thats registry cleared just scanning pc now for other files

[davebebbz]

how do i get registry up?

[CrackerJack]

how do i get registry up?

check pm

[davebebbz]

Thanks

[davebebbz]

well thats my registry clean and there are no files on my pc containing hte word warcraft so i should be clear for a clean install.....i hope

[Evo85]

Ok, so after reading what you wrote in your other thread I can give you some additional advice.

When testing your memory. A) Always test for at least 10 hours. B) Test each stick individually. C)Test with both MemTest86 AND Orthos(Prime).

I had a similar issue come up a while back. Very much like the one you are describing. Turned out to be a bad stick of memory which took 14 hours of running Orthos to find. ;)

[davebebbz]

im just trying a fresh install if this has same faults il lrun the tests like you said thanks for advice

[davebebbz]

do you run both tests at once and the orphos is that a blend test?

[davebebbz]

Bingo, i started prime95 running on a blend for and overnight season and it took 23 mins to find a error.

the error was

Test 5, 800000 Lucas-Lehmer iterations of M155649 using 8K FFT length.
FATAL ERROR: Rounding was 0.5, expected less than 0.4
Hardware failure detected.

can any1 put a location on what may have caused it?

[Evo85]

Well. now we are on to something. :)

I will assume you ran the test with a single stick of memory in. If thats the case try a different stick and see if it produces any errors. If not you can be pretty sure it was the bad memory causing the problem.

If it does it with a different stick of memory, try another if you can. If not then do a another test with it set to stress the CPU. See what happens then.

A side note: WoW heavily stresses memory. And a bad stick will almost always corrupt a file when playing WoW.

[davebebbz]

well bed for me ill attack it tommorow thanks for your help evo i can finaly see the light at end of tunnel