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valoth (profile) wrote,
on 3-7-2005 at 8:42pm
Subject: More from the world of no World of Warcraft
Alright! Ive had enough of my boring evening of doing nothing. Somone with WoW working on there pc needs to bring theres over to my house. I need/want to play it, but I cant do that without going to eden and continuing to add to the money it costs to play it.

The way the game installs is with these MPQ files. Theyre overly stuffed onto the discs and hold thousands of code lines for entire sections of the game. 1 corrupt or badly read file and boom! No more WoW. Ive been reading through hundreds of pages about hundreds of similar errors. I would like to make use of there ways to fix it, but thats not possible. Because of my personal pre-exsisting problems on my computer, I cant run some of these programs. My computer would close it, or simply give me a blue screen with some error.

The only time I got to play WoW on my pc was from taking it to eden and putting it on the D:\ drive. That lasted for all of a week or so. My brother deleted it, not looking into it or not bothering to check, and now Im WoW-less. While it was on my computer, I wasnt without errors coming up the whazoo. Entire territories wouldnt run on it, only 2 that I actually knew of.

Getting back to the thousands of other peoples run-arounds on the errors. They all seemed to list the base files that were bad on my install. sound.MPQ or terrain.MPQ After these base names they gave long strings of numbers and letters, parts of these MPQ mass files. Somehow all these people have all managed to install the game, I never got that far. Every post I saw was of a character thats well over any I have.

I just want to play the game I like without it costing me an arm and a leg to play. The technical mumbo-jumbo is slaughtering me, the error check things they want me to run I cant touch because of the mumbo-jumbo, and the replacement of parts or other pc's I cant do.

Who can help me? Fix my woes of WoW! A world without WoW is a world with boring nights of nothing to do.
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Butterfly

03-07-05 11:44pm

hmm that was mumbo-jumbo to me

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spinder

03-08-05 3:17pm

Reformat your computer.
Unless the HD is going bad. The only thing that will be skizzing up lines of code would be a virus or someone tinkering with the folder or some such.

Backup important stuff. Format hardrive. Reinstall Windows. Reinstall WoW. It will fix anything short of otherworldy mandate of a higher power.

Well.. mabye some other things could juck up the process . But you get the point. (see below for something only barely related. Although funny.)

http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=43298&page=1&pp=15

Ohh.. and if that all fails. Play SC BW. Nothing beats a classic.

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Valoth

Re:, 03-08-05 3:35pm

Screw that! The day I die is the day I play that crap agian. Unless I see SC2, then keep the oldies away.

No Campstrike, no starcrapp, no overly zealous games containing hundreds of creepy little kids saying the words "you're a noob".

End of story.

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spinder

Re: Re:, 03-08-05 3:43pm

Ahh yes.. I do remember that now. Anyone with any talent at all was a hacker. Anyone who wanst a hacker was a "nub"
Gha... course.. thats like that with any game almost.
And dear lord did the sound get annoying. Every time you click on a zergling it freaks and goes "ERR ECHHHA CHEREET"

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spinder

Re: Re:, 03-08-05 3:43pm

Source?

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valoth

Re: Re: Re:, 03-08-05 10:22pm

Both. The only thing I would touch on Half life IS the story on singleplayer. And yes those sounds are annoying. Im not saying everyone is a hacker Im just saying I hate that game now. Sure I was fun, but then this thing called new happened. Move on.

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jayzulla

Re: Re: Re: Re:, 03-10-05 6:09pm

i never hacked once in my SC BW life. and iv got mad bw skillz.

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Anonymous

WoW Fix, 04-14-05 2:11am

If you can find someone with a working install, don't bother to try to install it on your computer yourself.

I've found that a lot of errors occour when you're trying to install with a DVD drive, sometimes it works, most of the time it does not. You can try making ISOs. THis is what you do to fix it:

Copy the whole "World of Warcraft" file from the Program Files, and put into your Program Files on your computer. Then go into the registry of the computer with functional WoW, and copy the branch under the directory HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Blizzard Entertainment, select Blizzard Entertainment, and use the File > Export command to save it. Transport that file to the desktop, and double-click it to install it. You can get future updates this way. and not deal with their inability to press disks. I have four computers here, and only the one with the CD drive (non DVD) was able to install it. I hope this helps, if you have a friend with a working copy of WoW.

Best of Luck!

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valoth

Re: WoW Fix, 04-14-05 8:31pm

Thanks. While I dont have another computer with WoW working close at hand, Ive made sacrifices to keep going. eDen Gaming.

I doubt I will be making this attempt at fixing it. Ive got plans to buy a new pc.



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