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Posted by Juggynaut on Tuesday, August 4th, 2009 - 38 Comments

Tags: failure to apply patch, fix, Patch, patch 3.2, vista, windows 7

Comments

By Eventime on Tuesday, August 4th, 2009 at 9:59 am

I have a Mac and am getting the same problem, any ideas what to do for that or sort of follow the same steps?

By Fata1xshot on Tuesday, August 4th, 2009 at 10:02 am

Try buying a pc… itll b better in the long run

By Eventime on Tuesday, August 4th, 2009 at 10:04 am

Tried it and it worked, thanks Juggy!

By Unforsaken on Tuesday, August 4th, 2009 at 10:08 am

Im running Vista and have never had that problem. *Knock on wood*

By Zameda on Tuesday, August 4th, 2009 at 10:18 am

This occured to me when I upgraded from my old comptuer to the new one. I copied my wow directory from the old machine to the new. Everything ran fine until patch day then I tried to download the patch and got the afore mentioned problem and fix.

It appears that you can easily move WoW from one machine to the other but during the install or when its first run it writes an entry to the registry for the location of the WoW.exe. The patches then use this key to locate your wow directory. If you don’t run wow as an administrator on Vista it won’t be allowed to write this entry thus any patch will fail.

Just some more technical background on this issue incase your interested.

By Octaviax on Tuesday, August 4th, 2009 at 10:47 am

Now a’ days, A LOT of poeple use vista; its very popular, even among WoW users. Its fuuy how Blizz cant fix this issue, when maybe 1/5 of their users are involved

By Wyndgem on Tuesday, August 4th, 2009 at 10:53 am

This is probably because WoW is installed in the Program Files folder which has admin restrictions. When I reinstalled WoW on my Vista Machine once, it asked if I wanted to put it in the \Users\Public\Games folder. I did and WoW has worked perfectly with no Update issues.

By Random_Tangent on Tuesday, August 4th, 2009 at 10:57 am

Octaviax:

It’s not Blizzard’s issue. It’s Microsoft’s.

By Wyndgem on Tuesday, August 4th, 2009 at 11:03 am

@Random_Tangent I don’t really think it’s an issue, it’s conflict which can be resolved. Again, Putting WoW into the Public user’s folder will prevent having the admin requirement.

By Heartbourne on Tuesday, August 4th, 2009 at 11:05 am

Patch applied fine for me on OS 10.5 ;3.

Now just a 4 hour wait for realms to get online… sigh.

By cjus on Tuesday, August 4th, 2009 at 11:11 am

i started up my mac, and i downloaded the patch, it works with little problem, unlike all the people i know with PC . there busy pulling there hair out right now =P

just asking my own question. what should we do to kill this down time xD

By kakaka on Tuesday, August 4th, 2009 at 11:15 am

the patch isnt out yet? or is it to download the beta? >.<

By Essam on Tuesday, August 4th, 2009 at 11:19 am

@ Kakaka,
I do believe the patch came out today, too many peoples surprise who thought it would come out next week. so yes its the patch not the beta

By Rogue4Life on Tuesday, August 4th, 2009 at 11:43 am

well, patch only took me 19min. now just waiting on server to come back up. mine was scheduled for extra maintanence, so I won’t be in a rush to sign on. Figure there will be normal probs when patches come so I will just sign on late.

also, there is now a vid on worldofwarcraft.com, just click on patch 3.2 and scroll down a bit. enjoy while you wait for servers.

FT Alliance!!

By trake2 on Tuesday, August 4th, 2009 at 11:47 am

I didnt get that error

just waiting for the servers to go up

By cocopuff on Tuesday, August 4th, 2009 at 11:52 am

any idea when the servers willl be back up i been waiting to try out the new awsomenes since 8 am

By Alayea on Tuesday, August 4th, 2009 at 11:55 am

I would urge everyone that, unless it is necessary, to NOT install WoW in the Program Files folder. As Wyndgem said, that folder usually has admin restrictions and can be a major source of headache if you’re trying to download a patch.

By cocopuff on Tuesday, August 4th, 2009 at 12:24 pm

i am getting bored of soul calibur when are teh servers going to be up

By Mr. Vincent on Tuesday, August 4th, 2009 at 12:32 pm

My thanks to the Juggybox.

By Thurogh on Tuesday, August 4th, 2009 at 12:36 pm

I installed Wow on an entirely different Partition from the OS. That way I can wipe the OS partition at any time and not have to worry about reinstalling or moving wow.

By cocopuff on Tuesday, August 4th, 2009 at 1:02 pm

i think this is longest (not counting sleep or school) i went without wow

By gphx on Tuesday, August 4th, 2009 at 1:56 pm

I got a completely different error. I forget exactly what it said but it was mentioning some specific files relating to Wintergrasp. Repair filed. Looking online I saw someone with the same problem who said even uninstalling and reinstalling from cd failed. When I tried that drastic solution it failed for me also. I’m now downloading the game client from scratch. After a few hours it is now at 5%. Oh, I forgot to mention when the patch install crashed it took my video driver and antivirus program with it. Thank god for system restore. This is far from the first time a Wow patch has been such an adventure and on different computers too. All that said I’m anxious to get playing. If I had to reformat every time to get it to work I probably would.

By Pauldy on Tuesday, August 4th, 2009 at 2:31 pm

It appears the idiots are in charge now, one guild on our server has completed ulduar and they did so last lockout. Now we are rushing in new content that replaces the old content with gear and upgrades that mean focusing on the new content is more productive progression wise than spending any more time in ulduar.

Why? So they could refresh in game content as quick as possible without flushing out the bugs? I still have 4 months on my sub so a lot can happen between now and then but I’m finding these moves really leave me not even caring if I can get on-line tonight at all.

By grmrlee on Tuesday, August 4th, 2009 at 5:46 pm

I have good error that i been messing with all day. maybe someone out there can help. I’ve ran repair, ran as admin. etc, basically everything i can think of. oh also a fresh reinstall and update. however still am getting the error.

The file “C:\Users\Public\Games\World of Warcraft\Wow.exe.temp” could not be renamed to “C:\Users\Public\Games\World of Warcraft\Wow.exe”

vista 64 bit. any help would greatly be appreciated. Thanks

By Owelecbaldwin on Tuesday, August 4th, 2009 at 11:41 pm

By grmrlee on Tuesday, August 4th, 2009 at 5:46 pm

I have good error that i been messing with all day. maybe someone out there can help. I’ve ran repair, ran as admin. etc, basically everything i can think of. oh also a fresh reinstall and update. however still am getting the error.

The file “C:\Users\Public\Games\World of Warcraft\Wow.exe.temp” could not be renamed to “C:\Users\Public\Games\World of Warcraft\Wow.exe”

vista 64 bit. any help would greatly be appreciated. Thanks

I have the same problem need help also

By Owelecbaldwin on Wednesday, August 5th, 2009 at 12:07 am

for this error make sure your virus thing is off

By Ian on Wednesday, August 5th, 2009 at 12:14 am

Thnx mate that fixed my problem

By lols on Wednesday, August 5th, 2009 at 2:49 am

This was the information i was looking for, thanks dude and lets hope it will work!

By Duzkur on Wednesday, August 5th, 2009 at 5:45 am

Thanks.. Worked was just about to go to my friends so i could get it off his hardrive

By Angel on Wednesday, August 5th, 2009 at 11:48 pm

Didn’t have this problem.. but then maybe that’s because I disabled UAC after the first week of being annoyed by it.

By Agent-X on Thursday, August 6th, 2009 at 4:47 am

WoW was fine for me on the day of the patch, was able to play and get some cool stuff done, (new tourny stuff, and get started with the ravasaur quest).

But, last nights restart on Nazgrel screwed me over royally. WoW had a fatal error and crashed on me while logging on today. I figured “ok, just a fluke.” I tried again, same exact thing. Flustered, I go to the wow repair utility. I thought that would fix it for sure… Nope! About 3 parts into the repair I get an error message telling me that there is ‘Too much data to repair.’ and to ‘Please reinstall’

Sooo… I’ve been reinstalling and patching ALL DAY

This Happen to anyone else?

By Ray on Thursday, August 6th, 2009 at 12:26 pm

Im just a kid trying to get my new patch downloaded.
When i first tried getting on WoW, a downloader came up,
and when it got to 70% it got Aborted because i had a older version.Now I got passed 70% but now it’s super slow. Anybody can help?

By Kip on Thursday, August 6th, 2009 at 9:17 pm

installed WoW on my comp which has Vista. worked fine untill 3.2. my interface got all screwed up. boxes around texts wouldnt appear. it was just floating text. my action bar was missing and there was only a colored bar that was my exp bar. my map was a bunch of big colored boxes, as well as the landscape itself.
any suggestions/answers/help?

By Dim on Thursday, August 6th, 2009 at 10:05 pm

same with me

By Dim on Thursday, August 6th, 2009 at 10:06 pm

ive been this way since aug 5
really getting me pissed

By Az on Friday, August 7th, 2009 at 3:58 pm

I downloaded the patch fine but when updating I get this error

“This file
‘\base\world\maps\Northrend\Northrend_41_30.adt’ could not be opened.
If this problem persists you many be able to solve it by uninstalling/reinstalling the game.
If you are unable to resolve please contact Blizzard Technical support. (InstallerFile::Open).”

I’ve tried Repair.
I’ve re-installing,
I’ve tried running as administrator.. I’ve tried
booting in safe mode, disabling UAC, re-installing using only the Wrath DVD..
& I still get the same issue!!! only this time while patching to 3.0.3 ../sigh.

Still no reply from Blizz tech support, I contacted them nearly 2 days ago now.
They are ignoring this issue until the players affected simply give up.

By mica on Friday, August 14th, 2009 at 9:00 am

got stuck @ 70%, i disabled my anti virus and everything worked!!!

By Nozgul on Thursday, August 20th, 2009 at 1:35 am

I was having problems downloading the latest patch as it would get to 70% then shut down, on my laptop running Vista.

I tried the fix suggested, but it did not work, so I modified the approach a little.

Instead of Running the Launcher as an Admin, I went into the WOW folder right clicked on the latest versions of:

Downloader
Updater

and selected Run as an administrator. It completed the download within seconds and at last I was able to login and play.