Installation is dead simple, just drop the 'Wow Classic Launcher.exe' file into your World of Warcraft 1.12.1 install folder and update your shortcuts to point to the launcher instead of Wow.exe When you open it the first time, use the '+' button to ad your servers.
Note: This is a generic section stub. You can by clicking Edit to the right of the section title. In mid-June 2013, a new was announced with a request for beta testers with the goal to unify launching of most online games (Diablo III, Starcraft 2, etc.).
The app was made available as an open in August 14, 2013. Features.
Act as a scanner and warn the user of malicious software. Provide news links about WoW and Blizzard. Control the options of the Blizzard Downloader in regards to pre-patching. Update the game. Options button to show options panel.
Minimal pre-launch game preferences. Patch downloader preferences. Button link to Parental Controls web page. Public Test button link to PTR login web page. Button to show web links panel. Community page web link. Forums page web link.
Blizzard Store page web link. Technical Support page web link. Parental Controls page web link. First run '. option under the Help menu. When selected, it will show 'Repairing game data.' Status with a blue status bar at the bottom with a large 'Skip' button to the right.
Controversy There was a bit of controversy regarding the Launcher as it was scanning the computer for malicious software, which some people believed to be an invasion of privacy. Possible security issue The new Launcher may present a security issue.
It does not obey the 'default' browser setting of Windowsand thus launches Internet Explorer when any link is clicked. Although this may be fixed in the future, in the past the 'Trial' Launcher has been observed to have some links obey the Default setting, and other links not obey the setting. Thus it could be said that although the Launcher is claimed to aide against some malware, some of its behavior reduces security benefits that might otherwise exist. In Mists of Pandaria.
Unrar the whole Files and create a new Folder with the name 'WoW 4.3.4'. Code: set realmlist 127.0.0.1 set patchlist localhostAlso make sure all region folders have realmlist(enGB, enUS, deDE, esES.), if not, just copy existing realmlist from enUS to them. Start the Game again with the 'wow.exe' and ONLY with it (!!!), login with your Account (Username, NOT the Email). (You need a server or repack) 7. The Game will initialize the Game Files.
Go AFK or do something else. Game might take bit longer than usual to get you to character selection screen, so just wait it out if this happens. Remember, it needs to download anything as needed, so it is not connection issue. Also loading will be longer than usual.
Don't worry, running game and logging in will be faster next time you play. Those delays are just first time.
Only loading screen might take longer next time. Possible issues. These issues might happen, if your connection can't handle streaming. If you have fast connection, then most of them should not be bad, you might still get minor lag increase, but it won't be game breaking. But just to let you know: - High lag - This is normal, if your connection can not handle all downloading and game data. This is only for people with fast connection.
Lags will end when whole game gets downloaded. Only thing you can do about it is to try disabling add-ons. Sometimes additional traffic from add-ons an make it much worse. Low detail textures - Again, this is normal at beginning.
Game needs to download high resolution textures. But that takes time, so it will display low detail ones, till then. Long loading times - This will happen at every loading, when you enter any area for first time. That is because game must download instance or location data.
Background downloading will in first line focus on zones around you. So instance data for example will only get downloaded when you enter them at beginning. But once downloading gets far enough, this will stop happening. Though it might give you problems when using dungeon finder, due to long loadings, it will look like you went offline. Invisible objects, models and stuff - Again, this can be normal. Especially on slower connections. That means game just did not download them yet, so they can't be shown on your end.
Controlling background downloading. There is a way to control how much bandwidth is dedicated to downloading. By default WoW should take 33% of your bandwidth. But you can control this, you can increase it when you idle or if your connection can handle it to download WoW faster. You can do that by using this command: SET bgloadthrottle X Just replace X with% of bandwidth. Default is 33.
To use it, just type it in chat like this: SET bgloadthrottle 75 This will set it to 75% of your bandwidth. If this does not work, then try: SET bgloadthrottle '75' Not sure if it need quotes. WARNING: Only use above command, if you are sure what you are doing. Do not use it to reduce background downloading to minimum.
That will cause a lot of issues and will make game unplayable. Only use it if you can go higher or if you want it to download faster when you are AFK. If you messed it up, restarting client should reset it to default, if it does not, delete WTF folder in WoW folder, that will reset all settings, including this.