Vista - World Of Warcraft

Hi,
I have most of my games working now (Dreamfall, Mark of Chaos, Baldur's
Gate, Tunguska, Battle forMiddle Earth, to name a few) but no luck
installing World of Warcraft. It either errors whilst installing about
validating files or similarly whilst applying the first patch.

I may have a physical memory fault, which Vista flags if I run the Memory
Diag routine, but everything else seems ok.

Any Thoughts?

System:
Processor Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.20GHz, 3207 Mhz, 1 Core(s), 2 Logical
Processor(s)
Total Physical Memory 2,046.94 MB
Drive C:
File System NTFS
Size 229.65 GB (246,585,667,584 bytes)
Free Space 112.76 GB (121,078,378,496 bytes)

"Nigel Cox" wrote:

> Hi,
> I have most of my games working now (Dreamfall, Mark of Chaos, Baldur's
> Gate, Tunguska, Battle forMiddle Earth, to name a few) but no luck
> installing World of Warcraft. It either errors whilst installing about
> validating files or similarly whilst applying the first patch.
>
> I may have a physical memory fault, which Vista flags if I run the Memory
> Diag routine, but everything else seems ok.

Who cares what everything else looks like if your memory is failing?

>
> Any Thoughts?
Fix your memeory and then try it again. also I just installed WOW on Vista
and it
would crash until the last nvidia driver update. So if you have a nvidia
card try the new driver AFTER you fix you memory.
>
> System:
> Processor Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.20GHz, 3207 Mhz, 1 Core(s), 2 Logical
> Processor(s)
> Total Physical Memory 2,046.94 MB
> Drive C:
> File System NTFS
> Size 229.65 GB (246,585,667,584 bytes)
> Free Space 112.76 GB (121,078,378,496 bytes)
>
>

WoW works here... I did hear that people were having problems running it
when they didn't have administrative rights... Could that be it?

"Nigel Cox" <nigel@nccox.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
news:OhXNMPMkHHA.4800@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> Hi,
> I have most of my games working now (Dreamfall, Mark of Chaos, Baldur's
> Gate, Tunguska, Battle forMiddle Earth, to name a few) but no luck
> installing World of Warcraft. It either errors whilst installing about
> validating files or similarly whilst applying the first patch.
>
> I may have a physical memory fault, which Vista flags if I run the Memory
> Diag routine, but everything else seems ok.
>
> Any Thoughts?
>
> System:
> Processor Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.20GHz, 3207 Mhz, 1 Core(s), 2
> Logical Processor(s)
> Total Physical Memory 2,046.94 MB
> Drive C:
> File System NTFS
> Size 229.65 GB (246,585,667,584 bytes)
> Free Space 112.76 GB (121,078,378,496 bytes)
>

On Tue, 8 May 2007 12:43:40 +1000, "Julie Smith" <someone@home.com>
wrote:

>WoW works here... I did hear that people were having problems running it
>when they didn't have administrative rights... Could that be it?

I believe that was only when a patch was released. If a patch was
released you have to right-click then run as Administrator.

Other then that I have had no problems running World of Warcraft under
Vista Ultimate.

Intel E6600 Core 2 Duo
Asus P5B Deluxe
Ati X1950Pro
2GB Corsair ram

>"Nigel Cox" <nigel@nccox.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
>news:OhXNMPMkHHA.4800@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>> Hi,
>> I have most of my games working now (Dreamfall, Mark of Chaos, Baldur's
>> Gate, Tunguska, Battle forMiddle Earth, to name a few) but no luck
>> installing World of Warcraft. It either errors whilst installing about
>> validating files or similarly whilst applying the first patch.
>>
>> I may have a physical memory fault, which Vista flags if I run the Memory
>> Diag routine, but everything else seems ok.
>>
>> Any Thoughts?
>>
>> System:
>> Processor Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.20GHz, 3207 Mhz, 1 Core(s), 2
>> Logical Processor(s)
>> Total Physical Memory 2,046.94 MB
>> Drive C:
>> File System NTFS
>> Size 229.65 GB (246,585,667,584 bytes)
>> Free Space 112.76 GB (121,078,378,496 bytes)
>>
>

WoW works fine with nvidia's driver on my 7600. I'm using Vista Business 32bit.

Hi, I have a Vista pc and WoW installed properly for me, however, after
several tries.
Installation gave me 2 error messages that my firewall was blocking
installation and if you click on the message as it is installing, it will
take you to their website and tell you that you must include into your
firewall:
1) Blizzard Downloader (TCP) ports 6881-6999
2)Blizzard Downloader (TCP) port 6112
3)Blizzard Downloader (TCP) port 3724.

I again tried to re-install and still received the error message and upon
investigation, found that my wireless router firewall also had to have the 3
files
mentioned above added.

I had to uninstall Wow and then re-install after giving access and all
worked successfully.

I am running 32 bit and have played the games successfully after the above
mentioned fixes.

"Nigel Cox" wrote:

> Hi,
> I have most of my games working now (Dreamfall, Mark of Chaos, Baldur's
> Gate, Tunguska, Battle forMiddle Earth, to name a few) but no luck
> installing World of Warcraft. It either errors whilst installing about
> validating files or similarly whilst applying the first patch.
>
> I may have a physical memory fault, which Vista flags if I run the Memory
> Diag routine, but everything else seems ok.
>
> Any Thoughts?
>
> System:
> Processor Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.20GHz, 3207 Mhz, 1 Core(s), 2 Logical
> Processor(s)
> Total Physical Memory 2,046.94 MB
> Drive C:
> File System NTFS
> Size 229.65 GB (246,585,667,584 bytes)
> Free Space 112.76 GB (121,078,378,496 bytes)
>
>

WoW is VERY careful when copying files, if your RAM is failing the files
won't copy correctly from the CDs. the program will see the problem and fail
the install or the patch. I had the same problem on an old Windows XP
machine. I found out my memory didn't support the speed I was running it at.
I slowed down the RAM on the motherboard BIOS and the problem went away.

Good luck, Don't buy cheap ram!

"Nigel Cox" <nigel@nccox.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
news:OhXNMPMkHHA.4800@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> Hi,
> I have most of my games working now (Dreamfall, Mark of Chaos, Baldur's
> Gate, Tunguska, Battle forMiddle Earth, to name a few) but no luck
> installing World of Warcraft. It either errors whilst installing about
> validating files or similarly whilst applying the first patch.
>
> I may have a physical memory fault, which Vista flags if I run the Memory
> Diag routine, but everything else seems ok.
>
> Any Thoughts?
>
> System:
> Processor Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.20GHz, 3207 Mhz, 1 Core(s), 2
> Logical Processor(s)
> Total Physical Memory 2,046.94 MB
> Drive C:
> File System NTFS
> Size 229.65 GB (246,585,667,584 bytes)
> Free Space 112.76 GB (121,078,378,496 bytes)
>