Help with the installation of WoW

Melchior · Post by **Melchior** » 2005-02-14 02:22pm

Today I bought an european copy of World of Warcraft, but I can't get it to work on my computer.
The installation starts, then after a few minutes it hangs on the "terrain.MPQ" file, it doens't crash, but it does not progress anymore.
Can anybody help?

InnocentBystander · Post by **InnocentBystander** » 2005-02-14 02:37pm

check the support forums at www.worldofwarcraft.com

Melchior · Post by **Melchior** » 2005-02-14 02:51pm

InnocentBystander wrote:check the support forums at www.worldofwarcraft.com

Already done.
Nothing they say has helped, I even copied all the CDs on the hd and tried to install from there, but with no results.

InnocentBystander · Post by **InnocentBystander** » 2005-02-14 03:21pm

How long have you "waited' for terrain.mpq? I seem to recall the install taking a long time on my machine.

Melchior · Post by **Melchior** » 2005-02-14 03:43pm

InnocentBystander wrote:How long have you "waited' for terrain.mpq? I seem to recall the install taking a long time on my machine.

Two hours. And the file on the hd was still at 0kb.
On other machines, even worse than mine, it took far less, and the progress bar kept moving.

InnocentBystander · Post by **InnocentBystander** » 2005-02-14 03:57pm

*shrug* maybe your optical drive is bad? Best bet would be to get blizzard tech support to assist, it's their product... That or look around for other WoW related forums.

Melchior · Post by **Melchior** » 2005-02-14 04:06pm

InnocentBystander wrote:*shrug* maybe your optical drive is bad? Best bet would be to get blizzard tech support to assist, it's their product... That or look around for other WoW related forums.

I have two optical drives, and the problem persists even if I copy everything on the hd.
I already contacted Blizzard's tech support, but I am not able to post on the forum, even if I registered: it says "restricted forum" every time I try to post.

Lord Pounder · Post by **Lord Pounder** » 2005-02-15 02:53pm

Do you have a firewall running while you update? When i got my WoW on friday my Norton kinda fucked about the patching untill i had to disable it. Also consider the possability that you bought a faulty CD.

Flash · Post by **Flash** » 2005-02-15 04:38pm

I had massive problems trying to get WoW installed. Mine would never get past the first CD, crashing on that terrain.mpq file. I tried all the suggested solutions - turning off firewalls, installing from safe mode, copying the CDs to the hard drive, nothing worked.

What worked for me was installing it on a friends machine (where it went on no problems), networking the systems, then dumping the installed game onto my drive. Worked like a charm.

InnocentBystander · Post by **InnocentBystander** » 2005-02-15 04:52pm

You should really post that on the blizzard forums...

ArmorPierce · Post by **ArmorPierce** » 2005-02-15 08:21pm

I had my friend send me terrain.mpq over AIM because mines was corrupted and the game wouldn't work.

Melchior · Post by **Melchior** » 2005-02-16 08:33am

InnocentBystander wrote:You should really post that on the blizzard forums...

They already know AFAIK.