World of Warcraft®

“I wanted to say thanks :) A combination of your suggestions and turning down all the video settings in game made it so I was able to complete all those quest in that area with no disconnections. I really hope the next game patch addresses t…”

“as of this Tuesdays maintenance i have been unable to log in. the following error comes up when i try to start the launcher Streaming Initialization error failed to initialize WoW.mfil. deailts: [3] err=0 text=initializationStreaming - Coul…”

“I am re posting this even though i am pretty sure this isn't a mac specific issue. but what do i know, maybe it is. ...................... I have no idea how to even start to fix this. When I log on it seems to take excessively long to get …”

“Hey all, I was wondering if I could get some help on this matter. I can't seem to log into the game, at all. I crash everytime upon reaching a full load bar. It seems the lights from the lunar festival, may have caused some problems, I don'…”

“Trying to install patch x.x.x-4.0.0. Receiving "tracker not responding" message after downloading patch. Pretty sure I have firewalls and router configured correctly as I have triple checked. Have also tried the pre formatted email response…”

“I always play in window mode and about once a week my game randomly just does the user agreement stuff again like the first time your playing, and it goes back into full screen and so forth today it happened and when i went to change to win…”

“Greetings! When I log in, the window seems too small for all the buttons. I am unable to open the mini world map at the top right of the frame (half of it is hidden by the game frame) and I cannot open any of the buttons at the bottom of th…”

“Both my brother's and my accounts froze when we got to the desolace, we play on separate computers, and what happens now is that the game will load, but once the world loads, as soon as the character shows up on the screen we get discoonnec…”

“I recently purchased the Cyborg Rat 7 to find out that it doesn't work with the Mac OS. Going to be returning it tomorrow and contemplating getting the WoW Gaming Mouse. Does it work with the Mac OS or should I be looking elsewhere? Thank y…”

“Hi there, i recently purchased WoW and was playing fine until roughly 27 hours ago. It was roughly when i Finished updating my version to 4.0.3. i am experiencing 20k+ ping and frequent disconnects. i am using a MBP 13'' 2.26GHz Core2Duo wi…”

“I am currently faced with two issues with my WoW. Problem number 1: Since day 1 I have never been able to just get past the loading screen. I log in fine, I pick my character, and I click the "enter world" button, but it never gets past the…”

“I can't really figure out what's causing this. I think it might be loading zones because my FPS usually drops and the game sort of freezes or lags before it crashes. Despite having a Macbook Pro my graphics are almost all the way down (I du…”

“So I just got a new iMac. I can run WoW on max settings with no FPS loss. I can successfully record movies using the Mac Record feature, but no matter what codec I use, I get an error when attempting to import the file into FCP Studio 7. I …”

“Game completely closes when I log out in stormwind when on my mage. So far does not do it on any other character. Model Name: iMac Model Identifier: iMac11,3 Processor Name: Intel Core i3 Processor Speed: 3.2 GHz Number Of Processors: 1 Tot…”

“All of a sudden yesterday, wow started crashing when I launch it and I get this error. please Help Project: 1010 Build: 13329 Application: World of WarCraft Configuration: Retail Version: 4.0.3.13329 Branch: branches/wow-patch-4_0_3_A-branc…”

“Only 1 of my characters is getting disconnected from the game, while all the other characters are fine. My mage (that I'm logged into name Sethiera) is the problem. I'm in one of the new lands. Its actually specifically in just a certain ar…”

“Game freezes when i click on another player or go to enter an arena, left game in freeze mode to get crash error report but nothing happened and i had to force quit the program, only way to clear problem. Only started doing it a couple of d…”

“Project: 1010 Build: 13329 Application: World of WarCraft Configuration: Retail Version: 4.0.3.13329 Branch: branches/wow-patch-4_0_3_A-branch Revision: 127747 Code Type: X86 OS Version: Mac OS X 10.6.4 (10F2108) Executable UUID: A161F16D-A…”

“I posted about this a few weeks ago but the problem still exists regardless of hooking up the modem directly to the computer, after making sure my router (Airport Extreme) was up to date, that my OS (10.6.6) was up to date, resetting PRAM, …”

“Hello all! I did a search for this but couldn't find anything on the forums. I am on a mac pro running the latest 10.6 patch. I have a NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285 and 10 GB or ram. The game runs great and I really don't have much lag issues. The…”

“Please excuse me for not trolling the forums as I am on a slow connection at the moment and it takes a long time to load. I am having an issue where my screen will often flicker black it seems quite often whilst I am in game. It does not se…”

“Unable to connect. please try again later............ ptr Broxigar”

“I just bought a brand New mac mini, has all the updates and runs all my programs with ease. But for the past few days I have been having Multiple crashes (10-25 a day) and I even have the view distance on low. How can I fix this because it …”

“As the Screenshoot shows, i dont see the icons on my bag nor on shops. I know is a little bug, but i would realy like to fix it, it would make shopping easier to the sight. I must add that i did try with "Repair", and it stayed the same. Li…”

“I'm just coming off a trial account and I upgraded so when I log in and select my character I go to the screen with the load bar and it gets stuck at 90%. Any ideas?”

“I just reinstalled the game from scratch yesterday and am encountering a strange problem. I have about 2.1 GB of data left to download but cannot seem to get it. When the launcher is running, every couple of seconds my entire system freezes…”

“Heya! I run on a MBP with ver 10.5.8 and the performance is pretty minimal. I was wondering if updating to Snow Leopard (10.6) would make a noticeable difference to performance?”

“I was having a problem with very extended lagspikes. I thought it was an issue with my internet speed being low, and recently got a newer higher speed internet. I generally pull 11.8 Mbps on http://www.speedtest.net/ when not playing WoW. D…”

“I've noticed since the last patch went in that when I load wow for the first time it causes the Logitech LCD Manager for my G19 and G13 Keyboards to crash when the wow applet tries to load. When this happens I can go into my system preferen…”

“so i uninstalled (removed everything) and went to re-install... and now am getting this error. The file "/Applications/World of Warcraft.temp/Data.temp/art.MPQ.temp" could not be opened. (OpenRepackTarget::Execute) Downloaded smaller than e…”

“Hi, Every time I log into the game, I am in for about 30 min waiting on my random heroic que (could be the reason why its crashing) and my comp freezes and in like 45 seconds the error program pops up. Can anybody help me?”

“my launcher is stuck at about 55% saying "Downloading Updated Tools". If I leave it nothing happens, left it on all day while i was at work and it didnt move at all. I did the repair un-installed and re-installed about 4 times. Most times i…”

“Can someone help me please and tell me how to download WotLK on my mac? The problem is that after it gets to 98% done downloading on the first disc it says I must insert the second. When I try to eject the first disc, it wont let me because…”

“When I attempt to launch WoW through the launcher I am given the "Can't Connect to News Server, Please Check Internet Connection". Obviously my connection is working, seeing as I have found my way here. Launcher works just fine on my PC in …”

“I was doing some archaeology near Nazvel in Darkshore when I fell into the water near the island and immediately got the message, "You have been disconnected from the server." And when I try to log in on this toon again, after a small fract…”

“Ever since the latest patch came out i have not been able to log on more than 10 minute to play wow. i have disabled all my add-ons and even repaired. i hope some one can help me out here this is the crash i keep getting Project: 1010 Build…”

“This little tip is likely to be widely unknown, but can be a really nice reprieve from the reboot to free up RAM. If you aren't afraid of a very small trip to the Terminal (located in /Applications/Utilities/), you can free up nearly all of…”

“Hi, and thanks for reading my thread. My iMac is only a couple of months old. I have been using headphones to play WoW since I bought the iMac. My headphones broke, so I decided to use the speakers to play with WoW. However, the sound comin…”

“Macbook Pro 13" 2010 OSX 10.6.6 2.4Ghz C2D 8GB Ram 320m etc etc Every so often, say once every 2-3 hours session I get this weird checkerboard like artifacting. It screws up my UI and some graphical elements, like over the unit frames, acti…”

“I picked up a Cyborg RAT 9 mouse over Christmas - a really nice mouse. Fits my hand well. Good things like that. When I started using it in WoW, however, I thought that the Button1 was broken - I would click and click and click on UI elemen…”

“I started a new character and ever since then my game has been freezing for 1-5 seconds each time, and at this point has become unbearable. Every time a go to a new area it will freeze, opening the map freezes, opening talents freezes, leve…”

“The only way I can connect to the game is by creating a new character then logging in to my main. I have to do this everytime I play. Not only that, I cannot do dungeons or bg's because the loading screens come up and then it disconnects me…”

“I've never really played with the in-game recording stuff. I've always wanted to make a video. But every time i hit my "record" bind it will record for about 13 seconds and then freeze up for a second, the recording stops, and I continue wh…”

“WoW was working fine till I switched the race of one of my toons from Orc to Goblin, then the problems started. WoW will either freeze so that I have to force quit or outright crash when I switch from one toon to another. Doesn't matter whi…”

“Just some odd things that I seemed to notice: - I normally set my Multisampling at 2x, but every so often I'll check my game and it doesn't seem to remember it and reverts back to 1x - My Razer Imperator mouse seems to "forget" its settings…”

“Hi, I opened up a ticket on an alt earlier. I've realized though that... well this is kind of weird. When I try logging in, sometimes it'll say "Success!" and not log me in for minutes at a time. Also, if I try to select a realm from the re…”

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“After being away from the game for a few months now (since Cat came out) i've purchased the expansion and am attempting to install it on my new Mac. 2.93 Intel Core i7, 8 gb Ram, OX 10.6.6, GeForce 9800 graphic card. I've been stuck on the …”

“I'm just started having the strangest issue with my function keys. If I go from full screen to windowed mode (apple M) and then back to full screen, f9 to f12 stop working. If I restart the game, the work again. I can cast the spells I have…”

“Newest patch mirrors please anyone?”