Problem with game freeze and crash ! Resolved !

[walktheline 0]

This is a mini guide on fixing a few problems I ran into while trying to run wow
private servers like retrowow. I was lucky enough to find someone called Phantom
from Discord chat whiling to spend time to fix my issues.

My laptop is a Dell XPS l502x

THE PROBLEMS

1- Was unable to simple right click a text file and open with notepad to be able to
modify its content.

2- I would have a problem where when I opened the game client it would end up being
a black screen where I could only hear the sounds from the game.

3- the game would freeze and crash, often with errors saying that my NVIDIA drivers
stopped responding. Leading to hard reboot of my laptop

 
THE SOLUTIONS

First I would recommend you guys to do the folowing, please delete the 3 folowing
folders before starting the wow.exe or this guide.

-Interface folder
-WDB folder
-WTF folder

Keep in mind that if you decide to delete these folders you will lose your addon's
and the code in the Config.ftw text file will be reset to default.


Part 1 ( How to modify a text file )

So first I will explain how to modify a text file. You need to open Notepad then
click "File" in the top left corner, followed by clicking  " Open .."

Now you will have a new window titled " Open " that will open up. So now you need
to click the down arrow next to Text Documents (*.text) and change it to " All
Files ". This will make it so you can see the text files from any folder.

Part 2 ( changing server connection address )

Now we can go ahead and change the server connection address from the realmlist.ftw
text file !

Locate your World of Warcraft folder and open the realmlist.ftw text file .
Now delete whats inside of it and replace it with the line below

set realmlist logon.elysium-project.org

Do not rename the text file !

Make sure to click "File " then " Save " before exiting notepad.

I would also recommend to double check the text file to make sure the content
inside has infact been changed.

Part 3 ( fixing the black screen bug )

This was a Direct X problem so I downloaded Direct X 9 from the address below.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/download/details.aspx?id=8109

Click the big orange download button and make sure to NOT add to the downloads

as they will offer some,only click " No thanks and continue " in blue.

Once this file has finished downloading, you will run the exe and it will ask you to
extract it in a file location. I would suggest to create a folder called Direct X 9
on your desktop to extract the files in it.

Once all the files have been located into this new folder you will then look inside
and locate DXSETUP ( Application ) . Double click it and let it run , it will then
install Direct X 9 !

Part 4

Make sure your video driver is fully updated !

Part 5 ( Fixing the game crash and freeze )

Using Notepad your gonna go into your "World of Warcraft " folder and then into
your "WTF" folder to locate and open a text file called Config.wtf

Once this text file is open you will see some code inside of it, make sure NOT to
modify any of this code. You will then go to the end of the last line of code and
hit enter so it brings you down to a new line and copy past this code into it.

SET gxApi "d3d9"

Make sure to click "File" and hit "save"
Make sure to double check to make sure this line of code has been added.

 

TO MAKE WOW WINDOWED BEFORE OPENING !

 

Right click your wow.exe shortcut and go to properties, select the Shortcut tab and look for Target:

it should look like this "C:\World of Warcraft Classic\WoW.exe"

next to the last " your gonna hit space and type -windowed so it looks like this

 

"C:\World of Warcraft Classic\WoW.exe" -windowed

 

Then hit apply , while your here you may as well go to Compatibility tab and select " Run this program as administrator"

 

I personally also Disabled display scaling on high DPI settings

 

Thanks again Phantom for all the time you took to help me resolve these issues !
Hope this helps you guys out as it did to me !

If someone wants to remake this guide to add more info and or pics, please do so !

All credits go to Phantom from Discord chat!

Edited December 4, 2016 by walktheline

[walktheline 0]

Keep in mind that the Elysium servers aren't live yet . So to trouble shoot my problems and test addon's  I was advised to try retrowow server. This server also gives you a lvl 60 character as soon as you log into it , so I good way to test skills out and get ready for the big Elysium release !

 

http://retro-wow.com/page/connect

[Phantom 0]

You're very welcome mate.