Blizzard Launcher Opening? HELP PLEASE

[UncleSambo 2]

Normally, I double click the wow.exe icon on my desktop and a white window opens and I click "run", then enter password and log in to the game.  

Now, when I double click that icon, the old blue blizzard window opens (the old bliz launcher window).    What's going on?  I can't log in....can someone please give advise and help me.  

Thank you !

[UncleSambo 2]

Can someone please help?     The old blizzard launcher keeps popping up....it's never done that before, normally I just double click the wow.exe icon on my desktop and click "run" and I'm off to the enter password screen, then I'm playing.     Please advise.   Thanks 

[Zancon 117]

It sounds like something went wrong with your shortcut. Navigate back into your vanilla WoW install folder and try to execute the game directly from there.

If that works, delete the shortcut previously created on your desktop and create a new shortcut and drag the new shortcut to your desktop.

[UncleSambo 2]

Where is that located?  All I see is Windows>User>Owner>Elysium-WoW, when I open that, I don't see any start icon for WoW?   I see World of Warcraft (folder), when I open that, all I see is Launcher.exe, and it takes me to the same thing --- the old blue blizzard launcher.  

Edit:     I've been all through my folders, the wow.exe icon on my desktop says Elysium in it, it's worked for months and months, now I'm getting the old blizzard launcher pop up when I click it?    IDK?   Nothing has been touched, modified or screwed with, it's been working perfectly, now this?   

I can't find a WoW.exe icon inside the World of Warcraft folder (Elysium),  I see, data, fonts, interface, logs, wdb, wtf, etc, etc, same stuff that's always been there.  But no WoW.exe?  I do see Launcher.exe, but it goes to the old blizzard launcher.  

Any ideas?   Please Help.

 

Edited August 10, 2018 by UncleSambo

[Zancon 117]

You seem to be missing the WoW.exe all together then? Did you delete it? Search your computer for WoW.exe

Did you follow every step of the guide when installing the game?

https://elysium-project.org/howtoplay/en

[UncleSambo 2]

yes, I've been playing on Elysium for months and months...about to ding 60 in fact (which was my plans for this morning).    I've searched my computer for WoW.exe, they all take me to the old blizzard loader, not Elysium (even though my shortcut I normally click says Elysium project.).    

[Zancon 117]

With the amount of possibilities and variables, it's probably best to just simply re-install. We would both be sitting here spinning our wheels trying to figure out exactly what happen. The root problem seems to be you no longer have the game executable which was either moved or deleted somehow.

[UncleSambo 2]

This is where it's installed "C:\Users\Owner\ELYSIUM-WOW\World of Warcraft\Launcher.exe"   Nothing is working............/sigh 

[UncleSambo 2]

I reloaded the game......I got back in for a few minutes (lost all my addons, macros and keybindings).  Sucks, but at least i'm back in ....

Edited August 10, 2018 by UncleSambo

[thecrazyscot 16]

Next time remember to "Back that shit up".  Always back up your stuff when reinstalling anything.