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As the title says, the Launcher will detect and install patch 4.3 fine. After this, the status of the launcher will say "World of Warcraft is up to date".
It still does not launch the game though, so the old and trusted "start wow by using wow.exe" still applies.
You are lucky. I am trying to update to the current version but the launcher crashed every 20 secs. Don know how to update.
....read the other thread here...;
http://www.codeweavers.com/compatibility/browse/name/?app_id=7714;forum=1;msg=113646
...I tossed an idea into the ring, and someone else said it
worked for them -- whether it works for you or not is another
matter (might be a mac versus linux thing)....
Cheers!
Disabling the "Peer to peer" option in the launcher's settings usually does the trick.
Yes, I've tried all these tricks. With the previous (much smaller) patch you could install a part of the patch with launcher.exe, and the remaining part with wow.exe. That worked fine.
However, with a very large patch like the one from today (4.3), I really need launcher.exe and it crashes every 20 seconds. I have already disabled peer-to-peer.
It seems that disabling p2p in Linux Mint 12 did solve the problem. However, with ubuntu 10.04.3 lts the problem remains. Even with p2p set off, the launcher terminates every 20-30 secs.
This worked for me.
From: http://www.wowwiki.com/Wine_troubleshooting
As of this writing (WoW 4.3, wine 1.3.33 and some earlier versions), the WoW Launcher and Background Downloader both crash when Peer to Peer downloading is enabled and either needs to download a new update. Ironically, the Launcher's Preferences window does not work properly in wine either, so to fix this, start up BackgroundDownloader.exe in your World of Warcraft installation directory, and quickly click the View menu, Preferences. Uncheck Peer to Peer, and check Don't throttlem then click OK. Then you can either let the download continue in the Background Downloader, or you can close the Background Downloader, and re-open the Launcher and the download will not fail.
I could not solve the problem with my Ubuntu 10.04.3 LTS and tried Mint 12. Problem solved now with the steps described earlier by the other users.
Unfortunately it doesn't work for me. With Ubuntu 10.04.3 LTS I get the following error message repeatedly:
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Blizzard Downloader: Release (build 1644)
This application has encountered a critical error:
ERROR #1 (0x13370001) Fatal Exception
Program: C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft\BackgroundDownloader.exe
The instruction at "0x004AA103" referenced memory at "0x00000000".
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