The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.

    Installing Wow

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by Simplified, Apr 11, 2011.

  1. Simplified

    Simplified The Most Awesome

    Reputations:
    428
    Messages:
    766
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    Hello!

    I have lost my Wotlk disc (but I still have the key).
    I thought of doing this:
    1, install my vanilla wow disc
    2, install my tbc disc,
    3, patch tbc all the way up to 2.4.3
    4, install 2.4.3 to 3.0.1 patch
    5, intall 3.0.1 to 3.x.x etc all the way up to 3.3.5a
    6, install catalysm cd

    Will this work? I have 3 out of the 4 cds (I really cant find the missing disc)
    Is it possible to bypass the wotlk disc by patching tbc all the way up to the last woltk patch, then installing cata with my original disc?

    Note: this is to play on a retail server, and downloafing the trial is not an option because I have got really slow internet
     
    Simplified, Apr 11, 2011
    #1
  2. DEagleson

    DEagleson Gamer extraordinaire

    Reputations:
    2,529
    Messages:
    3,107
    Likes Received:
    30
    Trophy Points:
    116
    You can grab the client from battle.net if you log on there.
    It even stream downloads it so you can continue playing. :D

    Check the linky:
    https://eu.battle.net/account/download/
    Or US if you got US account.
     
    DEagleson, Apr 11, 2011
    #2
  3. Otterbyj

    Otterbyj Notebook Guru

    Reputations:
    8
    Messages:
    53
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    15
    It is possible to install it this way, but the cataclysm expansion alone is a multi-gigabyte download from a wrath install. It really is not a lot more effort to just start downloading from scratch.

    Truth be told, my favorite way of installing wow is to just keep a copy of the game on an external hard drive. Then if i need it, i just copy the files on to the appropriate computer.

    Also, as a sidenote: I am reasonably sure that you can simply install the game from the cataclysm disc without any of the previous discs.
     
    Otterbyj, Apr 11, 2011
    #3
  4. DEagleson

    DEagleson Gamer extraordinaire

    Reputations:
    2,529
    Messages:
    3,107
    Likes Received:
    30
    Trophy Points:
    116
    The new feature of the Cataclysm client is the ability to play while downloading the game.
    This way you skip the patching as it will always try to grab the latest version possible.

    But if you got less than average download speed then doing a install from the Cataclysm DVD is prefered.
    If you do this be sure to archive the patches you download somewhere in case of reinstalls.
     
    DEagleson, Apr 11, 2011
    #4
  5. Simplified

    Simplified The Most Awesome

    Reputations:
    428
    Messages:
    766
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    Thanks for the answers, + rep to both of you.
    If I install from the cata disc it will start downloading files from the previous games, and my internet is not fast enough for the streaming client.
    The lowest download size is if I upgrade from 2.4.3 (TBC) to 3.0.1, 3.1.2, 3.2.0, 3.2.0a, 3.3.5 then after that install cata. Will the wotlk files be compete?
    Thanks in advance
     
    Simplified, Apr 12, 2011
    #5
  6. Bubbletonic

    Bubbletonic Notebook Geek

    Reputations:
    3
    Messages:
    81
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    15
    I would really recommend just downloading straight from Battle.net if you can, you're going to end up downloading almost just as much content either way when it starts patching Cataclysm. I've installed cata from scracth on two computers in the last few weeks and it wasn't much hassle.

    The total download is 10gb but you only need to get about 3gb of it down and it'll let you start playing and then just run the downloader at night when you don't need the bandwidth.
     
    Bubbletonic, Apr 12, 2011
    #6
  7. skoreanime

    skoreanime Notebook Consultant

    Reputations:
    40
    Messages:
    148
    Likes Received:
    1
    Trophy Points:
    31
    Grab a big USB stick, find someone who plays WoW, copy+paste.
     
    skoreanime, Apr 12, 2011
    #7