WoW.exe isn't working

[eugewo]

Just finished downloading this for my brother to play, however, we're experiencing an issue with the client. After opening it, it seems to be running fine. Can hear the login intro and then the login screen background music, but there's nothing on his screen, just his desktop.

We couldn't figure out what was wrong with it and was wondering if anyone had any ideas?

I was thinking maybe because he runs Windows 10, and mine runs Windows 7?

[IronSharona]

I have the client working fine on my Windows 10 machine, no alterations necessary.

Have you tried hunting for the window with the task manager? Or using CTRL+TAB to search for a "blank" window? I know sometimes games for me will load audio and somehow be running in the background. If you can pull them to the foreground it should be okay.

[eugewo]

Yes. It's running perfectly fine, and we can pull it up, it just pulls up completely blank. There's no error log we can pull up on it, cause I guess it doesn't seem to be registered as an error...?

The only thing we could find was maybe incompatibility issues with his video card: Radeon (TM) RX 480

[Eronox]

Nvidia? try this:

• Go into the NVIDIA Control Panel (Right-click anywhere on your desktop).
• Under 3D Settings, click on Manage 3D settings.
• Click on Global Settings tab.
• Click on Antialiasing - Mode
• Change the Setting to Application-controlled
• Click on Apply, and close the NVIDIA Control Panel.

Also try to start the game in Windowed mode.
Head to the config, Config.wtf located in: world of warcraft/WTF , and find

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 SET gxWindow

Set it to 1. If you don't see anything like that, simply write this on a new line:

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SET gxWindow "1"

For video-card debugging, I'd also set these attributes for the sake being:

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SET ffxDeath "0"

SET ffxGlow "0"

SET gxApi "opengl"

SET movie "0" 

[eugewo]

Thank you!

The configs and debuggings you gave us worked well! It seems his video card won't support fullscreen. Thank you again!

[Eronox]

Thank you!

The configs and debuggings you gave us worked well! It seems his video card won't support fullscreen. Thank you again!

Anytime sir