Grim Views

OK, so I learned something tonight.  Not sure how applicable this is to Vista/XP since I am running Windows 7. I patch religiously, and Windows Security Essentials creates a system restore point whenever it updates its definitions.

WoW was crashing for me whenever I would load a toon in Dalaran (with clean WTF and AddOn directories).  Running repair would get to 16.8 of 18 MB checked on file 19/19 and hang while attempting to download something, even with my firewall turned completely off. Dragging any mpq of size properties -> previous versions -> last saturday -> restore.

25 minutes later everything was up and running again. Re-d/led the tools patch, all working fine.

I think this works in Vista. It does not work in my XP VM.  So YMMV.

Anyway, fastest re-install I've ever seen.

.... so what was the problem?

Corrupted files, I believe. I'm-a run a restore when I get home, too, as I was running pretty wonky last night. Mebbe the patch borked something for some of us?

Win7 Professional 64-bit (same kernel as Win Vista) and I can safely confirm that there were no issues on my end after patching up and playing for a couple of hours last night.

I now believe the problem was an upgrade of Comodo Internet Suite from 3->4.  Their sandboxing breaks WoW.  If you are wondering why Comodo as opposed to anything else, it is because the looked to be the closest functional  descendants of Tiny Personal Firewalll, my favouritist firewall ever. I even paid money for it.