WoW Alpha help please!

[pro jumper]

Hello MMowned
Well I recentyl downloaded WoW alpha and have been closely following a guide, I have done everything it says and it still refuses to launch.

I have made a shortcut, right click on properties, put uptodate; and it stills says This program must be launched from the updater :S.

Anybody who can help me fix this will surely find rep+ comeing there way!

My computer is Windows xp if that helps.


I Have done something right now xD, but now when i try to login, it says login server down :S my abbyss server is up too

:S thought i got it working now im getting a wow error here it is

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World of WarCraft: Assertions Enabled Build (build 336

Exe: C:\WoW\WoWClient.exe
Time: Nov 24, 2007 2:07:45.000 PM
User: Shaun
Computer: DGLK582J
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This application has encountered a critical error:

ERROR #132 (0x85100084)
Program: C:\WoW\WoWClient.exe
File: ..\DB/WowClientDB.h
Line: 26

Unable to open DBFilesClient\VideoHardware.dbc


WoWBuild: 3368
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Stack Trace (Manual)
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Address Frame Logical addr Module

006370E6 0013F964 0001:002360E6 C:\WoW\WoWClient.exe
006314BF 0013FD9C 0001:002304BF C:\WoW\WoWClient.exe
0062A2E8 0013FDF8 0001:002292E8 C:\WoW\WoWClient.exe
004022E5 0013FF14 0001:000012E5 C:\WoW\WoWClient.exe
004021B1 0013FF20 0001:000011B1 C:\WoW\WoWClient.exe
00408D64 0013FFBC 0001:00007D64 C:\WoW\WoWClient.exe
0040100A 0013FFF0 0001:0000000A C:\WoW\WoWClient.exe

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Stack Trace (Using DBGHELP.DLL)
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006370E6 WoWClient.exe SErrDisplayAppFatal+134 (0x00852038,0x0089EF78,0x00152367,0x00000000) (SErr.cpp,807)
006314BF WoWClient.exe DetectHardware+63 (0x00330032,0x00152367,0x00000000,0x0000000 (ConsoleDetect.cpp,201)
0062A2E8 WoWClient.exe ConsoleDeviceInitialize+40 (0x6C726F57,0x666F2064,0x72615720,0x66617263) (ConsoleClient.cpp,2099)
004022E5 WoWClient.exe WinMain+421 (0x00000001,0x0013FFBC,0x00408D64,0x00400000) (Client.cpp,1343)
004021B1 WoWClient.exe WinMain+113 (0x00400000,0x00000000,0x00152367,0x00000001) (Client.cpp,1826)
00408D64 WoWClient.exe WinMainCRTStartup+308 (0x7C816FD7,0x00330032,0x00340039,0x7FFDC000)
0040100A WoWClient.exe StormStaticEntryPoint+10 (0x00330032,0x00340039,0x7FFDC000,0x805441FD) (StormStartup.h,37)
7C816FD7 kernel32.dll <unknown symbol>+0 (0x00401000,0x00000000,0x78746341,0x00000020)


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Loaded Modules
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0x00400000 - 0x010C0000 WoWClient.exe
0x10000000 - 0x10093000 fmod.dll
0x5D090000 - 0x5D12A000 COMCTL32.dll
0x5ED00000 - 0x5EDCC000 OPENGL32.dll
0x68B20000 - 0x68B40000 GLU32.dll
0x71AA0000 - 0x71AA8000 WS2HELP.dll
0x71AB0000 - 0x71AC7000 WS2_32.dll
0x71AD0000 - 0x71AD9000 WSOCK32.dll
0x72A00000 - 0x72A2D000 dbghelp.dll
0x73760000 - 0x737A9000 DDRAW.dll
0x73BC0000 - 0x73BC6000 DCIMAN32.dll
0x76390000 - 0x763AD000 IMM32.dll
0x76B40000 - 0x76B6D000 WINMM.dll
0x773D0000 - 0x774D3000 comctl32.dll
0x774E0000 - 0x7761D000 ole32.dll
0x77BE0000 - 0x77BF5000 MSACM32.dll
0x77C10000 - 0x77C68000 MSVCRT.dll
0x77DD0000 - 0x77E6B000 ADVAPI32.dll
0x77E70000 - 0x77F01000 RPCRT4.dll
0x77F10000 - 0x77F57000 GDI32.dll
0x77F60000 - 0x77FD6000 SHLWAPI.dll
0x77FE0000 - 0x77FF1000 Secur32.dll
0x7C800000 - 0x7C8F5000 kernel32.dll
0x7C900000 - 0x7C9B0000 ntdll.dll
0x7C9C0000 - 0x7D1D7000 SHELL32.dll
0x7E410000 - 0x7E4A0000 USER32.dll


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Memory Dump
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Stack: 1024 bytes starting at (ESP = 0013E39

* = addr ** *
0013E390: 7C B6 64 00 98 E3 13 00 A4 20 00 00 DA E6 13 00 |.d...... ......
0013E3A0: 00 00 00 00 98 E3 13 00 B0 E3 13 00 7C B6 64 00 ............|.d.
0013E3B0: C4 E3 13 00 A8 7C 63 00 A4 20 00 00 03 00 00 00 .....|c.. ......
0013E3C0: 00 00 00 00 3C F1 13 00 43 75 63 00 00 00 00 00 ....<...Cuc.....
0013E3D0: 1A 00 00 00 A4 89 89 00 54 9E E2 00 00 00 00 00 ........T.......
0013E3E0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
0013E3F0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
0013E400: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
0013E410: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
0013E420: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
0013E430: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
0013E440: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
0013E450: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
0013E460: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
0013E470: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 09 1B 91 7C 34 83 16 00 ...........|4...
0013E480: 58 83 16 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 X...............
0013E490: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 05 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
0013E4A0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
0013E4B0: 00 00 00 00 C4 E4 13 00 00 00 00 00 C8 05 91 7C ...............|
0013E4C0: 98 20 15 00 90 E5 13 00 00 00 00 00 58 83 16 00 . ..........X...
0013E4D0: 6D 05 91 7C 01 00 10 00 28 00 00 00 20 08 00 00 m..|....(... ...
0013E4E0: 66 09 4D 74 8F 02 C8 01 48 32 F8 C9 A2 2E C8 01 f.Mt....H2......
0013E4F0: 80 7D 0E 35 E7 C2 C3 01 00 00 00 00 34 60 4C 00 .}.5........4`L.
0013E500: A0 20 15 00 84 E1 13 00 57 6F 57 43 6C 69 65 6E . ......WoWClien
0013E510: 74 2E 65 78 65 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 t.exe...........
0013E520: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
0013E530: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
0013E540: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
0013E550: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
0013E560: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
0013E570: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
0013E580: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
0013E590: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
0013E5A0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
0013E5B0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
0013E5C0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
0013E5D0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
0013E5E0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
0013E5F0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
0013E600: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 57 4F 57 43 ............WOWC
0013E610: 4C 49 7E 31 2E 45 58 45 00 00 00 00 54 68 69 73 LI~1.EXE....This
0013E620: 20 61 70 70 6C 69 63 61 74 69 6F 6E 20 68 61 73 application has
0013E630: 20 65 6E 63 6F 75 6E 74 65 72 65 64 20 61 20 63 encountered a c
0013E640: 72 69 74 69 63 61 6C 20 65 72 72 6F 72 3A 0A 0A ritical error:..
0013E650: 45 52 52 4F 52 20 23 31 33 32 20 28 30 78 38 35 ERROR #132 (0x85
0013E660: 31 30 30 30 38 34 29 0A 50 72 6F 67 72 61 6D 3A 100084).Program:
0013E670: 09 43 3A 5C 57 6F 57 5C 57 6F 57 43 6C 69 65 6E .C:\WoW\WoWClien
0013E680: 74 2E 65 78 65 0A 46 69 6C 65 3A 09 2E 2E 5C 44 t.exe.File:...\D
0013E690: 42 2F 57 6F 77 43 6C 69 65 6E 74 44 42 2E 68 0A B/WowClientDB.h.
0013E6A0: 4C 69 6E 65 3A 09 32 36 0A 0A 55 6E 61 62 6C 65 Line:.26..Unable
0013E6B0: 20 74 6F 20 6F 70 65 6E 20 44 42 46 69 6C 65 73 to open DBFiles
0013E6C0: 43 6C 69 65 6E 74 5C 56 69 64 65 6F 48 61 72 64 Client\VideoHard
0013E6D0: 77 61 72 65 2E 64 62 63 0A 0A 00 00 00 00 00 00 ware.dbc........
0013E6E0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 09 1B 91 7C ...............|
0013E6F0: CC 72 16 00 45 09 91 7C 4E 09 91 7C 68 EA 13 00 .r..E..|N..|h...
0013E700: 24 00 02 00 54 E8 13 00 02 00 00 00 90 41 91 7C $...T........A.|
0013E710: 00 C0 FD 7F 05 10 90 7C FC E6 13 00 00 00 00 00 .......|........
0013E720: CC E7 13 00 18 EE 90 7C 70 09 91 7C C0 E4 97 7C .......|p..|...|
0013E730: 6F 3E 91 7C 62 3E 91 7C 08 02 00 00 20 EB 13 00 o>.|b>.|.... ...
0013E740: F4 EA 13 00 28 00 00 00 01 00 10 00 28 00 00 00 ....(.......(...
0013E750: 00 00 00 00 00 00 15 00 5E E8 13 00 00 00 00 00 ........^.......
0013E760: 14 00 00 00 02 00 00 00 28 00 2A 00 00 FC FD 7F ........(.*.....
0013E770: 1C EB 13 00 E6 19 91 7C 00 FC FD 7F 00 00 00 00 .......|........
0013E780: 26 00 08 02 45 00 00 00 B8 72 16 43 28 00 00 00 &...E....r.C(...
0013E790: 00 00 00 00 03 00 00 00 78 E8 13 00 00 00 00 00 ........x.......


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Hardware/Driver Information:
Processor: 0x0
Page Size: 4096
Min App Address: 0x10000
Max App Address: 0x7ffeffff
Processor Mask: 0x1
Number of Processors: 1
Processor Type: 586
Allocation Granularity: 65536
Processor Level: 6
Processor Revision: 3336

Percent memory used: 78
Total physical memory: 527822848
Free Memory: 114675712
Page file: 1286475776
Total virtual memory: 2147352576