Haha Real Nice Blizz, Appreciate It...

[aisha.wolfgang]

NOTE: THIS IS ME COMPLAINING AND I THOUGHT IT BEST TO COMPLAIN HERE IN CASE SOMEONE HAS A WAY TO FIX IT >.<

Ok, so I haven't played WoW in over a month, though I did get on to download and install the new patch ^_^
Anyway, so today I go to get on WoW..BAM! I get an Error :S MISSING OR CORRUTED DATA: FAILED TO OPEN ARCHIVE INTERFACE.MPQ.
Hmm...this is the part where I slight "up yours blizzard" thought ran through my head..
Anyway, after deciding to do a repair, I got this message...
"WORLD OF WARCRAFT IS SERIOUSLY DAMAGED AND WILL NEED TO REVERT TO AN EARLIER VERSION. YOU MAY NEED TO PATCH AFTER REVERT."

Yay say's me I can repair this damage, Blizzard Error Message even said so!!
Of course, I came to a conclusion to early and after hitting OK I got this message...
"THE AMOUNT OF DATA REQUIRED TO REPAIR WORLD OF WARCRAFT IS TOO LARGE. PLEASE REINSTALL"

*Sigh* Thank-you Blizzard, really appreciate your wonderful way of ruining my return to WoW after a month of working, thankyou!!


Anyway, anybody know just WTF went on with my WoW while I was away? I don't use any addons (except Cartographer 3.0 and Auctioneer and Atlas) and they have never caused any problems before. please help mmowned..I'll wuv you forever and ever if you give me a reason to yell at Blizzard

[Zoidberg]

Just reinstall it.

[explictx420]

The new patch is 3.2GB. Just delete your world of warcraft folder, resintall (assuming you have the CD's) and patch up.

[sonny181]

I got this, reinstalled it and it worked.

[aisha.wolfgang]

omg :| my family will kill me, all the bandwidth will be gone :O

[Glovek77]

Found this on the WoW forums: Hope it helps....

When I went to, hopefully, run the repair, I receive this error as it completed:

"the amount of data required to repair world of warcraft is too large. please reinstall"

So I am to understand that the repair tool is incapable of repairing the common.mpq file, as it is too large. But that's the only thing I need repair, you see. So it's not much of a tool, now is it. In fact, maybe I am the tool? That's probably more accurate.

Guys, I work in I.T. (I know, I know, *roll-eyes), and I know my system, better than anyone. I'm not reinstalling my OS, cause I have zero issues with it. My HD is in perfect working order. Even ran a surface scan this weekend to be sure. My memory checks out. Drivers are up to date. I have no performance, math, or memory related errors with my computer, on any piece of software I use, ever.

My hack/fix for this has been to make a backup copy of the COMMON.MPQ file, as well as all the other MPQ files in the data directory, and copy over from the original when they become corrupted. I've never had to copy any of the other files over, as they don't have any issues (at least per WoW).

The COMMON.MPQ issue is related to a specific characters location. I know this because of a test I ran last night. I was in the Alterac Mountains, and decided to go into a cave of Yeti's (very exciting, I know). Killed one, then ran into the cave, and tried to kill the other two. On killing the second one, my sound locked up (looped), WoW crashed, and I see the 131 error.

Ok, so let's reboot.

Did that, able to log in, but I notice that I've died, because I stopped fighting, and have to now, walk back to my corpse. Ok. Whatever.

I go back to the same location, and get back to almost the exact same spot (had no issues until now, about 5 minutes go by), and immediately, error 131, corrupt common.mpq.

Reboot again. Hmm, I think, this usually doesn't happen. Let me check some things. Nope, event viewer is fine. I also run some software that monitors and logs temp readings of my HD, my CPU, and my GPU. All well within norms. No disk errors, let's check my RAM. AGAIN. No errors.

Try to run the game again, loads ok, login ok. Again, I am dead. Move back to the same location, crashes again. Reboot again. Decide to forget it, let's just get the rez sickness, and get it over with, so I rez at the graveyard.

That works. For about 2 minutes. Then I get a popping sound, hard lock of my computer (keyboard numlock key does not go on or off when pressed), and on my screen, and error which says "Unable to support output settings" or something like that.

So now I am unable to do anything, of any sort.

Attempt to run repair tool. Wow, it's been updated. Cool. This will fix everything. Except, wait a minute:

"the amount of data required to repair world of warcraft is too large. please reinstall"

Guys. This is the only game I have ever paid a monthly fee to play. Ever. In my life. And I have never had this many issues with any piece of software (except maybe Windows Me), in my life. The two should not go hand in hand. It should, in fact, be the opposite.

I'd love to hear a solution that doesn't involve me spending 4 hours (that includes the uninstall time, defrag, chkdsk, reinstall, downloading of patch 1, install of patch 1, downloading of patch 2, install of patch 2) fixing your software, again.

Source: World of Warcraft - English (NA) Forums -> Repair tool now functional

[aisha.wolfgang]

Thanks kindly for the find really appreciate it, I might actually try copying etc. after i get the damn game reinstalled ^-^

[Triviellion]

I got thet myself after patching -- but the revert worked and i patched fine afte that .

not sure what went wrong for you.