WoW constantly crashes on my external ssd, unlike nearly every game I know of (examples of games bellow). From old to new, mmo to single player. I use external ssd because I don’t have enough internal storage space to install my games on it. And also, I want this external ssd to work and it works on every game I know of, except WoW.
But if you know how to install WoW on my internal ssd while still keeping all the other battlenet games on my external ssd, please share that would also be helpful.
otherwise I still wanna fix this.
WoW installed on external 3.2 usb-c 4TB SSD storage device to thunderbolt 4 port laptop.
NTFS (default) formatted.
Laptop windows 11 64bit, 64gb memory, rtx 4090, intel i9 gen 14.
I tried reinstalling WoW many times. Scanning and repairing many times.
I enabled write caching on my external ssd. This solved the “unexpected error” game crash shutdown during loading screens.
But now I am still getting “ACCES_VIOLATION” and “Could not read memory” errors, game crash shutdowns, also outside of loading screens.
I have a small image with 3 error examples on it. And I have the big error.txt files in my WoW folders.
The image is acces violation and could not read memory, but with some strange number and letter combinations that are unique to each error of which I understand nothing. But tell me if you want me to write the errors as it is displayed. Or how to share an image here, if possible. Or the error.txt. As I am not familiat with how these forums work.
I have tried everything to identify and fix this WoW crashing when running on an external SSD, for 3 weeks. Trying endless things. With all the suggestions from WoW Support and Many many helpful suggestions from WoW forums, all of you (thanks for that). I have run out of options.
Endless different graphical settings. Running game as administrator. Checking all drivers. Making sure everything is up to date. Many reinstalls, many different settings.
And WoW support suggested I contact a local technician if I run out of options, but the problem with that is that literally not a single other game on this planet, that I know of, has ever had issues with this external ssd. Only WoW has this issue. And not a single other mmo has issues with this ssd either.
How can a local technician help me solve an issue with the WoW game itself?
WoW war within not only crashes with “unexpected errors” during loading screens, or (after enabling write caching) “Access violation” and “could not read memory” errors.
But WoW has actually frozen my computer to the point that not even ctrl-alt-delete responded. Then I tried system buttons, not even the system buttons responeed. Then I tried the power button, and not even the power button responded. The only thing that responded was holding the power button to complete shut it down.
And then after enabling write caching, it also gave me a blue screen and automatically restarted my computer. Outside of the usual “access violation” and “could not read memory” errors.
Games that work perfectly fine on this external ssd are too many to fit here, but I’ll give some examples; Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020, F1 '16 to F1 '23, Assetto Corsa Series, Automobilista Series, rFactor 2, iRacing, Project Cars 2, Call of Duty Modern Warfare 1 to 3. Black ops 4. Overwatch 1 and 2, Starcraft 2 series, Diablo 2 and 3 and 4, WoW Classic and Retail, Hearthstone, Half-Life 2 and expansions, Destiny 2, Portal 2, Ghost Recon breakpoint, Division 2, Star Wars jedi, the Star Wars after that one, Rainbow six, Rainbow Six Extraction, red dead redepmtion 2, Halo Infinite, Skyrim old and new, Dragon Age inquisition, Starfield, Fallout 4, Minecraft dungeons, Minecraft Legends, Minecraft, Civilization, Tomb Raider, Resident Evil series, monster hunter, guild wars 2, final fantasy singleplayer and mmo, New World mmorpg, Star Wars mmorpg, Harry Potter, Anthem, Battlefield 1, Battlefield 4, Battlefield 2042, Geometry Wars series, The first zelda side scroller rpg. Street Fighter 4, Mortal Combat gameboy advance emulator, Fifa 24, NBA 2k23, UFC 2 or 3, Borderlands 3, DCS (Digital Combat Simulator), Player’s Unknown Battlegrounds, Valorant, Left 4 Dead 2, Back 4 Blood, Warzone, Arma 3, Many Indie games, Assassin’s Creed Origins, Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, God of War, Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, Battlefront II, Titanfall 2, Counter-Strike, Harry Potter, Control, Batman, Cyber Punk 2077, The Witcher 3, Far Cry series, Forza Motorsport 7 or 8 (the newest one).
That is why I don’t understand that WoW support says that this is an issue with my hardware and that I should contact a local technician (which I will definitely do at some point, simply out of curiosity).
I tried endless many things over the course of 3+ weeks, as mentioned.
I also tried deleting addons and wtf folder.
I don’t even remember all the things I tried, it’s too much.
I hope someone here can help me understand what might be causing this issue, I would very much appreciate it if you have even any idea at all, so thanks in advance if you do.
I tried endless many nvidia settings to try and see if that is the cause, mostly default tho. Clean install of many things. Also tried allot of intel stuff. Also set to default now as always. But its simply not a cpu or gpu issue. And neither out of date motherboard firmware. Every piece of hardware is fully up to date.
Hardware Monitor shows very good functioning of all hardwares.
And again, literally every game works on it except WoW: WW.
One maybe important or significant thing I noticed is that certain Macro’s, that I have made, dissapeared after crashing. And the very old macros are still there. So this might be an issue with computer to server synchronisation. But that is just wild guess, as I have no idea.
Game has crashed definitely 50 to 100 times.
If you have any ideas, please, feel free to share.
I’m just putting this out there, and maybe try and fix or understand it with the help of a local technician if I can find one, at some point perhaps, maybe.