Constant Game Data is currently being downoaded ingame

[Deadduchess-silvermoon (Deadduchess)]

What he said.

I edited mine to full download speed and left it overnight, did not see any in game issues after that.

[Punyelf-draenor (Punyelf)]

Shadowlands Pre-Patch Data Now Available for Download
Shadowlands Pre-Patch data is now available for download in the Blizzard Battle.net App! If you have already installed Shadowlands PTR or Beta then you won’t have to download all the files again since the client automatically shares the data on disk .

I have played Beta and everything is up to date and still I get that little disc in game

[Charmander-arathor]

Going to chime in here and hope this gets attention. I have already downloaded everything but am still getting constant the important game data is being downloaded. FPS = 60 and ms = 40/40

[Baraia-eonar]

Well thank goodness it wasn’t just me. Had that happening all last night. Thought it was because I was running a fresh install and it kept redownloading chunks of the world I had not visited yet.
And I too, have downloaded the prepatch data.
I wonder what it thinks its downloading? I mean,it never says its gotten anything.

[Darkcloudy-silvermoon]

its gotten to the point where the circle will go yellow and wow just freezes for a few seconds even when I am in older content areas ! This is ridiculous and making a ticket is so cumbersome… Also worth mentioning no PTR is downloading there and my ms is also not high at all.

[Joéh-darksorrow]

also suffering this since this morning, and also as Darkcloudy is experiancing random freezes.

[Baraia-eonar]

Its not just us.
Folks on the us have had threads about this too

Persistent Green Circle Icon - "game data is being downloaded."

They took logs from them and said ’ we’ll get back to you’ kinda thing but many tried their own fixes.

[Neltaris-colinas-pardas]

Thanks god it’s not just me. I was going crazy about it

[Darkcloudy-silvermoon]

So this is basically already ongoing since 4 days ago and yet no response from blizzard so far… Not a good look imo.

[Cheinii-argent-dawn (Cheinii)]

It is cuz blizzard dynamically observes the gameplay of the popular kids and changes their g data accordingly.

I, on the other hand, am k.

[Rivianwolf-sunstrider (Rivianwolf)]

Same for me.
Anyone find any fix for this?

[Ãnna-silvermoon]

Persistent Green Circle Icon - "game data is being downloaded."

[Mazgar-arathor]

Still ongoing for me…

[Rivianwolf-sunstrider (Rivianwolf)]

Any news regarding this issue?
Even after the pre patch update still getting that green mark

[Mazgar-arathor]

I did a full reinstall, now that it seem s the mini patches are less frequent.

For me, this finally fixed it.

[Punyelf-draenor (Punyelf)]

I still get them so now and then, so I’m not sure if they just happen less or if reinstall did something

[Rowtan-lightbringer]

There is a reply to this on another thread:

@Tyrskorn

Indeed the investigation into the cause of this is still ongoing and there is no current ETA for a fix.

Just to re-iterate the currently available workaround:

• Uninstall and reinstall WoW
• In the Battle.net app Settings → Game Install/Update → Turn off download future patch data under Automatic Updates, by changing the selection to “Apply latest updates for recently played games”

Additionally, I couldn’t say if any future fix will retroactively heal up existing installations, so if anyone is still holding out on re-installing, now might be a good time to do that or make arrangements for it in case data transfer caps need to be considered.

Fully installed WoW is downloading on background?

It’s not the Shadowlands Prepatch. I just did a fresh install of WoW and when I launched the game it lagged a bit but then stabilized. After loading into Boralus the FPS was constantly stuttering and I noticed that the “Downloading important game data” symbol was lit on top of my screen? Even though I did a full install, and also downloaded the beta and Classic files (prepatch data should be included). I had no addons installed and the installation was 100% fresh, downloaded from Battlenet in a…

[Punyelf-draenor (Punyelf)]

Yes that is exactly what we were discussing . That the ‘fix’ does not really fix and just lessens the number of times it occurs.

If you have slow internet I really wouldn’t bother with that ‘fix’. My download was fast and although I backed up my addons the only thing I lost was weakauras.

[Rowtan-lightbringer]

it was more by way of information received that we shouldn’t actually expect a fix at all from Blizzard. Even if they do “fix” what caused the issue, it may well not work retrospectively. So, if you already have it … don’t expect Blizzard to get rid of it for you.

I’m in the process of redownloading, after holding off waiting for a Blizzard fix. But after that message i just decided to go for it. Luckily I’m on a fairly decent speed connection. I’ll see if that sorts it.