Unable to switch to "Windowed Mode"

İ’ve been trying to play Classic on windowed mode for the last few hours and I’ve been getting “Unable to start 3d Accelerators” error every time I tried. I redownloaded wow, deleted and updated my graphics card drivers.

https://eu.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/cant-run-classic-in-windowed-mode/75144/5

Turn off any overlays such as discord etc.

All of them are deactivated

mhhh

first of all have you tried to change those settings in the login screen / character create / select screen ?

Second of all do you have any info about your OS and GPU ? and are drivers up to date ?

I get this sometimes too, but not always. I also find that classic drops to 30fps after ~5 seconds when fullscreen (I have a potato-eating monster of a PC so it’s not that) but stays at 60fps if run windowed with the window stretched to fullscreen. I have never had an issue with regular WoW in 15 years of play.

I fixed this exact problem by going in WOW install folder, making a shortcut for wow.exe and then running it as administrator. Using windows 10 btw.