Wow Crashes On Launch

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I have been able to play in the past on my laptop which is slightly below system requirements, but now when I try and launch wow, I can see the wow pointer hand for about a second and then it gives the windows crash “world of warcraft has stopped working”.

I really am not sure how to fix this, in the error folder It says something about error 132. I run windows 7. I have tried lots of things like running the repair through battlenet, renaming the cache and wtf folders to cacheold and wtfold. I am not sure about my drivers as they are apparently up to date according to the intel website, but again I am not sure.

Any suggestions would be a big help, thanks.

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8.1.5 update is more resource starved, esp. ram, try to lower all your settings to minimum in your config file, and then run the game as admin.

Here is lowest possible setting:

SET lod “0”
SET uiScale “0.89999997615814”
SET Sound_MasterVolume “1”
SET Sound_SFXVolume “1”
SET showGameTips “0”
SET taintLog “1”
SET movieSubtitle “1”
SET readScanning “-1”
SET readContest “-1”
SET readTerminationWithoutNotice “-1”
SET installType “Retail”
SET showChatIcons “1”
SET chatLocked “1”
SET shadowLevel “0”
SET hidePartyInRaid “1”
SET showItemLevel “1”
SET ShowAllSpellRanks “0”
SET questLogCollapseFilter “-1”
SET showRaidRange “1”
SET previewTalents “1”
SET equipmentManager “1”
SET bloatTest “0”
SET spreadnameplates “0”
SET bloatnameplates “0”
SET enterWorld “1”
SET useUiScale “1”
SET reflectionMode “0.000000”
SET graphicsQuality “1”
SET textureFilteringMode “0.000000”
SET guildRecruitmentChannel “0”
SET bloatthreat “0”
SET minimapTrackedInfo “0”
SET Sound_EnableDSPEffects “0”
SET Sound_EnableSoundWhenGameIsInBG “1”
SET coresDetected “2”
SET showCastableDebuffs “1”
SET advancedWorldMap “1”
SET gxWindow “1”
SET installLocale “enUS”
SET Sound_EnableErrorSpeech “0”
SET terrainLodDist “250.000000”
SET componentTextureLevel “1.000000”
SET SSAOBlur “1”
SET environmentDetail “50.000000”
SET statusTextPercentage “1”
SET disableServerNagle “0”
SET Sound_ZoneMusicNoDelay “1”
SET gxColorBits “16”
SET gxDepthBits “16”
SET farclip “185.000000”
SET ffx “0”
SET ffxGlow “0”
SET ffxspecial “0”
SET ffxnetherworld “0”
SET ffxDeath “0”
SET showshadow “0”
SET wmoLodDist “200.000000”
SET checkAddonVersion “0”
SET Sound_EnableMusic “0”
SET fog “0”
SET showfootprints “1”
SET showfootprintparticles “0”
SET anisotropic “16”
SET textureloddist “80”
SET light “0”
SET alphalevel “1”
SET particleDensity “10.000000”
SET SkyCloudDensity “0”
SET SkySunglare “0”
SET skyshow “0”
SET maxlights “0”
SET detailDoodadAlpha “1”
SET smallcull “0”
SET characterAmbient “1”
SET enviornmentDetail “20”
SET maxAnimThreads “1”
SET lastReadTOS “50408”
SET lastReadEULA “50408”
SET worldBaseMip “2.000000”
SET expandUpgradePanel “0”
SET raidFramesDisplayIncomingHeals “0”
SET SpellEffectLevel “1”
SET waterDetail “1.000000”
SET rippleDetail “0.000000”
SET watermaxlod “0”
SET waterspecular “0”
SET waterwaves “0”
SET waterripples “0”
SET waterparticulates “0”
SET gxTextureCacheSize “32”
SET playIntroMovie “7”
SET mapQuestDifficulty “1”
SET trackerFilter “5”
SET showKeyring “1”
SET lastAddonVersion “70100”
SET seenCharacterUpgradePopup “5”
SET lightMode “0.000000”
SET engineSurvey “2”
SET raidOrBattleCount “10”
SET horizonStart “800.000000”
SET particleMTDensity “10.000000”
SET sunShafts “0.000000”
SET refraction “0.000000”
SET projectedTextures “0.000000”
SET shadowMode “0.000000”
SET shadowTextureSize “1024.000000”
SET shadowSoft “0.000000”
SET SSAO “0.000000”
SET DepthBasedOpacity “0.000000”
SET terrainTextureLod “1.000000”
SET terrainMipLevel “1.000000”
SET OutlineEngineMode “0.000000”
SET lodObjectCullSize “30.000000”
SET lodObjectCullDist “27.000000”
SET lodObjectMinSize “81.000000”
SET weatherDensity “0.000000”
SET graphicsTextureResolution “1”
SET graphicsTextureFiltering “1”
SET graphicsProjectedTextures “0.000000”
SET graphicsviolenceLevel “5”
SET graphicsViewDistance “1”
SET graphicsEnvironmentDetail “1”
SET graphicsGroundClutter “1”
SET graphicsShadowQuality “1.000000”
SET graphicsLiquidDetail “1.000000”
SET graphicsSunshafts “0.000000”
SET graphicsParticleDensity “0.000000”
SET graphicsSSAO “0.000000”
SET graphicsDepthEffects “1.000000”
SET graphicsLightingQuality “1.000000”
SET graphicsOutlineMode “1.000000”
SET graphicsffx “0.000000”
SET graphicsffxGlow “0.000000”
SET graphicsffxspecial “0.000000”
SET graphicsffxnetherworld “0.000000”
SET graphicsffxDeath “0.000000”
SET graphicsSpellEffectLevel “1.000000”
SET graphicsemphasizeMySpellEffects “0”
SET RAIDmaxFPS “200”
SET RAIDmaxFPSBk “200”
SET RAIDsettingsInit “1”
SET RAIDfarclip “185.000000”
SET RAIDenviornmentDetail “20”
SET RAIDterrainLodDist “250.000000”
SET RAIDwmoLodDist “200.000000”
SET RAIDworldBaseMip “2.000000”
SET RAIDanisotropic “16”
SET RAIDtextureloddist “80”
SET RAIDtextureFilteringMode “0.000000”
SET RAIDenvironmentDetail “50.000000”
SET RAIDreflectionMode “0.000000”
SET RAIDparticleDensity “10.000000”
SET RAIDSpellEffectLevel “1”
SET RAIDgxColorBits “16”
SET RAIDgxDepthBits “16”
SET RAIDgraphicsQuality “1”
SET RAIDffx “0”
SET RAIDffxGlow “0”
SET RAIDffxspecial “0”
SET RAIDffxnetherworld “0”
SET RAIDffxDeath “0”
SET RAIDemphasizeMySpellEffects “0”
SET RAIDviolenceLevel “5”
SET RAIDSkyCloudLOD “0”
SET RAIDwaterDetail “1.000000”
SET RAIDrippleDetail “0.000000”
SET RAIDwatermaxlod “0”
SET RAIDwaterspecular “0”
SET RAIDwaterwaves “0”
SET RAIDwaterripples “0”
SET RAIDwaterparticulates “0”
SET RAIDsettingsEnabled “1”
SET RAIDLightMode “0.000000”
SET RAIDgxTextureCacheSize “32”
SET RAIDSSAO “0.000000”
SET RAIDweatherDensity “0.000000”
SET RAIDDepthBasedOpacity “0.000000”
SET RAIDshadowMode “0.000000”
SET RAIDterrainTextureLod “1.000000”
SET RAIDterrainMipLevel “1.000000”
SET RAIDprojectedTextures “0.000000”
SET RAIDshadowTextureSize “1024.000000”
SET RAIDshadowSoft “0.000000”
SET RAIDsunShafts “0.000000”
SET RAIDparticleMTDensity “10.000000”
SET RAIDrefraction “0.000000”
SET RAIDOutlineEngineMode “0.000000”
SET RAIDlodObjectCullSize “30.000000”
SET RAIDlodObjectCullDist “27.000000”
SET RAIDlodObjectMinSize “81.000000”
SET RAIDcomponentTextureLevel “1.000000”
SET raidGraphicsemphasizeMySpellEffects “0”
SET raidGraphicsTextureResolution “1”
SET raidGraphicsTextureFiltering “1”
SET raidGraphicsProjectedTextures “0.000000”
SET raidGraphicsViewDistance “1”
SET raidGraphicsEnvironmentDetail “1”
SET raidGraphicsGroundClutter “1”
SET raidGraphicsShadowQuality “1.000000”
SET raidGraphicsLiquidDetail “1.000000”
SET raidGraphicsSunshafts “0.000000”
SET raidGraphicsParticleDensity “0.000000”
SET raidGraphicsSSAO “0.000000”
SET raidGraphicsDepthEffects “1.000000”
SET raidGraphicsLightingQuality “1.000000”
SET raidGraphicsOutlineMode “1.000000”
SET raidgraphicsffx “0.000000”
SET raidgraphicsffxGlow “0.000000”
SET raidgraphicsffxspecial “0.000000”
SET raidgraphicsffxnetherworld “0.000000”
SET raidgraphicsffxDeath “0.000000”
SET raidGraphicsSpellEffectLevel “1.000000”
SET gxApi “D3D9”
SET CACHE-WQST-QuestV2RecordCount “28889”
SET CACHE-WQST-QuestV2HotfixCount “5”
SET CACHE-WQST-QuestObjectiveRecordCount “28606”
SET CACHE-WQST-QuestObjectiveHotfixCount “0”
SET CACHE-WQST-QuestObjectiveXEffectRecordCount “7360”
SET CACHE-WQST-QuestObjectiveXEffectHotfixCount “0”
SET CACHE-WGOB-GameObjectsRecordCount “55374”
SET CACHE-WGOB-GameObjectsHotfixCount “0”
SET Sound_EnableAmbience “0”
SET lastCharacterIndex “1”
SET physicsLevel “0”
SET RenderScale “0.5”

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Hey Rinks,

You mentioned going through a few steps already, but have a look into the full Error 132 Support Article and go through all the steps listed thoroughly.

Have a few seconds to spare? Let me know how I’m doing!