WOW Gold: Patching Assistance

In World of Warcraft, looking for WOW Gold is one of the most important things. So we will give you WOW Gold Guide to help you. But to start the game, you need patching assistance first.

World of Warcraft may require one or more patches before it is at the latest available version. It is the first step of you to start the game, start farming WOW Gold Cheap. The easiest way to make sure you are patched is by logging into the game itself using your account name and password.

If a patch is available, it will either download automatically through the game, or download in Windows using the Blizzard Downloader. If the Blizzard Downloader is not downloading the patch properly, or is moving at an abnormally slow rate, please visit this Support Page for assistance with optimizing your computer setup for the Blizzard Downloader.

Administrator Access is Required

If you are using Windows XP/2000/Vista, make sure you are logged on as an administrator account when patching. If the game is not installed and patched on an administrator account, computer permissions can prevent the patch from applying properly.

Firewall and Security Programs

There are a number of reports that disabling or temporarily uninstalling firewall and anti-virus programs (Norton, McAfee, ZoneAlarm) will permit the patch to complete successfully. Of course, do not remove security software if you can't reinstall it, but removing these programs will minimize or eliminate the chance they will interfere with the patch. If you able to patch but then cannot connect it is almost certainly one of these programs.

Repairing and Reverting

Repairing your game by running the Repair tool - using the Reset and Check files - and then attempting to re-patch may help. You can find the Repair tool on your Start Menu or in the folder where the game is installed (normally C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft).

Reverting and re-patching your game may also assist with the patching process:

- Navigate to your game folder (normally C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft)
- Go into the Data folder
- Delete the patch.MPQ file
- If you have any patch-*.MPQ files (for example, patch-2.MPQ), delete these too
- Drop back to your main game folder and run the Repair tool

The Repair tool will explain that your game needs to be reverted, allow the game to revert and then re-patch. If you still receive errors, you will need to uninstall and reinstall the entire game. You can start the game and make World of Warcraft Gold soon.

Two specific errors that may occur during or after patching and require you to revert the game are:

Unable to Validate Game Version

If you have downloaded and installed the patch from a mirror site, it's possible that your game version may be newer than that on the official World of Warcraft realms. Game patches are normally released on a Wednesday, if you have updated your game manually before the patch is released on the live realms, you may receive the Unable to Validate Game Version error. You will need to uninstall and reinstall your game if you have patched early, before reinstalling you might like to try reverting your game by following the steps above. We have further assistance in the Unable to Validate Game Version article.

Base\Signature file

This error normally occurs as a result of running Windows System Restore. You may need to reinstall the game but before doing so, try reverting your game by following the steps above.

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