wow update

my friend lent me the discs but now i need to update.
i have a problem, at home i have the speed but not the dl limit
at my dads i have the limit but not the speed.
so i was wondering if i could copy the files from my friends laptop and paste them onto mine
would that mean mine gets updated

yeah im pretty sure that will work.. because if you update wow it just downloads or changes a couple of files, so if you copy and paste all the files from your friends wow folder and put them on your computer, you should be able to play wow.

yes it does work. Don't copy the interface or screenshots folders, but copy everything else.

thnx guys

But do copy the Interface\Addons folder if you want all of his addons. You will need the few folders in there that have blizz on them. They're needed for UI purposes and if you don't have them, you'll run into issues like having every single key unbound like I did. Very annoying. If anything, just copy the whole Addons folder and delete the ones you don't want.

the blizzard folders will be created when the game is installed.

Replying to #6

But if he's just copying over files from his friend's the game never "installs." That's the problem I ran into when I did the same thing.

Replying to #7

Normally, games create the folders when they are not there (Referring to Steam here but when you transfer your Steam files over to another hard drive you can just delete all the files (except for Steam.exe and steamapps folder) and it will install again once on the other hard drive and connected to the Internet.)

insanecrazy07 · #7But if he's just copying over files from his friend's the game never "installs." That's the problem I ran into when I did the same thing.

you HAVE to install the original game otherwise you cant play. once you have installed the original game, you can copy the files/folders over from a fully updated install and overwrite those in your install, and that will work fine.

Replying to #9

Must be a new feature because I was playing WoW off an external HDD from computer to computer.

ive installed all of wow and the expansions but need the updates
also if you did install a game to an external hdd, some games do not need an install directory to play from.

insanecrazy07 · #10Must be a new feature because I was playing WoW off an external HDD from computer to computer.

its always been like that. installing the game creates the required registry entries, then copying the files over from a fully updated install prevents you having to install all the expansions and then download 15GB of patches.

Replying to #12

That's the thing though. I never had to deal with the registry entries. I was able to take WoW, put it on an external HDD, connect to a virgin PC and play it immediately.

well seein as the discs are not needed to play and the files arent installed but placed in the public folder playing on a virgin pc should b possible
also movin the files did work im playing right now people !

ashley_surferboi · #1my friend lent me the discs but now i need to update.

he's obviously installed the game haha so why would he have to worry about his registry giving him errors
?you can find the names of the "update" files online and then just copy them from your buddy's pc i know you can because thats how my friend and i did it :D so have funalso make sure you put them in the same directory place or it'll try and "redownload" the files you already have .. you should be able to figure it out pretty easy if not let me know

i just copied the whole directory to my external hard drive