I was rattling through 79 nicely, when I got an invite to the Occulus for the daily. My wow decided to crash.
Fair enough, it does happen occasionally, but hasn't happened for ages to me, so I decided to run the repair tool.
'Wow is seriously corrupted' - huh? how!!??
So i revert and repatch, try to get back into the game, and then discover a totally different file has been corrupted, ironically in an area of the game that never gave me hassle before.
So now I'm sitting here reverting and repatching again.
What are the chances it'll be corrupted again?
Often a simple restart resolves this and there is nothing wrong with the files themselves.
However, faulty RAM sticks are often to blame for this type of error, as are a starting to fail HDD. Run Memtest to be sure and do a scan on the HDD to see if things are starting to break. I had a lot of these errors when my old Striker Extremem motherboard started to eat RAM sticks.
I tend to keep a 'good' copy of the Wow folder on a separate HDD just in case Wow unilaterally decides it wants a total reinstall.
TL.
I had this on my laptop 2 years back, reinstalling didn't work, it was my hard disk indeed which started crumbled away unfortunately :(
A bad block on the harddrive or a bad memstick is usually the evil one in these cases, do a in dept surface scan and/or a memtest to see if you got some issues there..
But i tend to do as TL, keep a fresh install of wow on a different hdd, so i just can copy over the file..
To ge honest, I've thought about it, and it's probably the HDD. The PC is getting on a bit (2.5 years or so) and has been used daily during that time.
Guess I need to think about what to buy next now...