Problems with US and UK version of WOW on same PC

UKJett

UKJett

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Prior to patch 2.4 I was able to run both the US and UK versions of WOW on the same PC by renaming the directiories.

However with the recent patch I am now not able to patch the US version, following from a successful patching of the UK version.

The Blizz patcher for the US version downloads the patch but will not apply it. This is due to the patcher locating the wow.exe in the UK WOW directory rather than the US WOW directory, and as this is the current 2.4 version, states "that this version is up to date so bog off". :)

So to my question, is it possible to somehow re-direct the US patcher to look into the US WOW directory rather than the UK directory?

I have renamed the UK wow.exe in the hope that the US patcher will try and find the correct version of WOW in the US directory, but it just laughs in my face and states that it is unable to locate wow.exe...in the UK directory.

I have a sneaking suspicion that the patcher has been tweaked to stop peeps having both UK and US versions on the same PC.

The only solution I can see is to have one version on the PC.
 
SadSurfer

SadSurfer

MMO Pimp and Alt Master
**A GUESS**
I would have thought it was using a key in the registry - you could locate that and change it when needed or delete it altogether and see if that helps.

Oh and messing with the registry is not a good idea, back it up first :)

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Gottaa

Full Member
Best/worst idea ....

1. Rename the UK folder to something else
2. Rename the US folder to the UK name
3. Patch US client
4. Rename US folder back to US one
5. Rename UK folder back to UK one
6. Don't kill Gottaa if this doesn't work or somehow messes up WoW
 
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