why is this happening? (computer advice

[Sternrage]

the computer I use now used to work for the beta. for whatever reason it no longer does. I've tried uninstalling wow and reinstalling it, ptr included, multiple times to no avail. since I really wanted to get bac to the ptr i got out my outdated laptop for an experiment. I downloaded the client to my crap laptop, that can barely handle wow and it worked.


how can my outdated hp pavilion pc from 3 years ago handle the beta perfectly over my current computer an asus?

below are my asus specs

OPERATING SYSTEM:
Windows 2.6.1.7601 (Service Pack 1)
CPU TYPE:
Intel® Core™ i7-2670QM CPU @ 2.20GHz
CPU SPEED:
2.24 GHz
SYSTEM MEMORY:
7.98 GB
VIDEO CARD MODEL:
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560M
VIDEO CARD MEMORY:
3.97 GB
VIDEO CARD DRIVER:
nvd3dum.dll
DESKTOP RESOLUTION:
1920x1080
HARD DISK SIZE:
906.51 GB
HARD DISK FREE SPACE:
820.23 GB (90%)
DOWNLOAD SPEED:
251.98 kB/s (2.1 mbps)


divide everything by about 20,maybe more, and you have my crap laptop.

what I want to know is why?
I can play smoothly with ultra with my asus, and i can barely play on the lowest settings on my hp, why i replaced it.

should I reset my Asus to factory settings? (only had it a month and not much memory on here)

someone please suggest something.

when i currently try to log on to the beta one of two things happen. the realms come up red and wont let me on, or a login error occurs and it says to contact blizz.

[Roku]

when i currently try to log on to the beta one of two things happen. the realms come up red and wont let me on, or a login error occurs and it says to contact blizz.

from that sounds like your game client didn't patch right I had the same thing happen had to reboot the system and run the launcher again to get it to finish patching it

[Sternrage]

from that sounds like your game client didn't patch right I had the same thing happen had to reboot the system and run the launcher again to get it to finish patching it

so basically restart my computer? or how do I reboot it?

[Roku]

yes restart = reboot

[Youvegotfail]

lol


"Have you tried turning it off and on again?"

[Deleted]

lol


"Have you tried turning it off and on again?"

You made my day.

@OP, did you try to delete the bnet folder in programdata? it can help sometimes. (i had to do it to patch not so long ago)

[Sternrage]

You made my day.

@OP, did you try to delete the bnet folder in programdata? it can help sometimes. (i had to do it to patch not so long ago)

i tried a system restore to march 30th.

---------- Post added 2012-04-12 at 12:44 PM ----------

You made my day.

@OP, did you try to delete the bnet folder in programdata? it can help sometimes. (i had to do it to patch not so long ago)

how do I get to that folder?

p.s. rebooting doesnt work.

---------- Post added 2012-04-12 at 12:51 PM ----------

lol


"Have you tried turning it off and on again?"

it didn't work the first time, but since then i've redownloaded wow and the ptr and beta multiple times, so i tried it again a few minutes ago and no it didn't work.

[Roku]

delete it and just copy the 1 from your working system then