PTR Help Spot - Q+A

I had a help thread with the last PTR, I did my best to help and other people were nice enough to assist, and all the solutions for problems were collected. This will take a bit of time to get sorted, please just post your questions.

If you see your question posted DON'T ASK AGAIN. I will get around to answering them and putting them into the posts.

Content:
First post
-Client Downloading and Installation

Downloader crashing randomly/error messages (BlizzarDownloader already running) Windows 7, Vista, XP and Mac solution

Unable to Stream and play

Updater connection timeout

-Character Copying

Pre-made characters not appearing in Character List

Can not copy character

Second post
-In-game technical problems

Graphic and texture problem when in-game

No water effect, or water of any kind

Death Knights, currently broke?

LUA Errors on Graphics Options

Game crashes inside Blood Elf areas

-Client Technical problems

Unable to Validate Game Version

Crashes on blood elf, draenei and human characters

ERROR #0 (0x85100000) Assertion Failure

Unable to switch WoW accounts

Client Downloading and installation
Any problems downloading and installing the client
Installation FAQ found here: http://forums.wow-europe.com/thread.html?topicId=14574760468&sid=1

-Downloader crashing randomly/error messages (BlizzarDownloader already running)

Q u o t e:
Follow these steps to correct your issue:
* Close down the installer
* Hold CTRL + ALT and press delete
*[[If you are on Windows Vista or Windows 7, choose "Start Task Manager"]]
* Click the process pane
* Find and kill the process "BlizzardDownloader"
* Open the client again

Mac

Q u o t e:
* Close down the installer
* Open Applications/Utilities/Application Monitor
* Find and Force Quit the process "BlizzardDownloader"
* Open the client again

Thanks to Hasani of Tarren Mill, Eparox of Laughing Skull and Pauladeen of Stormscale

-Unable to Stream and play (Downloaded a few gigs but can not play)

Q u o t e:
Make sure you close your launcher. Open your WTF folder, open launcher.wtf with notepad. You should see something like this :

SET userspeed "XXXXX"

Write a really big number where I put XXXX, something like 10000000. This way when you open your launcher again it thinks your download speed is great and let you play. When I did this launcher just stuck few minutes (it installed something) and that button turned to yellow !

Thanks to Mordrain of Haomarush

-Updater connection timeout

Q u o t e:
I was suffering this issue. It doesn't seem to related to firewalls or port as I have all the required ports forwarded on router and also shut down my software firewall. Here's how I solved it:

1. Go to C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft Public Test\Temp
2. Run wow-4.0.0.1828-to-4.0.0.1852-enUS-ptr-tools-downloader.exe
3. The updated tools will download/install.
4. The launcher will relaunch and begin downloading PTR data

Hope this helps

Thanks to Catdruid of Nordrassil
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Character Copying
Problems with Character Copying

-Pre-made characters not appearing in Character List
This problem has been around since the last patch was tested, and it's one I am all too familiar with. Unfortunately there's no actual solution, you need to be patient and wait for them to appear. You may keep trying if you wish, but Wryxian suggests not to.

-Can not copy character
As of right now, the Character Copy for premade and original characters is down. It seems the EU division were thrown into the PTR without realising they were supposed to open it. They are working hard so for now please be patient.
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