Nostalrius Begins - Quality wow vanilla realm (1.12)

So i've been playing for a while here and never any problems. Today I logged in and the game instantly goes not-responding. Then a dialog box pops up with an error saying the 3D acceleration failed to start, something about direct x.

All my drivers are up to date and I have DirectX 11 installed, game was working flawlessly previously. Tried deleting WDB folder.

Any help would be great! Thanks.

World of warcraft was unable to start up 3D acceleration. Please make sure DirectX 9.0c is installed and your video drivers are up-to-date.... Now I know for a fact i downloaded all these drivers"

This is the error message exactly

If you do a general web search with ...World of warcraft was unable to start up 3D acceleration....you will find a lot of results. Someone could write a book just on nvidia cards and WoW. If you search through all the hits you'll fnd everything from simple fixes to highly technical and time intensive suggestions.

I would start with throwing away the WTF folder, to get a clean copy of the confg file (or just the config file). There are some Nvidia specific suggestions in my stickied connections thread...around #10 and #11. Outside of that, I can't offer anything other than the basic web search.

Hey thanks for your reply, could you send me a link please? I had a look but can't seem to find it. I'll try throwing the config file when I get home. If I delete he whole wtf folder I'll lose all key binds and addon settings right?

Yes you would lose all setting by throwing away the WTF folder. you don't need a link for the thread I'm referring to; it's near the top of this sub forum. the "read before you post" thread.

I read your post and tried a couple of the nvidia solutions to no avail. I'm running a Radeon graphics card on Windows 8.1 if that makes any difference. I'm at a loss.

Although a majoirty of web results from searching the error message will result in a Nvidia card issue, I'm gonna guess most of the solutions will work on any video card. I think you're going to have to go ahead and do that general search and start digging through the info. Good luck. : )