http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27650
B. K. shadowcat8@excite.com changed:
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--- Comment #21 from B. K. shadowcat8@excite.com 2011-11-30 18:21:50 CST --- The workaround in comment #16 worked for me... eventually.
I was getting a Windows error immediately upon starting the BackgroundDownloader.exe. The error was "Invalid Torrent File". So, as I was going into the installation of WoW to see if I could find the torrent file it was complaining of, I got an idea.
I ran the downloader from the last patch (which was only 12MB), and that let me access the Preferences to disable the peer-to-peer and enable the "Don't throttle..." Then, I re-ran the Launcher and it was able to run and even loaded the News page fully.
Thanks and I hope this helps.