[Barbz]

What is the chronological order of the WOTLK client's MPQs ? both for Data/ and Data/enUS/ if possible

I can't find any information about it. I found someone saying this was the right order :
Data\common.MPQ
Data\common-2.MPQ
Data\expansion.MPQ
Data\lichking.MPQ
Data\patch.MPQ
Data\patch-2.MPQ

But when I compare with burning crusade and vanilla, it seems like it's really not the right order. I might compare thoroughly each thing but I think it's going to be annoying, so if someone has an idea, I'm open to suggestions.

 

[wungasaurus]

iirc if you open wow from cmd, it will print out the order

[Barbz]

Very good idea. This is the order in which MPQs are loaded (did it on wine) :

archive Data\enUS\patch-enUS.MPQ opened
archive Data\patch.MPQ opened
archive Data\enUS\patch-enUS-2.MPQ opened
archive Data\enUS\patch-enUS-3.MPQ opened
archive Data\enUS\patch-enUS-I.MPQ opened
Unable to read extra attributes: "Data\enUS\patch-enUS-R.MPQ"
archive Data\enUS\patch-enUS-R.MPQ opened
archive Data\enUS\patch-enUS-Z.MPQ opened
archive Data\patch-2.MPQ opened
archive Data\patch-3.MPQ opened
Unable to read extra attributes: "Data\patch-A.MPQ"
archive Data\patch-A.MPQ opened
Unable to read extra attributes: "Data\patch-R.MPQ"
archive Data\patch-R.MPQ opened
archive Data\patch-S.MPQ opened
archive Data\patch-Z.MPQ opened
archive Data\expansion.MPQ opened
archive Data\lichking.MPQ opened
archive Data\common.MPQ opened
archive Data\common-2.MPQ opened
archive Data\enUS\locale-enUS.MPQ opened
archive Data\enUS\speech-enUS.MPQ opened
archive Data\enUS\expansion-locale-enUS.MPQ opened
archive Data\enUS\lichking-locale-enUS.MPQ opened
archive Data\enUS\expansion-speech-enUS.MPQ opened
archive Data\enUS\lichking-speech-enUS.MPQ opened

 

There are non blizzlike patches in the list. I guess A, R, Z, and I aren't.

I will confirm if it works later (maybe in few weeks) but that looks very logical to me, so that should solve it, thanks a lot !