Lau Setup installs the Lau 3.0.4 visual upgrade into your existing WoW 3.3.5a build 12340 client.
- Close World of Warcraft.
- Open LauSetup.exe and choose your WoW folder.
- Choose your visuals and click Install upgrade.
Start WoW and type /pyversion to confirm your edition.
The installer detects your language and HD configuration, downloads only the required files, and handles patch placement and verified backups. Enhanced Consecration is selected by default; uncheck it for the stock appearance. Map and minimap upgrades are optional. Use Restore previous install to undo an installation.
No GitHub account or manual archive copying is needed. This is an upgrade for an existing client, not a complete game client or language pack. Your addons, SavedVariables, fonts, login artwork and unrelated patches are preserved. No personal ElvUI setup or Pizza Warriors artwork is bundled.
The executable is about 111 KB. The base English HD download with new spell visuals is about 472 MB; the non-HD base is about 259 MB. The installer shows the download size for your selection.
Validation passed: 38 regression test groups including 108 fixture install/restore combinations; 63 isolated Docker/Wine game cases across nine locales; all 99 GitHub segments and 28 assembled asset hashes; and a fresh anonymous GitHub download, installation and exact rollback. Visual coverage is sampled, not every zone or encounter. Details are in VALIDATION.json.
Windows 10/11 with .NET Framework 4.8 is required. This installer is unsigned, so Windows may show an unknown-publisher warning. Checksums and source are attached. Existing manual Google Drive releases remain available.
Credits: Andre (Patch-Y baselines), Loriendal and Trimitor (HD foundation), Project Reforged contributors (HD artwork), Blizzard (original artwork and localized text), Lau (adaptation, compatibility, indicators, testing).
Author / Creator / Last Modified By: Neil Mitchell
DBC history since the Andre handoff
The retained multilingual Patch-Y baseline adds Spell.dbc, fifteen visual links per edition, indicator visual/kit/attachment records and localized spell text.
Andre intentionally omitted Spell.dbc because of localization conflicts (six other visual/model DBCs were present). The initial Lau addition exposed the language dependency. Lau and Andre debugged it together, and the multilingual rebuild resolved the text compatibility issue.
Lau identifies the development milestones as 3.0.4: initial addition, 3.0.5: multilingual fix, and 3.0.6–3.0.8: hotfixes with version bumps. Retained published artifacts use overlapping early labels: the archived 3.0.4 baseline already includes the multilingual fix. The audit therefore separates development history from exact archive comparisons.
Individual table/record/field edits, old/new values and baseline evidence · DBC changelog. The historical field audit covers Patch-Y; separate Q/S/map pipelines and experimental builds are not silently attributed to these edits.