Ad.exe closing on startup?

[ThunderWarfare]

Hello all! So recently me and a friend decided to go and buy WoW but we decided we were too cheap for the monthy payment. I found there were "Private Servers". and we were glad we didnt have to pay So I was brought here from google and I registered and downloaded the needed files but when I click "ad.exe" it doesn't seem to work. It just opens up and closes. I made sure it was put in "C:\Users\Public\Games\World of Warcraft" and I tried running as admin but alas, nothing seemed to work. I caught a glimpse of what it was and it was something like this, "Fatal error: Invalid component.wow-enUS.txt file format!". So I was wondering if the Community knew of anything that I didn't (well, obviously). Thanks for the help and reading my troubles

EDIT: I tried using a different one that I found, and it gives me this error "Fatal error: Invalid Map.dbc file format!". I don't if that's a better than before or not

[antz]

Which version of Mangos are you trying to use ?

- There is a different version for each of the WOW expansions.

[ThunderWarfare]

Oh ok, I am using Mango's 2 x64, because we only have up until The Lich King..

[antz]

This does sound like you have an invalid client installation.

Have you patched to the required version ?

[ThunderWarfare]

Yes, but it keeps giving me the same error. Maybe try a Fresh install and see if it works?

[antz]

Ok, please let us know how you get on !

[madmax]

Closing this now, if you still have an issue please make a new thread.