Silver Firefly's Return To World Of Warcraft

Graphic Card Issues

SilverFirefly — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 00:03:05 GMT

I installed the latest driver for my graphics card which is a nVidia GeForce 9600M GS (256MB DDR3). And WOW is being awkward. When I clicked the Play button on the launcher, it spat an error message at me saying, "Failed to find a suitable display device. Exiting program." which is ridiculous seeing that there's a perfectly suitable display device attached already (laptop user here).

So, I rolled back the driver to the previously installed version. WOW worked fine with that version so I figured that might resolve things. Nope, WOW is still playing dumb.

I can't even post on the official WOW forums over at WOW Europe because apparently I don't have any available characters (I have several actually).

Looks like I'll have to completely uninstall the old driver and install the latest version in the hope that it will resolve things once and for all. If it doesn't then I'm screwed I guess.

In any case I've just checked the card in the device manager and discovered that for some reson my card is not listed. Instead, the standard VGA display is listed. Which would explain WOW's awkwardness.

I'm hoping this driver will help. Ok I can't see the mobile version listed but the 9600 series are listed.

If you know how to resolve this issue then please comment!

Addons

SilverFirefly — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 17:51:41 GMT

Well, I've been testing out various addons today. I wasn't particularly impressed with some of the popular ones.

I've decided on these ones after testing out the ones that were kindly suggested:

SimpleSelfRebuff
Atlas (I used to use this one and I much prefer it over the others I've tried such as Cartographer - K.I.S.S. and all that)
Bagnon
QuestGuru (I didn't like MonkeyQuest or QuestHelper)
Factionizer
RatingBuster
SellFish
Sell-O-Matic
ProfessionsBook (The jury is still out on this one - RecipeRadar, RecipeBook and Ackis Recipe List are buggy with 3.0.2)
Auctionator (I haven't had the opportunity to try this out yet but I didn't like Auctioneer - again, K.I.S.S.)

I'm still looking for addons for the Shaman and Mage classes.

Finally...!

SilverFirefly — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 19:54:19 GMT

The downloading process has finally finished!

I've created a toon on Azuremyst called Maralith. She is a Blood Elven Mage. Feel free to send me a /tell if you have an easy-going guild that doesn't have too many requirements. I'm not into raiding, and I solo a lot but I would be up for grouping once I get my paws on a decent desk so that I can use my laser mouse. I'm playing with the laptop on my lap so it's going to be solo play for me at the moment. I'm also well into crafting and I've decided to take advantage of my racial trait and go for Enchanting. Yes, I know, it's an expensive profession but I figure I could make money from loot, gathering and questing and I'm in no rush. I just need to decide which gathering profession to go for - one that sells for good money in the AH on my server. I've also created an alt. She's a Draenei Shaman called Kema. I've decided to go with the Leatherworking and Skinning professions.

A little bit about myself: I'm a 26 year old female from the UK. I can't stand 1337 speak, little kids thinking it's cool to flame everyone in sight, and random group invites. In other words, I'm seeking a guild where I can talk to like-minded, friendly, reasonably intelligent, sociable people. I also like to have alts because I get bored easily and I like variety.

If your guild is on Azuremyst and you think I would fit in, please get in touch with Maralith (Horde) or Kema (Alliance) in-game.

I'm still deciding which addons to use. So far, I have:

MonkeyQuest
Auctionator
CrapAway
Cartographer
Factionizer
QuestHelper
TurnIn

on my shortlist. If you have any suggestions about which addons would be useful, please comment.

I've got to say that I'm very happy with WOW's performance on this laptop. I've got practically everything on max and it's running nice and smooth.

Still Downloading...

SilverFirefly — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 11:02:49 GMT

I woke up this morning to find that I now have a massive 3.27 GB patch to download. I've downloaded 14% of it so far.

I'm still compiling a list of addons to install. But I'm running WOW on Vista and I can't find the addons directory.

World Of Warcraft And A Brand New Laptop

SilverFirefly — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 00:38:21 GMT

I received my new laptop this morning and after spending hours installing everything that I needed, I installed WoW from five discs and several hours later I'm downloading the third huge patch which is 1.1 GB. This is taking an age on a 2 mbps ADSL connection (ranging from 30 kbps up to 75 kbps with P2P turned off - the download wouldn't start with P2P enabled).

But after the torment is over, I plan to delete all of my old toons and give everything away - yes, even my hard-earned coin - and then I'm going to start with a clean slate. Whoever gets my coin will be a very lucky sod.

I'll probably side with the Horde this time. I'm not sure which class I'll choose, it's a toss-up between the priest and the shaman classes. I can't even remember which server I used to play on, it's been a good 10 months since I last played.

I guess I'm going to have to wait until morning before I can play. I hope there aren't any more huge patches to download after this one. In the meantime I'm hunting for addons here. If you have any addon-related suggestions, please comment.

Four hours and counting...