WoW Performance Boost: ...Windows Media Player?

TheGreatZarquon — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 04:58:41 GMT

It works. I timed it, and it easily cut more than half the initial loading time out.

WoW Performance Boost: ...Windows Media Player?

sehlenia — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 04:58:40 GMT

Using the above mentioned setup and using this trick for a week now. I don't get random disconnects anymore and my framerate has improved by roughly 10 (from 25 to 35 fps so a significant change)

WoW Performance Boost: ...Windows Media Player?

Deey — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 04:58:39 GMT

I've tryed it. Didnt work. But thats prolly becouse i dont have any problem with performance in wow whatsoever . Tho i can say that most people that have tryed it says it works.

Happy Fraggin'

WoW Performance Boost: ...Windows Media Player?

Enaress — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 04:58:38 GMT

I just tried it, I don't notice much of a change, maybe 5-10 FPS at best but that could be something else. It's raining in Eastern Plaguelands, I was getting about 40FPS with everything maxed at 1400x1050 res. Now I'm getting about 45-50. The change is slight if any at all. I'm running Intel Core 2 Duo

WoW Performance Boost: ...Windows Media Player?

Kody — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 04:58:37 GMT

Awesome to hear -- glad it's actually working for folks. I remember playing on my computer back home and it was a single-core with XP SP2. May have to give this a try next time I head home to visit the family. :)

WoW Performance Boost: ...Windows Media Player?

Soterios — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 04:58:36 GMT

This sounds cool. I'm going to try it out

WoW Performance Boost: ...Windows Media Player?

Feiorai — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 04:58:35 GMT

Definitely an improvement on load time for me, though not terribly noticeable for general overall performance. Maybe I'll hate the load screens a bit less now.

WoW Performance Boost: ...Windows Media Player?

gmayones — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 04:58:34 GMT

50 fps with all addons enabled in shattrath. used to be 14-18 fps. zomg. load times are insane :)

Vista and dual-core CPU

WoW Performance Boost: ...Windows Media Player?

eNTi — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 04:58:33 GMT

this just sounds too good to be true.

WoW Performance Boost: ...Windows Media Player?

kingdante — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 04:58:32 GMT

Neither loading times or frame rate were improved on my system.

In Shat my FPS was 11-14.

I'm using:
P4 1.8Ghz (single core)
1G ram
XP SP2
Win media version 11.0.5721.5230

WoW Performance Boost: ...Windows Media Player?

perogi — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 04:58:31 GMT

if you go from 40 fps to 45-50 (let's say 48 for ease of calculations), that's a 20% increase. Nothing to sneeze at.

WoW Performance Boost: ...Windows Media Player?

ChiperSoft — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 04:58:30 GMT

I discovered this weekend that defragging my hard drive and moving the swap file to a drive different from the one WoW is on drastically improves load times. Cut mine to a quarter of where it was.

WoW Performance Boost: ...Windows Media Player?

TyroneShoolaces — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 04:58:29 GMT

lol @ Dolk

WoW Performance Boost: ...Windows Media Player?

Brennuvarg — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 04:58:28 GMT

it's indeed an old thing, and most likely some bug in WMP, just remember it works by giving realtime prio to the threads being executed, thus a possibility to suck try any background applications.

WoW Performance Boost: ...Windows Media Player?

dietx — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 04:58:27 GMT

Nothing to sneeze at? If the computer i spent alot of money on gets improved performance, ill sneeze on it all day. ;)