WoW Performance Boost Tip
The guys at World Of Raids shared a pretty cool tip they found about boosting the game performance of WoW. While I still haven’t had the chance to check this tip out since I’m still out of the game, it’s still worth sharing to you all.
Since 2.3 came out, many players noticed a major FPS degradation; a russian player “Raze” made a nice find and posted it on WoW Europe Forums, he found ount [sic] that you can significantly boost World of Warcraft performance by simply opening Windows Media Player before starting up WoW.
Short non-technical explanation: Your computer usually reserves a certain % of the CPU for background applications. Having WMP opened changes this behavior and allocates all available CPU to WoW. Little to no CPU time will be given to background applications and services, therefore increasing WoW performance.
It worked for us, but according to that thread, its not working for everyone.
Opening Wimdows Media Player eh? That’s simple enough to do. I really have to try this out when I get back to playing. I hope you guys will tell me if it works for you.
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9 opinions for WoW Performance Boost Tip
Rendrag
Dec 17, 2007 at 10:20 am
I usually run windows media player in the background to have some tunes other than the looped WOW music. Does it matter what version of WMP you are running? I noticed the pic shows the bare bones antique version. Would it make a difference if I ran WMP 10?
Angelo
Dec 17, 2007 at 11:05 am
As I said, I haven’t had the chance to try this out for myself so I guess you should try loading WoW without WMP running in the background to really find out if there’s a difference. My guess based on the explanation above is that it doesn’t make any difference which version of WMP is open as long as it’s on. Don’t take my word for it though.
Apadwe
Dec 17, 2007 at 5:38 pm
Interesting, I’ll have to try this out.
Scott
Dec 17, 2007 at 6:39 pm
I will have to try it out. There is also another way to increase fps and latency by quite a lot apprently as mentioned on mmo-champion today. Some people are seeing their latency cut in half! I will be applying this fix to my Vista machine tonight and see how it helps since I have noticed a higher latency on my Vista machine compared to my XP machine.
http://www.mmo-champion.com/index.php?topic=3031.0
Scott
Dec 17, 2007 at 7:25 pm
Ok, WOW. I just tried the fix posted on mmo-champion and I was getting 115 latency when I usually average 250-350 though it was a short test. I will also be trying the media player thing also and see what that does.
Angelo
Dec 18, 2007 at 3:04 am
thanks for sharing Scott
farmdogg
Mar 2, 2008 at 3:35 pm
i would get latency in the red at about 1500 to 2000 at most of the time but this did the trick.. now im getting 78 to 120 ms … i didnt beleive it at first but i was wrong :) .. and yet so simple!!!! ty to who ever foudn this out … i tried hot fixes and other stuff that didnt do a thing ..
Angelo
Mar 3, 2008 at 6:09 am
Pleasure to be of help. It wasn’t my find but I’m glad my posting it here helped a few guys
dude
Aug 31, 2008 at 5:39 pm
This is stupid. Just check the setting so user ran programs have higher priority then ctrl alt delete and in taskmanager mark wow high priority then kill explorer.exe you can start it later with new task option up top. There are many other memory juggling techniques too. If you use linux to play wow though I would recommend toying with x server and nice command.
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