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WoW loads so fast with 1GB of Ram

post #1 of 16
12/17/04 at 3:28pm
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Well thought i'd say this, I seem to beat everyone at load times on WoW

Who else here plays? I play on Bronzebeard.
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post #2 of 16
12/17/04 at 9:10pm
I played beta and I was very impressed with the game. I am planning on buying it this next week.
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post #3 of 16
12/17/04 at 10:22pm
I just upgraded my computer from 256mb to 640mb of ram. Best thing I could have done to my computer. I highly recommend upgrading your ram
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post #4 of 16
12/17/04 at 11:15pm
i have a gig of ram i love it. this is my desktop dont have a laptop yet. im playing wow also im on thunderhorn. i have a horde character and a alliance character
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post #5 of 16
12/18/04 at 5:42am
another thing you can do if you want to speed up booting is:
1. go into folder options and uncheck hide system files
2. go to system folder (c drive normally) find boot.ini
3. right click boot.ini and uncheck read only
4. open boot.ini, and change the default "timeout=30" to "timeout=0" (without the quote...just change the 30 or whatever number is there to 0)
5. save, right click the file again, check read only
6. reboot.
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post #6 of 16
12/18/04 at 7:02am
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Originally Posted by laffingbilly
another thing you can do if you want to speed up booting is:
1. go into folder options and uncheck hide system files
2. go to system folder (c drive normally) find boot.ini
3. right click boot.ini and uncheck read only
4. open boot.ini, and change the default "timeout=30" to "timeout=0" (without the quote...just change the 30 or whatever number is there to 0)
5. save, right click the file again, check read only
6. reboot.
Wouldnt this just speed up booting by 30 milliseconds? Big deal :P
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post #7 of 16
12/18/04 at 7:56pm
Defragging and getting a faster harddrive is the best way to help load times.
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post #8 of 16
12/18/04 at 8:36pm
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Originally Posted by Peppaaro
Wouldnt this just speed up booting by 30 milliseconds? Big deal :P
well, what are you talking about booting? if it means from pressing your on button on until you get your little windows screen, you can either try it or not. if you haven't tried it, then you really don't know what you are talking about nor have any comparison, now do you. I gave it as a suggestion to increase boot time. i will leave it at that.

as far as faster application running time, well there is of course basic things like getting rid of unnecessary services, msconfig and deselecting things that do not need to be booted up, and a host of other tweaks. on the hardware side, you can get more ram, a faster hard drive, a larger hard drive, faster processor.
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post #9 of 16
12/18/04 at 9:18pm
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Originally Posted by laffingbilly
another thing you can do if you want to speed up booting is:
1. go into folder options and uncheck hide system files
2. go to system folder (c drive normally) find boot.ini
3. right click boot.ini and uncheck read only
4. open boot.ini, and change the default "timeout=30" to "timeout=0" (without the quote...just change the 30 or whatever number is there to 0)
5. save, right click the file again, check read only
6. reboot.
This dosent make sense this boot.ini "tweak as u say" is if you have multiple OS's, you keep the windows boot loader from waiting 30 secs to automatically slect what OS to boot. If you have 1 OS this makes 0 difference.
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post #10 of 16
12/18/04 at 10:26pm
ok, then don't do it and you'll be none the wiser will you.
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post #11 of 16
12/19/04 at 12:38am
Hi,

I play WOW also on my 8600 and I had a question. I only have 512 of ram, and I get A LOT of lag when in cities, using griffons etc--would getting more ram solve that problem?
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post #12 of 16
12/19/04 at 12:54am
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Originally Posted by exirabit
Hi,

I play WOW also on my 8600 and I had a question. I only have 512 of ram, and I get A LOT of lag when in cities, using griffons etc--would getting more ram solve that problem?
in my experience it is mostly the video card that effects this kind of thing. somebody please correct me if i am wrong.
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post #13 of 16
12/19/04 at 1:04am
I double posted
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post #14 of 16
12/19/04 at 7:53am
My 3d card was different on my pc and laptop (GeForce 4400 versus 9600, both 128 mb ddr), and I noticed a substantial framerate improvement with the 9600. However, my computer still does lag up during gryphon rides and when large areas are loading (streaming information from the server). You should expect slowdown in a large area with lots of people and that is mainly due to bad loading times as it streams of the server (not nececssarily your harddrive).

My grphon rides were a LOT better with a 7200 rpm harddrive rather than a 5400 harddrive. I assume this is because the areas are so huge that the ram is constantly being loaded with new areas, making the speed of your harddrive very important. More ram will always help, but I suspect the bottleneck is with the harddrive.
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post #15 of 16
12/19/04 at 9:03pm
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Originally Posted by exirabit
Hi,

I play WOW also on my 8600 and I had a question. I only have 512 of ram, and I get A LOT of lag when in cities, using griffons etc--would getting more ram solve that problem?
Yep, what happens is your computer loads the new areas from the hard drive as you move around, more RAM decreases this hit. My wife's computer has a gig and it runs more smoothly than my higher specced, but only 512MB RAM XPS. I have RAM on order
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post #16 of 16
12/19/04 at 11:42pm
I miss making a cup of coffee while the system boots up...
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