Ahoy everybody arrrr arrr !

Well i am not from an English Realmpool , i am Russian and Play @ German one .. Sry 4 my badass English..

I just founded something AMAZING out and wonna help some ppl also .. Well as known there are a LOT of problems in a WoW Performance since 2,3 comes out ..

Well i know how its possible extremly to encrease game Loading , Loading of Characters and MUCH more ... Well as i sayed my bad English but , TRY JUST THIS OUT !

Its sounds like a Joke , but it isnt ! Logg out of WoW if ur online , out of game . Start " Windows Media Player " --> Start WoW and just see what will happen .. Game will load within 3 Seconds and u will see ur Charakter within 1 second !

Well that was my funny *!**y English ...

Just try is !

Raze

plz tell me if its get better ....

Dude seriously tnx for the tip, it worked had to try it a couple of times just to make sure that it did.
The difference is remarkably, its like before the patch.

This does work!
Im on Wildhammer Server, was having real bad lag around 3,000MS. I put all my video settings down to low, turned off the sound, nothing helped. As i had the sound turned off i put media player on to play my own music, and my latency went down to under 200ms in a few seconds.
Amazing...

Yeah I'm back to playing at 1920x1200 and getting the same FPS and latency as before the patch.
Have to agree that it sounds like a bunch of crock though, would love to see a Blue's take on it.

Well its nice to hear its working ! ok , my Turn is over , its now Time really to hear what BLUE POST says to it !

I mean if The Technical Support Guys read this , they can nearly Think whats there going on , and do the game running the same speed whithout MEdia Player ..

Blue Guys , plspls check this out ... its nit that dufficult now to get out whats there happen !

Raze

You gotta be joking me.

As for loading times, what also worked for me is to fire up Azureus, and just leave it idle in background... :)

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Q u o t e:
As for loading times, what also worked for me is to fire up Azureus, and just leave it idle in background... :)

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What's Azureus?

IM AZERUES MUHAHAHAHA

I still don't get it... >_<

No DC's as of yet for over half an hour...

Possibly something that keeps the connection open ? Or...

Azereus is a Bittorrent downloader

Ok, now we have great FPS and no D/C. How about a solution for latency and lag, too? :)

Had problem with lag on using skills etc since patch, no DCs or extremely high ping (ping been normal at around 200-400ms most of the times, some peaks to 800ms but not very common). But anyways, it's been laggy and stuff, PvP been unplayable because 50% of the times I had to interrupt 2.5 cast time heals 1 second before they go off, or else they'd be cast anyway. Such things.

Anyways, laughed at this solution but with irritation and desperation decided to give it a go. Game now works 100% the same as before the 2.3 patch, no problems at all.

For those thinking "Is this a joke?" like me, no it's not, it worked for me and Im now happy playing a 100% smooth WoW (well, as smooth as it was before the last patch at least)

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Had problem with lag on using skills etc since patch, no DCs or extremely high ping (ping been normal at around 200-400ms most of the times, some peaks to 800ms but not very common). But anyways, it's been laggy and stuff, PvP been unplayable because 50% of the times I had to interrupt 2.5 cast time heals 1 second before they go off, or else they'd be cast anyway. Such things.

Anyways, laughed at this solution but with irritation and desperation decided to give it a go. Game now works 100% the same as before the 2.3 patch, no problems at all.

For those thinking "Is this a joke?" like me, no it's not, it worked for me and Im now happy playing a 100% smooth WoW (well, as smooth as it was before the last patch at least)

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Um... so what worked for you?..

Well guys AS I TOLD , now its BLIZZ Turn , i think its a great information for Technical Guys @ Blizzard .. Maybe they have NOW any ideas ...

This strange thing make A LOT OF PEOPLE HAPPY , becuz they are able now to Play WoW like befor again , Smooth and Fast .. Maybe Blizz will say me thanks for finding this thing out and mayb FIX WoW so we dont even neet to Start Media Player

BUT if its the Last way we can play WoW Smoothly , then PLEASE BLIZZARD DONT TAKE US THIS LAST OPTION ALSO AWAY !

i hope i could help ...

I can confirm that leaving WMP in the background and running wow will make a difference.
At least when the game is loading characters.

I used to go with epic mount into AH and wait around 4-5seconds for characters to load.
With WMP in background i see characters when i enter AH instead of grey shadows on the floor for 4-5 seconds as i have become used too.

This "small" test was made after i had exited wow and read on the forums. So it was not with a "Cold" reboot of the machine.

The dependencies to WMP is heard of before, at least with network performance. So it is not impossible they (M$) have introduced another dependency.

Hmmm ... is there any other way to keep the same good performance WITHOUT needed to start WMP ?

and Another quastion ... and PLZ tell it in EASY english so i can understand it also .. What the hell WMP does Matter with Wow Performance ? why its running faster ( i mean loading of the Game , Chars and and and ) ...

Raze

I did some digging, and then bit more... And found out interesting things which explains how, but not why...

Reading through the logs WoW makes, i found this tidbit in frameXML.log

<clip>
11/23 03:40:22.968 Binding header smmTITLE is defined more than once in Interface\AddOns\simpleMinimap\Bindings.xml
11/23 03:40:44.296 Loading add-on Informant
<clip>

WoW spends there over 22 seconds loading the auction database of Auctioneer addon. When WMP is running on the background, the loading of this addon drops to mere 8 seconds. I assume the same phenomenon happens with all addons that have crazy amounts of data saved, like mob info addons, lootlink and such.

Why the acceleration happens when WMP is running I can't understand. I hope some techies at Blizzard have a look at this finding and comment/inspect it. Seems like WMP has some weird side effect that makes massive addons load considerably faster.


Oh, btw I timed loading the game, from doubleclicking the icon to zoning in. 52 seconds normally, 32 seconds with WMP running in the background. I have about 50 addons installed, and addons slow down the startup considerably. (Times include writing my account password and selecting the right char). I don't know how this will affect the game while it's running, but I'll take a look at that tomorrow. I don't have any major performance problems right now, so I'm not quite sure where to look for differences either.