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12-12-2007
|  | Sergeant | | | Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: California
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Reputation: 50 Level up: 92%, 41 Points needed |   | | | Run WoW Faster
So it has been going around that if windows media player is running in the background of WoW, that it actually makes WoW run faster (Not sure if they mean by higher fps, better ping, or just faster game speed), but I tried it, and noticed a little bit of a jump in my fps, as well as a dip in my ping. Although my computer is pretty good, I would like someone with a less than average comp to test it out =] Let me know how it goes |
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12-12-2007
|  | Elite User | | | Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Michigan
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Reputation: 392 Level up: 14%, 956 Points needed |  | | | going to test.. although I have 2GB ram, so a difference may not be noticeable.
my guess is that in order to compensate for having two video programs open at the same time, your video driver lowers the quality settings for both of the programs, and focuses more on speed.
so, i'm thinking that it may not make a difference if you already have all of your ingame graphic-intense settings disabled and/or lowered, because your driver won't need to change anything.
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12-12-2007
| | Master Sergeant | | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: In the Hood
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Reputation: 18 Level up: 67%, 168 Points needed | | | | lol it worked... |
12-12-2007
| | Site n00b.. (A leecher if I've been here for more than a month and can't earn 5 rep) | | | Join Date: Nov 2007
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Reputation: 1 | | | I faced a wall in orgrimmar when no-one was around, and I had 51 to 53 FPS...I put Windows media player on and now im at 43 to 46 ..doesnt work for me |
12-12-2007
| | Site n00b.. (A leecher if I've been here for more than a month and can't earn 5 rep) | | | Join Date: Dec 2006
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Reputation: 1 | | | hmm... i allways play with the mediaplayer on^^
well i have around 300 fps so i dont think it whuld effect that mutch |
12-12-2007
|  | Knight-Champion | | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Scotland
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Reputation: 41 Level up: 75%, 181 Points needed | | | | doesn't work for me either i used to use WMP to play my music and ever since i started using foobar wow runs a lot better but then again my computer is getting old
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12-12-2007
|  | Master Sergeant | | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: reality-wow.com
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Reputation: 17 Level up: 42%, 293 Points needed | | | hehe works
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12-12-2007
| | Sergeant | | | Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: California
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Reputation: 50 Level up: 92%, 41 Points needed | | | Quote:
Originally Posted by w21froster  hehe works
+rep | Nice! Thanks for the +rep that you did not give me! |
12-12-2007
| | Knight | | | Join Date: Jun 2007
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12-12-2007
| | Sergeant | | | Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: California
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Reputation: 50 Level up: 92%, 41 Points needed | | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Scoops | Oh thanks! Yeah this was NOT my find. I just heard people talking about it in chat, and tried it myself. |
12-12-2007
| | Knight | | | Join Date: Jun 2007
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Reputation: 35 Level up: 43%, 288 Points needed | | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Vandit Oh thanks! Yeah this was NOT my find. I just heard people talking about it in chat, and tried it myself. |  for bringing it here, nice to see others results, just threw those out there so people here know where to look to see plenty of confirmations of this working and the mechanic behind how this works. |
12-12-2007
| | Knight | | | Join Date: Jun 2007
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Reputation: 35 Level up: 43%, 288 Points needed | | | Also heres a bit of Copypasta for you guys:
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No, it's definitely just due to processor timings being altered and refusing to give up priorities.
You can emulate this also by opening up certain websites.
There's a config.wtf edit that will change your timings manually so you can get those benefits without having to have some other program open eating some of your system resources:
SET timingMethod "1"
There are three variables: 0, 1, 2. Try 2 if 1 does not give you satisfactory results.
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Done some testing to see what exactly this command does.
/console timingmethod X
This command appears to be used to assign a particular core for WoW to use as it's primary core, and also to designate that you are indeed running on a dual core cpu.
Adjusting this setting will adjust the amount of CPU WoW will use.
0 (Default) - WoW used 35% of total cpu.
1 - WoW used 55% of total cpu, with the majority of work being on Core 1.
2 - WoW used 55% of total cpu, with the majority of work being on Core 2.
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Just a little extra info of the mechanics of the whole thing... |
12-12-2007
| | Corporal | | | Join Date: Jun 2007
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Reputation: 7 Level up: 28%, 360 Points needed | | | | running windows media player allows your computer to run at high-res...
i'm not 100% sure what this means, but i used it when i ran a dedicated Counter-Strike: Source server...improves FPS greatly! |
12-12-2007
| | Knight | | | Join Date: Jun 2007
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Reputation: 35 Level up: 43%, 288 Points needed | | | Quote:
Originally Posted by theriver43 running windows media player allows your computer to run at high-res...
i'm not 100% sure what this means, but i used it when i ran a dedicated Counter-Strike: Source server...improves FPS greatly! | That seems similar to what the last person I quoted said in my last post...
Something about WMP allowing things to run at realtime, a setting you are not allowed to enable yourself.
Go to task manager, go under the processes tab, right click on an item and select "realtime", once you click yes on the prompt that comes up, another will come up saying that it set it to "high" rather than "realtime"
That goes to show that there may be some truth in that last quote, WMP essentially sets WoW to "Realtime" throwing all your processing power at it and starving all other appliances. |
12-12-2007
|  | Contributor | | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: In your attic.
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Reputation: 148 Level up: 25%, 831 Points needed | | | | Guys this is NOTHING new. This has been around since early 98'. It's called Ping Boosting, and if you have ever rented or ran a Half-life series or Source series server You would know what this is. It basically changes the system timings. Making things more responsive. Its used to add to a server's FPS ratings, which make a server faster. There are micro programs out that do the exact same thing, without having to run WMP. | | |
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