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I decided last night that I really needed to do a clean install of WoW. I'd been getting some errors that kept creeping up out of the woodwork, and things seemed to lag more and more due to harddrive access time rather than actual server or video lag. (Of course, I need more RAM, but that isn't yet an option). I think part of the problem may have been having the game installed on a second drive, while the page file is on the primary. I am not sure, but I think I was just having too much access time on both ends and trying to squeeze too much through the crappy IDE cable.

So, after uninstalling, and then reinstalling (which took foreeeeeevvvvvveeeeeeerrrrrr) I started patching the game. I thought I had saved every single patch file released, but either I missed one, or some of the little ones didn't show up as I thought. So I had to redownload all the patches, which was quite fast, actually. It only took around 15 minutes to go from patch 1.1.1 to 1.4.0 (over 120mb). But then, I've got all these other damn little patches to contend with. Aargh. And every time I download a dinky patch, it has to go through and update everything, which seems to take more than five minutes. What is it doing?

Anyway, this post is kinda pointless, but I'm bored and killing time when all I want to do is log into WoW and play. I've been doing this for about two hours, now. Talk about a morning killer.

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If you have two drives on a single IDE channel/single IDE ribbon, yes, you do have a bit of a bottleneck. If you have two drives on disparate channels/ribbons, you should see improved performance as you would be making use of two pipelines to HDs.

I hope the rest of the install went well!

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Liro
"The english language is not a wedding gown, it doesn't get better the more lace you add. It is instead a thong. Less is more." From /.
I need to remind myself of this regularly.

Just wanted to pop in and say that RAM does wonders.

Danyale had to keep her graphics options low to increase performance. I brought her up to a gig of RAM and now her Box blows mine out the water. It is amazing what RAM will do for WoW.

^^^absolutley agree. i was running 512, alatriel was running 384 then i bumped both to 768 and even that was a huge, huge increase.


the problem with cet is that he needs RDRAM.

I have 2 Gig on a Barton 2500.. my bottle neck is my 5600 video card... I need a 6800