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WoW + Expansion on Vista 64 Bit?
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PessimiStick
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I wouldn't touch Vista with a 50 foot pole at the moment, so I couldn't tell ya.
I wouldn't touch Vista with a 50 foot pole at the moment, so I couldn't tell ya.
Has anyone done this yet? Any issues?
A buddy of mine has. There were some major video driver issues pre-gold, but it is working fine for him now.
Ok, WoW sucks on Vista64. I'm sure I have a few settings tweaked in XP (such as running windowed mode maximized instead of full screen), but the frame rate in Vista64 was less than half of the frame rate in XP. I logged into my 15 blood elf and walked around near the bank in Silvermoon City. In XP, I was getting 50-60fps. In Vista64, I was getting 18-23fps. Thinking I had a bunch of stuff turned down, I went into graphic options and turned everything I can up to maximum (except anti aliasing, which I never played with in the first place). I was still getting about 50fps in XP compared to 20fps in Vista64.
Ok, WoW sucks on Vista64. I'm sure I have a few settings tweaked in XP (such as running windowed mode maximized instead of full screen), but the frame rate in Vista64 was less than half of the frame rate in XP. I logged into my 15 blood elf and walked around near the bank in Silvermoon City. In XP, I was getting 50-60fps. In Vista64, I was getting 18-23fps. Thinking I had a bunch of stuff turned down, I went into graphic options and turned everything I can up to maximum (except anti aliasing, which I never played with in the first place). I was still getting about 50fps in XP compared to 20fps in Vista64.
This is a fairly common occurence (we're a technology company and have been rolling Vista out for a while now) with systems that are only marginally (either from a "hardware itself" or "driver" perspective) compatbile at the time of install.
This is a fairly common occurence (we're a technology company and have been rolling Vista out for a while now) with systems that are only marginally (either from a "hardware itself" or "driver" perspective) compatbile at the time of install.
This is on a system with an Asus M2N SLI Deluxe motherboard, Dual core 4200+ processor, and a 7600GT video card. I would hope that Nvidia and Asus (with one of their higher end socket AM2 motherboards) would have it together and have some good drivers. Apparently this is not the case.