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01/09/2012 09:09 AMPosted by Larwood

Out of curiosity, how many people are still playing on windows 2000? Must be very few.

You'd be surprised - I remember seeing a post about graphics cards in use by users (by a Blizzard poster I think on the old forums), and it was pretty scary that some really old cards were still in use..

When Cata came out and Win2k users were constantly crashing, there were a lot of users posting crash logs that all showed the same thing.. Wow is currently playable on Windows 2000 via replacing OS .dlls with other versions, which allow wow to work.

It sounds like that little hack will no longer work with MoP.

01/07/2012 01:11 PMPosted by Killercaitie

I can't stand their tinned mix, it just tastes too bitter to me.

It just never tastes chocolatey enough to me.

My grandmother delivered 4 tins of their hot chocolate to me today as a thanks for updating her laptop and figuring out her modem for her cable internet had died and scheduled an appointment for Rogers to come out and replace it.

I've had my current tin for over a year now so theres no way I'll drink all of them.... I gave my mother in law 2 tins because she likes the stuff, and I'll probably leave one at work for others.. >.<
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Also, has anyone tried Dunkin Donuts Hot chocolate with the shot of espresso?

Mhmmmmm...

They don't have that here.

I live in the land of Timmies.

White Hot Chocolate is my new favorite thing ever.

Mm... Timmies...
I can't get their tin of Hot Chocolate to taste like how they serve it.. :(
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01/07/2012 12:41 PMPosted by Lull

Woah. Hold on here. Why are you drinking coffee at 12:40 in the afternoon?

Who doesn't drink coffee at 12:40 in the afternoon?
*sips her own coffee*

*raises her hand*
*sips her Cola*
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01/05/2012 11:05 AMPosted by Sorchia

my only hope is this will help some of us who have computers that USED to run world of warcraft great and now suddenly do not. otherwise i stick with my original thesis, you need to reprint your system requirements on the box of world of warcraft to say requirements for 10 man raids and requirements for 25 man raids, because these are clearly different.

This change should only make the game load the files faster, as there are less files, and less to load... It wouldn't cause any real change in playability, or system requirements.

Right now, it looks like the optimization reduced the WoW install by roughly ~3GB, and thats with the additions/changes to the game engine with 4.3.2. Not bad considering.

Hi lil confussed

The new tech we’re testing with the 4.3.2 PTR will process these cleanups with no additional hard drive space required beyond what the patch is adding. Because of that you may see them appear more frequently with patches.

So will we see more updates with the new patch or more clean ups?

Thanks

Looks like more cleanups. :)

01/05/2012 09:11 AMPosted by Øtaku

Can you provide any other Backend information about HOW this optimization happens? i, for example, have a defrag program set up to put all of the data in the world of warcraft directory at the beginning of the partitiion the data is on, to help improve preformance. is this new optimization a Defrag type setup? will it be cleaning out old, nonfunctional files?

I can't give any official info (as frankly, I don't know), but after patching the PTR myself, it looks like part of it is at least is consolidating files - theres more folders, but a lot less files. Kodiack (Windows Tech Support MVP) did a comparison image which I can't seem to find right now. Something like 900 less files.. I'd assume they'd remove artwork/sounds they're not using, and compressing others.