Increase your game performance
I’ve tried it myself and it didn’t work, but there’s a lot of players reporting it does indeed help in some cases. It sounds weird but if your game loads slow, try running Windows Media Player prior to WoW.
It should help with loading time, low FPS issues and even latency problems.
As someone mentioned in the thread, Mac users should get the same effect by running Quicktime.
Let me know if it works!
The only explanation I can see (should that REALLY be true, which I somehow doubt), is that it will pre-load the mpeg layer for video animations and such. But that should only affect the very first game startup and should not impact anything else beyond that…
One thing I *DID* found to have some NEGATIVE impact is having Firefox open with some sites loaded in there… (don’t use IE, so can’t really tell about that one!)
But I’d say this to be 99% rubish. Of course, statistically, 50% of those who try may think that it actually works…
It might work.
A few years back Flash plugin was known to increase windows internal clock tick rate, making some operation run smoother.
If there’s a correlation, I’d bet that there can be observable performance gain.
I’ve tried this before. Firefox and IE with a site loaded will decrease your performance depending on the number of scripts running on the site. If there’s a lot of java, flash, or activex you will see a dramatic decrease in FPS and CPU Performance. I’ve tried the WMP trick on an XP machine and it didn’t work for me. The newer tweek that deals with teh registry worked like a charm though.