Heres a new found.

http://www.wowinsider.com/2007/12/19/media...ow-performance/


Rumors says that WMP somehow modifies the memory allocation of WOW?

I do notice a small difference. I dunno whether its just another placebo effect.

Only works on older machines. If you have C2D and above there's not much point in doing that.

wow
also boost up other program performance?

on my machine... lol

but i am a lil interested in the lower latency part, but i doubt it'll work as its probably due to older/weaker machines having more resources freed/properly allocated and resulting in less hardware bottlenecking (especially the NICs) thus resulting lower latency. (eg: low ass FPS usually results higher latency, especially if ur proc's always on load/occupied)

as many people commented on that, its probably the audio libraries loaded so WoW dont have to bother with it. still a lot of guessworks atm though

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good finding nonetheless and would probably help a lot of people that runs on weaker machines

This post has been edited by Quazacolt: Dec 21 2007, 02:13 AM

On some machines I would say YES.

I've used to run Counter-Strike competition/tournament.

There's one thing I usually do on Server PC, I on Windows Media Player. It will lower the latency of all clients.
Normally when on server without WMP, clients latency is around 13-15, after on WMP it drop to 3-5.

Newer PC I think doesn't face this problem, During World Gamemaster Tournament WMP is not needed, Latency is already low as 3-5. Last weekend CS tournament at DNA Internet Centre which use AMD, I need to on WMP to bring down the clients latency.

Theory behind this? I'm just too lazy to find out.

This post has been edited by nles: Dec 21 2007, 02:23 AM

http://support.steampowered.com/cgi-bin/st...php?p_faqid=166

open WMP would up a system from 100 refresh per second(windows's default) to 1000 refresh per second. some hardware only capable to 500 refresh, not due to speed, but due to its design.

Doesnt matter it works or not, its always nice to play some songs while farming or lvling alt.

Kills the boredom.

I have a dual screen set up at home, so it is not uncommon for me to be watching a DVD or some other movie/series on my secondary monitor while playing WoW on my primary. As most people know, unless you're PvPing, you can pretty much go on auto-cruise for farming.

I honestly can't say that I've noticed much of a difference with/without media player running so I guess what others have said in this thread is true, it mainly affects older system. /shrug

i prefer winamp and other people prefers various other music programs

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Added on December 21, 2007, 9:24 amyou can even auto cruise pvp (mainly BG)

pick a node/tower in EOTS/AB/AV, guard it. lolz

in WSG, guard flag room.


This post has been edited by Quazacolt: Dec 21 2007, 09:24 AM

LOL true.

Makes no difference in Vista

Ive been listening to mp3 while playing WoW since the first week i began playing, because im not to fond of listening to the WoW own BGM. When i found out about this a month back when i troll WoW EU forums there are no different on my WoW performance ( note that my machine is abit old ) so turn off my music player and my WoW performance drop down to death, i even lag out due to fps restrain in shattrah... this little wonder that ive been using for around 2 years and never found out... i lol'd a little inside.

BTW most music player works, im using jetaudio and ive tested it even with iTunes, but not winamp thou coz i hate winamp lol.