Play World Of Warcraft Fast

World of WarCraft is designed to be more forgiving than other contemporary online RPGs. The only real "death penalty" the game imposes is minor wear and tear on equipment (no experience point loss or debt), and characters that haven't logged on for a while gain a temporary bonus that helps them level more quickly, to catch up with companions that play more regularly.What I want you to do is right click on the World of Warcraft icon and go to "Properties." In properties you will need to go to the "compatibility" tab. Check "Disable visual themes," "Disable desktop composition," and "Disable display scaling on high DPI settings" and click apply. This will turn off some of Vista's special effects while World of Warcraft is running. This will help WoW's performance. I have not noticed "Run this program in compatibility mode for: Windows XP (Service Pack 2)" to make any difference.So update your drivers frequently! If you can't tell what video card is in your system, right click on your desktop and click personalize (remember, were in Vista now). Next click "Display settings" and in the drop down box you should see the make and model of your video card. Mine is an NVIDIA card so I would need to go to nvidia to retrieve the newest drivers. If your card is an ATI card, go ahead and navigate to ati.amd to grab the newest drivers.

Many people will argue with my suggestions in this section, but that's good, because depending upon your video card model, driver version, DirectX version, and whether or not you have an adobe product loaded on your system (strange isn't it, fortunately it doesn't matter because we are going to play with settings here anyway...) these settings will be different for everyone. So let's start in the World of Warcraft display properties.While Warcraft is running, run your mouse over your latency bar. Yes, that little green (though, more than likely yellow if you are on one of the damn original servers) bar that tells you your latency between you and the wow servers. Ever sense a recent patch, it also shows us our video FPS (frames per second.) So here is what I want you to do. Start changing settings in your video options menu and keep restarting wow and check this number. Smooth game play hovers at roughly 30-45fps (and of course higher on faster computers...) and will go up and down depending upon where you are (in Orgrimmar expect low FPS, and in arena you can expect a much higher FPS) so make sure you are in the same place when you take each sampling. This is quite time consuming and is irritating to do, but once you have the optimal settings for your system, your game play will be much smoother.