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by C.K. Sample, III 
Feb 7th 2006 at 9:11AM
So, I grew tired of the maintenance message and decided, "What the heck?", so I tried logging in. To my joy, my screen immediately started downloading an update. I launched the updater and there it was: 1.9.3.5059, streaming down through the Internets to warm the dark rotting recesses of my Undead heart.
Why am I so pleased to get an update and still be locked out of doing anything since the realms are still down, you ask? Easy: I have a new Intel-based iMac, and this patch seems to have finally made World of Warcraft run natively rather than via Rosetta, as the comment at the bottom of the login screen no longer mentions Rosetta, but only GCC Intel. Nice!
For the HORDE!
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Quicksilver Feb 7th 2006 9:20AM
How does WoW play natively on a intel mac? Im currently playin it on my g4 powerbook with 1.5ghz and it runs great after i put in another gig of RAM. I can only imagine how smooth it runs on the intel-mac.
CarLBanks Feb 7th 2006 9:26AM
Your patch is 30.1 MB whereas mine is 24.2 MB?
C.K. Sample, III Feb 7th 2006 9:27AM
Actually, it's been running via Rosetta for a while now. Very slow with the default 512MBs of RAM, but once I upped the RAM in my iMac up to 2GBs, it was playable, if not blazingly fast.
The news here is that the promised Universal Binary version of the game was evidently included in this latest patch, which means that it will run natively on my Intel-based iMac, which should result in screaming fast game play.
However, we'll see. I'll report back later today in a post and let everyone know how it performs.
crsh1976 Feb 7th 2006 11:20AM
Slice & Dice fix, 'bout time! Hopefully it's really fixed and not evolved to a new state of uselessness (the miss rate while active was ridiculous)
Mike Feb 7th 2006 11:48AM
Are there no patch notes out yet?
Warcraft dude Feb 7th 2006 12:39PM
Patch notes here:
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.aspx?FN=wow-general&T=7007041&P=1
L'Emmerdeur Feb 7th 2006 3:34PM
Grats!
On a WinXP note, I found a great tip on improving performance somewhere on the internets, and I'm passing it on to everybody every chance I get.
If you have more than one hard drive, you should move the Windows swap file off the C: drive onto another drive. The log-in lag caused by the hard drive thrashing as it received massive amounts of Ogrimmar data has all but disappeared.
If you have a WinXP desktop, you can add a second hard drive (doesn't have to be big, your swap file is usually set to be around 1.5-2.0 gigs), and then follow the instructions at the following link on Microsoft's website to move the swap file to the new drive. Make sure you do this before adding anything else to the new drive, so it is the first item on the hard disk platter.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307886/en-us
So WindowsXP OS and WoW will be on the C: drive, and the swap file (called pagefile.sys) sill be on the new drive (D: drive or whatever letter it is assigned).
BTW, this won't just improve WoW performance, it should improve PC performance in general.