Authors CurseForge

No issues with WoW+Win7RC1 here. Had to install and configure Ventrilo from scratch because I couldn't figure out how to migrate its settings from my XP partition (tried exporting and importing some registry data, but it had no effect).

I also moved WoW on my XP partition from C:\Program Files to C:\Users\Public\Games or whatever and gave it Full Control permissions for Everyone because only half of my addons were loading :O

WoW seems to run about the same as under XP. When I alt+tab out and then back in while in full screen mode, it takes a lot longer for Win7 to give the screen back to the game than it takes XP. On the other hand, I seem to take less of a framerate hit in windowed mode in Win7 (need to double-check that though).

nVidia's Vista/Win7-only ambient occlusion feature in their drivers makes the game run dog-slow for a barely-perceptible difference, which was a huge disappointment (something to revisit when I build a new desktop in a few months hehe).

Goofed around with some other games:

- I got Fallout 3 working fine (although it didn't show up anywhere in the Start Menu). I get some minor slowdowns that weren't present on XP.

- Baldur's Gate 1 (had to stress test a new OS with an old game!) had the same problem on Win7 with modern nVidia hardware as it does on WinXP (black boxes etc.), but the fan fixes available are even better than when I last checked.

- Deus Ex runs in slow motion, but at a full 60fps. It does not have this issue in WinXP. I found a replacement launcher that is supposed to fix the issue but haven't had a chance to try it yet.

Other games on my XP partition that I might try:

- Diablo 2
- Starcraft
- Warcraft 3
- Dwarf Fortress

Also, the "XP Mode" that news sites have been touting is a joke. It's VirtualPC running a legit copy of WinXP in a virtual machine (which is fine) but Win7 connects to it via RDP (Remote Desktop) so the video quality and response time are not suited to playing games (not to mention it simulates an ancient S3 video card with no hardware acceleration). In other words, "XP Mode" is useless for games.

I recall searching my entire hard drive for any Ventrilo-related files before checking the registry, and I didn't come across anything like that in 32-bit WinXP. Oh well, it works now but maybe I'll take a second look if I think about it.

Also, Ventrilo does store binary data in the registry.

HunterZ the "XPMode" is not meant for any normal user anyway(thats why its only in Business and up included), its basically just hacked together so no company can say: "But but our 15year old program does not run on Windows 7, so we get new PCs with XP instead!"
VMWare is better anyway as it looks like :D

Yeah. In another 5-10 years we'll have stuff like DOSBox that can emulate hardware-accelerated 3D games running in Win98/XP anyways.

I think it comes with an older version and then Windows Update kicks in and nags you to upgrade.

Quote from Kollektiv

I definitely saw some blue post saying wow will be able to use 3 cores in patch 3.1. But then post 46 on http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=1778017311&sid=1&pageNo=1 contradicts it.

WoW does use 3 cores for me now on both my Vista x64 and XP x32 installations. However, threads from WoW only use about 20% CPU on the second core and 40% CPU on the third core.

It's obvious that most of the main 3d engine is still running on the first core, since if I crank the graphics settings up to ultra and disable vsync, it still maxes out the first core at 100%.

I fail to see how having 20%, 40%, and 100% usage on three cores provides any more performance gains than 60% and 100% usage on two cores previously did, but I do see a speedup of about 15 fps in XP and 10 fps in Vista now.

Edit: It must be something related to either FMOD or my audio drivers running on the second core. When I disable sound completely, I'm left with 100%, 0%, and 40% usage. So perhaps WoW isn't really using 3 cores; maybe my sound driver's affinity just ended up on a different core this time.