Linux is always the ideal option though. Having said that, until Blizzard release a native GNU/Linux WoW client, it’s going to have to run using the Wine compatibility layer, which adds a dependency chain and is sometimes a bit fiddly to configure.

Good for you, quit being a linuxfag.

oh yah i don’t see how opening wmp will speed it up but there are a few tricks also 2 try u could open task manager and close explorer and then go through the run new task on task manager and open wow then to open explorer just go to task manager and click run new task and type explorer and hit enter or ok
you could also just make sure ur wimdows defender (vista-) and firewalla allow wow

hopefully this helps i know it was alot and to a few users i may have confused you

good luck and be safe
im not reliable for any thing users do to there computers even though it would take a retard to fuck up there computer doing what i said

Also the guy who posted this seems intelligent, I’m pretty sure he either already ran a virus scan or that his PC does not seem to be infected.

I never would have thought abut cleaning the dust out, that’s a great idea because the layers of dust will just make the computer have to exert more physical force in it’s hardware in order to get through them. But I’m going to guess you probably don’t have to do it once a month, it probably doesn’t get thick enough by then unless your home or other frequented area is very dirty. But here is my question: How do you clean out a laptop without unscrewing anything? My computer has a 1.4Mhz processor!!

The most common thing you need to run WoW or any other game is RAM and processing speed, assuming your internet connection is fast enough. The game runs better on my mother’s dialup computer then it does at one of the hotels I go to to play. The dialup really only causes lag when is you enter an area where a bunch of people are sitting around dueling. And on EQ it doesn’t cause any lags at all! But you don’t need 2G of RAM, you only need 1G, and a 1.8ghz processor. At the two different places where WoW runs absolutely phenonmonally, that is what the specs for processor and RAM are. (One of those places also has the highest connection possible, I think it’s called an O or something, but it’s higher then T3). The only thing that creates any problems at one of these two locations is the graphics card. If you want to find out if your graphics card is causing any problems, there is an easy way to do it – just go near water. On the computer I previously mentioned, everything works great, but if I go near water, everything turns into polygons. For some reason water messes up graphics cards in WoW.

As for processer vs. RAM: If your computer is extremely slow at switching windows when you have WoW open with internet windows, and or causes it to tempoarily say one of the programs is not responding, or causes WoW to disconnect while your computer is in the process of switching tasks, you probably want to upgrade the processor first. Or if you loading screen bar fills up, but it still takes longer then it should before actually showing your character and the game. If this doesn’t happen as much, but the loading bar itself takes a long time to fill up, or if your internet browser loading speed down more then it does on other computers with the same connetion speed while you are running WoW, then your should try upgrading RAM first – unless of course your system already has 1G RAM and/or 1.8ghz processor but not other one doesn’t meet that standard.

Everyone in tech will say “You need such and such requirement or even such and such operating system in order to run this program”… it’s usually not true. I have had at least 3 people tell me I need 2G RAM if I wan WoW and EQ to load fast but as I said the best-performing computer I have run into only has 1G.

I get better performance in Linux (amd64) running through wine than I do running it natively in WinBlows.