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World of Warcraft & Windows 7 Beta 1

2009-01-19 at 15:08:08 | In World of Warcraft | 5 Comments

Well I suppose it is quite obvious from the title already: I got my hands on the Windows 7 beta.
Yay.
Or something.

The “why” I would choose to actually run Windows 7 outside a VM are rather annoying, so let’s just skip over that…

The general impression with regards to World of Warcraft up to now actually is rather, well, disconcerting. Aside from a minor glitch with the funky all new (and otherwise really nice!) taskbar which shows itself by simply not reacting to right-clicks on the WoW icon and not stacking WoW with the button used to start it (for more information about the new taskbar google for it, it has been discussed in length already), there actually is just one more problem.

Does not sound to bad, right?

Well… Except that the other problem is… like… crashing the whole pc up to the point that you have to pull the plug.

Oops.

It seems WoW delves into some kernel function that never returns!

P.S.: You know IE 8 is part of Windows 7, right? Well, according to wordpress the compat mode seems to work rather well…

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I am running Win7 Beta as well. I have no problems at all with World of Warcraft. In fact I get considerable better framerates than I did in Vista.

I am not sure why yours hang though. Perhaps a driver problem? Check the vendors of your hardware if they released updated Windows 7 drivers.

Comment by Thomas Jespersen — 2009-01-19 #

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I play wow on a daily basis. So far my experience is that wow now runs about 15-20% faster than before(FPS), compared to a clean Vista instalation.

The reason why it shows up double on the taskbar is simple. You normaly start the “Launcher”, which runs the file “launcer.exe”, while the game itself is “wow.exe”.

Comment by Ravndal — 2009-01-19 #

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“Check the vendors of your hardware if they released updated Windows 7 drivers.”
Did that of course

“about 15-20% faster”
Performance is no concern for me right now, getting booted annoys me more

“You normaly start the “Launcher”, which runs the file “launcer.exe”, while the game itself is “wow.exe””
Actually that is not quite what the taskbar does, if you are interested look over at http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/yochay/Windows-7-Taskbar-Behind-the-Scenes/
In short: The taskbar generates something it calls an “Application ID” by which it groups the icons, therefore as soon as WoW becomes windows 7 aware it can have both executables provide the same app id, grouping them together. Otherwise the taskbar has to rely upon its own ideas what constitutes a program, and (in my opinion, is this is clearly a design decision) WoW and its launcher should be grouped.

Comment by dionadar — 2009-01-19 #

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OK, I have narrowed it down: It seems to be the ATI video driver. Updating that one a few days ago, made WoW go from near unplayable to almost-fixed.

Comment by dionadar — 2009-02-16 #

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