- INSTALL WARCRAFT 2 ON VISTA INSTALL
- INSTALL WARCRAFT 2 ON VISTA PATCH
- INSTALL WARCRAFT 2 ON VISTA WINDOWS 7
INSTALL WARCRAFT 2 ON VISTA WINDOWS 7
When I ran WoW on Ubuntu on the same computer I had installed Windows 7 on, I achieved frame rates of around 65 FPS. This could be a result of minor misconfigurations within the Linux system itself, but if there are things misconfigured it's so buried in the configuration files I wasn't able to find it after an hour of poking around.
There is some choppiness that shouldn't be there. It should be noted however, that while my graphics card is supported, I get the distinctive feeling it's not supported entirely. I found I got around 55 FPS on average through the Ubuntu system.
INSTALL WARCRAFT 2 ON VISTA INSTALL
I did however, install the latest version of Ubuntu Linux on my Mac and ran WoW through that. My Mac is 21" Intel iMac running a single dual core processor with a substantially less powerful video card. How does this rank with other operating systems? I can't really compare it with my Mac that I have, since the hardware is significantly different.
INSTALL WARCRAFT 2 ON VISTA PATCH
In WoW, all my settings were at their maximum, with the exception of the shadow setting (which was set to one below the max setting - setting it to the max position after patch 3.1 caused stability and extremely low FPS issues for myself and several others). Given the previous observations, it's safe to say that Windows 7 contributed significantly in increasing my in-raid FPS. This is obviously in part due to the upgraded hard drive (the one I had previously was about a year and a half old), but there's no way an older hard drive would cause a 20 FPS decline. However more importantly my FPS during raids / Wintergrasp shot up to 70. After installing Windows 7 I was running at about 75 FPS average, with a maximum still of around 100. I got about 60 FPS on average, with a maximum of around 100 while idling in some far off place with not a lot of traffic and a minimum of about 50 while in some of the more graphic intensive raids / battlegrounds. Prior to installing Windows 7, I used Windows Vista updated to the latest patches. There's a bunch of other bells and whistles that I have as well, but those are the big things relevant to what I do every day here at WoW.com and how I play WoW. I have an nVidia GTX 260 graphics card, which is the latest generation. For the technically inclined, my computer has four gigs of RAM and operates off of two dual-core Intel Core2 processors. The installation and configuration of Windows 7 went very smoothly.
After deciding now was the time to expand my hard drives (because I really need 3TBs of space), I took the opportunity to install the "release candidate." The release candidate of Windows 7 is just that - it's a version of the operating system that while still in development, has all the bells and whistles, and is essentially the exact same thing that'll be sold on the shelves.
Later this year Microsoft will release its next major desktop operating system, Windows 7.