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World Of Warcraft
Submitted by Anonymous on 2007-02-13 10:09:39 This product has a rating of 3 out of 5 running under Windows XP 64 Bit (x86_64) Comments: Why is everyone talking about how great this program runs with WindowsVista? Has no one ever reinstalled that game in WindowsVista and tried to patch it -- after installing from DVD -- to the current version? Yes, it may run great -- if your graphic cards manufacturer is able to provide you with a driver that performs in 3D as good under WindowsVista as it does under WindowsXP. But the design of WordOfWarcraft is not compatible with WindowsVista security at all. Hell, the design does not even respect design rules of WindowsXP. Heres why: 1) Patching Patching is done through downloading an executable file into the program directory => no biggy under WindowsXP but a big no no under WindowsVista as User Account Crontrol and the file system security will prevent such a behavior. Anyone tried to patch WOW from Version 2.0 to 2.0.3 via that ZIP file patch? No? Please try and you understand what I am trying to describe. 2) Configuration Data Also bad program design is configuration data which is stored inside the program directory. That kind of information should be present in the user home directory and not in some sub-directory of the program directory. Result? Every user playing the game needs not only executable access but also needs full access (read + write + execute) for altering files inside a sub-directory of the program directory. |