| About this product | |
|---|---|
| Product | World Of Warcraft |
| Vendor | Blizzard |
| Tested operating systems | Windows 2000 Windows 7 64 Bit Windows Vista 32 Bit Windows Vista 64 Bit Windows XP 64 Bit |
| Average rating | |
| CompatDB XML | world-of-warcraft.xml |
Compatibility Reports for World Of Warcraft
Reported by Anonymous
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Windows Vista 32 Bit
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Can sometime get a toon to load.
Games starts 1/5th of the time.
Can't update.
If any mods, crashes when loading toon.
Weird graphic issues while playing.
Big sound issues.
This game is not working for me at all.
Reported by Anonymous
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Windows Vista 32 Bit
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Vista totally hosed the graphics in WoW. It will randomly cause my screen to freakout and throw graphic "remnants" all over the place like a lightning storm. It also killed sound in the game too.
Reported by Anonymous
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Windows Vista 32 Bit
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To the poster that complains about the issues with WOW. You must have a bad install of Vista, I did a clean install of Vista with a clean install of WOW from the DVD, patched it, and played it with 0 problems.
As to the game "config data" breaking the rules, this game came out before Windows Vista, WELL before Windows Vista.
Reported by Anonymous
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Windows Vista 32 Bit
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I just installed game in Windows Vista and there were no problems at all. Its running just fine - like it did under Windows XP
Reported by Anonymous
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Windows XP 64 Bit
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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.
Reported by Anon
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Windows XP 64 Bit
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Runs great
