TWG on WoW

[Tage]

Works for me.

[Gemm: Rock & Roll Star; Born to Rock]

http://blog.wired.com/games/2007/11/mr-t-mohawks-wo.html

I figured all you WoW players would get a kick out of this.

[Nessa]

H.i.l.a.r.i.o.u.s!!

[Spriggan]

Don't forget shatner
http://www.joystiq.com/2007/11/20/mr-t-and-william-shatner-in-world-of-warcraft-commercials/

[Nessa]

This is a lvl 56 item called the Cruel Hand of Timmy and it's a mace that will make you think of the Steel Ministry...

http://www.vanessakchristenson.com/images/TWG-timmy.jpg

Oh, and a little video I found on utube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_oKaCL-OA8

[stacer]

I haven't been on for a month, I've been so busy at work. Got my memory upgrade for my new computer last night, and finally got on WoW again. It was nice, but it wasn't a whole lot faster--and Nath locked me out, it was so busy. I've never seen it so busy as to say I'm 15th in line to get on. So I played on Draka. But it's strange either way. Perhaps they were just so busy last night that the server-side was delayed? I didn't lag or anything, so that's good, but I also didn't see the kind of improvement of performance I thought I would. (I went from 1gig to 4  gig on a Vista machine. Yet another reason to think about just scrapping Vista and installing XP from my old computer.)

[Spriggan]

You only see a performance increase with Vista if you have a Direct X 10 graphics card and are playing a game that supports DX10 (which WoW doesn't as far as I'm aware), in every other instance XP will respond better.

Also moving to 4gigs of RAM won't do you as much good as you think since no 32-bit OS (PC or Mac) supports more then 3.2 gigs of ram (might be slightly off on that number).\

As for 15th in line to get on the sever.  What a whiner, I remember when the que was regularly 100+ to get on any sever (yes this was after release) and the servers were so unstable they'd go down about every other hour kicking everyone out of the game.  And yes I had to walk up hill both ways!  Through Murlocks!

[stacer]

Well, I was having major lagging issues with 1 gig, so I figured upgrading to 4 as opposed to 2 would have made a difference. It actually comes out to something like 3.7 because the video card takes part of that memory. I have an NVIDIA card, which is definitely an improvement on my old video card, which was pretty much bare bones of whatever was available when I bought it.

But it's definitely an argument for XP. I only bought Vista because it was the only OS option on this computer. I would have preferred XP.

[Spriggan]

You should have gone with 3 gigs instead of 4 because that last gig doesn't give you anything (the OS cannot use it).  Your video card is probably having the biggest effect on performance, the biggest problem with Vista and Gaming is very few games take advantage of what Vista has to offer (which does require a $200 video card)  and since it uses more RAM then XP but since you've got so much I'm thinking it's the Video card is causing the slowdown.  Though it's probably more the video card driver which are different then the XP drivers and very few companies have made good vista drivers.

Thankfully Omega Drivers have finally released their optimized NVidia Vista-32 bit drivers for download, these things are awesome and I highly recommend them.

http://omegadrivers.net/omega_drivers.php

[Nessa]

The reason why Nath was so busy the other night was because a bunch of other servers were down...so a  bunch of people got on that server because it wasn't...hence, more people.

[Nessa]

So Chimera wants this Friday to be an official TimeWaster's instance run night, if we can all make it. I'll try to be available. We can't Saturday because that's Rifftrax at my house.

[stacer]

I think I can make it. Make me a tentative yes.

[Tage]

Mark me as uncommitted.

And I mean that in a general sense, too.

[Chimera]

Yup it's my birthday on Saturday but I also have fun plans that day (not rifftrax, unfortunately). So Friday is the night for a Natherazim birthday bash! You guys wanted a time and I think we should say 9:00 pm Utah time (so 8 here or in Seattle) because of dinner with my parents and possibly opening presents. (yay!) 

I think we'll be doing a 70 instance run, stacer. Not that we want to leave you out! But that was what everyone seemed to want to do, and I need to get rep for a head enchant. I don't know for sure, though. But we have Draka tonight too, when I get to run with you and Izzy.

As for gifts, I'm accepting anything primal. lol jk 

[stacer]

So I'm imagining I'd die terribly in a 70 instance run? I just got up to 62, but that's nowhere near 70.