Windows Vista and World of Warcraft

[Carlos]

Bare in mind that Vista is currently not a supported operating system for World of Warcraft, so the support that is offered may be limited.

This is only for retail versions of Vista, and not any previous beta clients.


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Drivers

Audio



Creative Audigy-series (12/1/07) - http://www.creative.com

Creative X-Fi Series(Beta) - http://tinyurl.com/25kfeg

Creative ALchemy OpenAL Wrapper beta - http://preview.creativelabs.com/alchemy/default.aspx

Realtek AC97 - http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/...tDown=false#AC


Network



Realtek (Auto installation program) - http://tinyurl.com/skrnu


Video

ATI Catalyst 7.1 - ATI Radeon 9500 (and up), ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 (and up)

ATI/AMD x86 (29/1/07) - http://ati.amd.com/support/drivers/v...n-vista32.html

ATI/AMD x64 (29/1/07) - http://ati.amd.com/support/drivers/v...n-vista64.html

nVidia ForceWare 97.46

nVidia x86 (5/1/07) - http://www.nvidia.com/object/winvista_x86_97.46.html

nVidia x64 (5/1/07)- http://www.nvidia.com/object/winvista_x64_97.46.html

nVidia Forceware 100.54 (beta with 8800GTS/GTX support)

nVidia x86 (30/1/07) - http://www.nvidia.com/object/winvista_x86_100.54.html

nVidia x64 (30/1/07) - http://www.nvidia.com/object/winvista_x64_100.54.html

ForceWare 100.59 (Beta with 8800GTS/GTX support)

nVidia x86 (31/1/07) - http://www.nvidia.com/object/winvista_x86_100.59.html

nVidia x86 (31/1/07) - http://www.nvidia.com/object/winvista_x64_100.59.html



Video Card Capability list

Here's a nice list of current video hardware and what level of DirectX they are capable of. To run Aero, you will need a DirectX 9 hardware-class card.

ATI: http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/article/131
nVidia: http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/article/132

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By the way, regarding Intel 945 Graphics :

Users in World of Warcraft have reported that it will crash into a black screen. A message saying that the Display driver stopped responding and has recovered will follow. It has been reproduced in-house.

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Performance Tips


* Try turning off the Windows Sidebar. It may consume system resource that the game can take advantage of.

* Make sure other tasks are not competing for system resource. Use a utility such as the Windows Task Manager (taskmgr), Windows Performance Manager (perfmon) or Process Explorer (http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sys...s/default.mspx) to get a deeper look.

* If you are using multiple monitors and play the game in Windowed mode, try disabling Windows Aero.

[spot.]

im getting vista in a week and this post will be very helpful!

[TehJoshy]

Yeah, Great Thread Carlos, should be Stuck as atm its a very useful topic to view. =]

+Rep.

[le harry]

Yew nice thanks