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luckton
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on: February 18, 2012, 05:30:33 PM

Decided to cash in on the free 7-day email I got and give the new 64-bit client a whirl.

Ho-ly shit  ACK!  Why could we not get nice things like this sooner?  I could crank everything up before and it was alright, but now?  Everything's on Ultra, V-sync is locked in 60, AA at 8x, and everything runs smooth like butter with no lag at all.

Anyone else try this out yet?

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Rokal
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Reply #1 on: February 18, 2012, 09:46:31 PM

I only noticed an improvement when I did LFR a few weeks back. 25-man raids ran much smoother on my PC after switching to the 64-bit client.
Wolf
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Reply #2 on: February 19, 2012, 01:14:14 AM

do you have to make a completely fresh install or can you "upgrade" the regular installation in some way?

As a matter of fact I swallowed one of these about two hours ago and the explanation is that it is, in fact, my hand.
luckton
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Reply #3 on: February 19, 2012, 02:29:42 AM

do you have to make a completely fresh install or can you "upgrade" the regular installation in some way?

You have to be patched up to the latest version.  Once done, follow the link in my OP to their forum post about it, which has a .zip file containing the 64-bit .exe along with a couple other files.  Just dump those in your root WoW directory, run the .exe and off you go.

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SurfD
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Reply #4 on: February 19, 2012, 03:12:52 AM

You dont even have to run the .exe, if you fire up the launcher it will automatically prefer to launch the 64 bit version unless you tell it not to.

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Reply #5 on: February 19, 2012, 04:15:20 AM

I think my loading times went down a bit, but haven't noticed anything dramatic.  But I've just been porting between Org and Dragon Soul so probably not the best case for seeing major differences.

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