WoW 'Large Address Aware' Patch

[houdinii]

Nice, great fix to my lag problem. I had a lot of issues switching from wow full screen, to wow, all fixed with this. Thnx!

[snigelmannen]

I doubt it. There's no compelling reason for them to just yet. WoW doesn't use enough memory to justify it, and they'd have to port Warden to x64 too.

Even though im quoting an old post, why wouldnt a company like blizzard be able to port it to x64? They have the money and the time

[Cypher]

Even though im quoting an old post, why wouldnt a company like blizzard be able to port it to x64? They have the money and the time

My post explains why. It's not that they CAN'T, it's that there's no good reason to (at least, no reason good enough to justify it). Why do unnecessary work?

Do you realize how much work that porting WoW to x64 would entail? It's not a matter of simply flipping a compiler switch and hoping for the best.

[sylvisj]

It's not a matter of simply flipping a compiler switch and hoping for the best.

I dunno, willing to bet MS did something similar with Windows ME.

[XTZGZoReX]

People need to just write portable code from day one. :V

[Xelper]

People need to just write portable code from day one. :V

Well... considering WoW has been released for 6 years, and was probably in development for a few years, their original code base is nearly a decade old. I don't think anyone was really planning X64 compatibility back then.

[snigelmannen]

My post explains why. It's not that they CAN'T, it's that there's no good reason to (at least, no reason good enough to justify it). Why do unnecessary work?

Do you realize how much work that porting WoW to x64 would entail? It's not a matter of simply flipping a compiler switch and hoping for the best.

Well I realise that, some of us plays with loads of addons, and the 32 bit versions have the limit, I can barely use a few addons without the LAA patch , without it I can't start the game. Its not like I'm telling them to code a new game, when d3 is out i wont even touch wow.
Its just that they do have the money and the time.

Their release plan showed 2 new Starcraft eps, Titan, d3 + some expansion and another wow ep, why wouldnt they start going up to 64 bits when Win 8 will most likely be 64 bit only?

How many people buys a new pc and doesn't get a 64 bit system?
like 2 of 50 pre-built pcs I've checked out the past few days had 32 bits systems

[moreniu]

Any way to get it updated to 4.06a?

[Cypher]

Well I realise that, some of us plays with loads of addons, and the 32 bit versions have the limit, I can barely use a few addons without the LAA patch , without it I can't start the game. Its not like I'm telling them to code a new game, when d3 is out i wont even touch wow.
Its just that they do have the money and the time.

Their release plan showed 2 new Starcraft eps, Titan, d3 + some expansion and another wow ep, why wouldnt they start going up to 64 bits when Win 8 will most likely be 64 bit only?

How many people buys a new pc and doesn't get a 64 bit system?
like 2 of 50 pre-built pcs I've checked out the past few days had 32 bits systems

I don't think you quite understand the magnitude of what you're asking them to do.

Also, even if Windows 8 will be x64 only, that doesn't mean it won't run x86 software. The WoW64 compatibility layer will still be present, and hardware support for x86 is part of the x64 architecture. So that means nothing...

Look, I wish all developers would start supporting x64, but it's simply not worth it in most cases.

Any way to get it updated to 4.06a?

Updated and added to first post.

I should just release a script to do this, but I'm lazy, lol. Maybe I'll do it on the weekend.

[ddebug]

Cypher, this is just toggling a value in the PE header of Wow.exe, right?

EDIT: I answered my own question by doing a quick Google search. The switch can be easily done by editing the Characteristics value in IMAGE_FILE_HEADER and adding IMAGE_FILE_LARGE_ADDRESS_AWARE. Makes sense, since it is just a linker option.

[Cypher]

Yes, and null out the security section RVA and Size so you don't get those stupid signature errors (because modifying the PE headers destroys the checksum).

[firemayhem]

Would love an update on this^

[l0l1dk]

Would love an update on this^

A blizzard rep said they are adding LAA in 4.1. The post is here. I don't know if they actually did or not though.

EDIT: I just checked, and they did add it.

[Cypher]

Haha awesome.

[firemayhem]

A blizzard rep said they are adding LAA in 4.1. The post is here. I don't know if they actually did or not though.

EDIT: I just checked, and they did add it.

How to enable? Sorry I'm not sure. :\