WoW Performance II.

[rhoninsk]

Small and easy trick how to improve your ping in WoW
(acctualy there are two)
DECRASE OF LATENCY BY 80-160ms

Ok, rdy? lets start.

The fix which we are going to perform only requires you to change two things in the windows registry, allowing your ping in Wow to drop by 80-175MS, and it only takes slight moment to apply.

This improvement is quite know around ppl who works with IT and networks, but at first I must say I was a little sceptical about this actually working, but after I tried it myself, I had to give it full A+ and it actually lowered my 160 ping on the Dragonmaw EU realm to about 40-50.

Lets start with the process:
Start>RUN>regedit>ENTER

( yeah, u have the same window as me )

1st Step - TcpAckFrequency:

In the regedit window ( called "Registry Editor") find (EDIT>FIND):

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Servic
es\Tcpip\Parameters\Interfaces\

There will be multiple NIC interfaces listed in there, find the one you use to connect to the internet, there will be several interfaces listed (they have long names like (6DBA9DEN-7AOE-4C03-B60F-ADB1777C41D4). Click each one of them, the right one will have lots of settings in it and you will see your machines IP address listed there somewhere. Right-click in the right hand pane and add a new DWORD value, name it TcpAckFrequency, then right click the entry and click Modify and assign a value of 1.

You can change it back to 2 (default) at a later stage if it affects your other TCP application performance. it tells windows how many TCP packets to wait before sending ACK. if the value is 1, windows will send ACK every time it receives a TCP package.

2nd Step - TCPNoDelay:
This is also pretty simple,
go find:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\MSMQ\Paramet
ers

Right-click in the right hand pane and add a new DWORD value, name it TCPNoDelay, then right click the entry and click Modify and assign a value of 1.

Click Ok and close the registry editor, then reboot your PC.

Some of u might be aware of this cool feature, but for those who are not well... ENJOY :wave:


*NOTEif you are running Windows Vista this setting may not have any effect - a hotfix is needed. This works fine under Windows XP/sp1/sp2

[Perdyno]

I wouldn't listen to a site noob telling me to mess with my registry

[Mallak]

because your not a site noob of course...

[rhoninsk]

I wouldn't listen to a site noob telling me to mess with my registry

so dont If u are to scared or unexperienced to understand what is my guide about so be it. U should ask if u dont understand i explain, flaming doesnt make u understand.

btw how does my status on mmowned affect my network knowledge?

[houseplant2]

looks good to me.. A+ thanks!!

[zabuu]

This works btw. Used to have around 300ms and it dropped it to an average of 70. Also improves fps a tiny bit. Though I think its a repost =x

[Bmxpassion]

im one those who dont hate on the rep. due to knoing a lil Bit what he has done is fine.

[Slippers]

+rep for contribution and out of leecher.

[just2knowthis]

It was initially posted in a wow forum. I don't remember the exact thread, but it had to do with opening windows media player before entering wow (it is supposed to improve load times, which it does in some systems). In that thread a guy posted a link reffering to this technique. Using it for some months now and it works (lowered my ping by up to 200 ms).

[frstysnow]

Very Odd ive used this technique before and had great results but now it seems when trying to reapply since my last format..... I dont have the path
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\MSMQ\Paramet
ers

Anyone know a solution to this problem? It seems that my Microsoft registry folder is missing the MSMQ bit and its sorta freaking me out a bit....

[Lysandro]

first:
This is old really old and can be found in the most official forums........

@frstysnow:
He missed to copy the part that the key, if not there, must assigned by you. Or can be installed with a patch from MS. I think only vista need this.

@all
This is old if you have vista the first thing afaik there was a security fix for XP and vista that fix that problem.

[phreec]

Didn't patch 2.3.2 fix this and automatically enabled it?

[Lysandro]

Here is a fix for lags caused by sound:
WoW Forums -> New solution to latency caused by sound

and here ist the original thread:
WoW Forums -> Reduce Your Latency from 200 to under 100...
and in german:
WoW-Europe.com Foren -> Latenz in WoW permanent verbessern.
and also in german a guide with pictures from the glider forums:
HowTo: Ping Verbesserung von WoW - WoW Glider Forum | WoW Bot Forum | WoW Forum

[xibus]

He is right. That Works.

[tomch]

looks alright
even if it didnt work it doesnt look like it would mess up your computer that bad.