WoW developer tim nas je ove godine obradovao sa 64 Bitnom client verzijom World of Warcrafta. Šta vam je ustvari potrebno da bi ste pokrenuli 64 bitnu verziju WoW-a, i šta Vam on to bolje donosi od klasične 32 bitne verziju koju svi WoW igrači trenutno koriste. Mi smo se potrudili da Vam u par reči to prenesemo, jer smo imali prilike da uradimo test performansi i stabilnosti.
Da biste mogli da koristite WoW 64 bitni client, potreban Vam je 64 bitni operativni sistem (windows xp, windows vista ili windows 7). Trenutni
Public Test Realm client, i da skinete
WoW 64 bit client koji ćete otpakovati u vaš WoW PTR folder (exmp. C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft Public Test\).
Kada sve to uradite moći ćete da testirate 64 bitnu verziju World of Warcrafta, na PTR serverima. Kako pokrenete Launcher, u meniju Options, Game Preferences, isključite Launch 32-bit client, startujte igru i logujte se na vaš PTR nalog. To je cela priča kako bi testirali 64 bitnu verziju WoW, gde i sami možete da vidite kako vam se čine trenutne performanse igre, ali mi smo se potrudili da to uradimo umesto Vas.
Ono što sam lično primetio to je učitavanje koje je mnogo brže u odnosu na 32 bitnu verziju, što je verovatno zbog bolje iskorišćenosti memorije. Ono najbitnije što i sve interesuje da li će ovo doneti bolje performanse u FPS-u. Odmah mogu da Vam kažem da smo se i tim testom pozabavili. Test je uradjen u 1920x1080 rezoluciji Ultra i Low podešavanja sa uključenom podrškom DirectX 11. Računar na kome smo testirali baziran je na Intel E8400 procesoru, Geforce GT460 1GB DDR3, i 8 GB Rama (Kingstone 1066mhz). Kao što se vidi u testu na low settingsima 64 bitni client donosi nam 10 FPS-a više u odnosu na 32 bitni, dok sa ULTRA podešavanjima tu je razlika samo u 5 FPS-a, što dovodi do toga da ima vidljivih performansi.
32 Bitni Windows po defaultu, daje samo 2 GB slobodno za korišćenje aplikacijama, ostalih 2gb koristi se za sam operativni sistem. Na 64 bitnom windowsu, procesi koji su 32 bitne aplikacije koji su linkovani sa /LARGEADDRESSAWARE mogu maksimalno da iskoristie 4 GB, bez te opcije i dalje mogu da koriste samo 2 GB. 64 bitne aplikacije sa /LARGEADDRESSAWARE mogu da iskoriste 8 TB memorije.
Ovo je jako bitno jer korisnici koji su do sada imali problema sa stalnim crash-ovanjem zato što World of Warcraft koristi previše memorije, neće imati više problema. I svi korisnici koji imaju preko 3 GB rama videće bolje performanse.
Iako je ovo trenutno prvi 64 bitni client koji smo dobili na test, na njemu postoje bug-ovi, na kojima se već uveliko radi da se uklone, voice chat je isključen, što nam govori da Blizzard još ima da poradi na njemu, tako da ove rezultrate koje vidite ne moraju da znače da su i krajnji.
English: WoW Developers this year give us a nice present. World of Warcraft 64 Bit client version! What excatly do you need to use the advantage of 64 bit WoW client, and what it will bring you better then the 32 bit client that every player use at this moment. We have worked hard to answer you that question, since Blizzard give players a chance to test 64 bit client on Public Test Realm!
If you want to try WoW 64 Bit Client, you will need to have 64 Bit Operating System (Windows XP / Vista or 7 64 bit version), Installed latest PTR Client, and to download
WoW 64 bit client that you gonna extract to WoW PTR Folder (example C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft Public Test\).
When you do those steps, you will be able to Test WoW 64 bit Client on PTR Servers. Bring the Launcher up, and in the menu -> Options, Game Preferences, uncheck Launch 32-bit client, start the game and log in. That is the whole story, now you can test do you have any better performance playing the game on 64 bit version. If it is anoying to you to try this, and test it yourself, we already done it for you. You can check our results that we done on next PC Configuration:
- Oprating System: Windows 7 64 Bit
- CPU: Intel E8400 3.0Ghz
- GPU: Gainward Geforce 460GT 1GB DDR3
- RAM: Kingston 1066mh 8GB DDR2
We have put resolution 1920x1080, with DirectX 11 enabled, and tested it with Low and Ultra Settings. The results you can check in the pictures.
The low Settings brings us 10 FPS more then 32 bit client and with Ultra we get only 5 FPS but enough to see that we have some interesting differances with currently 64 Bit client that is in the development! This is the great news, and we should except better performance in the future!
By Default Windows gives only 2GB free for proccess, rest of 2GB is for Operating System. For 64 Bit Windows, the 32 application that have /LARGEADDRESSAWARE may use maximum of 4 GB, without that option they still can use only 2 GB. 64 bit Application with /LARGEADDRESSAWARE can use 8 TB of memory! And we wanted to test do we gonna have Crash like the old times when WoW use too much memory, so we couldn't use some addons. We manage to install 100 addons from Curse client and fly around Outland and Northrend where in the end we landed in Dalaran with 3216 MB Memory Usage! The game Worked like charm, without crash. So this is a great news for players that are using too much addons, and playing the games over 8 hours a day.
In the end this is the first look of WoW 64 Bit client, that we have given for test, and there are bugs, that Blizzard already working to fix them, voice chat is disabled and not working, that tell us that there is more to work on it, and that those results are not the last one that we gonna see. Maybe it goes way better!
In preparation for the upcoming release of Mists of Pandaria, updates to World of Warcraft will no longer support Microsoft Windows 2000. Microsoft ceased support for this version of their operating system in 2010. Players still using Windows 2000 are encouraged to upgrade prior to the release of Mists of Pandaria.
