May 12th, 2008 Jeremy
I’m not a WoW pro by any means. My highest level character is a 43 Prot Pally and my alts are a 40 Fire Mage and 21 Holy Priest. So while I’m not a level 70 with a ton of gold to my name, I have played the game a bit.
The reason I’m writing this guide is that I just hit 40 with my Fire Mage. I was so excited to get my mount. I had saved up 9 gold (I spend as a get, so saving up that much is unheard of for me) and ran off to buy my mount. Then I was hit in the face with the realization that in addition to my 9g, I had to spend ten times that in order to USE the mount I was buying. That sucks!
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April 16th, 2008 Jeremy
Before you get too excited, I don’t mean portable like the portable versions of Firefox, Pidgin, etc. I mean for a portable harddrive (at least 7.5GB). Portable harddrives come in different sizes and types. I personally use an old laptop harddrive placed inside of an external drive enclosure and my iPod. You could also, if you’ve got one large enough, use a usb flash drive (thumb drive, pen drive, etc.). Obviously, in addition to a drive, you’ll need a copy of World of Warcraft and a subscription to it (so you can play it).
Use With Portable Harddrive
This is very simple. Either install directly onto the harddrive or go onto your C Drive and copy and paste your World of Warcraft folder onto the drive. It’s that simple. You can now use world of warcraft on any computer you want (assuming it has the required specs).
Use With an iPod
If you’ve already set up your iPod to be used a harddrive, go back to Use With Portable Harddrive and follow those instructions. If you haven’t, keep reading. Please note that this is done with iTunes 7 on Windows XP, so if you’re running OS X, it might be slightly different.
Plug your iPod into your computer and open up iTunes (if it doesn’t automatically open). iTunes should display information on your iPod. If it doesn’t, select your iPod under “Devices” on the left side of the program. Under Options, you should see a small list of options. Check Enable Disk Use. Now go back up to Use With Portable Harddrive and follow those instructions (or click here).
Playing the Game
To play the game, all you have to do is open up your harddrive and open up Wow.exe (or whatever the OS X or linux equivelant is). It’s that simple.
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January 11th, 2008 Jeremy
love to play games. So much so that I like to do other things while I play them. For example, while playing World of Warcraft, I often have to read up on something in the WoW Wikipedia or the official site. So instead of minimizing the game, I have it set to windowed mode.
World of Warcraft has really spoiled me, because it has excellent built-in windowed mode support. But most games don’t. The other PC games I play a lot are Sim City 4 and The Sims 2. Neither of which have any built-in support for windowed mode. This is quite annoying for me, because I’m one of those people that likes keeping an eye on their buddylist, inbox, etc. So I googled around to find the answer and now I’ll share it with you. First of all, find the shortcut to the game (or the actual .exe file of the game. Either will do) and right click on the icon. Then click Properties.
On your game there should be a little box with the path to the game in it (labeled as “Target:”). At the end of the path (after the final quote mark), type -window. Then click “OK”. This only works with some games, so you might need to try just -w after the final quote instead of -window. If you have no idea what I’m talking about, just look at the above image. It’s the “final product” of this whole thing. Even with one of the two at the end of the path, it still might not work. I have no idea why, but some (maybe most) programs don’t have support for that. So if those don’t work, you can give 3D-Analyze a shot. Amongst other things, it can force games into windowed mode. To do this, unzip the files into a directory and run 3DAnalyze.exe. Then click “SELECT” and find and select the .exe for the game you want to run in windowed mode. NOTE: It HAS to be the .exe. Using the shortcut doesn’t work with this thing. After you’ve selected it, click off “Force Windowed Mode” at the bottom of the “Performance” column. Then click RUN.
This also may or may not work. But hopefully one of the two methods I’ve given will work for you. If not, actually check your game to see if it has it already. It’ll be under the graphics or display setting. I’ll be updated this article as I find new ways to force windowed mode.
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