Originally Posted by Xejin
On newer machines, Vista will out perform XP. It's that simple. However, do not upgrade to Vista thinking that DX10 will help you get better performance in WoW - it won't, WoW uses OpenGL.
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This is incorrect. On Windows, WoW supports both DirectX and OpenGL, and defaults to DirectX.
DX10 will still not help you though, because WoW is not a DX10 game. Older games get no automatic benfit out of DX10, the developer must explicitly use DX10 functionality.
Originally Posted by Caldar
Just turn off the UAC, like 90% of users do.
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I would really like to see proof of that statement. Anecdotal evidence from beta 1 (where UAC was indeed horrible) does not count.
I strongly recommend against turning off UAC. If you get too frequent prompts then that is a good indicator that you are doing something that you shouldn't. Would you tweak the brakes on your car every day? Modifying system state is the equivalent of that. The one prompt when installing a new app or new patch really isn't bad, and if you for example surf the more shady corners of the web (or follow links from the official WoW board) then knowing that UAC will prevent that keylogger from installing is well worth the hassle.