File this under “life’s inane curiosities”. Word is spreading that if you want to improve your load times in World of Warcraft, you should turn on Windows Media Player. That’s it! Just turn it on, leave it on, and somehow your game of WoW will load quicker, especially in busy, high-traffic sections of the game. I’d test it, but, you know, don’t play WoW, so any of you lot fancy giving it a try? Let us know how you go, and feel free to throw in a hypothesis or two, because we’ve not a clue how this all works. Media Player boosts WoW performance [WoW Insider]
Larry Hryb has posted a heads-up over on his community site. A little notice, saying that if anyone has any suggestions as to what Microsoft can do better, please, suggest them. Of course, he’s talking about the company as a whole, but really, we couldn’t give a rat’s arse about Windows Media Player or the Zune. We give rat’s arses about the gaming stuff. For starters, crap that works would be nice: my 360 charge pack died today (it no longer charges, it just literally hisses at me), not six months after buying it, which between a dead wireless headset and a broken 360 means that out of my first-party gear only my steering wheel remains unscathed. And that’s only because I haven’t used it since this. I don’t want to die in a fire.
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