How Does a Fragmented Hard Drive Affect WoW

How does a fragmented hard drive affect World of Warcraft? Let me count the ways.

1.  Increased lag during Arena games
-Causes you and your team to lose.

2.  Increased lag during Battlegrounds
-Causing you to get booted, your team to lose, and everyone to hate you.

3.  Increased lag during instances with guild
-Causing everyone in the guild to have to slow down, possibly having to resurrect allowing critters t regenerate. Bad all the way around.

4.  Increased lag while hunting….alone
-Causing you to die all of your equipment to be damaged and a long (boring) run back to get your body.

You may have noticed a common theme emerging. The answer to how does a fragmented hard drive affect World of Warcraft is ultimately lag. Lag is something you want to avoid at all costs when gaming. I know people ::cough:: who buy gaming systems just so that they will have a more real time experience in the game. I know lots of people who upgrade their Internet connection speed as soon as they can and then every chance they can.

Oddly, however, I don’t know a lot of gamers who defrag their computer on a regular basis. The reason that is odd is because it is a free way to lesson lag. Your computer gets fragmented every time you add, delete, or change a file. With WoW you do all of those things a lot because of upgrades and updates. Spend a little time every so often (once a month might be a good place to start) defragging your computer so the lag monster doesn’t get you.

What is the most extreme thing you have done to reduce lag in game? Moved so you could access at a higher speed? Bought a super computer? Come on…I won’t laugh

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May 29th, 2009 by birdievogel | Posted in World of Warcraft | (0)