I've finally bought a new PC, and the first thing I'm doing is installing WoW (of course). I remember reading a few months ago that instead of having to download all the patches you can use a USB memory card to just copy certain folders/files from your old machine to the new - I think the poster was just saying it because WoW is one of the few games that allows you to do this.
Can anyone remind me which folders those would be?
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I used to do this from my brother's computer, as his would allow Blizzard's Downloader and mine wouldn't, but as I have Prem, and he's becoming a stroppy teen', I used the downloads from here <3. For Patches, take the files that end in -patch, for example WoW-1.7.1.4695-to-1.8.0-enGB-patch, but not WoW-1.7.1.4695-to-1.8.0-enGB-downlaoder, as these arn't needed.
That's as much as I know though - hope that helps atleast a bit.
That's as much as I know though - hope that helps atleast a bit.
easiest way is just copy the whole WoW folder, then you won't need to patch anything.
TseTsuo the Wise wrote:
easiest way is just copy the whole WoW folder, then you won't need to patch anything.
Well, I doubt it'll fit on a flash drive like he was talking about... but, actually, that will work. Odd as it sounds, I don't think WoW has any registry entries for PCs. I just copied everything from my old HD to my new one when I bguilt this new PC (no reg entries copied or anything) and it worked fine. I did have to manually go through and put shortcuts where I wanted them though.
TseTsuo is correct. You can copy the whole WoW folder and it will be fine.
Either burn it onto a DVD or connect each comp together and transfer it.
Either burn it onto a DVD or connect each comp together and transfer it.
Turns out the memory card wasn't even close to big enough, so I'm just downloading as normal...going pretty quickly, in fact, so not too bad. Should have thought of using the DVD rewriter, though!
Thanks for the input anyway, everyone.
Thanks for the input anyway, everyone.
if you still have the old comp, there are a few options for you:
1. network them together and just copy/paste the wow director to your new computer.
2. make a DVD or set of DVDs or CDs and copy the wow directory from old to new.
3. copy just the Interface, WTF, Data directories and the latest patch.exe, not the downloader for that patch. might not be a bad idea to grab all of the patches, but you could just grab the one massive patch off of 3dgamers.com
4. take the old hard drive out of the old computer, put it in the new computer, making sure it is not set to master and put it on a separate channel (if IDE this is easy, if sATA not as easy, but still simple enough) and copy the data from the old drive to the new drive inside your new computer.
#4 will be the fastest way, with #1 being the second fastest followed by 2 and 3 respectively.
to many options to make it easy for you. the nice thing about WoW is that it does not touch the registry so as long as you have all of the files in the wow directory, you are golden.
1. network them together and just copy/paste the wow director to your new computer.
2. make a DVD or set of DVDs or CDs and copy the wow directory from old to new.
3. copy just the Interface, WTF, Data directories and the latest patch.exe, not the downloader for that patch. might not be a bad idea to grab all of the patches, but you could just grab the one massive patch off of 3dgamers.com
4. take the old hard drive out of the old computer, put it in the new computer, making sure it is not set to master and put it on a separate channel (if IDE this is easy, if sATA not as easy, but still simple enough) and copy the data from the old drive to the new drive inside your new computer.
#4 will be the fastest way, with #1 being the second fastest followed by 2 and 3 respectively.
to many options to make it easy for you. the nice thing about WoW is that it does not touch the registry so as long as you have all of the files in the wow directory, you are golden.
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