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Installing WoW From the Internet or from CD whats Faster?

XeratixXeratix Member Posts: 130
in World of Warcraft

 So whats faster, downloading from Internet, or Using all the cds etc,..

 

Because ive heard that with the cds you start off with patch 2.0 and have to Install one by one, 

and the internet download it starts at 2.3..

 

Does anyone know whats faster?

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  • xtremegatextremegate Member Posts: 1

    i did both downloaded it from internet on my old computer took me 6 hours in all with download and all patches installed

     

    took not even 2 hours with CD's in hand

     

    so good choice is CD's for me

    I got 2 words for u

    good job

  • ElsaboltsElsabolts Member RarePosts: 3,476

    I would always get the cd's if possible

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  • XeratixXeratix Member Posts: 130

    You installed The Whole WOW plus Patches witht the cds in just 2 hours...

    NicexD

  • Pappy13Pappy13 Member Posts: 2,138
    Originally posted by Xeratix


     So whats faster, downloading from Internet, or Using all the cds etc,..
     
    Because ive heard that with the cds you start off with patch 2.0 and have to Install one by one, 
    and the internet download it starts at 2.3..
     
    Does anyone know whats faster?



     

    I believe you have to download both the original and the expansion however if you do it off the internet and that alone will take about 4 hours I think.  You can't just download the expansion, it requires the original to be installed to work.  You can have the CD's installed in probably 30 minutes and then just have to patch it up which should only take a couple hours.

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  • YZF600YZF600 Member Posts: 12

    Get the Warchest.  I think its one DVD with both WoW and TBC.  Much faster than the CD's.

  • ghogielghogiel Member Posts: 166

    The fastest way to install WoW is:

    1. Find a friend w/ WoW fully installed (till 2.4.4).

    2. Bring a USB flash drive w/ enough capacity to hold the entire WoW folder -- or just simply take your hard drive to his/her place.

    3. Copy the whole WoW folder to your USB/hard drive.

    4. Run WoW.

    I've done this a couple of times~ esspecially when it's time to reinstall windows, WoW is one of the few applications I don't have to run installer to install.

  • Pappy13Pappy13 Member Posts: 2,138
    Originally posted by ghogiel


    The fastest way to install WoW is:
    1. Find a friend w/ WoW fully installed (till 2.4.4).

    2. Bring a USB flash drive w/ enough capacity to hold the entire WoW folder -- or just simply take your hard drive to his/her place.

    3. Copy the whole WoW folder to your USB/hard drive.

    4. Run WoW.
    I've done this a couple of times~ esspecially when it's time to reinstall windows, WoW is one of the few applications I don't have to run installer to install.



     This is a great idea, except you are gonna need about an 8 gig flash drive or an external hard drive.  Removing an internal hard drive, installing it in the other PC, copying over the files and then removing it again is not exactly gonna be an easy thing to do.  At least with downloading you can set it to download and walk away for a couple hours and come back and it's done.

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  • XeratixXeratix Member Posts: 130

     Hey, em so with the USB Flashdrive copying from one computer to another_

    I have a MacBookPro, 2.6Ghz,  Can i copy the wow folder from a pc and put it on my mac or, would i need to copy from another mac=

  • ghogielghogiel Member Posts: 166
    Originally posted by Xeratix


     Hey, em so with the USB Flashdrive copying from one computer to another_
    I have a MacBookPro, 2.6Ghz,  Can i copy the wow folder from a pc and put it on my mac or, would i need to copy from another mac=

    I'm not sure w/ Mac, but in my case (windows) copying the WoW folder from 1 computer to another works fine.

    I'm sure you can only use Mac client for Macs though. It's just that I'm not sure if you can do a direct copy for Macs.

  • skeaserskeaser Member RarePosts: 4,190

    I'm pretty sure you can copy the MPQ files from PC to MAC and vice versa, I think the only difference in the patch process between the two is the executable file format.

    http://www.wowwiki.com/Patch_mirrors

    I can normally get faster speeds from the mirrors here than the Blizz patcher, and you don't have to download all the incremental updates.

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