Posts Tagged: hacking


4
Mar 09

Skip Reentering Your Warhammer Password in the Patcher

Another tip for you folks of the WAAAGH persuasion: do you hate having to re-enter your account password into the patcher each time you start? There’s a simple XML hack to bypass that.

Open up C:Program FilesElectronic ArtsWarhammer Online – Age of Reckoningpatch_user.xml in your favorite text editor. There’s only a couple lines of code.



All we need to do is add a password attribute there, like so:



Obviously replacing “account username” and “account password” with your appropriate credentials. Save the file and launch the patcher. Your password will be all filed out for you, and all you need to do is press OK. Simple, eh?


3
Mar 09

Optimizing Warhammer Online's Game Performance

Warhammer Online is a beast of a game, and by far the biggest complaint I hear about it is how poorly it performs on players PCs. I can’t argue, Mythic still needs to do a lot of work on tuning things up. Patch 1.2 (which goes live tomorrow) improves performance a bit but there are still some measures you can take to improve your frames per second right now. I’d like to point out that some of these tweaks may potentially reduce the visual quality of the game for you… that’s the way it always is with this stuff: you sacrifice quality for performance. I leave it to you to balance the options and decide what you’re willing to sacrifice.

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