How to remove wow patches to speed latency

[kasti89]

should i do this?

[hakeemsami1]

how i delete wow patch 4.0.0.1 plz im stuck!!!!!!!!!!

[thebunnieskiller]

hi everybody I have a problem ..............................­......... last week I updated version 4.0.1 but my server's version is 3.5.5...........I reinstaled it. And when i try to update version 3.3.3 - 3.5.5 it tell me '' you need wow.exe"....and sometink like "you heve an older version" plz help me my id is thebunnieskiller .........thx

[hibbi20]

can you download patches on one computer then put it on an external hardrive then put it on another

[MrJustinlord]

it doesn't work ;(

[violater16]

Awesomeo guide =)

[vain5]

How do u do this with Windows XP?

[4543563]

Running around with 35-60MS is fucking awesome. Thank you Mr. Ninexunix xS

[ninexunix]

np, make sure to do that every so often (only has to be done after downloading a patch and installing it from blizzard) because of the embedded bittorrent client every time you download a patch you're seeding to other players in game while playing which "CONTRIBUTES" to MS problems depending on your bandwidth.

[4543563]

Exactly. I logged on with... what... 35ms?

I had a mess on the floor and I needed a whole toilet roll to clean it up after wards. xD

[4543563]

One thing though, is it safe to delete the contents of the Updates folder. There is no corresponding files like the ones I previously deleted, the names are

'' WoW-2.4.3-to-3.0.1-TBC-EU-Upda­te''

'' WoW-3.0.1-to-3.0.2-Update''

'' wow-3.2.2-to-3.3.0-enGB-Win-pa­tch''

Would deleting these folders decrease the ms? Just wanted to know.

[4543563]

Would it be safe to delete the inside of the Patches folder, when my latest one is 3.1.3 - 3.2.0? WoW is updated to 3.3.5, thanks

[RagnakiMezaMageXX]

Thank man the trick works.

[48deathnight]

does anybody no how to remove the entire thing like all the files and applications?

[novabrod]

The song is down with the sickness

[Steveisamonkeyninja]

how do i uninstall a patch from wow?

[lateeeeef]

no man its not stricken, its like this song but its not this, thx anyways.

[AndrewMarron]

its Down With the Sickness

[patricks123321]

@lateeeeef Dude it is Stricken, It's Down with the sickness made by Stricken i got the song and i have listened to it very much.

[Dragonvial]

@patricks123321

actually its the band is not called stricken its called disturbed and the song is down with the sickness

[Blackwave09]

@patricks123321 its obviously disturbed

[somemadfella]

stricken by disturbed i think

[lateeeeef]

whats the song name in the first 5 second?

[sfnoodles]

OMG thanks for the advice.. i been playing it on 125ish Latancy and it sucks for pvp.. lets hope this works!!!

[ashf1804]

Are you serious kid, you're complaining about 125 latency ? go kill yourself please.

[eduyoda2]

how can i manually patch wow, do you know how to do that?

[ninexunix]

wowwikki (googleable) has a page that has links to every patch released so far. You can download them and install them in step by step revisions.

[eduyoda2]

thx i knew that...my mystake i forgot to put un before patch :P i wanted to know how to unpatch wow manually cause i patched more than wat i needed =P

no matter i re-installed it :)

[server0fWow]

@eduyoda2 - i have a video on how to manually remove a wow patches look me up hope it will help..

[ninexunix]

And the point being? Well, if you're uploading content to other users while in game you're killing your bandwidth and hence the high latency. The embedded Bit Torrent Client in the WoW client operates just like any other torrent client in the world does. Removal of the setup file and removal of the torrent file would obviously mean a happy client.

[ninexunix]

Yes it works on WOTLK. The patches that you download and install always leave a basic setup file and the torrent itself. What you are removing is the torrent file and the patchsetup.exe from that folder in the video so you are not uploading that content to other users while in game. Once you have installed the patch there is no other purpose for those two files displayed in the video. Obviously not having them or moving them will keep you from uploading to other players while you're in game.

[ninexunix]

This isn't to "fix" broken program files...not sure where this statement came from. This is to remove the main setup files and the torrent from your program files folder so you're not uploading it to other players while in game.

[1strunk1]

so basically you stop yourself from seeding to others?

[ninexunix]

exactly

[chox30]

if you need them again, just open wow and boom it download them, omg such a genius

[gekkeaar]

does this work for wotlk aswell?

[blate444]

:/ .:( i cant do that

[g0ldl1fe]

W00t ty man this really helped!

[ninexunix]

np :)

[ninexunix]

All questions asking, "How to downgrade patches" will be removed. Sorry but this is not a video on how to downgrade patches. I will not help you with these questions. There are SEVERAL video's already on this subject, on this site. More work was put into the two paragraphs of text that I had to delete then there was using the search engine at the top lol.

[helpplz9982]

Ok so thank alot, but lets say you want the patches back what will happen? If you dump it in the recycle bin can you ever get it back, even if u deleted it from the recycle bin too?

[ninexunix]

If it's gone from your recycle bin no you can't get it back without use of a data recovery program. The time spent using one of those is a wasted effort. It's much faster to download each patch separately and install up to the revision you want. wowwikki(googleable) has a patch page where you can download each patch individually. When you install wow and burning crusades that will put you at v2.0 so on wowwikki's page start with 2.x → 2.4.0 Full Patch (~924Mb)and upgrade form there.

[2013lokken]

Ty and i love song "down with the sickness" big help 5/5 I fking love u right now XD

[ninexunix]

np you're welcome

[Wolfboy183]

thank you for the trick :D

[ninexunix]

you're welcome

[watcher4655]

what about repair? delete that?

[ninexunix]

no don't remove that ever.

[RuneWave]

Great job man, /Thanks

[ninexunix]

you're welcome

[metalhead0771]

thank you for this! :D

[ninexunix]

You're welcome

[ninexunix]

I have received a few mail messages from pissed off torrent fans complaining about this post due to the file sharing community. The mails rant on about how I'm just teaching people to be leechers etc etc.

To you all I say this. You're forgetting who's working for who. You're paying Blizzard for a service. They're suckering you into doing their work for them. With the money they make they can afford an upload server lol. With 1 million users alone @ 15.00 a month thats 15,000,000. So STFU

[sageofvengeance]

Not to mention that these patches can be downloaded from mirror sites, so it's not like anyone is totally stranded from receiving the patch without seeds...

[ninexunix]

/nod

[FinalcutWOW]

BTW i have alot of these things that u deleted do i also delete them ? =) help

[ninexunix]

For every patch that you have installed if you have never removed the torrent files for them ever then to answer that question, YES.  For every patch that you have installed you will see two files for, like the ones I deleted. Delete the matched sets by looking at their version numbers. DO NOT DELETE BackgroundDownloader.exe and BNUpdate.exe The reason I'm telling you this is because they share the same icons as the (versionnumber)-patch.exe and the (versionnumber)-download.exe.

[FinalcutWOW]

Thanks man /love

[MmoKid6]

how good was the latency after thhis?

[ninexunix]

On my computer it flux'd anywhere between 20ms to 100ms after removal of patches. But this is due to my max upload strength being 12-14kb/sec(128kb). It all depends on your upload. If you're uploading patches to other users and you have 512kb upload then you won't see much of a latency decrease but if you're on cable like I am with about 128kb then your latency will go down by quite a large margine in game. At times before removal I was fluxing from 20ms to 2000ms if that gives you any idea.

[ninexunix]

Sorry my bad I never said anything about that in the video itself it was posted in the video info (to the right)that that was reason behind removing the files.

[Beelzebud]

Clearing room on your hard drive will not improve latency.  Latency is how fast your internet connection is. Now if your PC caches to disk a lot, clearing up some space can speed up the machine, but not latency.

[ninexunix]

The reason behind removing the patches has nothing to do with hard drive issues via space. As I said in the video...it has to do with the bittorrent client in World of Warcraft uploading the files to other users while you're in game and playing.

[vkvanja]

lol

[ninexunix]

I wouldn't have bothered to make a video on it if it didn't :P

[Bonespirit07]

does this work????