I’ve used many addons for Warcraft and thought I’d make a post and share this script with you. Although it’s not technically an addon, it makes a noticeably change in your latency in game, at least it did for me.
Leatrix Latency Fix Is a set of scripts that after installed will lower your latency.
How it works-
Online games generally use the TCP protocol which requires that network segments sent to your computer be acknowledged in order to provide a reliable connection.
Windows bundles these acknowledgements together and sends them in pairs. While this is an efficient way of dealing with them generally, the inevitable delays caused by the bundling process increase latency considerably.
This is because when Windows queues up an acknowledgement in order to bundle it with the following one, the game server has to wait for the acknowledgement timer to expire before sending new data.
Leatrix Latency Fix removes the acknowledgement bundling process so that an acknowledgement is sent immediately for every segment that’s received. This produces a significant reduction in latency as there is no longer a delay before new data is sent to your computer.
In a normal networking environment, you would prioritise network efficiency over latency and use the Windows defaults, but in online games the opposite is true and you want the lowest latency you can possibly get.
It has been scanned by many virus scanners with a clean result. I’ve tried it for myself, my latency was usually 300-350 on the server I’ve played on for 5 years and since I installed it my latency hasn’t been over 130.
I was searching google for Twenty Ten child themes, I like to keep updated on what people have managed to do with them. I found a link to a post on wordpress forums which lead me to this site Wpweaver.
Twenty Ten Weave theme is theme for wordpress 3.0 that uses twenty ten and it’s own sub theme system which allows you to pick you own colors, fonts, headers, header sizes and much more, it also comes with several pre set themes for you to choose from.
I’ll be looking into how they created the options system and adding one simpliar to my Warcraft theme I’ve been working on. It’s exactly what i needed I just didn’t have a clue where to start. This will allow me to have a Horde and Alliance version plus a generic version along with allowing users to select their own colors and header sizes for their own guild banners.
I setup a website for my warcraft guild and have been playign around with it the past few days. I started with WordPress, but then quickly switched to Simple Machines Forum with a portal. I was going to try and integrate BBpress into the site, but it’s just too much trouble, it’s buggy and just not worth it to bother using.
I really like SMF, I found a few nice theme and one I liked in particular called Inferno by dzinerstudio. I looked around for a Warcraft theme for the forum, but couldn’t find one, so I just ended up adding a logo to another theme. After I did that I setup a test site and started working on a warcraft theme by modifying the inferno theme. I didn’t do much yet but edit a bit of css and change some images, but here’s a screenshot of it so far.
SMF Warcraft theme
I still want to add a new navigation to it, I’m not sure how hard that’s going to be, but the original author seems helpful on his forums.
UPDATE: I won’t be continuing with this.
I’ve been playing around a bit more with Twenty ten did a few neat things with it. One thing I added was a search to the header on my site, you can see it at the top.
To do this, I searched Google for some code for a search box, wrapped it in a div and added the style to my own CSS.
First make a copy of Twenty Tens header.php then open it in any editor. I wanted mine to show on the right in the Nav menu, so do a search for
<?php wp_nav_menu( array( 'sort_column' => 'menu_order', 'container_class' => 'menu-header' ) ); ?>
This is the code that shows the Menu at the top of my site. At the end of it, go down a line and add the code for the actual search form.
<form method="get" id="searchform" action="<?php bloginfo('home'); ?>/">
<input type="text" value="<?php echo $search_text; ?>"name="s" id="s"onblur="if (this.value == '')
{this.value = '<?php echo $search_text; ?>';}"onfocus="if (this.value == '<?php echo $search_text; ?>')
{this.value = '';}" /><input type="hidden" id="searchsubmit" />
</form>
Now save your new header.php into your child themes folder and refresh your page. You should see a search box near the left above your links. If you do, great, now we need to style it so it looks better.
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