European Install question

[martanio]

I am currently studying Spanish in Spain. I do not have my computer over here but saw a sign at an internet place that said WoW here. They have it installed on their computers. I believe it is an european instal. My account isn´t active otherwise I would have just tried to log in.

How do I check?
How do I change it so I can play on US servers? or would the lag be too bad. Thanks for your help.

[Kalos]

First question, check what?

Second question, it doesn't work like that. There's no switch that flicks you onto the US servers, and there's no way the internet cafe is going to like you fiddling with the game files. In all honesty, it's not possible to modify a Spanish-Euro WoW version to hook up to the US servers. Different base language pack, the only one that has a real hope of working is the Eng-EU version being modded to the US servers. However, no public business is going to let you modify thier systems like that, nor is it possible to get a playable experience. The regional versions were designed to be seperate, not interchangable, it's not realistic, maybe if you had a copy of the Eng-EU WoW on your own personal machine, but not on a public machine, and not cross languages.

[WatcherZero]

I was under the impression that language packs had no effect on compatability (though not tried it myself) The baseline EU version is identical to the US version with two changes, one softcoded file which tells it what server list to use which you can change, and one hardcoded patch server which tells it where and when to get patchs, which you cant change. The language packs merely sit ontop of the EU-eng install and change the text that you see.

[Valas Azuviir]

I was under the impression that language packs had no effect on compatability (though not tried it myself) The baseline EU version is identical to the US version with two changes, one softcoded file which tells it what server list to use which you can change, and one hardcoded patch server which tells it where and when to get patchs, which you cant change. The language packs merely sit ontop of the EU-eng install and change the text that you see.

We've, in the past and those posts unfortunately are no longer available, had some reports that the other language versions had some "issues". Apparently the additional language markers like the ä, ö, and ü can cause some issues. No idea why and it's been too long ago for me to recall what exactly the issues were.

The only version that we've had success stories on is the UK-US and vice versa conversion and even then, there are some hurdles to climb over to get everything running and then you'd still need to hope that they keep the patches synched or otherwise, you're up the creek with no paddle.

It's happened before that the EU version was one skip ahead over the US version and those folks who made use of the UK-US trick were unable to play during that time. There was a hotfix for the Spanish client, which had pushed the version to X.X.7, whereas the US version was still at X.X.6

You'd be better off having both version installed on the same machine in separate directories.

[Tunga]

And since the clients are available for download now, on a home machine, at least, there's really no reason to be running a client cross-region.