Some of you may be facing an error where the app is showing a message that the network is unavailable while the download or update continues.
This message is incorrect and does not in any way affect the success of downloads or updates. We are aware of the problem and are working to resolve it.
Game freezes on startup on Mac OS X
To resolve the issue, reinstall Codeweavers Mac Wrapper by .
Codeweavers Mac Wrapper is not developed by Wargaming.net, and World of Tanks is not supported on Mac OS X. If you have any questions, you can always contact the developer:
- via the Codeweavers support site;
- by email [email protected] or [email protected].
The game does not launch when switching to enhanced graphics
This happens if the computer configuration is lower than what is required to run the game when the “Enhanced Graphics” setting is selected. To solve the problem:
- Download the archive.
- Unpack it and run the .bat file - it will automatically delete the game settings.
- Launch the game.
Screen resolution out of range
This message appears if the game client was launched at a resolution higher than that supported by the monitor or video card. To solve the problem, remove the client settings:
- Download the archive.
- Unpack it and run the .bat file - it will automatically delete the game settings files.
- Launch the game.
Problems during update
Problems starting the game
When starting the game client, the following error may occur (the file name may differ from that shown in the screenshot):
- Open Game Center.
- Select World of Tanks at the top of the window.
- Click on the "Game Settings" button.
- In settings, click "Repair Game".
To solve the problem, you need to check the integrity of the client. If you launch the game via:
- Launch the launcher.
- Go to settings (click the gear icon in the upper right corner of the launcher).
- Go to the "Support" tab and click on the "Check" button.
- Wait for the process to complete and click on the “Play” button.
Read about solving other problems when starting the game
Tankers!
From update to update, World of Tanks becomes more and more interesting and multifaceted. We wish you successful battles, and also remind you that if you have any gaming questions or difficulties, you can contact the User Support Center (USC) or official project group on VKontakte, whose employees work around the clock and are ready to provide qualified assistance in any situation.
Below we will look at the most frequently asked questions related to the release of updates and possible solutions to them.
Performance. FPS drop
To get the most out of the available computer power and get comfortable game performance, it is very important to optimally configure the client configuration. To do this, it is recommended to use automatic detection of graphics settings. Open a tab in the game client Menu > Settings > Graphic arts, press the button Recommended, wait until the settings are completed and press Apply. The system will automatically select the most appropriate graphics quality for the game, based on the parameters of your computer.
If you are uncomfortable playing at the current FPS, change the graphics quality settings to lower ones.
If the game client stops starting, including if the graphics settings are set too high, try resetting the game client settings in the launcher:
- Launch the launcher
- Click on the arrow next to the “Play” button
- Select "Run game with graphics settings reset"
In many cases, you can solve problems with graphics in a game by updating your video card drivers. On the TsPP website you will find detailed instructions on how to do this for Nvidia and Radeon video cards.
Read more:
For correct and stable operation of the game client, we strongly recommend updating your video card drivers to the latest versions. To download drivers, use the search on the manufacturer’s website:
- Nvidia.
- AMD.
- Intel.
Articles on the User Support Center website will help you install drivers correctly:
If the game client stops launching, including due to too high graphics settings, try resetting the game client settings in the launcher:
- Launch the launcher.
- Click on the arrow next to the “Play” button.
- Select "Run game with graphics settings reset."
If you encounter technical problems after updating the game to the latest version, please submit a new request toUser Help Center. Read about how to do this inspecial instructions . In your application, describe in detail the problem that has arisen and list the actions you have already taken to resolve it. And also, if the game client was successfully updated to the current version, but there were difficulties launching it or during the game, attach a report from the WGCheck program to your application, which will help resolve the problem as quickly as possible. Before creating a ticket, make sure that the problem can be reproduced on the game client without modifications.
Launcher problems
We remind you that the game client can be updated automatically - you just need to enable the corresponding option in the launcher settings. All the details .
Sometimes you may experience problems downloading or installing an update. This article will help:
- Solving problems with an alternative installer (launcher).
Problems with Game Center
Problems associated with using modifications
Many people play World of Tanks using various client modifications. We remind you that they are not created by Wargaming, but by third-party developers and users. Therefore, when official World of Tanks updates are released, the game client may not work correctly with modified files: a drop in fps, client freezes and crashes, lack of textures in sniper mode, as well as a number of other problems.
In most cases, such problems can be solved by removing the game modification; sometimes this requires reinstalling the entire client. Issues related to modifications, as well as ways to solve problems, are discussed in more detail.
World of Tanks- one of the most popular games in the CIS countries. The game really breaks all records both for registered players and for simultaneously playing users. It's because WOT a really cool game, no matter what the competitors say. Wonderful physics, excellent sounds, advanced leveling systems, minimal donation. Although donation costs money, and without it it is difficult to collect experience and silver, it costs relatively little, unlike other games. Literally everyone can afford a premium account.
But let's return to the question of why I abandoned the tanks. I would like to immediately make a reservation that this is purely my opinion, I do not pretend to be the ultimate truth, or that blog readers will also stop playing tanks or any other game. I talked quite often with other players, and when I broached this topic, I was met with furious misunderstanding and deliberately incorrect arguments, which I will give below. I also want to say right away that I will not argue in the comments or prove anything to anyone. Any action is your choice, and you can continue to live with this choice. Some people follow the path of self-development, while others follow the path of degradation.
How I played World of Tanks or background
I started playing Tanik back in 2011. I don’t remember exactly anymore. As usually happens, I started playing on the recommendation of a good friend who praised the physics and the very cheap donation. I didn't play much, mostly on weekends or a couple of hours in the evening. In total, over this long period, I have accumulated only 8,000 fights. Which, in principle, is not so much. It got to the point that all the conversations with the friend who recommended this game to me revolved around the topic of tanks, updates, or interesting incidents in battle, which even not strong players accumulate in abundance. Did I have a gaming addiction? I think no. But it was quite difficult for me to take my mind off the game. It even got to the point that for one of my birthdays I was given a premium tank LOWE, which at that time, in principle as now, brings a good amount of silver both with and without premium.
Most often the girl I live with tried to pull me away from the game. Therefore, when she is not there and my “stuck in the monitor” world does not bother her, I played tanks. Also played when she was at home but cleaning or cooking. One spring day, a girl went to her parents in another city to help with something, but I stayed on my own for the entire Sunday and another 5 working days. As the reader probably realized, the first thing I did after putting her in a taxi was open the laptop and start the tanks. I played until the evening, until 20:00, after which I turned off the game and decided to watch some videos on CarambaTV, simultaneously planning the upcoming work day. At that moment, I was 12 hours away from removing the tanks.
How much time is spent on World of Tanks
So that we speak the same language, let's count how much time we spent on WOT? After all, the lyrics are lyrics, and the numbers can no longer be disputed, no matter how much one would like to.
Let's take the average player like this as an example: me with 8000 fights. Feel free to take your data and let's count together. If we type in “how long a battle in wot lasts”, we will find out that the average battle lasts 6 minutes. Depends on many parameters, starting from the speed of the vehicle you are riding at, ending with the map and team. If you ride a Mouse and a Turtle, then naturally the battle will last a long time, but if you ride a T50 or a Christmas tree, then a couple of minutes will be enough for you. But on average, each player's battle lasts 6 minutes. Let's take my number of fights and multiply by 6 minutes.
8000*6=48000 minutes spent in battle. But do not forget that before each battle there is a delay of 30 seconds for loading the map and planning the battle. We count.
8000 battles * 0.5 minutes of waiting = 4000 minutes. Plus, we must not forget that for some time we sit in the hangar, read forums, watch guides on equipment or technical equipment, funny moments in WOT, etc. This also takes a lot of time. But we won’t count it, because... Now we focus only on bare numbers, what is provable and cannot be disputed.
So, I spent 52,000 minutes in battle and waiting for battle. Or 867 hours. Taking into account the fact that the average person’s working day is 8 hours, we divide 867/8 = 108 working days, or 3.5 months. That is, we can say that we took a vacation for 3.5 months... and just lost these three and a half months in tanks! Yes, yes, I know, we usually play tanks on weekends and in the evenings when we physically cannot work. But more on that below and a little later.
Why did I quit playing WOT?
Lying on the couch and watching some distracting video, I thought that I didn’t have enough time to finish watching the training course on EMPO, which is designed for 2 months of online training, I didn’t have enough time to watch Torvald’s videos on the correct worldview, etc. d. And then I realized that the time I spent playing tanks could easily be converted into the time that was so necessary to achieve a particular goal. But the reader, like me, quickly begins to prove it to himself. You can't work all the time! You need to rest sometimes! I relax while playing tanks, so everything is fine. Some people are relaxing watching TV, but I’m in the tanks. You can’t always work, you’ll burn out and that’s it. We must act gradually. But if you really want to understand yourself and look deeply, very deeply at the root, then for every argument we find an answer that we tried to hide from ourselves, or simply did not think about...
Argument: I get tired at work and cannot do tasks that require mental effort in the evening or on weekends. I also can’t study, because at the end of the working day my brain can’t perceive anything, and instead of delving into the information, I just listen to it superficially, without drawing any conclusions.
Answer: Yes, it is true, after a hard day or a hard work week the body does not perceive anything. But if we want to work, then we can do intellectual work during the day and leave mechanical work for the evening. For example, for me it’s sorting out keywords in AdWords, putting items up for auction, editing prices, responding to comments on a blog, cleaning houses, and a lot of other things can be done in the evening.
Argument: You need to rest, you can’t always work.
Answer: Yes, sure. You need to rest. Good rest is the first point if I want to work well and productively. Without rest, you often burn out. But are tanks resting? No. Tanks won't help you rest. It happened that I played all weekend, with breaks of course for normal, full sleep, food, and watching a couple of films. Having lost the weekend, I woke up on Monday not feeling refreshed. Well, not at all. For myself, I concluded that the whole point is that the brain does not rest during the game, it continues to work hard, processing momentary information that is constantly changing.
I have a sedentary job, so, as was established many decades ago, the best form of rest is a change of activity. But as far as tanks are concerned, everything is quite the opposite. After sitting at the computer at work, I continue to do the same at home. It is natural that I cannot rest properly. Better instead of playing, I’ll go for a walk, walk the dog, do yoga, wrestling, learn to play the guitar. I will get much more pleasure and relaxation from this. If you don’t want to go anywhere, then you can, for example, learn how to repair a bicycle. I always wanted to, because it is very difficult to find a worthwhile service that will do repairs at a high level.
Argument: Tanks relieve stress. I came after work, shot, and after relieving stress, I went to bed.
Answer: No, that's not true at all. Just look at the player’s posture: it is extremely tense. And it’s not uncommon for a player to start terribly swearing at VBR, his team, which consists of only schoolchildren and noobs, which undoubtedly does not relieve stress, but on the contrary adds it. There are several ways to relieve stress, both active and sedentary/at home. For example, yoga, martial arts, a hot bath, meditation, a walk.
Argument: From a developmental point of view, reading an entertaining book is the same as playing.
Answer: The fact is that playing tanks is the same repetitive action. And the book is new every time. If tanks do not bring anything new, then the book brings something new every time. New plot, new characters, new character, new events.
So why did I quit playing tanks?
Playing tanks, I spend the most important thing: what I have and what no one will ever return. Time. If you can earn money, you can see the world, go on vacation, then no matter what I do, time spent on unimportant and not useful things cannot be returned.
I understood it for myself. The path to inner harmony is...
Do the best you can at every moment!
No, not to work, as many of you thought, but just to do the best from what I can. Just ask a question: I'm doing the best I can now or I can do something different? What is more important/better? Asking yourself the question: Is it really possible that at this moment in time the best thing I can do is play World of Tanks?? Not spending time with your family, not spending time with your girlfriend, mom or dad, not going to the country or just taking a walk? Or finally read a book? Are tanks really the best I can do?
If the answer to this question is: “Yes, tanks are the best I can do,” then I have nothing against it, moreover, no one can have anything against it. This is your choice. Your actions, and responsibility for them also lies with you. And I’d rather spend time on what’s important to me. Family, girlfriend, walks, active recreation.
Many girls and wives complain that their man is holed up in tanks and doesn’t want to get out. There are a lot of such threads on the forum. If this is your case, then I want to draw your attention to the fact that sooner or later you will get tired of the game. And you will live with your family for the rest of your life. Spend time on the most important thing you have - your family, and not on your soulless computer.
Other materials on the topic
After writing the article, I started surfing the Internet and came across several videos on the topic, which I also recommend watching. In the first video, the author also counted the time we spend on tanks and thought about where we could spend this time and what to buy.
In the second video, the author talks about what we get from playing tanks. It’s not what the game leads to, but what we get in return for our time spent playing the game.
I would like to remind you that I do not claim to be the ultimate truth. My thoughts may be wrong and not true. In this article I expressed my experience, which I hope will be useful both to WOT players and to girls/wives who want to get a loved one out of virtual reality. But I would like to point out that in life you always have to change something for something. Health for money, time for money, money for benefits, time and money for a good figure, and so on. In the case of tanks, you trade your time for the best tank in the hangar. Is he worth it?
11.12.2013
The title of this article is deliberately slightly provocative. Although, for many unclear, question-raising shadow algorithms in the game, it could be applied much more, however, in the absence of direct evidence, we have to beat around the bush, not stating anything for sure, but only hanging some inconvenient questions in the air, stating some inconvenient, for the guys from Wargaming, facts. So, let's immediately decide that we will not indiscriminately accuse anyone here, but with the force of a couple of article pages we will present here a few, not exactly facts, but conjectures and assumptions and hypotheses. The general meaning of them will be that the gameplay in the popular MMO game is not at all so obvious and honest. In other words, World of Tanks is an arena for fraud on the part of the developers. But, let’s start in order. not this way.
Banned for asking.
Perhaps it’s worth remembering that this tank action game comes from Belarus, where the deservedly cool morals of the local Old Man were, in part, passed on to some of its citizens. In general, the fact remains: for the slightest hint of foul play or an “inconvenient” question asked on the official gaming forum, the questioner is banned in the shortest possible time, and they do it, sometimes indefinitely. The ban, however, applies not only to the forum, but also to the game. What is the hidden meaning of such harsh treatment of tank fans? Is it possible that the saying comes into force here: - if he is afraid, it means he hears the truth. It is clear that forum provocateurs and rude people need to be punished mercilessly, but when a forum member opens a topic where he asks a simple question about the strange failure of a projectile to penetrate an enemy, or, conversely, about the strange penetration of a loved one, then such a topic will be immediately deleted, but the player may be forgiven for for the first time, but more often you hear stories about unprecedented bans for such questions. A little strange, isn't it?
Red General.
Personally, I heard a legend from a person who heard from another person, who heard from an acquaintance who knows one of the Wargaming programmers who participated in the development of World of Tanks, who allegedly talked about what is often and densely in the form of “red” The commands that are moving towards you are not real players at all, but the most real and official gaming bots. Allegedly, several players there may still be real, but it will be the bots led by the Red General who will set the tone. According to all this word of mouth, the Red General is easy to identify. It is always a heavy tank, always in camouflage, always shoots gold, always penetrates everyone and everything, and it, in turn, is almost impossible to penetrate. But the most important thing is that such a General amazingly illuminates almost half the map. Partial proof of this is that it is impossible to engage such a General in a conversation for the simple reason that he is a robot controlled by a system from a fake account. The presence of the Red General and bots on the enemy side can be proven a little this way: take it and agree with the whole team to organize a “rush” along the flank of the map. If bots play for the Reds, then on that “unexpected” flank they will take you and meet you, almost with the whole team. They will meet you and smash you to pieces.
The classic version of the Red General’s participation is to lose with a score of about 2:11 in the first 2-3 minutes of the battle. Moreover, such battles can be repeated 5-10 times in a row. A player caught in such a situation has no choice but to simply disconnect from the game and change the game server, in the hope of a better attitude towards him. Actually, all other complaints not only from paranoids, but also from completely sane tankers boil down to the fact that very often, especially with the release of the latest patches, extremely strange non-penetrations, ricochets and suspicious “one-shots” from very weak opponents began to happen. But, more on that a little later.
World of Tanks: scandals, intrigues, investigations.
If you follow the trend that the developers promote with the release of each new patch in World of Tanks, it is an increase in randomness in the form of strange projectile flight trajectories, supposedly for the benefit of physics, as well as a gradual decrease in accuracy. While working on new models of vehicles and new maps, the developers specifically increased the spread when conducting aimed fire. And the accuracy of self-propelled guns has been reduced to the point of impossibility. Now even the most accurate guns with a pumped-up gunner cannot properly hit an enemy tank. More precisely, it’s possible to hit, but the hit/miss situation rests entirely on the shoulders of the hidden game mechanism of “random numbers.” In-tank mechanics, which, as it were, does not exist, takes upon itself the right to determine the accuracy of a projectile’s flight. The situation is very reminiscent of how UEFA does not want to introduce video replays, supposedly due to the fact that the spectators, seeing the wrong decision of the referee on the scoreboard, will go wild, but in reality, citizens from UEFA, and FIFA, simply do not want to lose another lever for controlling the game in the form of resolving a refereeing issue. It’s the same here: so that there are no unnecessary questions like: “What is this, I aimed accurately, but the projectile flew into the distance?” Therefore, the players' sights have been expanded. If earlier the enemy’s equipment completely fit into the sight circle, now, not at the greatest distance, 3-4 such tanks can be placed in the sight “point”. Here's another reason for you to think.
Strange lack of penetration and light.
To begin with, let's talk about glare. Even if we put aside the semi-mythical Red General, the problem with incomprehensible lights has continued to escalate for more than one month. The most typical situation looks something like this: for example, there is a Stug with full optics, crew, illumination, etc. Everyone died, he was alone. Here, as if on command (none of the dead prompted) one of the tanks breaks towards the Stug. And the Stug itself, it must be said, is standing in a hole that is not exposed to gunfire. There is no art in the game. In general, first the tank lights up the T-34-85, although the Stug itself does not see it, although it should, and then a deadly blank from the KV-2 arrives with a 152-mm cannon (which has no accuracy at all), which stands half a map later. But this is not enough: the shell hit the Stug with a canopy, because there is no other explanation for HOW the shell could have hit the tank standing at the bottom of a deep hole. Asking questions on a gaming forum is to your own detriment. And there are many such examples. A whole book could be written.
Now for the penetrations. Example: Bat Chat is standing in the bushes, and an IS-8 comes sideways. The chat puts 6 shots from the side from the drum. 5 of them are penetrations. Recharging. Waiting. The same IS-8 is leaving (it’s still a piece of cardboard, I must say). The chat also begins to hit the side. As a result, 0 penetrations out of 6. The chat is drained. There is only one conclusion: the limit of penetrations issued by the system has been “exhausted.” Naturally, the team flies in at 3:15.
And if you remember a lot of incomprehensible incidents that happened with damaged tanks, which in observation mode were quite realistically highlighted to their remaining allies. You can remember a lot, but the main difficulty is that there is no evidence that the developers of World of Tanks are dishonest, and it is unlikely that there will be unless one of the people involved and offended tells a story in the spirit of “I was fired from MTS, so I’ll tell you now...” In the meantime, all that remains is to build hypotheses and wait for WoT fans to come running and explain to you that you are a deer.
If you don’t know what the point is, then know: the point is money.
Having made simple conclusions like journalists from RenTV, we can firmly say that all the above-described cases may well have one single goal - to pump out more money from the players. With the release of the latest patches, which clearly demonstrated that this is how much you earned now, but this is how much you could earn if you played in the “prem”, many strange things began to happen. Many players began to complain that if previously, according to statistics, a specific tank, for example, accounted for about 53% of victories, then over the past few months, victories have dropped to 42% on the same tank. Wild cases of 10-13 terrible drains in a row, etc., have become more frequent.
All these difficulties with aiming, difficulties with penetration, and so on, can be directly related to forcing the player to open a wallet and pay real money for a premium tank, or purchase a premium account more often. After all, games are made in order to make money from them, so why can’t developers “stimulate” purchasing power a little. It is no secret that during the game at the “premium” level the number of leaks radically decreases, statistics improve, and the player more often ends up in the top. And without a premium, the player is thrown for the amusement of the “premium” tankers, just as they used to throw a boar under the drunken shots of the master. But the boar had no choice at all, but the player does.
So think about it now. On the one hand, there seems to be faith in the pure, eternal and good. It is supported by the lack of material evidence. Convicting developers is not so easy. And on the other hand, the understanding that almost everything in this world is done because of money. So why not tweak a couple of options in order to hurry up the embittered and dissatisfied player a little, and quickly start pouring money into the project in order to increase comfort. Although premium, of course, is not a complete panacea for gaming arbitrariness, when the T 34-85 cannot penetrate the side of the T-50 with its top gun, when you, with optics, a walkie-talkie and a pumped-up “light bulb”, do not see the enemy’s light, and it is you who are being killed along it, without any tracers. Moreover, a characteristic feature of particularly zealous lawlessness is that such symptoms appear when the team is clearly going to waste. It is not beneficial for the system for the team to resist for a long time. The servers are overcrowded, you should die quickly and give way to someone else, and not cling to life with all your might. At the same time, when you see similar symptoms with non-penetration, strange lighting, etc., you immediately realize that you are being “dumped.” As a rule, this idea turns out to be 100% correct.
Not an angry afterword.
In general, comrades, this article does not pretend to be the ultimate truth. Moreover, the author in no way pursued the goal of denigrating or slandering anyone there. One could even say that this article contains some of the most striking examples of the ambiguity in the interpretation of game processes in World of Tanks, game physics and other similar things.
Play and win, and if you suddenly start losing, then add some money to your account and you will immediately see that life will become better, life will become more fun. To the cabins!
Not everyone can boast that they have a super-powerful computer that squeezes 150 FPS at maximum graphics settings. On the contrary, statistics show that most tankers have weak computers and World of Tanks slows down so much that " bend over"Let's figure out what the problem is, maybe we can do something?
World of Tanks for weak computers?
Although the BigWorld engine used in the game provides an excellent server part, the structure of which is capable of supporting colossal loads and excludes the possibility of using classic cheats, the client part is a little lame, in particular in matters of optimization, distribution of resource use on multi-core computers, as well as graphics. But what to do if World of Tanks slows down?
First you need to understand whether your patient (computer) is alive or rather dead, look at the settings and look at the characteristics. These are the minimum system requirements recommended by the game developers themselves:
- Operating system: Windows XP /Vista /7 /8
- Processor (CPU): 2.2 GHz
- Random access memory (RAM): 1.5 GB for Windows XP, 2 GB for Windows Vista/7
- Video adapter: GeForce 6800/ ATI X800 with 256 MB memory, DirectX 9.0c
- Audio card: DirectX 9.0c compatible
- Free hard disk space: 9 GB
- Internet connection speed: 256 Kbps
This does not mean that if your computer does not reach the minimum, the game will not run. It’s just that the greater the gap between your system parameters and these characteristics (for the worse), the more difficult it will be for you to play due to various brakes.
Let's understand the cause of the problem
Let's figure out why it may be uncomfortable to play World of Tanks. The game slows down primarily due to a lack of system resources. If your funds allow it, then of course the best option would be to buy a new PC or at least replace the processor or add RAM (if the system allows it).
What should you pay attention to? Let's look at a few responsible pieces of hardware:
- The processor is the head of your computer
- video card - responsible for graphics
- RAM - stores temporary data in its buffer
If even one of these elements is a weak link, then you can catch the brakes. Of course, within the framework of this article we will not delve into such equally important details as the motherboard bus or the core frequency of the video card.
Freeing up memory
We have already briefly discussed why World of Tanks slows down, now let’s get down to action.
If there is not enough video memory
This is all due to your weak video card. This shortage can be cured by lowering the graphics quality in the game settings. You can also use the program to disable additional effects that cannot be disabled so easily in the game.
If there is not enough RAM
We need to build on what we have. If you have 2GB or less installed, then my advice to you is to buy more. RAM is not expensive now, I bought 2 sticks for 8 gigs at 1,000 rubles each, although I could have found it cheaper.
But, if this is not possible, well, we free up the operative space. First of all, even before launching the game and asking reasonable questions “what to do if World of Tanks lags,” you need to look at what programs you have running. Close everything! Browser, player, all sorts of Skype with ICQ and Quips, torrents and other programs. We're closing everything!
If this does not help, you can resort to the help of special software that frees the RAM from unused data. One of these programs is Wise Memory Optimizer, instructions for which you can watch in this video:
Additionally
Those who are experiencing problems are wondering when playing World of Tanks without comfort - why does the game freeze? If all of the above tips did not help, then you can get a little hardcore and delve into the issue of optimizing the client and your computer as a whole.
Master Yoda:
"The brakes in World of Tanks are caused by a weak computer".
- - this material contains links to the best tips and mods to improve game performance.
- - a lot of useful information, including a description of the program for overclocking a video card.
