World of Tanks cannot be approached using the usual yardstick. Because no matter where the big guys headed by Viktor Kisly are located, no matter what citizenship they have now, the game is ours, Belarusian. And if a few years ago it was customary to be proud of this, today some kind of unhealthy skepticism is increasingly heard regarding Wargaming: the larger the company becomes, the more haters it has. It just so happens that you can't please everyone, and the online gaming community is toxic by default.
A little background
Two and a half years ago, Wargaming had a “Rubicon” - the worst update in World of Tanks, number 10.0, which they later decided to cancel and not release. The company was preparing for the launch for several months, planning a whole series of improvements, but as a result, viewers downvoted the announcement of the update on YouTube and Viktor Kisly had to personally appear on stage, who apologized for the unjustified expectations of the “tankers.” Under the loud name “Rubicon” (after all, you all understand the meaning of the expression “cross the Rubicon”?), developers and players saw a different product. And when the players’ expectations were not met, the reaction was clear.
For many gamers, it was “Rubicon” that became the point of farewell to the game. However, for Wargaming, perhaps this in-game scandal turned out to be a motivating kick for changes to version World of Tanks 1.0.
It is noteworthy that on the eve of the release of the patch, we talked with Daniil “Murazor” Parashchin, a popular YouTube blogger in those years and a completely constructive critic of Wargaming. He also said that the introduction of artillery was a game design mistake, changes are happening sluggishly, the balance needs to be corrected, many developers do not play their game, and some people left development when the project became successful and began to bring in a lot of money. Unfortunately, we made the mistake of asking Wargaming for comment and agreeing to provide them with a draft. After this, Daniil refused to publish, and after some time he was invited to join the company for a permanent job and moved from cool Lvov to warm Cyprus.
He is responsible for the redesigned artillery, which now not only causes damage, but also renders the target incapacitated for a good ten seconds. If before this the guns were toxic, then after the changes they became super toxic. Since then, Murazor no longer communicates with his subscribers on YouTube and has disappeared from the radar on other social networks.
But these are all lyrics, so that you roughly understand at what stage I abandoned World of Tanks, why I returned to them for a month and what I saw there.
Rubicon 2.0
World of Tanks 1.0 is the same “Rubicon” that was expected two and a half years ago. The only problem is that the name has already been tarnished and you can’t use it a second time. The game's graphics and sound have changed dramatically, the maps have been redesigned in HD quality, and some have received terrain rebalancing.
At the same time, the developers tried to optimize the new graphics engine as much as possible. On a machine that three years ago could be called pre-top (GTX 970 and i5-4690), the number of frames per second consistently exceeds a hundred at maximum picture quality settings. And even with streaming, this figure drops very slightly. Well, it certainly stays above 60 frames per second. But there is an extremely annoying point - regular freezes and freezes, the cause of which cannot be localized on your own. Does this interfere with the game? Certainly! Especially when you play fast medium and light tanks. And it is unclear why, so many days after the update was released, there is still no fix for the problem.
Judging by the reviews on the game's official forum, I was lucky. There, “tankers” report a significant drop in FPS, client crashes during the game, and long loading times before the battle. Of course, this is largely due to the old hardware, but some problems cannot yet be explained.
Okay, this is the technical part. And it seems to work well. I would especially like to note the efforts of the developers in terms of filling the cards with various small details. The artists who do this know a lot about their work. Particularly touching is any stream of melt water rushing into the bed of a larger river. Maps have become much more detailed, detailed, rich and realistic.
At first, when you get to the updated maps, you even get a little lost: the name seems to be familiar, but you just can’t recognize it from the outside. Only over time, driving around from point to point, do you find similarities with what was deposited in your head over 10,000 battles: here is a familiar hillock, here is a stone, only it looks different, here an extension has appeared in the form of the ruins of a castle.
It’s difficult to say anything more about the card yet. Too rarely does it come across randomly. We can only note that the center of the map looks unplayable due to two sleeves for tanks on the edges and bullet holes.
How do you play the new “tanks”?
Just like the old ones. In terms of gameplay, the game has not undergone any changes. It is still designed for a cheerful tank “standing” behind cover in fear of showing its nose out because of the artillery. The game still uses a mod that highlights the most dangerous targets to make it easier for artillery experts to focus together on one of them.
The World of Tanks game does not start - the "play" button does not work.
One of the common problems logging into World of Tanks is related to the “Play” button in the launcher. It is this button that must be pressed every time you start the game. But what to do if it doesn't work. You click and nothing happens - World of Tanks does not start? To answer this question, we have collected the most common errors when logging into WOT and described solutions for each problem. Let's look at each one in order, starting with the launcher not working.
If you cannot enter World of Tanks when you enter the game, you need to open the launcher, click “play” and see what happens. If you wait for a long time, the problem with logging into WOT is often hidden behind the inability to connect to the Wargaming servers serving your chosen cluster. In this case, you should check for a problem on your PC, namely:
Is the port through which data is exchanged between the World of Tanks client and the server blocked by your firewall?
If yes, you need to add an exception to the firewall. If this is a regular Windows firewall, just go to the control panel, select "Firewall" and add the file worldoftanks.exe, as well as the launcher executable file wotlauncher.exe to the list of exceptions. You can do this by double-clicking on the “Firewall” icon and going to the “Exceptions” tab, then adding there the above files with the .exe extension from the folder with the World of Tanks game.
Setting up the World of Tanks launcher Is the application (game) blocked by your antivirus?
If you have installed anti-virus software and have not configured it properly, by default all connections from previously installed programs, including the World of Tanks game, will be blocked. To unlock, add an exception in the control shell of your antivirus (Kaspersky, Dr.Web, Nod32, Eset and others) according to the principle described for the Windows firewall (above).
Mods for World of Tanks are used
Very often, mods can cause the "Play" button in the World of Tanks launcher to not work. Usually, even the best and most time-tested mod fails, especially after its update, which was released immediately before the release of the next patch for WOT. Often, mod developers are in a hurry to release a release that supports a new update for World of Tanks, creating a patch for the mod based on a test version of the game. Using such a “quick” update for a popular mod leads to problems with logging into the game both after the release of the next version of World of Tanks, and after the release of micropatches, 1-2 weeks after the main release.
I press the "play" button and it doesn't go into World of Tanks To check whether the use of modifications interferes with entering the game, disable them for a while. To do this, just rename the res_mods folder and restart your PC before attempting to log in.
Can't log into World of Tanks: I click "Play" and it doesn't log in
Among the problems with the "Play" button, the second place is occupied by errors related to the Internet connection. Check this category of game login errors using our instructions:
Find out what IP address is used when connecting your PC to the Internet, static or dynamic?
- With a static IP address, you are allocated the same address every time you connect to the Internet, and it will be credited to you when you log into World of Tanks. If your static IP address is banned in tanks, every time you try to click on the "play" button in the launcher you will not be able to connect. To solve this problem, contact your provider with a request to replace the static IP address assigned to you with another one. Some providers charge a fee for this service, while others offer it free. Occasionally, replacing an IP address may require a specialist to visit your home. Even more rarely, this service is not provided at all.
- In the case of a dynamic IP address, problems are also observed when the launcher does not enter wot when clicking on the “play” button. This happens when you are assigned an IP address banned by Wargaming when connecting to the Internet. This does not mean that you were banned, someone else playing under this dynamic address in World of Tanks was banned by IP. To solve this problem, simply reconnect to the Internet (disconnect and connect again).
Solving the problem with the "play" button in World of Tanks
Not included in World of Tanks In addition to the problems described above related to your network or Internet connection, as well as your PC settings, there is a category of problems related to the game itself. Let's consider these errors when logging into World of Tanks:
You updated the game and some files were not updated. Error during update.
If after the update you cannot enter the game, and after clicking “play” the launcher freezes for a long time, then the World of Tanks update was unsuccessful. The game will not always tell you about this. However, when connecting, the server will definitely check whether the hash of the client files installed on your PC matches the current game update. If even one file differs by even 1 byte or is missing, the server will not allow you to enter World of Tanks and will send a command to the launcher to try to update again.
Solving the problem with the game not working The launcher will again not be able to update, and the game will freeze when you click on “play” and here’s why: some directory or separate file (less often many files) in the game folder is not writeable for the current Windows user. That is, the user under whom you logged into Windows to play World of Tanks cannot overwrite old files for some reason. There may be several reasons:
- the user does not have enough rights to control the computer;
- the user's rights have been limited by another user;
- the user himself has limited the rights to the World of Tanks game files, intentionally or not;
- The antivirus manages files at its discretion on your PC.
Each of these points needs to be checked separately and find out whether the update is causing problems when launching World of Tanks through the launcher.
What to do if World of Tanks doesn't work
The simplest solution to the problem when the game does not enter can be to reinstall World of Tanks. Don't be afraid to erase all files to make sure they don't interfere with entering the tanks. The client version of WOT that you install on your PC does not contain any personal data that may be lost when you uninstall World of Tanks, with the exception of files with your replays and mods you previously installed. We have already found out about mods - it is better not to dwell on them if you want to solve a problem with the game. Feel free to reinstall the game, it usually takes about half an hour.
If reinstallation does not help, there is a high probability that the problem with the “play” button is related to the network or Internet connection (solution above).
World of Tanks freezes when entering the game
Particular attention should be paid to the drivers used for the video card and the availability of a license for the operating system. The error I click on the play button and it doesn’t open can be caused by a lack of a Windows license, as well as outdated drivers for your video card. To solve these problems, start by updating the drivers for the video adapter by going to the manufacturer’s website, downloading from there and installing the latest version of drivers that corresponds to your operating system and its bitness (32 or 64 bit). To solve problems with Windows, it is recommended to purchase a license (at your discretion). This will save you from most potential problems with logging into World of Tanks and the launcher.
Every gamer has heard about World of Tanks at least once, and perhaps spent more than one hour in the game. This is a multiplayer game in which you choose your own units of equipment, upgrade them and fight with other gamers who are doing the same. The main advantage of this project is the fact that the developers have made every effort to make the game as similar to reality as possible. And they succeeded in many ways - almost all the characteristics of tanks, guns and other elements correspond to what they really were. Thus, this game is suitable for anyone who is interested in tanks or likes to spend time playing an exciting game in which you can work together with your friends or fight against them. However, it is worth noting that for some gamers this game may crash, which does not make them particularly happy. But don’t be prematurely upset about such problems - both the developers themselves and the creators of popular modifications for the game are looking for permanent and reliable solutions. And if World of Tanks crashes for you, you should either wait until the developers release something specific, or use some tips to help you play your favorite simulator.
Removal and installation
The first thing you need to try if World of Tanks crashes for you is to delete your client. Don't worry about the progress you've made, nothing will be lost or disappear. The fact is that all the necessary information is stored on the game servers. And when you delete the client, you only remove from your computer the means to play WoT, but all your tanks, your resources and experience remain. Therefore, feel free to delete the client, and then reinstall it again, only without various modifications and patches. This should help - in most cases, gamers can safely play on a clean client without experiencing crashes. Naturally, you can gradually try to add mods that interest you, patch the game and see if the crashes return. It is quite possible that everything will remain ok. This way, you can find the very element that was stopping you from playing. However, this does not always help, and if World of Tanks crashes for you even after reinstalling, then you need to try other methods.
Reinstalling Java
In some cases, the problem with World of Tanks crashing is that you do not have the latest Java update package installed correctly. The game uses Java, so if there is something wrong with this block of software, then you will need to completely remove all existing Java components and then reinstall them by downloading them from the official website. Naturally, this is not a universal way to deal with this problem, but it’s worth trying all the methods that have been and will be indicated in this article. You don't need to do all the steps - try the steps in order until one of them suits you. If your World of Tanks game crashes, then you should think about solving this problem as soon as possible, because this will allow you to quickly return to the game and continue leveling up without wasting a minute.
Mod XVM
The most popular mod that WoT players install is XVM, which is also called deer hunter. With this free and legal modification, you can get advanced statistics on the game, change the sight, display the names and indicators of opponents, and much more. At the same time, the main advantage of this mod is that you can completely customize it, that is, customize it to your taste, disabling services you don’t need and connecting the ones you need. But if you start wondering “Why does World of Tanks crash?”, you definitely need to check if everything is okay with this modification. The fact is that the creators of the mod are constantly working to improve and improve their product, so you can download a more stable and reliable version at any time. If your World of Tanks client crashes, you need to check all the possibilities, and the XVM mod should be one of the first to be checked. Naturally, if you use other mods, you will also need to try to remove or reinstall them to finally make sure that they are not the cause of the crashes.
Application.swf file
The game package, which contains all the mods for the game, contains the Application.swf file, which can cause crashes for certain, as yet unknown reasons. Of course, if you remove it, some of your modifications (especially those related to the garage) will no longer work. However, many gamers report that their WoT stopped crashing immediately after deleting this file. So the sacrifice may well be justified.
Video card drivers
Drivers for your video card can also be a very important point - always check that they are up to date, because they directly affect how many computer games will be displayed. Outdated drivers are what often cause crashes in World of Tanks, so perhaps when you update them, everything will return to normal.
Is World of Tanks slow? Or do you have a weak computer? Or did you log into the game after the next update and WoT began to slow down terribly? If all this is familiar to you, but this course of events does not suit you, then read this article to the end, delving into every line of text. And, if everything is done correctly, then you will part with the game brakes forever...
So let's begin:
Why World of Tanks slows down:
First, let's check something as trivial as system requirements. I know, I know, now you start:
So, minimum system requirements for playing world of tanks:
Operating system: Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10.
256 Kbps.
Processor (CPU): and here's the most interesting thing, in 2014 this figure was 2.2 GHz, in 2015 added to the numbers: "supporting SSE2 technology", A in 2016, the 2.2 GHz numbers were removed, but wrote in words "With two or more physical cores"(but as far as I know, 2 cores began to be released as soon as the processor frequency exceeded the threshold of 2.6 GHz, so we draw conclusions)
Random access memory (RAM): 1.5 GB for Windows XP, 2 GB for Windows Vista, Windows 7/8/10.
Video adapter: GeForce 6800/ ATI HD X2400 XT with 256 MB of memory, DirectX 9.0c.
Audio: DirectX 9.0c compatible.
about 27 GB.
The minimum requirements are minimal because you will launch the game, but it will be difficult to play comfortably, believe me. So it is unlikely that it will be possible to remove the “brakes” and “freezes” of the client. Here you can’t do without upgrading your hardware... The parts recommended for replacement are, of course, the processor, video card and RAM...
Operating system: Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10 - 64-bit.
Internet connection speed: 1024 Kbps or higher (for voice chat).
Processor (CPU): Intel Core i5-3330 (for those who don’t know: 4 cores at 3 GHz - not bad).
Random access memory (RAM): 4 GB (or more).
Video adapter: GeForce GTX660 (2 GB) / Radeon HD 7850 2 GB, DirectX 9.0c.
Audio card: DirectX 9.0c compatible.
Free hard disk space:~36 GB.
The recommended requirements are certainly not exorbitant, but for old computers this is, as they say, “like walking to China” and if you are reading this article, it means that you have something in between these two characteristics. As usual, either the video is weak, or the RAM is not enough, or the percentage was inherited from someone’s hardware.
World of Tanks is slow! Well, what can you do here?
If your lags and slowdowns are due to the processor and even more so if this same processor is single-core, there’s nothing you can do about it, will have to change, well, he doesn’t “take out” the game now, although in 2014 it was still possible to play on this... alas
By the way, I wrote about how to choose a good computer in an article that I recommend reading.
Next comes random access memory (RAM). What can you do with it? Physically, of course, nothing. But you can remove unnecessary garbage, all programs that are loaded in your tray (for those who don’t know, the tray is where the Windows clock is, usually the lower right corner). That's why you need all sorts of managers when playing (viber, mail, icq, skype, etc.) - close it! Torrent?! Definitely OFF! Not only does it “eat up” the RAM, but it also clogs the Internet channel. Next is the browser, brrrrr... Look in the manager how much Google Chrome is eating. You will be horrified! We're closing! We close the rest of the browsers (because they also consume quite a lot)! I would even close the antivirus during the game (by the way, NOD32 has a game mode that frees up a certain amount of RAM for games), and it’s not possible to completely disable any antivirus so easily.
Special aesthetes use programs like Wise Memory Optimizer, which clear the memory of unused data (personally, I would not recommend using these, because I myself caught the “blue screen of death” on a test computer with WinHR installed).
It’s better, of course, to buy up to a decent 4 GB of RAM, especially if you have an old computer, then the RAM for it (DDR, DDR2) will cost mere pennies, and the comfort from it will be felt for a very, very long time. On the test machine I played on dual-channel RAMe (DDR2) 4 GB (2x2GB) and everything was fine!
Next in line for us video card.
If there is not enough video memory, then we try to remove the excess using the program WOT Tweaker downloading it for the current version of the game client on the Internet. In the tweaker you can remove such extras. effects that cannot be disabled from the game client, such as flying dirt from under the tracks, optical effects from a burning tank, etc. But it's worth it, take my word for it!
If the fps in the game shows too little 5-10, then you can try running the client in “safe mode”: 
This will disable all installed mods and we can safely say that fps drops due to mods. For example, I encountered a drop in fps from a mod. I will post a video about more detailed graphics settings at the end of the article. Read on...
It happens to someone that the computer hardware is far from weak, even up to the latest versions, and there is nothing unnecessary hanging out in the tray (like a torrent), but Worl of Tanks still slows down. Then the problem is most likely with the Internet provider. Pay attention to the ping in the game, if it exceeds 50 ms, then something is wrong, either the provider is to blame, or you are running some program that requires an Internet connection to work, or your computer has a virus, such as a Trojan, that constantly sends packages via your Internet channel.
A word about 3G modems
About 3G modems(4G modems) I don’t want to talk about it here. A whole article has been written about this: . In it, I explained why everything is so bad when playing via a USB modem and which WoT game server you don’t connect to, the ping is still huge, sometimes up to 300 ms. One can only feel sorry for those people who, apart from 3G, do not have any Internet, and there are quite a few of them. And to say that their world of tanks is slow is to say nothing...
Well, probably the last reason for this is actually the operating system itself. As programmers say “windows must die”... And it’s not for nothing that they say it. During the operation of Windows, all sorts of slag is collected in the system registry, from old entries about long-deleted programs and games to new entries from some mail satellite, Yandex browser and, God forbid, from some virus that alone can create up to a million false registry entries in order to load the percentage to full.
So, over time, all this loads the work of the operating system itself, just as it takes a really long time for programs to start, or the same text editor takes a very long time to open or save documents. Here you know that the end has come for Windows. And don’t expect super speeds from it, much less a comfortable game in WoT.
There are only 2 ways out. The simplest and almost painless for the brain is to remove Windows and install a new one. The second is to start completely cleaning your computer, removing unnecessary programs, defragmenting disks, and cleaning the registry. Long and tedious. But it's up to you.
Well, as promised, I’ll post it at the end of the article video from the developers themselves(by the way, many thanks to them for it) about that how to optimize graphics in World of Tanks. This video talks in detail about what fps is and what each slider in the settings is responsible for, how you can achieve an increase in fps and what it will cost.
Setting up graphics in WoT from version 1.0
And that's all for me! Many thanks to all those who made it through this article to the end! Good luck in setting up the client, huge fps for you and no lags, so that later they don’t ask why World of Tanks is slow.
Don’t forget to share in the comments who and how defeated lags, brakes and freezes in World of Tanks. After all, your comment can help a hundred or even a thousand people!
Dear players, before asking your question, take the trouble to read all the comments, perhaps there is already an answer to it. All duplicate questions will be ignored. Thanks for understanding!
Every gaming app releases an update from time to time. This action also happens with the WoT multiplayer gaming application. But what should you do if World of Tanks suddenly doesn’t start after an update?
Don't panic and delete your favorite game
The first thing you should try is to run the “exe” file located in the game’s installation folder. If no changes have occurred, then you should use the newly downloaded archive with updates and reinstall. Installation should be performed by running the archive and selecting “Install with replacement”.
Another common mistake gamers make is having the Internet turned off - after all, following the installation rule (download - turn off the Internet - install - restart the computer - connect the Internet - launch the game application) not everyone follows it to the end. Incorrectly installed or damaged DirectX can also be a problem.
You can fix the error by reinstalling it or installing a newer version of it.
The problem may also lie in installed old mods or cheating mod packs. If you don’t want to abandon these latest mods, then you should demolish them and re-upload them. If the computer runs on two video cards, the updated version of the game may not be able to decide which one to run better on. In this case, it is worth trying to launch the game with the video cards turned off one by one.
When each update is released, you should go to the game’s website and read the recommendations of the latest update and discuss why World of Tanks does not start after the update. In it you can find a very common remark that few people pay attention to when installing updates.
The update is released for specific software versions. If there are inconsistencies between the update file and the software (the operating version is not suitable or the computer has low technical specifications), then no reinstallation or restart can help launch the game.
You should not resort to downloading updates for the game from sites that are not representatives of this application.
Since archives may contain viruses, which can subsequently harm computer equipment and the application itself. All of the above may be an obstacle to launching the updated application. Therefore, the most important thing is to use official updates and carefully read the installation requirements.
First, try launching the game in safe mode, which will allow you to disconnect from all modifications and check if all game files are updated and functional. This is easy to do, you just need to click on the arrow when launching the game launcher, as shown in the image below.
If it doesn’t help, then try the second option - “ Launching the game with graphic settings reset«
