Cannot Recommend VoiceOver-Mod addon

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Let me preface this by saying that I enjoyed the addon, it adds an AI voice to quest text in a similar-to-the-NPC voice and it gives a different depth to the game that has been sorely missing for the past 20 years.

It has its minor issues, like the voices are clearly AI created. There are some very good AI voice generators out there, but the one used for this addon doesn’t quuuite get it right. Also, it only works for DF and TWW and even then not all of the content (nothing for Siren Isles), but those aren’t the issues I had with it.

The one glaring issue that makes me not recommend it is it absolutely DESTROYS my FPS. I didn’t realize just how much better my FPS was until I uninstalled it.

I had just (finally) upgraded my GPU to an RTX 4070 and my rig is a decent 12th gen i7 with 32GB of RAM and everything running on Samsung m.2 SSD’s.

I could go out into the world with everything cranked to max settings and see 100+ FPS, but it would constantly drop frames by like double digits and in cities it was lucky to see over 30 FPS, even in Stormwind. I could turn down the view distance and environment detail, which did help a lot, but in the cities it was still tanking hard.

After I uninstalled the addon, I was seeing FPS numbers I hadn’t before in areas where I had previously visited. The only caveat to this is Dornagol, right in the center where everyone is standing, that always causes my frames to drop, but that’s understandable.

What I noticed is when the frame drops happened with the addon installed, there was not only a noticeable frame drop, but like it was as if the game was stuttering. 30 FPS with the addon uninstalled was noticeably smoother than with the addon installed (and yes, I get that 30 FPS isn’t “smooth”, but you get what I mean).

I went to the Dragon Isles, 60-100 FPS all day long, even in the city, Stormwind was smooth as glass, raids and dungeons looked awesome. Overall, the game just seems more responsive, like I don’t know if it was really input lag, but spells and reactions to my inputs just seem… better.

So, yeah, I don’t recommend using this app. My rig isn’t exactly state of the art and not overclocked, but I can’t see any reason for my frame rate to tank that hard for just general gameplay.

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What is the addon called? I’d like to try it.

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There is something funny about people willing to tank performance just cuz they scared to read

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VoiceOver. I’ve only used it in Classic and it’s great.

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I mean, just look at how many people got mad when tiktok was “banned”. All the comments complaining about it on news articles was about “how am I supposed to know the news now, read about it?!”

Yeah, people are not able to read.

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People used… TikTok… for news?

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I mean they use it for everything else

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I hate social media platforms.

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Even that one that’s nothing but people uploading pictures of their pets?

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Mate, I had a friend start crying because she couldn’t get her recipes anymore. legit told her you can just google the recipes, look at YouTube shorts, Instagram reels or look at a cookbook.

So yeah, I fear social media did way more damage than we are going to have to admit.

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I see social media like alcohol. In moderation it is fine but some people just are terminally online.

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In Canada, it’s my go to source. The Canadian Government mandated that Facebook and Instagram would have to start paying Canadian News agencies for their content so you can no longer get news on Facebook or IG here because meta didn’t want to pay for the content they’d be advertising. TikTok fills that gap, whether it be from independent creators or big box media. It’s good to follow a bit of both and analyze what is being said in the news to form your own opinion on the subject.

Idk about other people, but I mostly use TikTok for information, whether that be news, or following creators that do in-depth lore videos on fictional settings such as A Song of Ice and Fire.

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I mostly used it for horror shorts or story telling. like the archive in between shorts are super fun.

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I use it. No fps loss on my pc. I play with OCE latency.

However - I do have really poor fps on my brand new high gpu laptop - so I’ll try uninstalling it there.

Honestly though, it’s such a massive QoL improvement I never knew I needed before I tried it that I might not enjoy playing without it.

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I didn’t know such a thing existed. But I like to read. And learn things. If the animal pics came with information about the species and how they live… I’d maybe check that out.

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I’m not sure about this one existing, but it would be neat

Assuming it actually went and branched out further than just the generic “cute” animals

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Remember Steve Irwin? His son is on TikTok taking up what his father left behind. He does a lot of informative videos on animals. Robert Irwin.

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I’ll see if he’s on YouTube Shorts. Thanks!

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