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Wow Specs

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DigitalMP

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Hey guys, I'm not much of a game myself, but a friend asked me if I could find out if he could amp up his PC to run WoW. I believe he ran the install and it told him his PC was belows specs...either that or he compared it with the specs on the box, but knowing him, I assume he tried to install it. He told me his processor and video card were below specs, though I'm not sure how he came to that conclusion.

His processor is a 2.7 GHz AMD Athlon 64 LE-1640. What are your thoughts? Could he get a video card that would help him run WoW sufficiently? I know he's running XP Pro SP3, and I'm not sure how much RAM.

Let me know what you guys think, please.

Thanks!
 
I honestly read the title @ first glance and mentally saw "WOW Sucks" and I couldn't agree more...... =P
 
A video card would make all the difference. Wow doesn't run well at all with onboard.
 
If his motherboard is agp for video card, he might as well spend the money to upgrade to a newer computer. AGP video cards have been more spendy than their pci-e counterparts, and while the processor could run wow, it could only do so at some of the lowest settings.
 
His processor would be fine for running the game smoothly at lower settings. I would need to know what his actual video card was before I could say one way or another. To actually play wow you can have a pretty low end computer, I have done raiding on my laptop which has a 1.6ghz pentium m and an nvidia 6800 and 2gigs of ram. Wow will run fine on a system like that you just won't be able to turn the eye candy up.

Is he looking to have wow run smoothly at lower settings or is he looking to run wow at max settings? If he wants to run it smoothly at low settings then his current processor is fine just make sure he has 2 gigs of ram and a video card that is not integrated. If he wants to run it smoothly with the settings cranked up he will need a new computer.
 
Warcraft is much more cpu/disk speed intensive then it is graphics. If you want to crank up the visuals, you will need a decent graphics card as well, though. I'd upgrade the cpu and hard drive first though.
 
I ran the game fine through WotLK with a Athlon 64 3200. Low settings it chugged a bit in the major cities but was fine for raids.
 
Consider when World of Warcraft was released Athlon64s were still new and the ATI x800 and nvidia 6800 were hot shit. The game will still run fine on that hardware, it will just look the same as it did in 2005 and won't have all the extra new shiny stuff that they have added in subsequent expansions.
 
TheGreySpectre said:
Consider when World of Warcraft was released Athlon64s were still new and the ATI x800 and nvidia 6800 were hot shit. The game will still run fine on that hardware, it will just look the same as it did in 2005 and won't have all the extra new shiny stuff that they have added in subsequent expansions.
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No, they increase the system requirements with every expansion pack.
 
TheGreySpectre said:
Consider when World of Warcraft was released Athlon64s were still new and the ATI x800 and nvidia 6800 were hot shit. The game will still run fine on that hardware, it will just look the same as it did in 2005 and won't have all the extra new shiny stuff that they have added in subsequent expansions.
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Speaking as somebody who did run the game on the same hardware from 2005-2010 I can say that it runs like complete crap on the current engine. I was able to raid the 40 man version of Naxx just fine at max settings, but when they re-released that dungeon as the first raid of the Litch King expansion I was struggling to maintain 30 fps with most settings below medium and only 25 players present.

An Athlon64 3500 and geforce 6800 with 2 gigs of ram is not enough to enjoy this game any more. Sure it will run, but it will look worse than it did 5 years ago. And the further you progress in content the worse and worse it will get since they up the poly count of the terrain and monsters in every expansion.

Namakan said:
No, they increase the system requirements with every expansion pack.
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QFT
 
The game ran perfectly smooth for me as of a few weeks ago on an A64 4000+ with 2GB RAM and a 9800GTX. Of course, it was running 1280x1024 at default settings, and I never tested other settings since it was a temporary setup.
 
Mozex said:
Speaking as somebody who did run the game on the same hardware from 2005-2010 I can say that it runs like complete crap on the current engine. I was able to raid the 40 man version of Naxx just fine at max settings, but when they re-released that dungeon as the first raid of the Litch King expansion I was struggling to maintain 30 fps with most settings below medium and only 25 players present.

An Athlon64 3500 and geforce 6800 with 2 gigs of ram is not enough to enjoy this game any more. Sure it will run, but it will look worse than it did 5 years ago. And the further you progress in content the worse and worse it will get since they up the poly count of the terrain and monsters in every expansion.

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Agreed. Even in TBC my 6800GS started showing signs of slowing down. It wouldn't stand a chance if I still had it today.
 
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