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Wow can no longer run on a toaster!

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For many years, Blizzard published the bare minimum to play Wow but it was only for questing. Now as the new one is releasing they finally realized that most people will be doing things that require a lot more power. So finally realistic specs are published so that you'll be able to do large scale pvp/big raids on low settings without a slide show. Assuming you meet the minimum.

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For many years, Blizzard published the bare minimum to play Wow but it was only for questing. Now as the new one is releasing they finally realized that most people will be doing things that require a lot more power. So finally realistic specs are published so that you'll be able to do large scale pvp/big raids on low settings without a slide show. Assuming you meet the minimum.

 

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Got the spec list?

Minimum System Requirements:
 
PC:
Windows XP/Windows Vista/Windows7/Windows8 (latest Service Pack)
Intel Core2 Duo E6600 or AMD Phenom X3 8750
NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT, ATI Radeon HD 4850 or Intel HD Graphics 3000
 
Mac:
OS X 10.8
Intel Core 2 Duo
NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT or ATI Radeon HD 4850
 
PC/Mac:
35 GB available HD space
2 GB RAM
Broadband Internet connection
Keyboard/mouse
DVD-ROM drive
1024×768 minimum display resolution
 
Recommended Specifications
 
PC/Mac:
4 GB RAM
Multi-button mouse with scroll wheel
 
PC:
Windows 7/Windows 8 64-bit (latest Service Pack)
Intel Core i5 2400 or AMD FX-4100 or better
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470, ATI Radeon HD 5870 or better
 
Mac:
OS X 10.9 (or latest version)
Intel Core i5 or better
NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M or ATI Radeon HD 6750M or better

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Got the spec list?

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To make sure you’re prepared for Warlords of Draenor, we wanted to share with you the minimum and recommended system requirements for playing the expansion.

Minimum System Requirements:

PC:

Windows XP/Windows Vista/Windows7/Windows8 (latest Service Pack)

Intel Core2 Duo E6600 or AMD Phenom X3 8750

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT, ATI Radeon HD 4850 or Intel HD Graphics 3000

Mac:

OS X 10.8

Intel Core 2 Duo

NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT or ATI Radeon HD 4850

PC/Mac:

35 GB available HD space

2 GB RAM

Broadband Internet connection

Keyboard/mouse

DVD-ROM drive

1024×768 minimum display resolution

Recommended Specifications

PC/Mac:

4 GB RAM

Multi-button mouse with scroll wheel

PC:

Windows 7/Windows 8 64-bit (latest Service Pack)

Intel Core i5 2400 or AMD FX-4100 or better

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470, ATI Radeon HD 5870 or better

Mac:

OS X 10.9 (or latest version)

Intel Core i5 or better

NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M or ATI Radeon HD 6750M or better

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You can still run it on a potato :) I mean it has the intel 3000 listed :)

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You can still run it on a potato :) I mean it has the intel 3000 listed :)

The old requirements was like a 6600 gt and a p4 lol. HD 3000 will allow you to raid at 1366x768 in low settings if paired with an i3 or i5.

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The old requirements was like a 6600 gt and a p4 lol. HD 3000 will allow you to raid at 1366x768 in low settings if paired with an i3 or i5.

 

Yeah I guess so :) they seem to the occasional graphics upgrade which is good

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You can still run it on a potato :) I mean it has the intel 3000 listed :)

he said toaster not potato, a potato is more powerful than a toaster

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Yeah I guess so :) they seem to the occasional graphics upgrade which is good

They did overhaul the graphics but they did that the last 2 expansions. They finally put realistic specs to play every aspect.

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They did overhaul the graphics but they did that the last 2 expansions. They finally put realistic specs to play every aspect.

 

Yeah nice of them to see them recommend a more realistic set of hardware

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Recommended Specifications

 
PC:
Windows 7/Windows 8 64-bit (latest Service Pack)
Intel Core i5 2400 or AMD FX-4100 or better
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470, ATI Radeon HD 5870 or better

 

 

These are nowhere close to being equals. Especially since wow only runs on 2-3 threads effectively (not saying load distribution, effective threads).

System specs are always so indifferent about Intel and AMD equivalents...sigh.

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These are nowhere close to being equals. Especially since wow only runs on 2-3 threads effectively (not saying load distribution, effective threads).

System specs are always so indifferent about Intel and AMD equivalents...sigh.

Yes that threw me off too. Not only is a i5 far more powerful than a 4100, the Super bad single threaded performance makes it worse. A g3258 at 4.5ghz would crush a 9590 in WoW for example.

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Yes that threw me off too. Not only is a i5 far more powerful than a 4100, the Super bad single threaded performance makes it worse. A g3258 at 4.5ghz would crush a 9590 in WoW for example.

 

It would crush it at stockspeeds...

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It's still a poorly optimized game. Getting 35fps in 25m raids with an overclocked i5 is not acceptable.

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It's still a poorly optimized game. Getting 35fps in 25m raids with an overclocked i5 is not acceptable.

 

What? with what GPU? I have never seen it run that badly

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What? with what GPU? I have never seen it run that badly

 

He's not saying he's even got one. ;)

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He's not saying he's even got one. ;)

 

Yeah and then complaining a game runs badly :P

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When the pre-expansion patch (6.0.2) came out last week I actually noticed an increase in performance, as did a few others. Its nice. :)

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What? with what GPU? I have never seen it run that badly

he has an asus DCUII gtx 780

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I'm running a single 780 @ 1600p. The game is poorly coded imho.

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What? with what GPU? I have never seen it run that badly

 

You know WoW is a CPU bound game, right? The gpu should hardly matter in this situation.

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It's still a poorly optimized game. Getting 35fps in 25m raids with an overclocked i5 is not acceptable.

Thank god someone else gets this... who cares if it runs on a 10 year old notebook if it doesn't do any better on a cutting edge PC...  Blizz should just make console games if this is how much effort they are going to put into the programing and design. 

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he said toaster not potato, a potato is more powerful than a toaster

 

Only if you wrap a 16 gauge or thicker copper wire around the poptato.

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You know WoW is a CPU bound game, right? The gpu should hardly matter in this situation.

 

Even in a CPU bound game the GPU is still a factor, even if it only adds 25% extra

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Even in a CPU bound game the GPU is still a factor, even if it only adds 25% extra

 

I'm well aware of that. Most casual players are going to see exceptionally high fps. In turn, they will be extremely pleased with their in-game experience. However, for the few that raid 25 man hard modes, all those spell effects will wreak havoc on any modern system.

 

When not in raids, I get 150+ fps with everything maxed out. Truthfully though, that doesn't mean shit.

 

Blizzard is lazy. They could easily rebuild the code and make the game more efficient.

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