WoW hardware requirements?
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- portnoy
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WoW hardware requirements?
I have been looking of the WoW website and also looking on various sites that are selling pre-orders to the game, I am not able to locate minumum system requirements, or for that matter any system requirements. I see that their appear to be some issues with ATI cards, but beyond that I am lost.
Anyone out there with at least some rough idea of the hardware requirements?
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from the manual:
i'm using an ati 9600xt and haven't encountered any graphical problems at all. hope this helps. oh, and by the way, i like your name. do you have any complaints?Installing the Game (PC) System Requirements
OS: Windows 98/ME/2000/XP
Processor: Intel Pentium3 800MHz, or AMD Duron 800MHz
Memory: 256MB RAM
Video:
Minimum: 32MB 3D graphics processor with Hardware
Transform and Lighting, such as an NVIDIA GeForce 2 class card
or above.
Recommended: 64MB 3D graphics processor with Vertex and
Pixel Shader capability, such as an NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700
class card or above.
For a complete list of supported 3D cards, please visit:
http://www.blizzard.com/support/wow
Sound: DirectX compatible sound card
Install Size: 4 gigabytes of free Hard Disk space
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I've got everybody here beat.
WoW ran perfectly for me on:
1.4ghz AMD
512 MB RAM
GeForce 3
I did upgrade the ram from 256 back in December/January as WoW was behaving badly. They've since optimized it, so I'd wager you could even survive at 256, though I haven't tried it.
I ran the game at 1024X768 (the only rez my LCD supports) and the ONLY places I ever suffered lag/slowdowns were in crowded cities - and EVERYBODY complained about those, so I think it was server-side or bandwidth related.
In other words, WoW will run fine on just about anything.
Sith
WoW ran perfectly for me on:
1.4ghz AMD
512 MB RAM
GeForce 3
I did upgrade the ram from 256 back in December/January as WoW was behaving badly. They've since optimized it, so I'd wager you could even survive at 256, though I haven't tried it.
I ran the game at 1024X768 (the only rez my LCD supports) and the ONLY places I ever suffered lag/slowdowns were in crowded cities - and EVERYBODY complained about those, so I think it was server-side or bandwidth related.
In other words, WoW will run fine on just about anything.
Sith