WoW hardware requirements?

portnoy · Post by **portnoy** » Fri Nov 05, 2004 3:49 pm

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?

Post by **FishPants** » Fri Nov 05, 2004 4:40 pm

It runs on my rig which has:

P4 3.0ghz (HT)
1 gig of OCZ Ram
ATI 9800

I know thats a bit of a high end system, but it doesn't even balk at that. I figure it will do well on lower end rigs, and I haven't had any problems with my 9800 in the game.

The Preacher · Post by **The Preacher** » Fri Nov 05, 2004 4:52 pm

I'm running it at 1280x1024 butter-smooth with a Athlon XP 2500+, 1gb ram, and a 9500 Nonpro.

none · Post by **none** » Fri Nov 05, 2004 5:34 pm

from the manual:

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

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?

portnoy · Post by **portnoy** » Fri Nov 05, 2004 5:43 pm

wow (couldn't resist) that was fast!

Thanks for the info, I am looking forward to the game but didn't want to be standing in the store glowering at the box when I couldn't run it. Would prefer to find that sort of information out in advance, in order to not let expectations run too high!

Ranulf · Post by **Ranulf** » Fri Nov 05, 2004 6:14 pm

The stress test ran fairly well for me at 1280x1024, AMD 2100 with a GF4 4800. Slow loading every so often. You definately want a minimum of 512mb ram and I'd say 1GB would be best.

tals · Post by **tals** » Fri Nov 05, 2004 7:52 pm

i'm running it on an AMD 2.4, PC 133 (slow) 512 MB Ram and a Geforce 4 ti 4400 (old). Runs great - i've just accepted the graphics setting it has given me and totally happy with it.

Tals

leo8877 · Post by **leo8877** » Sat Nov 06, 2004 1:55 am

Make sure to go with 1 GB of RAM. It ran fine on my machine (P4 2.6C, 1GB RAM, 9600 Pro). I run at 1024x768 with everything at high.

tals · Post by **tals** » Sat Nov 06, 2004 3:18 am

1GB is unnecessary IMHO for this game.

I may change my mind as I increase and get involved in PVP but at the moment 512MB slow mem is fine and working well.

Tals

warning · Post by **warning** » Sat Nov 06, 2004 9:43 am

XP2100, 512 PC2700, GF4ti4200 here. I'm running it at 1024x768, all settings maxed with no AA and no AF and I get framerates averaging around 28-33 for the most part. I'm surprised how good it runs and looks.

McNutt · Post by **McNutt** » Mon Nov 08, 2004 10:40 am

warning wrote:XP2100, 512 PC2700, GF4ti4200 here. I'm running it at 1024x768, all settings maxed with no AA and no AF and I get framerates averaging around 28-33 for the most part. I'm surprised how good it runs and looks.

You and I have the exact same rig. It runs great on my machine too.

fancydirt · Post by **fancydirt** » Mon Nov 08, 2004 1:22 pm

P4 2.54Ghz, Ti4200 video, 768 PC2700 and it runs great for me with everything maxed and 1024x768 resolution.

Ibby · Post by **Ibby** » Mon Nov 08, 2004 1:26 pm

I'm on a P4 2.53ghz machine with 1GB of PC2700 ram using a Ti4600 video card, and have no complaints at all with settings maxed out (but no AA).

Odin · Post by **Odin** » Tue Nov 09, 2004 12:55 am

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