WOW system reqs

[DevoutSinner]

Ok. I'm almost ready to take the plunge. My main concern is how it will run on my system:P4 2.0-512 ram-Ti42000 128mb.

 Does it run better than Coh? When I was fighting in decent size groups, Coh slowed down to the point that it was hard for me to play. What do you guys think?

[warning]

Until last month I was running it on an Athlon XP 2100, 512 mb RAM and the same video card as you.  I had most of the details set to medium, ran at 1024x768 and was quite happy with it's performance.

[TC Weidner]

It'll run like a champ.  The only small small concern would be 1 gig ram does help but not necessary.

[Ibby]

You'll see some rather crappy performance in the large cities near the Auction Houses, especially in primetime.

I know that we've got a 16+ hour maintenance period set for this thursday am (Jan. 13th on Whisperwind at least) that's supposed to address this problem.  

I've got a similar machine, with 1 gig of ram and a P4 2.53ghz and Geforce4 Ti4600 and the load times can be pretty awful in the bank/auction house/hang-out area.  I'd think the ram will hurt the most.

As they used to say in the WW2Online community, "Get another gig!"

[DevoutSinner]

Okay. I guess that's it. I'm in. Now if I could just find a freakin' copy.EB,gamestop, 2 BB's, and a circuit city, and no WOW to be found. Bastards.

[Valael]

Okay. I guess that's it. I'm in. Now if I could just find a freakin' copy.EB,gamestop, 2 BB's, and a circuit city, and no WOW to be found. Bastards.

I'd suggest trying to find a place online to get it.  It's sold out in most places and there won't be any more copies going out until Blizzard makes a few new servers and runs some tests (According the the press release they had on their site).

[Daehawk]

P4 2.4ghz
1 gig pc2700 ram
GeForce 4 ti4200 128 vid card

All settings maxed including AA and its smooth as buttah.

[ericb]

My wife's computer:

AMD 1800+
384 MB
Geforce 4 ti4600 64MB

Runs fine at 1280x1024 (her default LCD resolution).  She's never had any slowdown or frame rate problems except in ironforge near the entrance (great idea btw...lets put the bank, the auction house and tons of flickering flames all in one place right where everyone walks/flies in and out).

[Jumangi]

Agree that going above 512 ram will help in congested areas, and when you are flying into a new one.

[Jimmy the Fish]

Okay. I guess that's it. I'm in. Now if I could just find a freakin' copy.EB,gamestop, 2 BB's, and a circuit city, and no WOW to be found. Bastards.

I'd suggest trying to find a place online to get it.  It's sold out in most places and there won't be any more copies going out until Blizzard makes a few new servers and runs some tests (According the the press release they had on their site).

You can order a copy right now from the Blizzard online store. Just go to www.blizzard.com and click on the Online Store link at the top right. WoW is right there on the front page of the store.

[Biyobi]

(great idea btw...lets put the bank, the auction house and tons of flickering flames all in one place right where everyone walks/flies in and out).

My thoughts exactly.  What the f'n hell were they thinking (other than it looks really cool)?