Hi all,
Just wondering what the true system requirments are for the game, as the stated requirements seem sort of low. I just took back EQ2 because it would not run with a P4 3.0Ghz ATI Radeon 9700 pro and 512 meg of RDRAM. THanks in advance!!!
Edited, Mon Nov 22 18:58:48 2004 by commizzar
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really? eq2 wouldn't run?
i have an athalon xp 2.4 ghz, 528 ram (crappy ram at that), and a radeon 9600 pro.
WoW runs at 800*600 (the highest resolution my ancient monitor [six years and working fine now] supports properly) at perfect quality without and problems at all. if you're willing to settle for 1020 or whatever, you should be running fine.
how could eq2 not run?
i have an athalon xp 2.4 ghz, 528 ram (crappy ram at that), and a radeon 9600 pro.
WoW runs at 800*600 (the highest resolution my ancient monitor [six years and working fine now] supports properly) at perfect quality without and problems at all. if you're willing to settle for 1020 or whatever, you should be running fine.
how could eq2 not run?
I'm running 1.4ghz AMD 512 ram and a Geforce 3 ti 200
Worked great, need to drop res to 800x600 for raids but other then that, super!
Worked great, need to drop res to 800x600 for raids but other then that, super!
Let me clarify it would run but the LAG was tremendous, and when I called to see if it was the servers being bombarded they told me I didn't have enough ram...... even though City of Heros' and Dark Age of Camelot run fantastic.....
commizzar wrote:
Hi all,
Just wondering what the true system requirments are for the game, as the stated requirements seem sort of low. I just took back EQ2 because it would not run with a P4 3.0Ghz ATI Radeon 9700 pro and 512 meg of RDRAM. THanks in advance!!!
Edited, Mon Nov 22 18:58:48 2004 by commizzar
Just wondering what the true system requirments are for the game, as the stated requirements seem sort of low. I just took back EQ2 because it would not run with a P4 3.0Ghz ATI Radeon 9700 pro and 512 meg of RDRAM. THanks in advance!!!
Edited, Mon Nov 22 18:58:48 2004 by commizzar
EDIT: Read your post about the RAM and EQ2.
As for WoW, I run it with full effects at 1280x1024 resolution on the following system:
Pentium IV 2.4 w/HT
1024 MB RAM
GeForce T14200 video card (128MB)
SATA Drive
Your system shoudl run it without much of a problem. If you want a *little* extra help, add in some more RAM.
Edited, Mon Nov 22 19:14:25 2004 by CloakedStranger
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I'm really really confused as to how you cannot run EQ2 with that system. My friend ran it with much less on his crappy stock HP, that had nowhere close to a 9700 Pro. You must have done something wrong with your settings, or tried to put AA all the way up. Not sure where the mistake came in, but you can run EQ2 and run it pretty well with what you have.
Also, WoW is less demanding on your GPU, so you will be able to run it well at higher resolutions.
Also, WoW is less demanding on your GPU, so you will be able to run it well at higher resolutions.
I run WoW on 2GHz AMD, 256MB RAM, nVidia 64MB card. I run everything on lowest settings, 800x600, and get ~25 fps usually.
Edited, Mon Nov 22 19:18:06 2004 by Korup
Edited, Mon Nov 22 19:18:06 2004 by Korup
Basically any run of the mill system that you can buy at a store for 300$ can run this game, you might need to tone down the graphics a smidge but they arent anything super spectacular. Unlike L2 WoW runs on a half way normal graphics program so its not all that high tech, nice graphics but it doesnt bog down your comp, 256 RAM is fine, 1 gig processer is enough.
The TRUE requirements are everything that blizzard says, plus the game, which in turn requires the money to pay for it, which in turn requires either 1) a job, which requires you be over age 16 in most places, or 2) have very generous parents who aren't afraid of using a credit card over the internet, and are willing to pay a monthly fee for you to play an online game...
2) continued: which in turn requires that your parents have been brought up to be open minded, and very generous, which requires that their parents be the same and on through the generations (I know it stops at some point, but who's counting?) Also, this requires that your parents have either 1) good enough credit to have a credit card, or 2) a checking acount that comes with a debit card that has one of the major credit card labels on it. This requires that your parents have a job (or some form of income that is otherwise not work), which requires that they be of legal age to have a job (which if you're playing WoW, I hope they are twice that at least), which in turn requires that they be at least ambitious enough to get more than a minimum wage job because if they only had a minimum wage job they probably would have a full budget just keeping everyone else paid off while keeping you and themselves alive at the same time. This requires that they care about you enough to feed you. This requires that either 1) they are good people, or 2) you aren't an evil little *stuff*.
There are way too many more requirements to list, but I covered the basics I hope. Those are the MINIMUM requirements to run WoW effectively.
2) continued: which in turn requires that your parents have been brought up to be open minded, and very generous, which requires that their parents be the same and on through the generations (I know it stops at some point, but who's counting?) Also, this requires that your parents have either 1) good enough credit to have a credit card, or 2) a checking acount that comes with a debit card that has one of the major credit card labels on it. This requires that your parents have a job (or some form of income that is otherwise not work), which requires that they be of legal age to have a job (which if you're playing WoW, I hope they are twice that at least), which in turn requires that they be at least ambitious enough to get more than a minimum wage job because if they only had a minimum wage job they probably would have a full budget just keeping everyone else paid off while keeping you and themselves alive at the same time. This requires that they care about you enough to feed you. This requires that either 1) they are good people, or 2) you aren't an evil little *stuff*.
There are way too many more requirements to list, but I covered the basics I hope. Those are the MINIMUM requirements to run WoW effectively.
It would run fine in the open areas, but once you hit a city it was like running into a wall. 2 or 3 steps every 5 or 6 seconds. I had it set on balanced.
I play on my laptop sometimes (it's SUPPOSED to be a work computer)...
It's an iBook - 1.07Ghz G4 (equivalent to about a 2Ghz P4), 768 Megs RAM, 32 Meg Radeon 9200, 7200 RPM HD,
It runs fine with medium settings, 10-15 FPS, which isn't as bad as it sounds.
On my PC - P4 1.5 Ghz, Radeon 9800XT 128, 768 megs RAM, SATA HD it runs beautifully at medium-high settings at 30-40 FPS.
My friend played on the minimum requirements, and did fine. Only difference is that he had 512mb RAM instead of 256mb, but it should run...it'll probably lag a bit in large-scale battles, but not while questing or leveling (normally).
Since no one liked my previous post. *grumble grumble*
Since no one liked my previous post. *grumble grumble*
Will my PC run it? I really only need 800x600, but I'm worried...
Athlon 3200+
1GB CL2.5 PC2700
Geforce 6800GT
Please say it'll work!
/troll =)
Athlon 3200+
1GB CL2.5 PC2700
Geforce 6800GT
Please say it'll work!
/troll =)
KrycisTemp wrote:
Will my PC run it? I really only need 800x600, but I'm worried...
Athlon 3200+
1GB CL2.5 PC2700
Geforce 6800GT
Please say it'll work!
/troll =)
Athlon 3200+
1GB CL2.5 PC2700
Geforce 6800GT
Please say it'll work!
/troll =)
I hate to say like with such entheusiasm (not really) but it is more likely that Frosty the Snowman will attack hell, destroy every demon and fallen angel and such, and kill satan and then become the lord of hell than you have of ever running WoW...I have no doubts of this. I saw it in my crystal.
I mean...crystal ball of course. <_< >_>
Quote:
I mean...crystal meth of course. <_< >_>
Fixed. =)
Lol my computer has 400 mega hertz.The system requirements say you need 900 I play fine, until there are more than 15 people jumbled together.
Oh and i'm using a mac.
Edited, Mon Nov 22 20:05:45 2004 by kikyuras
Oh and i'm using a mac.
Edited, Mon Nov 22 20:05:45 2004 by kikyuras
Right now I'm in my crap *** mac for now is this ok?
Laptop
1.33 GHz
Memory: 256 MB
GeForce FX Go5200
Laptop
1.33 GHz
Memory: 256 MB
GeForce FX Go5200
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My laptop (P4 2Ghz, 768mb ram, ATI mobility radeon 7500 (<= 3d card which exactly matches the requirement spec from Blizzard)) runs WoW quite well. I mainly played WoW open beta with my laptop. I didn't have any problem at all at any circumstance.
I also have a desktop (P4 2.6Ghz, 512mb ram, Geforce FX5900) which runs WoW beautifully.
The low system requirement (despite of its really beautiful graphic) is THE reason I chose to play WoW, not EQ2. Because I know that EQ2 will not run on my laptop at all. Even my desktop will suffer.
I also have a desktop (P4 2.6Ghz, 512mb ram, Geforce FX5900) which runs WoW beautifully.
The low system requirement (despite of its really beautiful graphic) is THE reason I chose to play WoW, not EQ2. Because I know that EQ2 will not run on my laptop at all. Even my desktop will suffer.
The spec req's for EQII are absolutely absurd for the quality of the game as a whole. Totally uncalled for.
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where is the bottleneck at for raids? dont speculate if you dont know
In beta was getting 30 fps in groups(4-10ppl) and 12-15 in raids(50-150 ppl) with xp2200, 768M pc2700, ti4200 64Megs 1024x768 med details.
I want 85 fps, DON'T speculate if you are noob, I need reliable advice on what to tweak or replace, thanks.
In beta was getting 30 fps in groups(4-10ppl) and 12-15 in raids(50-150 ppl) with xp2200, 768M pc2700, ti4200 64Megs 1024x768 med details.
I want 85 fps, DON'T speculate if you are noob, I need reliable advice on what to tweak or replace, thanks.
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I have a fairly crappy computer and the beta ran quite fine on it. Probably not up to any real good standards, but it was good enough for me =) My processor is even below what they say is required to play.
P3 733
Geforce 4 MX440
1g or so of RAM
P3 733
Geforce 4 MX440
1g or so of RAM
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Quote:
Right now I'm in my crap *** mac for now is this ok?
Laptop
1.33 GHz
Memory: 256 MB
GeForce FX Go5200
I think that should work fine. I ran the open beta on my PowerBook. G4 1.5 GHz, ATI Mobility Radeon 9700 w/ 128 VRAM, and 512 RAM. It ran w/o a hitch. I even ran it a few times with Safari running in the background. You might want to think about upgrading your ram to 512, but I don't think it's all that necessary. For the game anyway.
I ran WoW beta on both of my systems.
My laptop is a toshiba p25 P4 2.8HT with 512MB of Ram (PC2700 I think?) with a Nvidia go5200 FX w/64MB Ram and 7200 RPM HD. It ran WoW at 1440 x 900 with medium settings flawlessly.
My Home system is a P4 2.6 with 1GB PC2700 Ram and a Nvidia 5200 FX w/128 MB of Ram. I can run it on this at 1024x768 at full settings without any problems.
-GutSmith
Edited, Mon Nov 22 22:31:15 2004 by gutsmith
Edited, Mon Nov 22 22:33:17 2004 by gutsmith
My laptop is a toshiba p25 P4 2.8HT with 512MB of Ram (PC2700 I think?) with a Nvidia go5200 FX w/64MB Ram and 7200 RPM HD. It ran WoW at 1440 x 900 with medium settings flawlessly.
My Home system is a P4 2.6 with 1GB PC2700 Ram and a Nvidia 5200 FX w/128 MB of Ram. I can run it on this at 1024x768 at full settings without any problems.
-GutSmith
Edited, Mon Nov 22 22:31:15 2004 by gutsmith
Edited, Mon Nov 22 22:33:17 2004 by gutsmith
My laptop ran beta fine. 2.44 gHz, 428mb RAM, and a Radion 345M video card ... o.O; I want to get more ram (and should) but ugh, then I'd have no computer for a week (I'd have to go to another city to get it done, stupid small towns)
12 posts
Well my computer is a P2 1.0 gig processor, GeForce2 MX with 256 ram. It ran the beta okay, I'll have to try the 600X800 thing when it comes out. I had to close the game and restart it every 45 minutes and restart the computer every few hours to get it to run okay but I got it to work. Game would get so laggy that I could not move and I am guessing a lot of the problems were on my end :(
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I ran the beta on my computer with the following specs :
Athlon 1ghz
512 MB
win xp pro sp2
geforce2 gts
I ran the game at 1024x768 with no problem, and i think at 1280x1024 too. I had to downgrade the graphics and use a low clipping pane but it ran fine and I had a blast. So basically, this thing will run on anything (and i'm guessing a powerful video card is the key)
Athlon 1ghz
512 MB
win xp pro sp2
geforce2 gts
I ran the game at 1024x768 with no problem, and i think at 1280x1024 too. I had to downgrade the graphics and use a low clipping pane but it ran fine and I had a blast. So basically, this thing will run on anything (and i'm guessing a powerful video card is the key)
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