I'm running w/ a Core Duo E6300-1.87- 1 GB of RAM and a GeForce 7600 GT OC and it runs great at 1280x1024 with everything cranked. Out side of cities where I usually get @ 35-45 fps I usually get 60-65 fps.

lol im running this on a very low end comp and it still runs just fine

I'm running this with an AMD Phenom Quad-Core 9850, Nvidia Geforce 9800GX2, 4GB OCZ Platinum 800mhz RAM, Creative Soundblaster XF-I Xtreme Gamer and a pretty decent motherboard (not sure of exact spec) But I absolutely destroy this game! lol

I'm running Wow+expansion just fine on a Dell Latitude D600 with 2Ghz Processor, 2GB ram, and a Radeon 9000 graphics card (32MB even!). I just bump down my resolution to 1024x768 to give it some extra kick when I need to. How is it that you are monitoring your frame rate?

@rokkuman09: Thanks for clearing that up for me.

to matt168, Thats what I am running my system with, and I have about a steady 30-45 fps in non-crowded areas. In, say, Orgrimmar, it drops to about 15. Btw I have my settings at max everything on 1028x700 res. p4 3.4, 2 gigs ram, and the 8500 gt gpu.

Plaing this on 2 laptops IBM ThinkPad T40 with 32MB graphic card (no problems at all) and on Toshiba P100-429 NVidia 7600 128MB - same thing.

this game is full of epic win

soccerguy93 in most notebooks it is impossible or near impossible to replace the graphics card. In some notebooks you could upgrade the processor (if you can find a processor that works with the notebook), but it might be hard to do.

I'm running at a super smooth 80fps alone and 30fps in Ironforge with my new system on all max at 1280 x 1024

Intel Core 2 Duo E550 2GB 667mhz RAM
2x nVidia 256mb 8600GT's in SLi Windows Vista Home Premium

Thats well more than you need to play the game on max, I reckon this could easily do it:

Intel Pentium 4 3.00ghz
1GB 667mhz
ATI X1650
Windows XP

For those of you complaining, I'm running on AMD Athlong 1.1 GHZ, 512MB RAM and 64MB nVidia Geforce4 MX440.

Who has it tough now fools haha.

Im using Intel Core 2 Duo 6400, Geforce 8800 GTS 640mb and 2GB DDR2 RAM with max video settings and still hover between 50 and 75 FPS

I'm not sure but, you can't replace the processor or graphics card on a notebook, right?

I'm running a 1.59 GHz 1.2 gigs of ram with a 128mb graphics card...

I need an update....

could a 6150LE play this?

could a 6150LE play this?

matt168, get an 8600GT its a little more expensive but, definitly worth it

how would a BFG 8500GT play this game at 1024x768 and 1280x1024. i havent bougth the card yet but it was on sale for $129

thats because its a notebook

This is a fun game, but they REALLY need to start cutting back on the requirements to get the best performance. On the lowest settings for everything...... my new notebook computer with an inline graphics card can BARELY manage to get 30 fps. Activating everything..... it's basically unplayable, with 3-4 frames per second, max.
Sometimes, it just crashes without warning.

It was fun for about 2 months then.....SNOOOOOOOOOOOOORE!!!!!!

are these marks FPS? It just says performance not FPS so im not sure

Skormm, no one needs to even answer that, you know how it will run. It just sounds like you are showing off.

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Why not a performance guide?

why a performance guide?

Go back to XP, thats a suggestion. @Geon106 that is laughable. Do a bit of homework next time instead of thinking all hardware is ahead of time because of the year. That and laptops suck for gaming.

yea am i have vista ultimate and am just wondering if it will work for this game? any suggestings

Someone asked if they could play on Vista, yes, i beleive Blizzard released a patch for Vista. I wish GS had tested on older hardware, because i play on my laptop which is the following spec:
AMD Sempron 2800+
NVIDIA GeforceFX Go5200 64MB RAM
512MB DDR RAM

I got it in 2004 so I thought it would play WoW at relativly good graphics, but i have everything on low and a low resolution and it still runs fairly slow.

CPU has almost not pull in this game if you're just a moderate gamer

(Noob question)I got AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ do you guys think its a good performance????

What about Mac users?

This was a good article. My graphics card will run 90fps at 1600 x 1200. But Gamespot really needs to include more hardware. Like older processors and graphics cards. People still use them and want to know how will they will work with newer games.

is this game nvidia fav cause a 7900GS gets high frames then a 1950pro and i saw alot that the 1950 pro was a bit faster then the 7900GS

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failure...

i have vista. will i be able 2 play this on it

as always, you guys did not include older processors that people are still using.

Uhh you mean Burning "Crusade". Not Legion

lolgubbe ... Your, and I quote "intel core 2 duo 1.9 ghz so total 3.8 ghz" is where you sorely mistaken. It looks like you have the E6300 core 2 duo, a good chip but it's a basic C2D chip, nothing fancy. You have 2 cores capable of factory default clock speeds of 1.9GHz each. Perhaps you could apply for a job in Intel's marketing department because even they don't make the mistake of advertising an E6300 as a 3.8GHz chip. Thanks for the entertainment though - it passed the time away whilst waiting for the Supreme Commander demo to be released.

To be honest, I'll really pay attention to extra clouds while fighting, yeah.
or take a close look at ground or water and try to satisfy myself with some glow and tell everybody about it.

after all it's a cartoonish game, super high quality is still a cartoonish game, it's designated as so.

Dude, shut up

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I got nothing to say, im happy about my pc, thank you gamespot for the article though would've liked to see how a 2 7600GT's would lol,

Yeah I really need the extra memory, oh well, hopefully this week.

There is talk about using old-spec'd PC's and having WoW run fine in most areas. This is true (in most areas), as long as you have 1G+ RAM, but start 40-man raiding in high level instances, and watch your framerate DROP... hehe

Thanks for the info.

asus en7900 gs TOP? Really nice card, cheap and fast, yet the 7950 GT is about the same price and a little faster

im getting a new graphics card, the ASUS EN7900GS, its a cheap overclock of the original 7900GS and i have been hearing very good things about it

first off, i'm sorry if my rant about a somewhat useless and non-enlightening hardware guide started all this - though i hope it didn't...

now, here's something all can laugh about.
and i do mean ALL of you, even those claiming to "run a pretty old PC"
my current pc-setup:

amd athlon(tm) processor, 1.40 Ghz(no, not a 2800+ type, the prior model)
some asus motherboard from the same era(what, 4-6 years ago?)
768 mb pc2100 ddr(?) ram(been so long since i checked, i can't even remember)
creative radeon 9600

had a minor hdd malfunction the other day, so i'm now down to an 80G WD caviar ide(possibly eide) at 7200 rpm(not that this makes any difference for wow)

here's the thing, as long as i do my part and stop downloads or other bandwith busters, the game runs just fine in most areas

oh, btw - i'm on a 19" lcd, with max res at a whopping 1200X1086 (up from a 15", so i'm happy )

have fun playing whatever you play


oh, lolgubbe: please contact me in your own language - i suspect we either share native language or possibly live in neigbor( never quite sure how that word's spelled - sorry if i've gotten it wrong though) countries...

for the next months i'll be buying parts though, got to get a system that's a bit more up to date