Real talk, I believe the one major requirement is 64 bit OS. Seeing as we’ll be having downgraded graphics the requirements will probably be more lax. Even more so if they can get in the multthreading from current live.
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the requirements will be the same as the current release of Wow. It will be running on the current release engine.
This is incredibly inaccurate.
Thanks for the responses everyone.
I was thinking that the requirements may be a bit lower than the BfA requirements since the actual models and graphics and load distance are all supposed to be the same as vanilla. It is the BfA engine though, so I didn’t know if that would make the game perform better or worse than WoD.
I can tell you from playing the demo that the requirements will be significantly lower than Current WoW’s.
That’s good to hear.
It did not even occur to me until this thread that yet another reason I will abandon retail and solely play classic is that I can do that even when my current computer becomes a potato. ![:smile:](https://d38bqls1q93fod.cloudfront.net/en/wow/images/emoji/twitter/smile.png?v=6" ":smile:")
The correct speed was 56k, but yeah there were players on dial up back in the day.
Thankfully I was not, I had upgraded to Broadband in 2000 or 2001, cant remember its been a while now.
High speed internet (for the time) was a lot more common than the forums like to make believe that it was.
You’re going to have to get a GTX 2080ti man.
jesus, where does one begin here. The Requirements back in 2004-2006 to what it is now here in 2019 is astronomical, like the horsepower of a scooter versus a bugatti, and yet the game doesn’t LOOK thaaat much different does it? lol. First off the battle.net launcher only supports 64-bit CPU’s so unless your chip back then has 64-bit capability the game will not even be launch able. 64-bit os will be required. and lets just say you have some treasured old Pentium 4 from way back then and it does have 64-bit capability and u have a decent amount of ram in it and what would of been a good video card back then. This doesn’t mean it’s going to be able to handle the modern client witch will for starters not have the Older versions of Direct X witch have been removed periodically over the years, the most recent being DX9 with BFA release. also were probably keeping the current clients graphical advancements over the years and what not, including CPU (the most recent as of patch 8.1) unless they are using an older client i do not imagine most of the older hardware from back in the day will be able to run the game, let alone like it used to. Sad in a way because i still have my old Dell i got around boxing season in 2006 and it would sort of feel like i was going back in time if i could play it again on their, and who knows it just might, but not likely as good as it did back then, if at all now.
i intend to test it on a core 2 duo E6600 from 2006 with 3gbs ddr2 and a Radeon X1600 256mb video card. heehee.
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You will need the most current alienware computer just to get past the launch screen.
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The problem is there porting everything to the modern client so its going to require dx11 at the very minimum, sorry your old classic wow pc wont run the new classic wow.
Probably the same as Legion
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@Mightylink
well alot of computer back in late 2004-2006 started using pci express x16
so and since we have plenty of cards that don’t require external power this doesn’t rule out an older computers capability. I have a old dell from early 2006 with a Core 2 duo E6600 (witch can also use up to Q6700 quad) with 8gb ddr2 (at the time 3gb) and a Radeon X160 256mb gpu (could put in a 1030,1050,105ti, 550,560 and probably run the game at high settings if not almost max @ 1080p and get pretty decent frame rates. If not at least very playable at acceptable settings. At least 720p will likely be very playable and this res was expensive back then.
I’ve ran the modern BFA client on video cards that only had DX 10, Such as a 8800,9800, and the game still performs and runs fairly well. Just doesn’t reach the higher settings most people want. the game isn’t as demanding as they think it is, the minimum specs for the client as it stands now are not set in stone nor are they Entirely accurate. And i expect the classic client will still be significantly less in requirement then current client. That being said though i still definitally expect it to be much Higher then Original 2004-2006 Requirements. I expect at least 50-60% of the higher end machines from 2005-2006 to be capable of running the game at a playable setting. It might not be worth it but even a newer video card/Solid state hard drive will probly allow even Hyper threaded Pentium 4’s Core 2 duo’s and early amd dual cores to still play the game fine. By all means whip out your old friend and give it a whirl, you’ll only probably really need a modern OS, as i doubt anything below 64-bit windows 7/8/10 will be supported. I remember fondly playing on xp 64 bit.
Nah, it’ll be less than Legion. Its lower quality world textures, weapons, armors, models, spell effects. With every setting maxed in the demo and surrounded by…maybe 60 or 70 players I still couldn’t drop below 200 frames.
hilarious conjecture
Until we know what wide screen support means to blizzard legion requirements are a safe bet
@Mogar
What system Specs were you doing this on ?
Take the retail requirements and scale back some things like video ram to account for the reduced textures and that should be your classic requirements.
My laptop. i7-6820, gtx 1080.
For comparison, amidst the same number of players in BfA I get maybe 30-40fps, whereas I held a steady 200 in the demo. The demo plays remarkably better.