I have an I3-8350k 4.00 GHz and GeForce GTX 1070. My monitor is a 27" Odyssey G7 (1440p, 240 hz). In wow classic I get in open world between 100 and 150 fps most of the time. The reason I got the I3 cpu is because I knew wow classic uses only one core and I got the cpu with a good one core performance without overclocking ( I do not overclock).
Will TBC classic still use only one core? Maybe some beta testers can check on that.
I would like to have more than 200 fps at all times in open world in TBC. Is my video card good enough for that? Will a newer processor get me there? As I said I am against overclocking.
Please let me know if you can answer any of these questions.
It’s TBC Classic.
You’ll get your 4 fps and you’ll like it.
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Intel Core2 Duo will crush this game
I highly doubt TBC classic will take advantage of multicore or multithread processes. Your system seems like it will be just find for TBC and even more so than vanilla classic due to raid sizes going from 40 to 25 players. You’ll have less people and less spell effects on screen during raids. Shattrath will be like being in org or SW at peak time or when people crowd the city waiting for world buffs.
This is the OP.
I like building computers but I need some reason to do so. I built a few since 2005. The last one was at the end of 2017.
I know I will be fine with what I have for TBC classic. I just want to see that number (fps) above 200 at all times on my screen. I do not plan to raid but I do plan to do open world content and a lot of pvp (in bgs mostly and maybe some arena).
I know it is impossible to find a better GPU right now ( not counting scalpers). So I am stuck with my 1070 for a while. But I can find newer cpus.
Any advice will be appreciated.
I usually cap mine at 100 tops, as I really don’t see any benefits to having it higher. That being said, if you’re getting this with an i3, the next logical step is an i5, if your board will take it.
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Hey there. My computer is about 8 years old. It’ll run classic okay…but I am concerned about TBC. This is what I have:
Intel® Core™ i5-4440 CPU @ 3.10GHz (4 CPUs)
Card name: Intel® HD Graphics 4600
I know I should buy a new computer, but I hope what I have now will at least run the game for now.
Thanks for any insight. 
That is an integrated gpu, which basically means that it’s a standard one built onto your motherboard. These are known for being very sub-optimal, and generally only found on things like ‘office pc’s.’ (for emails, spreadsheets, etc)
I would recommend you upgrade that asap, but your CPU i5 should be 100% fine to run TBC classic on medium settings etc. Even something very economical like a GTX 1050 would be a supermassive upgrade.
Others around here are pc experts so hopefully someone will chime in and provide you more info.
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No sir. It’s apart of the CPU housing. The motherboard just routes the video signal to the connector at the IO panel.
Your other comments are good though. The Intel HD 4600 is barely capable of handling TBC. Just as Veshzi said, you want to look at upgrading or getting a new computer if possible.
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Complete overkill, you can run this game on a complete potato.
TBC actually used Dual core (the real client) Not sure if that information you present is is accurate for everyone, I just looked at my resource monitor and WoW classic is using (varies) between 3 and 5 cores, and has 49 threads running. Maybe I am not reading the Core information right? Sure looks to be using multi thread and multi compute just like very other game out there now days.
Multi thread is nothing new and they have been doing it forever.
The new retail engine that Classic vanilla and TBC both use support multi core, this article details a little about how it works.
https://rk.edu.pl/en/analyzing-world-warcraft-multi-core-scaling
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Cool. I know Blizzard added multi-thread support to the game engine/client some years ago. I didn’t realize it would be the same for the classic clients. Cool beans.
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I’ve never seen my fps go above or below 100. I dunno. 2600x and a 5700xt. vsync is off it just stays at 100 when i ctrl r. U will be fine dude
Different title but it runs off the exact same engine as retail.
Trust me OP, if the CPU is from the last decade, it will run TBC just fine.
10th gen i3 with a 1070 on will play a 10 year old game just fine. Full 240hz, I don’t know and running over 200 FPS at literally all times is probably doubtful depending what’s going on, but you’re fine.
This, the sole reason we need a beta is because they’ve ported TBC over to the new engine, otherwise they could just load up a version of TBC and release it.
So you are saying we are only beta testing FPS? I guess you are out of the loop on the xp bug, the disconnect bug, etc?..
You can run TBC on potato power and get 30fps, you’ll most likely be fine. 
No, we’re beta testing them porting TBC over to the new engine, you can’t just copy paste to a new engine and expect everything to work, like the xp bug, ect… If they were just re-releasing TBC/Vanilla exactly as they were engine and all, then we’d just be testing how newer hardware runs the game and you’d likely ahve very little issues as backwards compatibility with PCs is pretty smooth in anything from Windows XP forward.
Why do you need over 200 fps at all times? You can’t even detect the difference with your eyes…
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