So I played through all of Classic using this laptop, which I’ve had since like 2011 and have played WoW with ever since…
I can’t really upgrade cause there’s a pandemic and I’m a bartender and retired, and also travelling currently because life sucks.
Um…
Why won’t The Burning Crusade run on it while Classic and Retail will?
Dah heckums?
Any config file fixes or something, this is rubbish.
I have a screenshot of what happens, it boots up, and then the screen is black with yellow text for the character select menu but no graphics.
Screenshot on my Twitter, BUT BE WARNED, IT IS 20+ ONLY. Twitter is @AdBarta
I’m halfway across the country for cancer treatment, would really like to play. Kthnxbai.
Good lord.
I played this game on a Pentium 3, with only 512 MB of Ram and an Nvidia Geforce MX 2 when it first came out. This thing has 16Gbs of RAM and can play The Witcher Enhanced Edition modded fine.
What’s up with Activision’s New Math Burning Crusade?
TBC Classic runs on 9.0 client and that client pretty much told people to either upgrade their toasters, or dont play.
Main upgrades was Blizz telling people to finally go out and get SSDs instead of HDDs so you can load into the game properly and not take 1-2 mins due to the HDD slowly loading data (See: Legion Dalaran on a HDD) or an actual videocard (and not the onboard dedicated ones Dell laptops come with) as a basic onboard card it would have a horrible time loading and rendering things.
I had a Dell Inspiron from 2013 with an onboard+ a 1TB SSD and it was having a horrible time with 9.0 and was barely running Classic, with it running at 15-30fps on minimum settings, and freezing up when more than 3 players showed up and god forbid, threw around AoEs.
It sucks, but I had to bite the bullet as well last year, but spent it on a desktop than a laptop due to work, and at the time last august, pc part prices were cheaper than buying a premade pc, then changing certain parts.
If you want a decent upgrade to a laptop, but still want a portable pc, i’d say to try and find a secondhand Microsoft Surface 6 and up. It’s a ‘tablet’ PC that usually goes for ~900 - 1k usd new (and about 300-600 used depending on the model and how beat up it is), but its a powerful lil thing. I have a Surface Pro 7 and runs TBC Classic just fine at 30-60fps (with some graphical errors, like purple rain, somehow) and can be used for other stuff like streaming videos and drawing.
Just dont buy the stupid surface clip on keyboards and mice as theyre a ripoff. The keys get stuck, they have no tactile feedback like membrane and mechanical keys do, and they just feel crappy to use. Just buy and use a bluetooth keyboard. Saves you $ and feels better.