Did you play Vanilla on a potato running Windows 98 or ME

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I’m pretty amazed that WoW actually supported two MS-DOS based operating systems. I ran WoW on XP, but has anyone here had the misfortune of actually playing vanilla on a Windows 98 potato?

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It wasn’t pretty. I never did it myself, but I had a flatmate who did at launch.

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Nope, I already had XP from the computer shop I worked at but I saw most people where still using 95/98 and even a couple of ME’s ughhhhh shudders.

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XP here, I would love to see someone try to run it on a '98 potato when it launches tho :slight_smile:
I know, I know, I know it won’t work.

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No sorry. I am blessed with a lot of money so I always have the latest computer.

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I had Windows XP at the time, and got a new PC around the time that WoW came out.

I did have an older potato that couldn’t go into Ironforge without practically crashing, though.

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I MT’d up to Razorgore at about 15 fps on average. You just got used to it. Choppy frames was part of the rhythm of your rotations. :wink:

But then in BWL it started dropping to 5 fps and even freezing, so I had to buy a new computer because it became unplayable.

Can’t remember the specs of either computer, unfortunately.

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Yeah, my first computer was a 98. If I wanted to raid I had to zoom my camera in at the ground most of the time. Overworld was maybe 15-20fps at best.

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Jesus, you actually raided on that thing?

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I played on a machine with Windows XP but even then my FPS was usually around 8, 5-6 in raids and 10-12 if no one else was around.

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Yeah, 14 year old me didn’t mind though. WoW completely captivated me :stuck_out_tongue:

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A friend of mine during WotLK had a PC so bad she could only get about 5-10 FPS in raids.

To this day I have no idea how she did half as well as she did.

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i played vanilla on the potatoe and then ate the potato, it tasted like vanilla and now blizzard is trying to sell me to people for $14.99 a month

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ME, when logging in after waiting around 2-3 minutes for the loading screen to finish the game would be frozen with these yellowish glow marks near the chat box for an additional period of time and gradually the game would unfreeze but people would go zooming off everywhere, fun times.

Years later from all of the stress of waiting during those loadscreens and the freezes after I finally replaced the thing I took pleasure in dismantling it with a baseball bat.

Oh and another fun thing I had to live with was when wireless routers first started showing up I had one so bad that if someone was on the phone I would lag incredibly bad and if the microwave was being used I would lose internet altogether during it being used, remember my mom asking me if it was safe to use the microwave :sweat_smile:.

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Played WoW on XP and never had any issues.

Played Everquest on Windows 95 while raiding with sometimes 100 people. You measured seconds per frame, not frames per second.

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I played Vanilla on XP. No issues.

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Power Mac G4 here. Whether that’s a potato is open to interpretation :yum:

One day I bought a new video card and was amazed at the “death effect” that made the screen white and ghostly!

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No idea what specific operating system but I most certainly was on what was considered a potato. Never was able to raid above 15 FPS until mop.

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Pretty sure I had Windows XP at the time. Little hazy on that, I was 8 or 9 at the time, maybe 7. Pretty sure I remember the blue background and the windows logo and Windows XP though.

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I was on potato XP for sure. I remember finally upgrading my video card and it felt like a whole new game.