Let’s start this off by saying. I am not computer savvy. Never really have been. Plain and simple my amazing friends are the ones who suggested parts for, and helped to build my current PC. On to the topic.
Classic is out woohoo. Now I can run it easy but an idea came to mind. I travel a bit and generally have a bunch of times where I just play games on my phone for sometimes hours. As such I’m wondering if there was any sort of modern mini laptops that could run barebones classic. I don’t mind missing out on graphics or whatever. Just being able to play some would be great. Now again I am asking or hoping for some mini laptop. I would rather not have to haul around some regular bulky sized laptop. Even if of course this would be much easier. So long thread short. My fine people of the internet. Does anyone know of, or have a suggestion for one whole smol computer boi.
P.S. I would totally be happy if I could just play this on my phone but sadly I feel that may never happen lol.
Not really, no.
Its not Vanilla. It wont Run on a Pentium 3.
It’s still using the modern engine, just with the old art assets (which DOES make it significantly easier to run). It still needs a reasonably modern system to run - even poorly.
You’d need the most modern Intel iGPU with a decent laptop i3 to run it, and you’re looking at ~400-500$ for that, and it isn’t going to be some super-small netbook thing. Its going to be a 12-13" laptop.
Ignore Kagthul’s BS advice.
I’m running Classic it on a 5 year old laptop without an issue. 40 man raids won’t happen on a 5 year old i7 but quests/5man is doable.
… an i7.
Not a 200$ netbook.
Its like you just spew sewage out of your mouth by default. The OP was asking (basicalky) if they could go grab the 300$ special from WalMart and run Classic. The answer is no. Its not going to run on a Pentium Gold or Celeron or Core M based machine. They dont have the CPU muscle or the iGPU muscle.
They never mentioned shopping used, and given their admitted techno-illiteracy, i wasnt going to suggest it.
Dear Derpentor,
An integrated GPU i7 from 5 years ago is less powerful than modern $300 i3’s one. An Inspiron 3K, for example has an iGPU more power than an HD 4000. (Expecting a foul here.)
Sincerely,
The person who calls you out for trolling all the time.
You can literally play Classic WoW on a potato on minimum requirements… Blizzard said you can
CPU
Intel® Core™ 2 Duo E6600 or
AMD Phenom™ 8750 or better
VIDEO
NVIDIA® GeForce® 8800 GT 512 MB or
AMD Radeon™ HD 4850 512 MB or
Intel® HD Graphics 4000
Those are ancient yet its the minimum… im pretty sure a $300 laptop is ok, but not raids no, like Aribeth said
Those minimum specs for Classic, will not even work on modern WoW
The question is do you really know yourself? 
He doesn’t read that’s why he and Griefs keeps spreading BS with the guise of trying to help people. Notice those two trolls have 0 credible evidence to back up any of their claims.
I’ve only played in Linux, since the BC expansion.
I’ve probably had at least 3 computer upgrades, since that time. My last was before Legion. Legion, then especially BFA, kind of killed my FPS (mainly in Dalaran, worse in BoreAllUs.)
Classic really has a high base framerate for me, with similar settings. Of course, so do the old World areas, if I go there in BFA; It does feel even smoother though, in Classic.
So my guess is you still won’t be running with effects way up, or without view distance and ground clutter turned way down, but you can basically run “Classic” on much less of an Uber system than you’d WANT to run BFA on.
I only have an:
Intel 3.1 Ghz dual core
Geforce 750 ti 2 gig
8 gig of system ram
Opensuse linux 15
This system could use the same era six core cpu, if I could still find it, as well as a higher Geforce card. I’m wondering if that alone would give me boost? I’ll think I’ll start with a higher number of CPU cores, of the same type, since Linux symmetrically processes whether the game does or not (splits the core load, evenly.)
My desktop GPU died yesterday and am trying to figure out what to get. In the meantime I am playing on a Microsoft Surface Pro with graphic settings at 3 and getting a steady 40fps and the game runs smooth. It is not amazing, but this laptop is very light and portable with a touch screen. I use it for work and love it.
6 core for the Classic engine might be overkill. There isn’t any DX11 multi-threading for DX12. Unless you’re playing at higher than classic settings you won’t notice a difference with updated hardware.
Low hanging fruit is to use a more bleeding edge kernel for much better performance. The 4.12 kernel is a bit dated and missing a lot of perf increases.
Just because you say it, doesn’t make it true. In fact, your fairly easy to read track record is that, if you said it, it is almost assuredly NOT true.
But hey, keep on spewing sewage out of that hole in your face.
You’ve got it backwards, child.
YOU and “you” are the ones that are always making silly claims.
Its on YOU to prove your claim, not on me to disprove it.
My “claims” are that i can literally find no reputable sources to back up what you say. Pretty much ever.
Then you and You spend a day or two searching for like the one guy on Youtube who posted a video that agrees with your BS who is a non-reputable nobody whose testing methods include things like not overclocking chips and then comparing them with overclocked chips on wildly divergent test rigs.
Then said gem of a YouTuber comes up with results that dont match GN, Paul, LTT, or anyone else that actually uses reputable testing methodology.
But go on about how you think the onus is on me to prove your outlandish BS claims false, when in reality it’s on you to show that they are correct.
Or, better yet, dont.
I honestly dont care what you think. You’re the kind of ‘person’, and i use that term liberally, that is so literally beneath my time that i cant even find good words to describe how utterly meaningless i find you. There are things on my boot soles that are more relevant and interesting. And thats saying something, since i just spent a 12 hour day working at a Ren Faire, so my boots have some pretty revolting things on them at the moment.
Same with You. Well, he’s a little more of a person than you are. He at least wears his shill hat honestly. He’s a shill uninterested in the facts and doesnt try to hide it.
At this point, anyone who listens to your “Advice” gets what they deserve. There have been plenty of warnings.
Side note, 1440p, maxed everything pushes 3-3.5GB of VRam on classic at 144 FPS.
I’m pushing 3440x1440 uncapped at ultra with over 200 fps, and it only goes up to 2.2GB VRAM. Been playing for hours, and that’s as high as it goes.
Those are Blizzard’s system requirements, not mine. If you actually read you’d know what you’re talking about.
The system requirements from Blizzard’s own site are listed on this thread. If you can’t read that’s your problem.
0 of them have done any of these tests. In our previous thread Kodiack also provided scaling numbers. If you have reputable tests for WoW with indepth analysis then post links.
So far all you’ve done is run your mouth with your own BS and no proof. My links and proof are all over the place, you’ve come up short on evidence.
If you’re going to BS, at least try harder.
Intel® Celeron® CPU N3350 @ 1.10GHz (2 CPUs), ~1.1GHz
4096MB RAM
Intel® HD Graphics 500
Windows 10
$250 laptop runs Classic between 24fps (in stormwind ironforge etc) to 49fps (everywhere else) with everything on 1/off/disabled, DirectX 11 legacy and the fps uncapped.
FWIW the potato 2012 Mac Mini with an Intel 4000 iGPU hooked up to my TV gets ~50FPS in Classic on 1080p classic settings running around Elwynn. The requirements are pretty lax.