Minimum PC Specs for WoW Classic?

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Will 2004 Minimum Tech Specs run WoW Classic 2019?

For giggles:

Original WoW (December 2004)
Operating System|Windows 98/ME/2000/XP|
Processor 800 MHz or higher CPU
Video Card 32 MB 3D graphics card with hardware transform and lighting, such as GeForce 2 or better
Hard Drive Space 4 GB or more of available hard drive space
RAM 256 MB or more of RAM
Mac OS MacOS X 10.3.5 or newer
Mac Processor 933 MHz or higher G4 or G5 processor
Mac Video Card ATI or NVIDIA video hardware with 32 MB VRAM or more
Internet Connection 56k or higher modem with an Internet connection

I’m guessing GeForce 2 and 256 MEGABYTES of RAM won’t cut it? How about that 56K dial-up? And doe anyone still have one of those colorful fishtank iMacs?

I searched, but found no minimum spec listing for this? Did I miss it anywhere?

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This is a good question, I was wondering this.

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LUL

Thats good stuff right there.

Oh god
haha

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Oh damn! That’s too fast!

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When I first played wow I had a Sony Vaio rs420
It had a Pentium 4
Think I upgraded to 2gb of ram and 9800 GTX+
19" Big square NEC monitor

Those were the days

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I had an eMachine with a 800mhz Pentium 3, a 9700 Pro AGP 8X card and i think 3.5GB of RAM because my 32-bit OS couldn’t read higher than 3GB of RAM at a time.

BUT IT RAN WOW!

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Oh yea I remember eMachine! And AGP vs PCI cards!

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I had a monster back then- dual-core processor hooked up to an external liquid-cooler (a fanless Zalman Reserator with automotive hoses for extra durability). Dual 400mb hard drives.

On a serious side note, I believe that the Classic client is built from the retail client as found in Legion. So, it’s possible that the minimal specs are from 2016’s minimal hardware requipments.

OS: Windows XP/Windows Vista/Windows 7/Windows 8/Windows 10 with latest service pack CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 or AMD Phenom II X3 720 GPU: Nvidia GeForce GT 440 or AMD Radeon HD 5670 or Intel HD Graphics 5000 RAM: 2 GB

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Man, I don’t know what machine I had when I started, but, boy was it hammered.

A) the graphics card was buggy. Imagine going in to a cave, and just seeing huge spikes everywhere – that was my daily existence for a while. I avoided caves.

Next, imagine where I made it a point to /follow someone up the trail to IF so as to not fall off, since I would always lag out.

As a rule, whenever I “teleported” somewhere (which was common in Alpha because of the binding stones), I made it a point to hold down the left or right key so I could sweep the terrain and cache it all in. When walking, it was mostly not an issue – I was so slow, the machine could keep up with the assets as they were loaded. But teleporting in to a new place, yea, cache hit lag fest.

A couple of spins around (painful, jerking, spins) and that cleared things right up.

Oh, also, the machine was smart enough to know I had a crummy enough graphics card that in places like Thunderbluff, where they had birds, and windmills – none of those moved. The birds just stayed in space, and the windmills were still.

I remember, later, commenting to a friend “Hey, the windmills are moving now!” “What do you mean? They’ve always done that!” Oh. Well. Fine.

As to the OP, the client requirement will be the same as modern WoW I’m guessing. There’s no reason to have a lower specification for Classic, EVEN IF Classic doesn’t need it. By setting the client specs to the same as retail, folks so inclined, will be able to PLAY in retail should they want too. Novel idea.

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I still have my original computer that I ran WoW on, a gateway I purchased in late 2002. I don’t remember the specs though.

At least as of a few months ago it still runs as I had it turned on and even briefly connected to the internet while searching for some old WoW screenshots that I thought might still be on the hard drive.

They weren’t, I vaguely remember having to re-install windows at some point after a blue screen of death, but I did find the shots on an almost as old external hard drive that’s in a desk drawer.

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I had that old white macbook when it was still G4 processor lol

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I can actually report that a 3DFX Voodoo card worked well.

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The computer I first ran Wow on is one of the few I no longer have. I have my old 286, one of the first 386-based systems, and a lot of the old 8-bit era stuff still. The old Pentium mini-tower I ran WOW on just went AWOL for some reason.

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Hilarity aside, the answer is no. Because WoW classic is being built on the new client, it will have basically the same system requirements as BFA.

It’ll probably require slightly lower specs per performance in actual play, since Classic characters and animations are less demanding, but as far as ‘boot up the client and sit there’ the same minimum specs will be required.

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Status: Resolved World of Warcraft Ticket Number: US67479932

3 weeks ago

Marc

I can’t find the minimum required system to play wow classic.

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This ticket has been marked as Answered.

3 weeks ago

Lograldon

Howdy Marc! This is your friendly neighborhood Game Master Lograldon. I’m glad to hear that you’re interested in playing WoW Classic when that releases! That will have the exact same requirements as the live WoW game, which can be found here: https://us.battle.net/support/en/article/76459 I hope this addresses all the concerns you had today. Please let us know if there is anything else that we can assist with!

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A suitably equipped toaster could run WoW classic using it’s original settings.

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It’s the same for retail. Classic is the old world, classes, talents and everything else that made it laid over the retail software and hardware.

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I don’t think those specs can even run the OS to even start to think about playing WoW.