New patch now doesn't support my laptop

[anon14172861]

@Jealme-laughing-skull

now latest patch says my gpu is obsolete, yet i had no issues playing the game up to this point on low setting, still 30 fps.

They posted this in the Bug Report forum:

Issues with Older GPUs

For the last few expansions, World of Warcraft minimum specs have required a Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) that is shader-model-5 compatible (DirectX 11.0 or higher). With the newer graphical features included in the Shadowlands Pre-patch, the game has ceased supporting all GPUs that are not compatible with shader-model-5. We’ve discovered that a very small number of players are attempting to run World of Warcraft on older hardware that cannot play the game after patching. At this time, we’re…

So your issue may clear up. Though I must say I would recommend upgrading at this point anyway if you can. Eventually you will probably have to for sure.