This might be a dumb question with a simple solution, but I’m not computer savvy 
So, my laptop runs retail WoW great, fans don’t need to run much, FPS is 60 or above. Same with any other game I play except for WoW Classic.
I keep my laptop both physically clean and run disk cleanup/defrag -at least- once a week. I really don’t use my laptop for much other than college or WoW/some steam games.
I don’t remember the -exact- model my laptop is, but I think I got it less than a year ago. It was around $1,100, Asus, Tuf Gaming, if that helps.
I have had no other issues with my laptop, ever.
However, when I play WoW Classic, it gets -really- hot (it doesn’t even get hot while playing retail WoW) and makes the fans earn their keep lol
I haven’t tried lowering the graphics yet, but I don’t think I put them on the highest setting. Next time I play, I will try doing that.
I was wondering if this happens to anyone else? What are other possible solutions?
Turn down the graphics settings. It is a 15 year old game that can run on a potato so, it isn’t the cpu. If you want the laptop to be cooler, dial back the settings.
Don’t run defrag if you have an ssd in your laptop.
Solution don’t buy expensive electronic devices as your paying computer features you’ll never use and 2nd I hate laptops, just throw it out a window and buy yourself a moderate PC that will never overheat and run everything you need at half the cost.
Is there anything your doing when your having the overheating problems? Around lots of people, in specific fights, areas?
Have you tried disabling all of your addons?
Are you on a crowded server in Classic? Managing players in your immediate area is the most cpu intensive activity in game.
lock the fps to 60 or less
it reduced my gpu usage from 99% ( uncapped fps)
to less than 10% (capped at 60fps)
Turn down/off Shadows and SSAO.
Yeah, I’m not sure why people get amped about high FPS. I think I cap mine around 60, as well.
Other things that aren’t needed: crazy shadows and high particles.
I have the same problem actually. I noticed my computer gets very hot and loud only when classic is open, not retail or any other game.
No it isn’t. It was released less than 2 years ago.
What? You can buy laptops with RTX graphics cards for less than you can buy an RTX graphics card… This isn’t 2004 anymore, laptops will run any title if they have the hardware and theyre npt expensive unless youre buying a name.
I had to enable Classic to use my dedicated GPU. It was using integrated by default.
From time to time, more often lately, classic will open about 50 applications of “wowvoiceproxy” and bog down my computer to where everything locks up and I get 3FPS. It can be hard to tell, sometimes, because it will only show in the DROP DOWN when you open task manager.
I never missed a raid in all of classic. How did I do this? A gaming laptop! I got my TF sitting in a hotel room 500 miles from home, it was awesome.
I had the same problem myself. Google’d around a bit and found this:
https://eu.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/world-of-warcraft-makes-my-gpu-go-wild/80075
Followed the advice listed there and haven’t heard my fans since.
Cap your FPS to 60 (or your monitor’s refresh rate). I would guess it’s uncapped so your laptop is pushing 200+ fps maxing everything out.
Start by not playing 8 hours continuously each day.
Then try digging out the chips and cheetohs crumbs out of the air vents.
Probably would help to pour more red bull into the case… the 3 spilled this week isn’t enough.
Delete retail WoW off the computer… playing it for 20 mins a day isn’t a fair comparison… then this will make more room for more Classic alts.