Ok I used to play WoW on a laptop and an old one too, a Dell Inspiron I bought in 2012.
But it was pretty good up until BfA and at least ok in Shadowlands, even in raids!
How comes I can’t play Dragonflight at all?
How many people would try WoW for the first time or play it casually but just can’t because their system doesn’t meet the requirements?
This is a game that could be made to run, if not magnificently, on a 2004 computer.
Activision: you’re doing more than OK at charging for subscriptions and cosmetic perks; how about paying your developers and getting the game to actually run on more than just a slim percentage of the computers around?
Unfortunately, the CS forums are not visited by the developers for feedback.
That said, the minimum specs for this game are very reasonable in my opinion. Additional, in the world of computer gaming, it’s pretty normal for gamers to keep their systems up to date every few years through upgrades etc.
Lastly, Activision has nothing to do with the daily operations of Blizzard.
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What in the hell. Surely OP is trolling right? Right?
My hardware is around 10 years old. Runs the game fine.
The number of people using computers from 2004 would be far slimmer.
As the game engine and graphics get updated, the minimum system requirements tend to change to make sure you can play the game with out interuption. The game engine has received several overhauls over time, especially with the water enhancements, model updates and dragonriding graphics. Unfortunately this means the requirements to run the game also had to be updated.
You can check to see if your drivers have updates that might allow it to run, that would be why this post was moved to tech support by a mod ultimately. You can also check into minimum requirements for the game, then buy a PC that might be best suited, something that you can upgrade over time unlike most laptops that really can not.
What are your laptop specs? CPU, Graphics, memory and storage drives?
Maybe tweaking power settings might help. Most settings in laptops tend to be set lower to allow better battery management, but mean lower performance.
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Hi Kozzae,
Thank you for your reply.
Like I said I know it’s old but it should be enough in my opinion. By the way, the laptop is still fast in every aspect.
THIS BEING SAID, I have these specs:
CPU: Intel Core i7-3632QM (“Ivy Bridge” generation, year 2012, 2.2-3.2 Ghz, 4 cores)
RAM: 16 GB DD3
Storage: 512 GB SSD
GPU: AMD Radeon HD 7730m with 2GB of ram
Additional GPU: Intel HD 4000 (but WoW doesn’t see it, it only sees the Radeon one).
Also, the laptop is plugged in, so power isn’t an issue.
Apparently the driver of the graphic card isn’t in their good list (“Your graphics card driver is not compatible. Please see xxx for more information.”) and I eventually receive the following error when I try to enter the game once the loading screen has a full bar:
This application has encountered a critical error:
ERROR #132 (0x85100084) Fatal exception!
Program: C:\Program Files (x86)\World of Warcraft_retail_\Wow.exe
ProcessID: 8512
ThreadlD: 9984
Exception: ACCESS_VIOLATION
The instruction at “0x00007ffd85d35f72” referenced memory at
“0x0000000000000058”.
The memory could not be “read”.
Press OK to terminate the application.
This happens even though I have already lowered the graphic settings to the minimum, it doesn’t make sense to me.
I can google this issue, and see it going back to 13, but found no solution in a initial glance. You can’t disable the onboard graphics in device manager, and many games only seem to find that, not just wow. You could try updating catalyst to the last version supporting the card, you may even need to go to experimental updates but be aware that probably would not be supported either.
https://www.amd.com/en/support/graphics/amd-radeon-hd/amd-radeon-hd-7000m-series/amd-radeon-hd-7730m
Just closing out with the minimum requirements and supported graphic cards pages.
Hopefully someone else in Tech can add to this.
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Thank you again, I appreciate the effort!
EDIT: problem solved. A newer driver existed and once I installed it I could play. My bad! ^_^’
Had it not been for your post, I would have assumed that nothing could be done.
Having the same problem. I was able to run the game no problem yesterday but as of today i’m getting crashes similiar to the one Etardo posted.
How can I get this fixed?
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