Well I am not sure how the laptop is set up. Let me ask you this. How are your load times in WoW now? Fact is you might already have it installed on the right drive and not even know it.
Not great. I often get pretty long loading screens and sometimes big, crowded areas like Dalaran take a hot minute to even render in thereafter.
Thatâs why I was wondering what was up. I know SSDs are supposed to help in that regard, and I know I donât explicitly have an SSD on this thing. But is the install path where everything went wrong?
Ok so lets slow down a bit. On your start bar you have a little folder called file explorer. Open that then on the left hand side scroll down to This Pc and click on that. Inside there at the bottom you should see your drives. It will be listed as local disk c: so on and so on. Tell me the size of each drive.
Local Disk (C:): 35.5 GB free of 118 GB.
Data (D:): 725 GB free of 931 GB.
Just looking at that Local Disk part has me convinced that I could empty out a ton of stuff I donât need and still wouldnât have space for the Shadowlands installation.
Ok so it has a smaller NVME. Yeah you would be hard pressed to use that as a game drive. And I know the 1t drive is not an NVME from looking at this sight. Let me look at what you need to do to upgrade that drive.
Ok so to upgrade the drives inside the laptop you need to remove the mother board. Not so sure if that is something you want to do or not from what you have been telling me. You might just look into getting an external. There is a 500GB WD on Amazon right now for $79. You will pay more for an external than you would for and internal drive.
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Youâll then wait through horribly long loading screens⌠and then wait some more for the graphics to completely fill in.
For the laptop in that video he shouldnât need to remove the MB to replace the 2.5 HDD. It is sitting right at the corner and should just slip out after removing one screw.
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That is a good point. I got so focused on the NVME that I did not pay any attention to the HDD staring me in the face lol.
SSDâs have been âvirtuallyâ required for gaming for a long time already.
If you say so Ion, back pocket job.
Very mature of you. Thanks for reponding.
59 like to think Iâm mature yes, with COMMON SENSE , that can smell a rat when I see one.
The big thing I would caution on if swapping the HDD for an SSD on an MSI laptop is the bottom cover. They seem fragile or at least feel as if they are and that seems to be across most all models for the past 5 or so years. I was sweating pulling the cover off of a gp65 leopard this year when doing exactly that, putting in a 2.5" SSD because it felt like it was going to snap. But these new MSIs can have some heavy hardware for a laptop that requires so much ventilation that between vents and thinner material it feels like a plastic party plate once it is all unscrewed.
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Your math is off. If you compare a high end name brand gaming rig with a PC build, you will save thousands of dollars building yourself. There is nothing wrong with mass produced PCs, they are perfectly fine. But if you are going to custom build a PC, you go with top of the line components.
dude, they are literally cheap af. I hope blizzard continues to improve the graphics because honestly they could be waaaay better.
They arenât.
Yeah that would be dumb, good thing they arenât doing that.
How often do you want to have to upgrade your PC?
Once a year?
Once a decade?
Should we be using the same system requirements as vanilla WoW?
What is the appropriate amount of time to wait before increasing the graphics and textures of your game to keep up with contemporary titles? Typically, the PC gaming industry follows the lead of consoles on this. Most games, or at least a lot of games, are developed to be played on multiple platforms, so they typically wonât go over what the PS4 or xbox1 can handle. With the release of the PS5 and xbox whatever, it is likely the graphics, file sizes, and therefore system requirements for games will increase as well.
Also, WoW is super behind the times in terms of system requirements. Any new game is going to be much better in terms of graphics and require a more powerful setup.
At a certain point if WoW falls too far behind, they risk alienating all the people with modern PCs that look at the graphics and thinkâŚâWTF is this?â
Probably because they canât afford one. Lotâs of folks struggling to make ends meet, and the one escape they have just became inaccessable. Iâd probably be upset as well if my system wasnât so massively over the requirements.
If you donât have $50.00 for a SSD you probably shouldnât be sitting at home playing WoW all day.
Also, how are you even affording internet? My cable bill is $60.00 a month and thatâs just internet, I donât really watch T.V. so I stopped paying for it.
Just take 1 month off paying for your internet, or unsub from WoW for 2-3 months, and you will save enough money for Amazon to plop a SSD on your doorstep.
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Sounds like they should probably not pay their sub for a few months to pay for a ssd. If you canât make ends meet then sub based video games probably arenât the best hobby.