If you were planning on playing a 15 year old game on a BFA client using Microsoft Windows v7.0 I have some bad news for you. That error message you’re getting that says you have to buy a new video card? Nope. Has absolutely nothing to do with your video card. It has to do with something called Microsoft DirectX v11.0
That’s right party people… If you want to play the brand new classic World of Warcraft you’re going to have to upgrade that Microsoft Windows 7 to 10.
Buying a new video card will solve nothing.
Uh… 1. You have no way of knowing that.
2. There is this thing in Windows called “Compatibility Mode” which allows Windows to act like Windows 7 and run things Windows 7 could run but 10 can.
Are we being alt brigaded by some competitors’ paid shills now? Seems a lot of these low level posters are using this hit and run/drive by(I’m using it BW that was so funny!) Posting tactic to stir the pot. All while hating on wow in any iteration…
Nah just some guy who is angry because he doesn’t understand the proper order of troubleshooting steps. Typically purchasing new hardware is the last thing you try and not the first. Common sense for most people.
I thought that too but the name and tone of their post told everything we really needed to know. So im not eating my time trouble shooting his crap. Oh and he probably has some degree in computer science. Even though as you just pointed out he doesn’t have a clue. Lol.
It was free if you upgraded but that hasn’t been offered in awhile as far as I know. My old rig had the upgraded version. My new rig I spent the money and bought 10 again instead of transferring it because there was also something about the upgrade being tied to that device hardware and I wasn’t going through that headache. Cost like $80. Less headache.
Blizzard added DirectX 12 support for their award-winning World of Warcraft game on Windows 10 in late 2018. This release received a warm welcome from gamers: thanks to DirectX 12 features such as multi-threading, WoW gamers experienced substantial framerate improvement. After seeing such performance wins for their gamers running DirectX 12 on Windows 10, Blizzard wanted to bring wins to their gamers who remain on Windows 7, where DirectX 12 was not available.
At Microsoft, we make every effort to respond to customer feedback, so when we received this feedback from Blizzard and other developers, we decided to act on it. Microsoft is pleased to announce that we have ported the user mode D3D12 runtime to Windows 7.
Source: blogs msdn microsoft com/directx/2019/03/12/world-of-warcraft-uses-directx-12-running-on-windows-7/
I’m confused. Wasn’t there just this update stating the opposite?
As a Corporate Information Technology employee of fifteen years, threads like this tickle my ‘bits’.
I’ll ‘byte’ anyway - for the extra LOL’s.
1.12 works fine on Windows 7 64 Bit and Direct X 11. (I oughta know, I’m running a 1060 GTX )
Classic won’t be 1.X or 8.X anyway, Genius – it is being coded in 7.X – the Legion client. Which also worked fantastically well on Windows 7 64 Bit and Direct X 11.
The current 8.X Client also works perfectly fine on the same setup.
Would you like to bring anything else to the table? Perhaps how Blizzard will only be offering Classic in a box of 3 ½ Inch Floppy Disks with a non GUI launcher that only works in native MS-DOS?
