The only advantage an SSD is going to bring is quicker load times.
You are NOT going to be required to have one to install the game (this would equate to Blizzard shooting the other foot), although I do recommend them.
By now a 512 GB SSD is like $60 at best
Actually you will seriously notice the difference just moving around the world as things load in. It is pretty dramatic even on a new PC. Like taking a flight path, you will actually see smooth transitions between zones without the jerky microstutter, as all that stuff is being constantly streamed in from the SSD instead of read thrashing on a slow mechanical drive which is the main cause of such stuttering.
When I upgraded it was night and day. Best bang for the buck upgrade by far.
Lol no, that will never stop no matter what system hardware you have.
What? Everything in that first statement isnât accurate aside from Windows 7 being no longer in service. WoW was the first game to get DX12 support on Windows 10, also, DX12 doesnât even run wow properly currently, Blizzard spent the past 5 months telling everybody to turn off DX12 in favor of DX11 due to 8.3.
I was gonna say reevaluate your finances, but thatâs a good point I didnât consider.
If you read what I said, I said you canât play dx 12 on Windows 7
Hence âthatâs why they want you to be on Windows 10â
If a personâs PC canât handle those 2010-esque min requirements thatâs on them.
Good. Now make W0W 2 and double the requirements please
Recommending a 1080, which still costs at least $500+, is a very poor choice coming off of an expansion that was widely considered one of if not the worst. Not alot of people are going to drop $500+ on a new 1080 just to play WoW when BFA just happened. Itâs not worth spending the money, not yet.
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WoW 2 will never happen. And Blizzard knows if they up their requirements too steeply, they will lose a significant portion of their playerbase, because - shocker - not everyone has the money to buy a Titan RTX.
Which is what you are suggesting they recommend. Because that would be double the requirement on the GPU side of things.
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And I doubt anything in this 15 year old game is really going to take advantage of it either.
To be fair, who knows what advancements theyâve made during the development of Shadowlands. Itâs not likely what theyâve done will actually require a 1080, though I would be willing to bet that theyâre recommending a 1080 or a Vega 64 because Shadowlands is poorly optimized and they donât want to spend the time it would take to optimize it to work better on cheaper parts.
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LOL youâre probably right.
I really donât want to sound like an a**hat, but these specs are a joke.
If you canât build your own pc (which btw you can, itâs simple, and Iâm not talking about complicated builds with water cooling). You can buy a PC with such specs something like 400$ ? Is it too much ?
PCs play a huge roll in our everyday lives, from workibg, shopping, gaming and entertainment, itâs totally worth to save for a PC. If you save 10~20$ per week, you can get a decent PC in a year.
Itâs funny, but itâs actually a likely possibility. If I recall, the jumps forward in system requirements in past expansions werenât as significant as this jump is, and considering theyâve dropped their standards of game development quality multiple times over the past few years, it honestly wouldnât surprise me if they decided to be lazy and make up for their own refusal to optimize by recommending parts that the game really shouldnât require.
Youâd be hard pressed, at least in my opinion, to find a $400 PC that will play WoW smoothly.
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The new minimum CPU came out in 2012; the minimum graphics card came out in 2013. I think youâll be ok.
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Imagine not assuming people on a US forum are from the United States.
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This is an NA region forum. Which includes Oceanic, Latin America, and Brazil. Itâs not just the United States.
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A GTX 1080? Recommended for WoW? What?
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