World of Warcraft - Recommended Spec

[Pontiac]

Either I've lost my mind, or, there's some kind of bug in the game when it comes to this particular spec.

The Recommended Spec states that for the graphics card, it needs to be an AMD Radeon R9 290, which technically doesn't exist by that exact name. In free build mode, I've put in 1060s and they don't meet recommended spec. I went so far as putting the 11G card in, and it met spec. So the problem isn't AMD vs NVidia cards, but, a huge offset to what should be put in this setup?

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1372961220

[SnaWr]

I use R9 390X 8G and no problem. With R9 290 GR8 and R9 290 GR8TOR not work.

[Metallos]

The system requiremments for WoW are ridiculous and totally wrong (1 GB RAM?).

Actual for Legion: https://eu.battle.net/support/de/article/76459
Next Addon (64 bit only) : https://eu.battle.net/support/de/article/137431
(The Phenom2 aren't listed for Battle for Azeroth but I'm in Beta and it runs on my Phenom2 X4 965).


Storage 6 GB could match to Vanilla / Classic, the CPU should be changed then to a Pentium 4 / Athlon XP instead of the i5, VRAM to 64 MB and the GPU to a Geforce 4 Ti.
(But the PCBS plays nearly today so the correct requirements are on the Blizzard page above).


@Pontiac:
You can use the comparision tool which you can buy in the tools shop. remember, even with a faster GPU you have to look at the VRAM.

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Originally posted by Metallos:

The system requiremments for WoW are ridiculous and totally wrong (1 GB RAM?).

Actual for Legion: https://eu.battle.net/support/de/article/76459
Next Addon (64 bit only) : https://eu.battle.net/support/de/article/137431
(The Phenom2 aren't listed for Battle for Azeroth but I'm in Beta and it runs on my Phenom2 X4 965).


Storage 6 GB could match to Vanilla / Classic, the CPU should be changed then to a Pentium 4 / Athlon XP instead of the i5, VRAM to 64 MB and the GPU to a Geforce 4 Ti.
(But the PCBS plays nearly today so the correct requirements are on the Blizzard page above).


@Pontiac:
You can use the comparision tool which you can buy in the tools shop. remember, even with a faster GPU you have to look at the VRAM.

The recommended specs for games and titles in-game in the "Will It Run" -DOES NOT- match the real life "Actual minimum specs" for any title in the list what so ever. This is a simulator, not 1:1 real world data.

[Metallos]

And you know what a simulator is?

It don't need 1:1 real world cata (but it uses real world hardware...) but combining system requirements from 2003 and 2016 is totally insane and out of logic.
1 GB RAM? That was my last Win98 SE machine (Athlon XP 3200+).

Then tell me a gaming PC which has 1 GB RAM and runs a R9 290 (oops, it doesn't fit into an AGP slot).


Edit: Because the game is in "alpha" state (EA -> pre beta) some requirements could be placeholders.

If you want fun (easter egg?): Look at Deer Hunter in the "will it run" ;-)

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Originally posted by Metallos:

And you know what a simulator is?

It don't need 1:1 real world cata (but it uses real world hardware...) but combining system requirements from 2003 and 2016 is totally insane and out of logic.
1 GB RAM? That was my last Win98 SE machine (Athlon XP 3200+).

Then tell me a gaming PC which has 1 GB RAM and runs a R9 290 (oops, it doesn't fit into an AGP slot).


Edit: Because the game is in "alpha" state (EA -> pre beta) some requirements could be placeholders.

If you want fun (easter egg?): Look at Deer Hunter in the "will it run" ;-)

Bottom line is it doesn't matter what anything is in real life or how far off this game's "system requirements" are from real life, -NONE- of that matters or is of any concern to anyone but you. This is a GAME, and in this GAME, we just match fake computers to what the fake system requirements say to complete fake objectives. I guess you don't seem to understand that some how.

[Pontiac]

I don't want this thread to become a war between virtual and real. As far as we know, the data set in the game is just placeholders. I was pointing out that I was moving up the rank in hardware and had to go pretty far from where the game suggested I needed to be to what I had to actually employ (Which was about 1000 points above what recommended was).

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Originally posted by Pontiac:

I don't want this thread to become a war between virtual and real. As far as we know, the data set in the game is just placeholders. I was pointing out that I was moving up the rank in hardware and had to go pretty far from where the game suggested I needed to be to what I had to actually employ (Which was about 1000 points above what recommended was).

Yes it's +3 ranks above where the card currently is now, this is not really new knowledge, it's just not spread around on the forums a lot.