On Sep 30, 2013, at 5:00 PM, Stan Hoeppner <stan@hardwarefreak.com> wrote:
> No, no. Context is important here. The OP stated she needed more than
> 4GB of RAM. I stated that WOW on Wine shouldn't even require 2GB, but
> for argument's sake, if it did need 2GB, then all of her other stuff
> would easily fit in the remaining 2GB.
>
> I stated previously that I've never played WOW, nor WOW on Wine. So I
> can't just fire it up and look at top to see what it uses. I had some
> friends that were playing WOW back when it first came out, almost 10
> years ago. They were playing on Win XP machines with 256MB RAM and
> GeForce 4 MX cards with 32MB VRAM. Obviously the game has evolved since
> then, but no game increases in processing complexity/load by a factor of
> 10x in its lifetime.
And you would be WRONG, as I stated previously. Bear in mind you were wanting me
to get 4 gig of ram, *of which 1.8 would be shared with the integrated video as video
ram*. That leaves me with barely enough ram to meet the minimum spec with no
other apps running, and leaves me well below the recommended amount of ram,
even with no other apps running. I clearly indicated I would be running a browser,
a chat client, and a ventrilo client as well as WoW all at the same time, and that the
graphics settings the minimum specs allow are unacceptable. You may be a hardware
whiz, but you are no gamer and seem unable to comprehend that gaming is the most
hardware demanding use of a computer.
From the Blizzard website: https://us.battle.net/support/en/article/world-of-warcraft-system-requirements
Windows
Minimum Requirements
Operating System Windows® XP/Windows Vista®/Windows® 7/Windows® 8 (Updated with the latest Service Packs)
Processor Intel® Pentium® D or AMD Athlon™ 64 X2
Video NVIDIA® GeForce® 6800 or
ATI™ Radeon™ X1600 Pro (256 MB)
Memory 2 GB RAM (1 GB Windows® XP)
Recommended Specifications
Operating System Windows® 7/ Windows® 8 64-bit with latest service pack
Processor Intel® Core 2 Duo 2.2 GHz, AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 2.6GHz or better
Video NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT, ATI™ Radeon HD 4830 (512 MB) or better
Memory 4 GB RAM
Updated: Sep 12, 2013
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