Recently i looked up shadowlands Recommended system requirements and i’ve thought i should have open this topic.
Shadowlands recommended specs should require;
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OPTIMIZE THE GAME SPECS BEFORE IT IS RELEASED PLEASE !!
I hope you see the difference.
What the actual hell?
Who are you to decide what the requirements should be? Based on what?
Upgrade your old rig.
CPU is prehistotoric and made for word writing and making emails.
Gpus is made for League of Legedns type of game.
Your HDD is outdated technology.
Move with time or die in past.
2020 game release should have 2020 game standards not something old i was suprised just 8 gb of ram.
You got classic for your sub par cpu and hdd choices enjoy!
Has like 7 GB ? a lot of saved space for you!
Wow should use updated hd textutres everywhere.
Eh,your proposal is higher than official minimum requirements 
You really shouldn’t have. WoW can still run on a toaster compared to other games that were/going to be released in 2020. They can’t make the game look better but not increase the requirements at the same time.
well… Based on what the requirement for other games are obviously.
Just look at what SL looks like compared to… Whatever got released recently. And you have your answer.
The new microsoft flight simulator would have a word with you.
Shadowlands won’t be optimized because Blizzard does not care. The less money they have to spend the better. The same optimization disaster that happened to Warzone is coming to Shadowlands.
Blizzard is dead. WoW is dead. They don’t care. People will not only quit because the expansion is trash, they will also quit because they can’t even play the game.
Oh fly away with that.
WoW used to have a reputation for being an MMO you could reliably play without needing a high-end PC for it to run. From the sounds of it you will need to get one now, which is not a very good thing for people who don’t care to play many other games and just play WoW
These recomended spec are acutally lil below average .
These specs are no high end…
And times changes !
There you go budget new pc for few years if you wait few weeeks price lower due new GPU and CPU from AMD.
https ://imgur.com/a/q9Z9p5Q
625 Euro i whole new system i hope you have tower to put it in.
You can write your own ideas as well. ‘‘should’’ isnt a command word. It is a suggestion.
My rig is slightly better than ryzen 1200. im using 1300x.But i wrote an entry level cpu. ryzen 3 1200 is released on 2017. 3 years old cpu is not ‘‘prehistoric’’ by any standarts. Your logic is invalid.
No; my hdd works quite fine.You are just brainwashed by ssd sellers.I can play other games much more smoothly than wow. Its an optimization issue.
Im not much a classic fan; but i played few times in my free time ; and let me tell you; i can play on ‘‘ultra’’ on classic. And that amazed me.i wish wow had simpler and more fluent graphics compared to todays unnecessary fancy spell fireworks lol.
And no ; wow shouldnt require a PC upgrade at every expansion.Period.
Wrong. Not everything is about that.Running on a toaster doesnt mean you can ‘‘function properly’’ in game. Before upgrading my cpu to ryzen; i couldnt even function properly at motherlode dungeon.(i had an old i5 aptop that i played with back in time)The thing is by design.Dungeons and raids are becoming more and more clutttered and bloated with random stuff that we dont interract with and stressing the cpu. Back in time Wotlk had amazing graphics and i was playing the game with an ‘‘athlon x2 processor’’ that time.I even mained a tank on that time.The changes came after the release of cataclysm,a lot of old graphical things changed,raids became more cpu demanding, more npc cluttered etc… and wow became less and less optimized each year.Lets not forget that windows 10 is worse in terms of gaming performance,compared to win7 ; because it simply doesnt allow ‘‘full screen’’. In addition; camera changes and unchangeble base max view distance and other type of weird stuff made game unnecessarily more demanding.
If this type of non-optimized game design continues ; wow gameplayer base will severely diminish within time ; and players will see ‘‘50 core cpu base requirement’’ within next few expansions(yes i’ve said that!)
I agree there, but its kinda double sided. 8gb is more than enough for most games to run smoothly, and problem with wow is even if u could use those 8gb fully, u wouldnt see it. Visualy the game looks similar wheter u play on mid or max settings, because all those procs and rng effects arw consuming your gpu. Wish for some optimalization here, so i actualy can see my difference if im using “full power”.
your cpu you posted may be 3 years old but certaintly it was not advertised for gaming and ANYONE who knows something would tell you these low end I3 / ryzen 1300 are for office low work and max League of Legends/Dota/CS go type of game at max.
Not sure how you but game with montly fee and tripple A price is for me not type of game playable for lower end of hardware.
You can play it but you will lower your settings.
And what is this nonsense with STORAGE LIKE FOR REAL?
Do you think magically adding content would lead in decrease of size of game or what ?
I am surprised it does not have at least storage size as call of duty modern warfare with war zone in it.
Are you going for the moron of the year award? You’ve got my vote for sure.
Im not fan boying ryzen here; but not everyone is priviledged to play on ‘‘top tier gaming’’.There are tiers for gaming ; and current changes to wow demands; arent in a good pace.That’s the whole reason for me to open this topic.
I prefer fps and fluent gameplay over graphics; so thats why we maybe clashing a debate over here.
If a game becomes ridiculously demanding; it will make me sad to say ; but i’ll have to stop playing that game.And ı dont want that to happen next time to wow too.ım playing since from Tbc, and trust me ; i know ALOT of people who are like me.
WHAT PART OF THIS You did not READ?
Did i said it will run top great ?
I said it will run but perhaps you would have to lower few settings.
TIMES GOES and evolution too.
And that storage nonsense you can remove this part about other parts of hardware made sense yet still you can not expect not upgrading .
And euro for performance Ryzen wins for Cpu .
Gpu will have to wait what AMD has to show off against 3000 series.
0 interest in ray tracing AMD has GPU covered already.
btw with me 2 years old cpu and below RECOMMENDED settings gpu i noticed like not decrease in performance?
Biggest boost in is having wow on SSD sata /have more money and motherboard for it put it on M2 NVME disk.
I hope people there don’t have seen Cyberpunk requirments. Most of you really have old pc.
And tell me how you want optymalise over 15 years old engine that was designed without supporting raytracing, or 64 bit architecture?
Recommended system requirements are what you need to run the game smoothly on high/ultra settings. The specs you’re asking for can run WoW but on low settings. You don’t really get to want raycast shadows and legion water and raytracing and high poly models and better textures and then complain that the game doesn’t run on a mediocre PC from 5 years ago.
You should use consoles as baseline PC specs, as they dictate the average that’s needed. Consoles are getting SSDs this year, meaning all PC games will absolutely require an SSD from now on. RTX is also becoming standard, so if I were you, I’d be excited for the GTX 30xx GPUs coming out.
Get with the times, mate.
Reduce clutter from game;
Reduce spell animations per character;Or make them more transparent
Reduce pet numbers on game ;
Reduce npc bloats in raids and pve.
Addd an option to disable ray tracing.(i dont give a damn about ray tracing. It looks like its an alpha stage technology anyways lol)
Update the game engine in Unreal engine or Unity;
Add a fullscreen option to game; This will increase performance to game like 2 times more; maybe force fullscreen it into game by new coding? (windows 10 disables fullscreen if i remember correctly)
Add options to game that is similar from D3; Low FX option; and other detailed graphical options; like
Texture(high /low)
Shadowquality=
(off,low,medium,high,low(smooth),medium(smooth),high(smooth) )
Physics(High/low(% 75 reduced ) This one is the main issue here
Clutter density(off,low,medium,high)
Antializing(none,fullscreen,multisample 2x, multisample 4xlow,multisample 4xhigh,multisample 8x high
To be able to Disabling;Screen space ambient occlusion(SSAO) *or make it transparent.(the spell effects and animations i guess, i dont know what this is called on wow graphical options)
For those people ; i’ll write another mmo example to here; i’ll not write it’s name ; it is released on 2010;and it is still alive in community wise; it still has a decent gameplayer base and i can currently run that game on MAX graphics on 1080p without sacrificing anything.And ım not even reducing graphics a bit for doing pve lol.And that game was similar to wow few years ago; i could play it on my laptop easily by reducing graphics; After switching to desktop; i was amazed how well game was optimized on max graphics; and its not that demanding and bloated with unnecessary fancy graphical art fireworks.
You may argue that wow isnt even on same timer with other mmo’s on par in terms of graphics department; and i may agree on that; but if that ''development ‘’ costs you ‘‘customers’’ in the long run; that means you are doing something inefffectively. All i can say is ; they can fix it if they want to.