Will I be able to play DF?

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I’m not sure my graphics card is up to the job :confused:

I’ve got an Acer Aspire 5 laptop, spec is:

|Processor|11th Gen Intel(R) Core™ i5-1135G7 @ 2.40GHz 2.42 GHz|
|Installed RAM|8.00 GB (7.78 GB usable)|
|System type|64-bit operating system, x64-based processor|

Dedicated graphics is GeForce MX350
It’s also got Intel Iris Xe graphics

I did one of those testing things where you download something and it’ll see if your system is compatible with a certain game and it gave me a big X on graphics. But I’m not sure how accurate it is.

I see that Iris Xe is listed on the min spec, but surely the actual dedicated GeForce card will be performing better? Or should I set the game to run off the Iris Xe? O_o (I’m not at all techy if you hadn’t guessed :sweat_smile:)

In any case, if I drop everything to absolute potato settings will Dragonflight at least be playable? Currently on retail I’m at 4 or 5 in open world and I just knocked it down to 2 for raid. I do experience low fps and lag. On a good day I might get 40-50fps out in the world, I average 20-25 and that’s playable for me, but if Oribos is busy I can drop to a very painful <10. Ardenweald is also v laggy for some reason, it didn’t used to be like that though, probably first couple of seasons it was fine.

In certain dungeons and with certain raid bosses I’m <10fps and lagging awfully. First bit of Sire standing against the wall is beyond painful, I’m practically frozen while the world stutters around me, and trying to get rid of stacks at the right time is impossible.

I tried the primal event thing yesterday and have now seen hell, it is 4fps :joy: (yeah, kinda expected since it’s new and everyone’s crowded in there, but eesh…)

So do you think I’ll be able to run Dragonflight? And if anybody has any ideas for helping fps issues I’m all ears, I’ve tried a few things Googling has suggested like setting it to an earlier DirectX, but I’m not seeing a massive difference :confused:

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You got better spec’s then me and I can play Beta perfectly fine :person_shrugging:
I just don’t put everything on Max.
Especially ground clutter and shadows have to be disabled. That eats ALOT of PC stuffies.

Major hubs like Org/SW and Oribos are slightly laggy, that’s why I NEVER log out in those cities. It’ll make logging in soooo much longer.

(Sire stacking was even laggy for some raidmembers with way better PC’s, I think there’s to much burst numbers going on)

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My wife has nearly exactly the same laptop. GPU and all is the same. It ran WoW pretty well during Shadowlands. The fps got really bad now, just like you are experiencing, during this pre-patch.
It’s probably mostly problems inside the game right now since so many people are having fps issues. Even on super expensive desktop PC’s
We are waiting until these issues get fixed before we buy the game.

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Thank you both for your replies <3

You have put my mind a bit more at rest, I think I will risk getting it :smiley:

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A point of notice: it isn’t actually necessary to buy Dragonflight to test a few things out in advance. Patch 10.0 (which is currently live on the realms) already includes the groundwork for the very vast majority of technical changes that will be introduced for the expansion, so while the new zones are absolutely of a higher fidelity than anything previously seen in the game (meaning framerates may be a bit lower there) just logging into any densely populated area should already give an idea of how things may look like once the expansion goes live.

In that vein - the Geforce MX350 series is unfortunately not considered supported by the game, or to meet its official minimum requirements. The game is probably going to launch and run, but performance will most likely be fairly limited (especially in visually dense environments) - the MX series as a whole isn’t specifically catered for a gaming audience, so despite having been released recently its raw performance and optimization for gaming-related features is on the somewhat lower end.

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You will have to run the game at 1080p or 720p low settings but it should run acceptably well.

For Tiger Lake / Intel Xe graphics benchmarks you can check my 1165G7 tests:

https://rk.edu.pl/en/world-of-warcraft-on-amd-intel-and-apple-integrated-graphics/

Oribos has spots that tank FPS and also requires more RAM. It’s probable that new zones will require more than 8GB of RAM.

Looking at Acer Aspire 5 specs and build it looks like you have the 8GB soldered RAM running in single channel (much lower performance) so it would be good to add a 3200Cl22 DDR4 SODIMM stick to it to get 16GB and dual-channel.

…or upgrade to a newer laptop :smiley:

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