One day hop b4 we all die, WOW will run on 4k
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4K is simply a screen resolution, and the game you’re linking is 9 years old. 
I’m playing WoW at 4K max settings almost every day.
On Linux.
Because I’m weird like that.
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Not exactly, 4K is a resolution but it also can be use to describe the size of textures used by a game. The video the OP has linked is Skyrim with modded with 4K textures. Size of textures and size of resolution are two different things, you can play in 1080p with 4K textures, there is even some 8K texure mods for big things like dragons.
It’s a pretty fuzzy description though. WoW has lots of very high resolution textures, even if it may not look like it sometimes, and many of them are 4K and above. A character model has A LOT more than 4096x4096 of textures on it.
It’s because of the aesthetic. But trust me, if the resolutions weren’t high, you’d notice. In fact the armour you’re wearing right now… you’re noticing.
Sometimes I get the sense that you just want WoW to become more realistic looking?
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Yeah, I know the description is very vague, but that is the therminology used by Skyrim modding community. I just explained it because the OP has linked a video about Skyrim modded textures. I suppose outside modding wont make any sense, in Skyrim usully 4K textures usually means texture 4 times bigger than vanilla ones made by Bethesda, there is no way to define it for WOW textures because 4K compared with what?
Yeah, I honestly didn’t think about it until after posting because WoW does have some 4K textures and I was thinking about WoW, not Skyrim - but again, the amount of video memory that both games uses is in the gigabytes, and that’s really where more objectives measures of detail come in, so it’s just a weird comparison.
I actually did have a really crazy Skyrim mod setup. I had to start merging mods because I had too many as I recall. xD I do remember that term. I usually avoided them like the plague though because, even at 4K resolution, they hardly looked better than 2K ones, and they took up insane amounts of memory.
But I couldn’t really get ModOrganizer 2 to work on Linux and then I just kindda gave up. Don’t know if it’s been fixed since to be honest.
The game does run on 4K, not in 4K but on 4K.
Do you play it on wine or do you have a Windows VM with PCIE passthru for the GPU? I found wine to be rather unstable for WoW so I went for a Windows VM and I’m passing my second GPU to it. Took me a weekend to set-up but works great!
I’m using Proton 5.6-GE-2 through Lutris. Running it on DirectX 12 mode through vkd3d and it’s very, very stable. I can play arena with it, BG’s with it, dailies with it, raid mythic with it with confidence that I don’t get a crash. Highly recommended - at least if you use NVIDIA, I don’t know if AMD works.
It often goes up to about 100 FPS on 4x AA, mostly maxed settings (no occlusion because I don’t like it), and 4K on a GTX 1080. It doesn’t go that high up on Windows - not sure why.
I can share my settings if you want.
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WoW is not about graphics or resolution.
Look at all these games with amazing graphics, people play them for 1 months then get back to wow.
Clearly wow has everything except graphics, thats something personally i settle with!
Remember playing ‘Star Raiders’ on the old Atari 8bit, was brilliant, then tried it again on the Atari 16bit with the enhanced graphics and it wasn’t half as good, jo idea why, just was.
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