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    Can I play World of Warfraft?

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by willthepro, Jun 14, 2008.

  1. willthepro

    willthepro Notebook Geek

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    I have a dell inspiron 640m (an old laptop)

    i have 512mb ddr2 ram
    intel gma 950 graphics card
    my processor is an intel centrino due with dual core technology and the speed is 1.66ghz

    will i be able to play world or warcraft with this? I havent been able to play a lot of games e.g. i cant play rome total war or aoe 3.

    Thanks
     
    willthepro, Jun 14, 2008
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  2. KGann

    KGann NBR Themesong Writer

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    Maybe on the lowest of low settings, but then still won't be very fun.
     
    KGann, Jun 14, 2008
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  3. tianxia

    tianxia kitty!!!

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    Yes, if you don't mind being tortured.
     
    tianxia, Jun 14, 2008
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  4. chesieofdarock

    chesieofdarock Notebook Deity

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    upgrade your ram and you can do low settings without problems.
     
    chesieofdarock, Jun 14, 2008
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  5. willthepro

    willthepro Notebook Geek

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    how do i upgrade my ram? It says you should have 256mb of ram
     
    willthepro, Jun 14, 2008
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  6. flipfire

    flipfire Moderately Boss

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    id have to say no on this one, you dont want the performance to struggle when playing wow
     
    flipfire, Jun 14, 2008
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  7. JCMS

    JCMS Notebook Prophet

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    You can't play RTM nor AOE3? Upgrade to 1~2 (preferably 2) GB of RAM and you will be set. I could play them both @800x600 on a 2.4ghz P4, 1GB DDR 400 and a FX5200
     
    JCMS, Jun 14, 2008
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  8. willthepro

    willthepro Notebook Geek

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    how do i upgrade the ram on a dell laptop? What ram would be compatible?
     
    willthepro, Jun 14, 2008
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    visit www.newegg.com for example, there u can get ram for laptops.

    You will be able to play it nice on low settings if u get 1 GB ram

    i play it fine on the laptop in my specs.
     
    Satyrion, Jun 14, 2008
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  10. miscolobo

    miscolobo Notebook Deity

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    Prepared to see the worst slideshow of your life when you enter major cities
     
    miscolobo, Jun 14, 2008
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  11. Tusin

    Tusin Notebook Evangelist

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    Upgrade the same like others have said. At least max it out (whatever your max is). You could just go to Crucial's website and use the ram configurator.


    So much WRONG information here. It is just people guessing. My old laptop when I started WoW had a 2ghz Pentium M, 1GB of ram, and a GMA900. I was able to level, grind, go into towns with out to much of a issue. I even ran ZG once (I was a healer, so I would turn away from the action and just watch the health bars).

    I also played it for about a week on the GMA950, not much better then the 900, but a bit. Just don't expect to raid, bg, arena, etc....
     
    Tusin, Jun 14, 2008
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  12. simonmpoulton

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    Yeah to the guy who said he could play with an FX5200, that card looks good in comparison to the GMA 950 :p
    If you had the newer X3100 then you could play it without problems!
     
    simonmpoulton, Jun 14, 2008
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  13. StormEffect

    StormEffect Lazer. *pew pew*

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    You need more RAM, but I have a friend who is a total WoW-addict and plays with a GMA950. She has to turn most of the settings to medium, and then she only gets 5-15 frames per second.
     
    StormEffect, Jun 14, 2008
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  14. JCMS

    JCMS Notebook Prophet

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    That much? The FX5200 is a Geforce 2 MX with shader 2.0 support
     
    JCMS, Jun 14, 2008
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