World of Warcraft on Dell Inspiron 1520

I am getting a laptop, mainly for university purposes. However i would like to Casually play World of Warcraft when i get time. How do you think the game will run on my laptop? Thanks

 

answered way too many times...... but by looking at your specs in your sig you shouldn't have a problem

 

Oh sorry, I am new to these forums

 

It will most definitely run on highest settings. The 8600m GT is a powerful card while WoW is modest in terms of graphics.

 

it will run that game easily at max max settings

 

Great, thanks!

 

We need another sticky, below the "****READ BEFORE POSTING**** Gaming General Info Sticky" one (not included in it) that says "WoW will run on these GPU's" and then just list all the damn gpu's since 2002 or something.

 

can we put up a sticky PLEASE that states the LOWEST spec's that can run the game at max settings? or one that states, WoW can run on a gameboy advance on medium settings or something? WoW was meant to run on a HUGE spectrum of computers, i unfortunately played it for a week because iwas begged to try it..... and there were people running P3's doing it fine w/ horrible AGP gfx cards. so ANYTHING!!!!!!!!!! that's being put out now can run it very well.

 

poop, he beat me to it

 

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this is absolutely insane... WoW is not a graphics intense game!!! new threads on this topic need to stop!!!!

 

You guys take this way too serious, the poor guy just wanted to know and sure it's been talked about a million times but you don't have to chastize him for it!

It's what I hate about forums, there's always somebody who has to jump all over someone who has a simple question.

And you know what, know it alls?

My girlfriend just bought and took back TWO notebooks that didn't run WOW worth a crap!

So I don't think the question is out of line by any means!

 

Two pieces of toast tied together with string could probably run WoW. I play it rather happily on a Intel GMA 950. Now thats a real man's graphics card.

 

Which is why i want it to be a seperate Sticky, where you can see what runs wow.

 

Whatever dude, I can tell you right now from experience you can't run it happily with that integrated 950, so don't come here trying to flame okay?

We took back two notebooks a brand new HP with integrated and a Toshiba with a 128mb X1200 that couldn't achive 30fps at settings.

 

Don't go trying to stir things up. I'm not the one whose getting all up in the air. I play WoW using an Intel GMA 950 and at a resolution of 1200 x 800 with low settings I get an average of 20 fps which is certainly playable. If I hit the res down I can easily get 30 fps or more.

So I can run WoW fine on an integrated 128MB solution. I'm not saying that you didn't have difficulties, just that I haven't had any major problems playing WoW on my laptop.

 

You clearly stated "happily" and 20fps on low settings is not "happy" by any means.

You clearly need a solid graphics card with dedicated memory to run WOW at any high setting at a good framerate, period.

Pretty sure two pieces of toast won't cut it.

 

So for you to run something comfortably, it has to be high settings?

 

I fed my cat my WoW CDs and now I use her to play it . . .

 

So you use your KPU, Kitty processing unit, to play. Interesting.

 

You will be fine. i have an asus g1s playing at 1680x1050 max everything with 2xaa and i get 40-60fps everywhere. Not the most demanding game. the 8600m gt in your computer is slower then mine, but im pretty sure u wont have any problems

 

Exactly the same with me. Same card, in fact right down to the 20fps average. WoW runs fine.

 

Well in my opinion wow on my notebook is pretty nice to look at, and if you have to play it with all the settings set to low just to get it to run at an acceptable framerate then what's the point?

Especially terrain distance, I mean if you set it to low you can't see anything in the distance and it makes it quite difficult to know what you are running up on.

Don't get me wrong I am not knocking anybodys notebook, but when you come on here and make a blatantly false statement about pieces of toast being able to run it, come on!

The point I was making was a solid graphics card and dedicated memory is needed to play the game the way it was meant to be played.

 

Um..... Guys.... Again... Im having as problem with my desktop. Which if you dont know... I have duall 8800 Ultra's 4 gigs of ram a Quad Core processor 2.4 GHz each core, and i want to play Quake 3 Arena... I just dont know if i can run it a low settings... I just dont want to spend money on a game that im not sure that i can run.... let me know though. I want to run it at 800X600 and achieve at least 25 FPS.

 

You doing fine, 8.6kmgt can tear through any part of the world, the only WOW problem is maintain low latency, I can't wait to play with my 8.6kmgt too ^.^

 

oh jeez i'm sorry but i burst out laughing about the kitty thing..... i guess my imagination is just too big cause i actually could see that..... /sigh.

 

You'd think humour was dead if you read this thread. WoW runs fine. 20 fps is fine for playing the game and I can attest to that seeing as I've only ever played the game on this setup, from Lv 1 to 59 currently.However, it depends on what your stipulation of playable is. Mine is that I get a decent frame rate and my add-ons work. I don't need flashy spell graphics or extra far terrain distance. The game is still a joy to play without any of that.

The point to me playing the game at low settings is so that I have one computer which fulfills its main job of being portable and having good battery life. WoW is only an occasional time waster. If I wanted to play it at higher settings I wouldn't have invested in this laptop.

 

- best post of this thread !!!

 

I was able to run WoW (albeit poorly) on my Inspiron 600m with a Radeon 9000 (64 MB). The posts asking about Starcraft 2 crack me up as much as these "will WoW run on ****** laptop?!?" threads.

 

800x600 is a bit high maybe 640x480 and you could crack 10fps or so

 

To me, 20 frames per second is not playable. When I play WoW using a combination of medium and low settings, I only achieve 20 fps. I am playing with an Inspiron 1720, Intel Core 2 Duo T7500, 2.2GHz, 800Mhz, 4M L2 Cache with a 256MB NVIDIA GeForce Go 8600M GT.

But it does achieve over 60 fps when playing EvE.

 

There's something wrong then. A 8600M GT is much more than enough to play wow comfortably at those settings. It should be more than enough for comfortable play on medium.

 

burning the toast makes it perform better. I got 30fps stable at 85c out of an overdone slice of wholegrain.

 

Ya the system he stated spec wise is much faster than mine (in sig). I get 40-60fps all high 2x AA 1680x1050.

 

I tried one more setting. I changed the Video > Multisampling from 24-bit color 24-bit depth 8x multisample to 24-bit color 24 bit depth 1x multisample and I now can view over 50 fps.

 

That is a complete falsehood so don't even listen to it. We bought two brand NEW notebooks from Best Buy that did not run it worth a damn!

WoW requires a decent enough dedicated memory graphics card to run at an acceptable framerate.

 

...so huge amounts of Anti-aliasing...on cards with relatively poor memory bandwidth...decreases performance? I'm shocked!

My 8800GTS 640MB never drops from 60fps, even in raids, with absolute maximum settings. My NVS 140M (essentially an 8400M GT) can play it at 1440x900 with max settings except AA and stays between 40-50, except in groups where it can drop to the low 30s. Raiding...low 20s are a distinct possibility. Still fully playable - I'm a warrior anyways, what do I need split-second reactions for?

No, it really doesn't. I've played it on a 128MB (shared) RADEON x200M and it ran just fine at 1280x768, mostly low settings. And that was with a 2.2GHZ single-core Turion64 and 1GB of RAM (on XP Pro). I had a friend who played it at average 20 FPS at minimum on his 64MB shared S3 Unichrome, Athlon XP-M 2200+, and 512MB of RAM for crying out loud. And that thing couldn't even handle CS:S at minimum in DirectX 7 mode. WoW scales very well to older hardware - it's designed to, so that as many people as possible can play it. If an x1270 failed to play it, there was something wrong with your computer (eg, bad drivers, overheating, or Vista), your settings (don't expect anti-aliasing or WUXGA out of integrated graphics ffs), or you (30 FPS is perfectly acceptable, get over it).

 

What server? I'm in DNT and we are waiting patiently for WoTLK..

 

Uh yeah it really does...

I guess your friends are the peeps I see running in place and them jumping across the screen from left to right?

Just how I want to enjoy playing WoW!

 

The symptoms you just described are the result of connection problems, not poor 3D performance.

At this point if you're going to continue to insist that an x1270 is insufficient to play WoW, I'd appreciate it if you could say what settings you were using, what the other specs of the system were, what drivers, what OS, what type of internet connection you have, etc. Because I assure you 100% that an ATi x1270 or even an Intel X3100 is sufficient to play WoW unless something else is fundamentally wrong with your system.

 

ok i have 3 laptops in front of me right now (2 are exactly the same). all are brand new laptops with ok specs.

laptop 1: HP DV6500t ----- core duo 1.8, 120gb hd 5400rpm, intel gma video card, 1gb ram. |||| WOW runs at about 20 fps with everything on low. I'm not sure what others consider playable but this is VERY far from playable to me. At best you can use this laptop to level alts in zones where you dont run into other players much. STAY AWAY from any major city.

what i experienced - leveling/questing = ok
level 70 5 mans = can hardly survive
kara and 25 mans = LOL 2-5 fps if your lucky
arena 2v2 = same as above
3v3/5v5 = worst experience of my life
wsg/ab/av = afk against a wall and u may get 5 fps.



Laptop 2 and 3 - HP dv66449us ----- AMD Turion64x2 1.8 mhz, 2gb ram, 160gb hdd 5400 rpm, geforce g0 6150. ||||| I'm shocked to say it but the first laptop with the 1gb ram and intel GMA preformed much better than this.




So for everyone thats saying wow can run on anything your wrong. I dont deny that you can start wow up on just about anything. by being able to play it is a whole different story. and btw all 3 laptops i listed here are brand new laptops we bought from circuit city just less than a month ago. none of which i own...i use to be a tech so when my family needs a computer they come to me to pick it/test it and so on. i have had these 3 laptops for about a month now waiting for family members to come pick them up and i must say i was upset at just how bad wow runs on these things.

 

I can tell you for a fact that both of those graphics processors WILL NOT run WoW at an acceptable FPS because those are the exact processors that were included in the two notebooks I bought from Best Buy!

I applaud the fellow who posted below you, as obviously he knows what I am talking about.

BTW you see my machine stats below my post, I am running a broadband cable modem through a wireless G router.

9-20 FPS is NOT acceptable by any means.

 

I think we all need to realize that acceptable for one person may not be acceptable for another; it's all relative.

I play WoW on low setting and enjoy it (on a very old notebook). I can compete in BGs and PvE, although I won't (read:can't) be doing any 40 man raids. Would I like to have higher FPS and better quality graphics; sure. But until someone gives me $1500 to buy a new HP8510p I'll have to make do.

BTW, I wish my laptop was as fast as two burnt pieces of toast or Stella's WoW Cat.

 

I agree with Wujohn completely... I mean, not to add to to the controversy here, but my brother (before he quit the game) was main tanking 40man raids on an inspiron 600m... he was spending 20-30 hours a week playing the game so he most definitively found it enjoyable...

I was also playing the game for a while on another 600m (but spending a lot less time on it then he did), and found it very enjoyable.

Depends what you mean by playable

 

some of the info in this post MUST be wrong. people said they did 40 man raids on old dells...I can't see this happening. as I said I tried wow on 3 different brand new hp laptops and I could not even to kara. we were pulling the first few attunemen mobs and I was under 5 fps. you will never even be able to clear the trash non elite groups on the way to moroes with these things. you would most prob crash.....and don't even THINK about doing high graphic fights like aran/prince

if what thee people say are true then dell is a far far better company than hp and years more advanced. so I would go for a dell


my adivice to you is look for a laptop that can play HL2/cs:s with no issues and that laptop will be good enough to run wow at mid settings.


most of the people that say wow can run on anything really don't play it and if they do then they never really got deep into the game. some parts of wo are more demanding than games like cs:s and so on. for example the shade of aran fight in kara...this fight is so graphics demandin its unreal. I have an 8800gtx on my core 2 duo desktop and even that have slight lag on fights like aran.


i'm not saying that these laptops can't run wow. they can...just don't expect to do anything other than questing/grinding.


sorry for the very bad typing.....im writing this from my phone.

 

hey Guys,

I have just ordered a Dell Inspiron 1520 and i was wondering if it will be able to play world of warcraft and at what settings.

My stats
processor - celeron 540 (1.86GHz)
Memory - 1GB
Hard drive - 120 GB
media card - integrated intel graphic media accelerator x3100

 

Why do people order something and THEN ask if it's any good?

 

I only wondered if it was any good at playing WoW because I was thinking of starting it and I don't know warcrafts' requirements

 

i run wow in 1680x1050 with max everything, and it runs fine in raids, did plenty of 25 mans with no hickups. If you have a dell with similar specs to my g1s. u wont have a prob.