Will WOW work on a laptop

joemorris86 · 11 Mar 2006 at 19:40

Im just brought a laptop and was wondering will world of warcraft play on it. Im not sure what graphics it has but it plays warcraft 3 fine online on high graphics.
Oh and its a 512 ram 1.4ghz mobile celeron if thats any help.

StarShock · 11 Mar 2006 at 20:43

from what you've said it should play it ok, not great but ok, but you need to find out what graphics it has just to be sure, WoW isn't very grphicly challenging but it does need more power that WC3

Skully · 11 Mar 2006 at 21:02

Works fine on my 14" iBook.

sharingan_sasuk · 12 Mar 2006 at 02:33

Works fine on my 12" iBook too.

HAz · 12 Mar 2006 at 03:03

i would say highly unlikely, tho iam assuming the laptop has poor onboard graphics chip.

put it this way my amd 3700 64 with 512 ram and usign a gf2mx was unplayable on lowest settings.

wow isnt a huge graphical game but it uses a hell of a lot of memory.

warcraft 3 is old and the spec of your laptop would have been a top of the range pc when that came out.

So no not a chance

joemorris86 · 12 Mar 2006 at 10:43

I think its got 64mb of graphics memory. Might be 128 tho. Is it possible to install new graphics cards in laptops or are you stuck with what you have?

Robert · 12 Mar 2006 at 10:58

Yes it will be fine despite what Haz said.

LordSplodge · 12 Mar 2006 at 12:29

If it is one of the more decent Intel Graphics chipsets then yes, and you have at least 512MB of RAM.

I have a Fujitsu Siemens C Series Lifebook and it plays Eve Online (OK not brilliant) and Unreal Tournament 2004...but I wouldn't use it to play any serious gaming sessions.

Laptops suck for games but win for mobile p0rn!

Camalot · 12 Mar 2006 at 12:58

I play wow on

1ghz amd
512mb ram
64mb gf4

Hunting places is smooth as smooth can get but when you start to go near ironforge and stormwind, i freeze lol...Then after that its genrally laggy and crappy

It peaks at almost 700mb ram on my pc with no programs running in background.

KadreMoD · 12 Mar 2006 at 15:20

I've played WoW on an 800mhz P3, 370ish ram and a geforce4mx and it was fine. FPS dipped a lot in places , but it dosent matter much when playing an mmorpg like wow. My brother raided in MC with that computer pretty successfully.

BlackMaster · 12 Mar 2006 at 16:37

I play wow on my laptop, only has a ATI 9700 mobile GPU with 64MB and play with max graphics settings smoothly. Although having said that it does have 1GB RAM and 2.8GHz P4 CPU

Dont worry about the GPU, the RAM is more important.

BlackMaster

phil675 · 12 Mar 2006 at 16:43

As long as the graphics has at least 32MB Memory, it should at least work, tried it on my mates computer which has a 16MB Tnt... it simply wouldn't work.