New expansion, new requirements?
world of warcraft It is very close to turning 20 years old and it has rained a lot as far as PC hardware is concerned, where we have already seen many revolutions together that have multiplied the graphic processing capacity. And Blizzard, in these almost two decades, has been taking advantage to gradually increase those minimum and recommended requirements until leaving them as we have them now, where the PC that we must use can no longer be just anything.
So the first thing we’re going to do, if you like, is go over those requirements that the guys from Irvine have officially posted on their Battle.net page about World of Warcraft Dragonflight. And they are these:
Minimum requirements | Recommended Requirements | |
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Operating system | Windows® 7 64-bit | Windows® 10 64-bit |
Processor | 4 Cores, 3.0 GHz 4th Generation Intel® Core™ Haswell | 6 Cores, 3.5GHz 8! Intel® Core™ Coffee Lake generation |
AMD Ryzen™ Zen | AMD Ryzen™ Zen 2 | |
Graphic card | DirectX® 12 with 3GB | DirectX® 12 with 8GB |
NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 900 series | NVIDIA® GeForce® RTX | |
AMD™ GCN 4th gen | AMD RDNA™ 2 | |
Intel® Iris® Xe Graphics | Intel® Arc™ 7 Graphics | |
Memory | 8GB RAM | 16GB RAM |
Storage | SSD drive with 128GB of available space | SSD drive with 128GB of available space |
It is clear that even with those minimum requirements we can demand a little more from the game by making even more powerful hardware available The one that Blizzard asks us for, so that we can not only enjoy everything at the top of quality, but also do it with the highest possible refresh rate. Even beyond those 60 fps that have become a standard when we talk about video games and smoothness of movement.
Do you want a laptop for World of Warcraft?
tell you first of all that World of Warcraft Dragonflight also works on Mac (which has a Linux heart), just in case you want to take a look at Apple’s computer catalog and pay that extra price for the latest models with M1, M1 Pro, M1 Max and M2 processors that are extraordinarily powerful and in the case of the Blizzard title, they have turned around compared to the performance of the old Intel Core i5 or i7. But leaving aside those MacBooks (Pro and Air), we are going to look at the PC territory, which is going to be much more affordable.Of first we are going to recommend an Acer model which has different variants depending on what we want to spend. This is the Nitro 5 AN515-56-51V8, which will work perfectly even in more modest configurations. This Intel Core i5, 8GB of RAM and GeForce GTX 1650 graphics will allow you to enjoy the game at a good level.
But since you surely want more, let’s go one step further, to another of these Acer Nitro 5 but it is already equipped with an entire Intel Core i7, 16B of RAM, 512 gigabytes of SSD storage and full-fledged graphics such as a GeForce GTX 3050.
We will not stay only in Acer. If you want a real beast that you can demand the best possible performance, nothing like take another leap in components and graphic quality with the ASUS TUF Gaming F15that to its Intel Core i7 processor and 16GB of RAM and its terabyte of SSD storage we have to add all the power of a GerForce RTX 3060.