World of Warcraft Performance Guide

No_Style · Mar 23, 2005, 11:21 PM

In PC gaming, first person shooters get all of the attention. The releases of Doom 3 and Half Life 2 were accompanied by a swarm of hardware upgrade guides all over the net, including those published on AnandTech. If you were waiting for Doom 3 or Half Life 2 before upgrading your machine, you had every ounce of information at your disposal upon their release.

The same type of attention is rarely cast on other genres of games in the PC world for a handful of reasons. For starters, FPSes are the most likely to have built-in benchmarking tools, making our ability to present you with performance data infinitely easier. There's also a good deal of emotional attachment to anything that comes out of id Software, Epic Games or Valve, given their history with PC games - in their own way, they are the developers who brought the PC its Super Mario Brothers or Legend of Zelda. But reasoning aside, there's much more to PC gaming than just FPSes; the best, most recent, example of an extremely successful non-fps is none other than Blizzard's foray into the Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing realm - World of Warcraft.
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bananaman · Mar 24, 2005, 09:56 AM

is nice to see benchmarking of other genres

nice article

*pats GFX*

nana

daedal · Mar 24, 2005, 11:24 AM

World or WarCraft isin't really that heavy as far as Video is concerned, it just sucks up allot of Memory and processing, or that's what I noticed anyhow.

goku21 · Mar 24, 2005, 09:31 PM

Yeah, I was runnign 512megs of ram recently and it would slow down to 5fps for a long time, but now that I have a 1gb in my rig, I stutter ever so slightly when I fly into and out of IF which is just from my video settings pushing my 9800 pro

Mar 23, 2005, 11:21 PM	#1
No_Style Styleless Wonder Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Ottawa, Ontario Posts: 6,034 Rep Power: 0	World of Warcraft Performance Guide In PC gaming, first person shooters get all of the attention. The releases of Doom 3 and Half Life 2 were accompanied by a swarm of hardware upgrade guides all over the net, including those published on AnandTech. If you were waiting for Doom 3 or Half Life 2 before upgrading your machine, you had every ounce of information at your disposal upon their release. The same type of attention is rarely cast on other genres of games in the PC world for a handful of reasons. For starters, FPSes are the most likely to have built-in benchmarking tools, making our ability to present you with performance data infinitely easier. There's also a good deal of emotional attachment to anything that comes out of id Software, Epic Games or Valve, given their history with PC games - in their own way, they are the developers who brought the PC its Super Mario Brothers or Legend of Zelda. But reasoning aside, there's much more to PC gaming than just FPSes; the best, most recent, example of an extremely successful non-fps is none other than Blizzard's foray into the Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing realm - World of Warcraft. _______________ Read More/Source: Anandtech __________________ "The Best Style Is No Style" Specifications Here

Mar 24, 2005, 09:56 AM	#2
bananaman banana muncher Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: London Posts: 1,254 Rep Power: 64	is nice to see benchmarking of other genres nice article pats GFX nana __________________

Mar 24, 2005, 11:24 AM	#3
daedal Uber Coffee Drinker Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Gatineau, Quebec Posts: 2,250 Rep Power: 0	World or WarCraft isin't really that heavy as far as Video is concerned, it just sucks up allot of Memory and processing, or that's what I noticed anyhow. __________________

Mar 24, 2005, 09:31 PM	#4
goku21 DriverHeaven Lover Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Sacramento, CA Posts: 152 Rep Power: 0	Yeah, I was runnign 512megs of ram recently and it would slow down to 5fps for a long time, but now that I have a 1gb in my rig, I stutter ever so slightly when I fly into and out of IF which is just from my video settings pushing my 9800 pro