A current Mac Mini running a 320M is about on par with the 2008 MBP I had (2.2Ghz C2D, 8600M GT, 2GB of ram), and it handled WotLK at about low to mid, with the biggest factor being draw distance and texture detail. Things like max draw distance doubled between BC and WotLK, so it's not always guaranteed that it will play great on old/low end hardware.įurther, when I played WoW it took about a 10-20% hit just being run on a Mac (similar hardware compared). This has to do with the fact that Low/Mid Settings are essentially what the high settings were way back when. While you may have been able to run WoW on high with a Dell 9300 (1.6 Pentium M, 6800 Ultra Go and 1GB of Ram) back in early 2005, you would be really taxing it to try and run anything above low settings on that hardware now and expect decent frame rates in anything but solo play. What was High back in 2005 is definitely no longer high/max settings now. With each new bump, the labels in the settings menu get equally changed. Things like textures, particle effects, water detail and draw distance are just a few of the things that have had major overhauls since its release in 2004. They bump up the engine and graphics detail with each expansion.
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