How to Play WoW on a Crappy Computer

If you are like me, you play on a computer that Blizzard states probably won't work.

First off you aren't going to be able to play like the true geeks play. You are going to have to settle for second best. The first thing you need to do is turn down all the settings. In order to do this you click on the "?" sign on the button action button bar in WoW. Then select System.

My Settings are as follows:

Display Mode: Windowed
Resolution: 1366x768
Anti Aliasing: None
Basic Setting: Low
Texture Resolution: Low
Texture Filtering: Triliear
Everything else is Low, except, sunshafts, SSAO, Depth Effects and Outline Mode which are disabled.

Advanced Settings are:

Triple Buffering: Disabled
Reduce Input Lag: Disabled
Hardware Cursor: Enabled
MSAA: None
Multisample Alpha Test: Disabled
PPAA: None
Resample Quality: Bilinear
Graphics API: DirectX 11
Max Foreground FPS about half way
Max Background FPS about 20%
Render Scale about 30%

Network: Optimize Network for Speed checked

I also recommend downloading a program called Game Booster 3 by IObit and starting WoW through their menu. It will stop many of the processes you have running in the background you don't need.

I myself have to stick with mostly PVP. There isn't as much going on in a battleground or arena than there is in a full raid with extra cool graphics, bosses and special effects. I can run old instances, but with some of the WoD instances, I just had to give up on.