Which vid card for WoW

thats amazing. what card do you have?!

ok, to help you though, what kind of port do you have? pci, agp, pci-e....pci-e 2.0 :P

When he said he was amazed, he really meant that the System Requirements are so low, he is surprised that anyone who plays any games at all still has something so old and/ or so puny that is can't run WoW.

(The requirements go back to the standards of seven years ago, a GF2 card with 32 MBs of VRAM will run WoW, so you must have something purely awful, like an Intel IGP.)

If you have no idea what you have now, get CPUz, and let it tell you. (if you are running on IGP, CPUz can't tell what real video bus you might have, if any. Plain PCI simply doesn't count at all.)

(Edited in later) If you were currently only set up with a built-in onboard video chip, and CPUz gave no answer about the video bus (always assuming in favor of there actually being such a bus), Major Geeks also should still have the free download of Everest Home, which is able to identify an unused video bus's existence.

The MX cards are really simplified parts, that AFAIK, cannot handle Direct3D's Dx8, and I think that WoW requires Dx8 or better (and the software for Dx9 won't change the hardware inside of the MX card).

well i had the trial version and it ran fine but i had to put alot of options on low, i have a geforce 4 mx or something like that i dont remember i have checked in like 3 years

(The requirements go back to the standards of seven years ago, a GF2 card with 32 MBs of VRAM will run WoW, so you must have something purely awful, like an Intel IGP.)

Kiwi_1

I couldn't get World of Warcraft to run on my old 1.3GHz Athlon XP, 1GB RAM, and GeForce 2 Ultra (64MB).

And laughably, after I built my current rig (E6600, 2x1GB RAM, X1900XT), World of Warcraft told me that my processor was too slow to run the game, and if I wanted to cancel the installation. Talk about a weird moment.

just buy a Geforce 8500 GT or a Radeon HD2600Pro....zemus66

You are here in a GAMING web site's forums, where we recommend GAMING video cards, not Low Quality business graphics cards that are only "wannabe" game cards, like that 8500 is. The minimum 8xxx series to suggest is some sort of 8600.

[QUOTE="zemus66"]just buy a Geforce 8500 GT or a Radeon HD2600Pro....Kiwi_1

You are here in a GAMING web site's forums, where we recommend GAMING video cards, not Low Quality business graphics cards that are only "wannabe" game cards, like that 8500 is. The minimum 8xxx series to suggest is some sort of 8600.

Please......don't be so nerd!...with all the respect you deserve.........

Don't you think that if they're called videocards is because they are for that??........not all people are planning to spend hundreds on a videocard.........the man asked for a card for playing WoW......and these cards work perfect in Wow...point