I need to take a moment to thank Levallia of Hellscream for selflessly aiding me in my quest to give everyone the best possible review of the game running on our favorite tiny little computer. Not only did she agree to run me through RFC without knowing that it was for blogging purposes, but she also made it a perfect run. I expect high yield returns for the items I farmed. Thank you Levallia!
On to the specs! (scroll down to the very bottom for the overall)
Required Specs: (from the wow forums)
OS: Windows XP (Service Pack 3), Windows Vista (Service Pack 1)
Processor:
- Minimum: Intel Pentium 4 1.3 GHz or AMD Athlon XP 1500+
- Recommended: Dual-core processor, such as the Intel Pentium D or AMD Athlon 64 X2
- Minimum: 512 MB RAM (1GB for Vista users)
- Recommended: 1 GB RAM (2 GB for Vista users)
- Minimum: 3D graphics processor with Hardware Transform and Lighting with 32 MB VRAM
Such as an ATI Radeon 7200 or NVIDIA GeForce 2 class card or better - Recommended: 3D graphics processor with Vertex and Pixel Shader capability with 128 MB VRAM
Such as an ATI Radeon X1600 or NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT class card or better
Mac System Requirements
OS: Mac OS X 10.4.11 or newer
Processor:
- Minimum: PowerPC G5 1.6 GHz or Intel Core Duo processor
- Recommended: Intel 1.8GHz processor or better
- Minimum: 1 GB RAM
- Recommended: 2 GB RAM
- Minimum: 3D graphics processor with Hardware Transform and Lighting with 64 MB VRAM
Such as an ATI Radeon 9600 or NVIDIA GeForce Ti 4600 class card or better - Recommended: 3D graphics processor with Vertex and Pixel Shader capability with 128 MB VRAM
Such as an ATI Radeon X1600 or NVIDIA 7600 class card or better
Controls: A keyboard and mouse are required. Input devices other than a mouse and keyboard are not supported.
Connectivity: You must have an active broadband Internet connection to play.
Mouse: Multi-button mouse with scroll wheel recommended.
Hard Drive Space: 15 GB free hard drive space
Along with the video, since the quality isn't that great, I will post a few pics.
The rundown:
We never expected the AA1 to be a powerhouse of gaming superiority. It just wasn't built for it. To all you gaming freaks who have to have 60+ FPS : Go buy something for 4 grand. You aren't going to get it here.
That being said, the game runs quite stable at 12-20 FPS. I have the settings down to minimum, as you might expect, so the graphics may not 'wow' you (bad pun!). Ive been back on WoW for about a week now, and have been playing on the AA1 and nothing else. Ive done a few instance runs and a lot of soloing/small group farming. The one can and does handle these without flaw. Orgrimmar and similar big cities do push the lag to near extremes, but you can tolerate it so long as you aren't some kind of elitist psycho gamer with visions of computer grandeur.
Short version: Playable.
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