WOW + LED Cinema Display + MBP

[digitard]

I ran it via my MBP (15" Unibody, 2.53ghz, 512mb 9600GT, etc) at the highest resolution, and mostly high settings and this is how it ran on my MBPro screen.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-aA1LM1mB4
Click the high resolution option so it looks a bit better.

Runs the same, obviously, at the same resolution with the 22" LCD. I knocked it up to 1680x1240 (or whatever the max of my monitor is) and it works fine as well. I didn't check the FPS though during that, just general performance in Dalaran.

D.

 

[duncan75]

lol, good grief guys, it's WoW... I'm telling you, it runs amazingly well at 1920x1200 for me on my 2.53 unibody. This isn't a graphically intensive game in my opinion. Just turn off anti-aliasing and I find it hard to believe that you would have any slowdowns whatsoever. Again, I'm playing WoW within OSX.

In Vista, I'm running (at 1920x1200):

The new Prince of Persia (awesome and gorgeous, 100% smooth)

Warhammer Online (Very smooth but not quite as smooth as PoP, prob drops to 20's when many people are on screen at once)

Oblivion+Shivering Isles (smooth)

Left 4 Dead (haven't played this one yet, but it's HL2 engine so I would be surprised if it didn't play very well)

Guild Wars (smooth)

NWN2 (smooth)

Assassin's Creed (the most graphically intensive of the game and the only one that gives me slowdowns. Turning off or decreasing shadows greatly increases performance. I choose to keep it at 1920x1200 and turn down shadows which gives me an acceptable level of performance.)

So far, I've been extremely impressed with the performance of the card.

 

[brentsg]

lol, good grief guys, it's WoW... I'm telling you, it runs amazingly well at 1920x1200 for me on my 2.53 unibody. This isn't a graphically intensive game in my opinion. Just turn off anti-aliasing and I find it hard to believe that you would have any slowdowns whatsoever. Again, I'm playing WoW within OSX.

I'm just afraid when I finally encounter something like the trash pack pulls in Hyjal that it will be brought to its knees.

 

[Blaine]

Thanks again everyone

I will get the 15" 2.8

 

[digitard]

lol, good grief guys, it's WoW... I'm telling you, it runs amazingly well at 1920x1200 for me on my 2.53 unibody. This isn't a graphically intensive game in my opinion. Just turn off anti-aliasing and I find it hard to believe that you would have any slowdowns whatsoever. Again, I'm playing WoW within OSX.

The main reason people ask is that WoW got some graphics engine changes with the release of WOTLK. It includes more powerful lighting, and effects (such as fire. If you've seen Dragonblight post cut scene you'll know the fire I'm talking about). So it does use more resources now due to this, which you can obviously scale back. While the main engine is largely unchanged it does have some new "tricks" to make it look better, and hence the questions people seem to have on it lately.