Bad Computers

[Tito James]

I've been reading up on these forums, and I've noticed in this section a lot of high end computers, as expected. Just curious as to what the actual minimum is people are using for 5 boxing.

I am running 2 accounts on one computer, and I quite like it over playing just one account. My computer just barely handles 2, if you can say it really handles it at all. After log in and loading screens I must say the lag is fairly minimal.

I just wonder, for those with either an extremely limited, (or, like me, none) computer budgets.

I am running these:

3ghz Pentium 4
Windows 7 32bit
3gb ram
Sapphire Radeon X1650 512mb
1tb harddrive

Amazingly, when I'm actually playing the game, everything for the most part runs smooth. The only real pain is the loading screens and logging in. Should I actually be trying to 2 box? Anybody else with a similar or worse computer (or do I take the cake, ha!)

[Svpernova09]

If you're really strapped on your budget, look into using multiple computers, with the settings turned all the way down you can get wow to run on really old systems, and most software (ISBoxer) will support using multiple computers.

[Ashley]

I use a 2.13ghz dual core, 500gb 5400rpm HDD, 4gb RAM, Windows 7 64bit, and some 512mb dedicated graphics and I can run 5 fine.

Theres some places where I wouldn't dare go, such as Org on a busy afternoon. Some areas lag a little though but PVP and general questing is fine.

My Q6600 OC'ed 3.00ghz, 6gb RAM, 1gb graphics, 250gb SATA II was able to successfully run 10 warlocks at once in elwynn. These were only trial accounts and I never managed to upgrade them fully (was just testing it out).

[Akoko]

Really? Only two WoW instances? I find that really hard to believe unless your computer is 10 years old.

I can run four instances of WoW on lowest graphics on my average laptop. It's not even a gaming laptop. I suspect you should be closing some background processes before turning on WoW. Try using Game Booster for this.

[universal]

be aware that the hardware requirements slightly increase with each addon