Did some quick shadowlands testing with the Optiplex 980 + GT 1030. At 4k resolution and gfx setting "1", I'm only ~40 FPS in the open world. Dropping down to 1080P resolution at gfx setting "1" was over 90 FPS in the open world; gfx setting "3" I've seen a low of 55 FPS, but generally in the 60's. At gfx setting "5" I dropped down to ~20 FPS.

Overall, I think this PC is still perfectly viable for followers in shadowlands, but you are playing at reduced gfx settings (which I generally prefer for followers anyway).



I should note that I didn't have room to fit shadowlands on the 120GB SSD that I had installed, but I did have a old, traditional 500GB, 7200RPM hard drive floating around. So my load times sucked, but I don't know that there's any real determent while running around the open world.