However, there are a few tweaks I would certainly recommend to this base spec, before we dive into Shadowlands stuff:ĬPU: At this point, with the proper multi-threaded renderer support added in BfA during patch 8.2, the game runs very well on multi-core CPUs, as opposed to its awful past state of throttling one core really hard and making no use whatsoever of other CPU cores, even as multicore CPUs have been out for 15 years now. These won’t represent seismic shifts in system power – long gone are the days of +100% generational improvements in hardware, but it will simply be for branding – no one wants to be caught dead recommending an AMD FX CPU when Ryzen is out and kicking ass, as an example.
My expectation is that these won’t change much, if at all, short of maybe updating the recommended and minimum CPU name and model and graphics models. However, at this point, I’m largely speculating based on strings and options from the alpha test of Shadowlands, and so some of these things may not make it to release or be implemented in the way I think they will be.įirst, let’s start with a refresher of the current system requirements of WoW as of Battle for Azeroth: With that said, there are a surprisingly large number of tweaks under the hood and to settings to make things more intuitive and squeeze out a bit more performance. I want to lead with that, because here’s the bottom line of this post – if you’re currently happy with how your PC handles BfA in patch 8.3, you’re likely to be just as happy with it in Shadowlands. Shadowlands doesn’t seem to make as many large under-the-hood changes to the WoW engine as were made during Battle for Azeroth. I’ve written a ton of WoW posts and a growing number of technology posts in my Sidenote series, but never have I been able to mash-up the two into a post that works for both audiences, so this is exciting for me!
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