{"id":8127,"date":"2010-10-21T00:49:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-20T22:49:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"world-of-warcraft-cataclysm-pc-requirements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/8127-world-of-warcraft-cataclysm-pc-requirements","title":{"rendered":"World of Warcraft: Cataclysm PC requirements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vg247.com\/2010\/10\/20\/blizzard-releases-minimum-cataclysm-pc-spec-requirements\/\" target=\"_blank\">VG247<\/a>, WoW players will need the following to run the upcoming expansion pack:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Minimum requirements<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&bull;<span style=\"white-space: pre;\"> <\/span>OS: Windows XP 32bit (SP3), Windows XP 64bit (SP2), Windows Vista 32bit (SP1), Windows Vista 64bit (SP1)<\/p>\n<p>&bull;<span style=\"white-space: pre;\"> <\/span>Processor: Intel Pentium 4 1.3 GHz or AMD Athlon XP 1500<\/p>\n<p>&bull;<span style=\"white-space: pre;\"> <\/span>Memory: 1GB or more of RAM<\/p>\n<p>&bull;<span style=\"white-space: pre;\"> <\/span>Video: NVIDIA&reg; GeForce&reg; FX or ATI Radeon&trade; 9500 video card or better<\/p>\n<p>&bull;<span style=\"white-space: pre;\"> <\/span>Sound: DirectX-compatible sound card or motherboard sound capability<\/p>\n<p>&bull;<span style=\"white-space: pre;\"> <\/span>HDD: 25 GB free hard drive space<\/p>\n<p><strong>Recommended&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&bull;<span style=\"white-space: pre;\"> <\/span>OS: Windows XP 32bit (SP3), Windows XP 64bit (SP2), Windows Vista 32bit (SP1), Windows Vista 64bit (SP1) Windows 7<\/p>\n<p>&bull;<span style=\"white-space: pre;\"> <\/span>Processor: Dual-core processor, such as the Intel Pentium D or AMD Athlon 64 X2<\/p>\n<p>&bull;<span style=\"white-space: pre;\"> <\/span>Memory: 2 GB RAM (2 GB for Vista users)<\/p>\n<p>&bull;<span style=\"white-space: pre;\"> <\/span>Video: 3D graphics processor with Vertex and Pixel Shader capability with 256 MB NVIDIA&reg; GeForce&reg; 8600 or ATI Radeon&trade;<\/p>\n<p>&bull;<span style=\"white-space: pre;\"> <\/span>Sound: 2600 or better DirectX-compatible sound card or motherboard sound capability<\/p>\n<p>Blizzard is known for keeping system requirements modest, and the upcoming expansion to its hit MMO is no different. Cataclysm is due out on December 7, 2010.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>Discuss <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/8397-WoW-Cataclysm-7th-December\" target=\"_self\" title=\"World of WarCraft: Cataclysm\">World of WarCraft: Cataclysm<\/a> on the MyGaming forums.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WoW will continue to run on aging hardware<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}