The Landscape of Azeroth After the Events of the Warcraft Cataclysm

With the forthcoming Cataclysm, the landscape of Azeroth will change forever. Places you know and love (or know and loath) will be transformed by the events.

Ashenvale will become a very apt name for the valley full of ash it seems destined to become, whereas Desolace will go the other way and confuse tourists by not being in the least bit desolate at all. Expect the purples and greens of night elf habitat to be everywhere. Stranglethorn will remain a jungle peninsula, with the added benefit of a live volcano in the middle.

But it\’s not just the changes that we need be wary of. It is the requirements on your PC. Looking at the videos for the new zones it is clear that they are much more detailed than the existing Azeroth. A good thing. However, for those of you scraping by on an old PC, this expansion might signal the need for a change.

Multi boxers need also watch out. Even a good PC might struggle to run 5 clients at the same time. Turn those details down on the slave clients, reduce the FPS using the proprietary software you use to manage the clients, and maybe you\’ll get through.

What I notice more than anything else is the amount of movement that goes on screen even when there are no players or NPC\’s present. Clouds move, the water textures are vastly improved, smoke billows, flags flutter. It\’s all going on, and all needs rendering by your PC.

To be fair, Warcraft has never been a particularly resource intensive game, but because of that many still play the game on mid to low end PC\’s. This is where the problems may arise. It might just be a case of lowering the detail to get by. But then, the new graphics are that good – wouldn\’t you rather see them in all their glory?

Cataclysm could be many months off. SO there is no panic at all, but my advice (for what it\’s worth) is to spend the time saving for some upgrades to your PC, especially if it is a little long in the tooth.

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