Solved! Will this run WOW?

Aug 26, 2018
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TECRA S11-11G
PART NUMBER: PTSE3E-01C00UG3
Windows® 7 Professional 64-bit (pre-installed, Toshiba-HDD recovery) and
Downgrade to Windows® XP Professional Edition (Toshiba-Recovery DVD)
Intel® Core™ i7-620M Processor
39.6cm (15.6”) , Toshiba HD+ TFT High Brightness display with LED backlight and 16 : 9 aspect ratio
Hard disk 320 GB
Precious Black with black keyboard
4,096 (2,048 + 2,048) MB, DDR3 RAM (1,066 MHz)
NVIDIA® Quadro® NVS 2100M with CUDA™ technology
maximum life : up to 3h30min (Mobile Mark™ 2007)
weight : starting at 2.54 kg
W x L x H : 374.0 x 250.5 x 33.4 (front) / 37.6 (rear) mm
 
Solution
I don't think the outdated 512MB Nvidia GPU would be able to perform at a playable frame rate.
https://www.nvidia.com/object/nvs_techspecs.html

Minimum graphics is Intel HD 530 or GTX 560 2GB or HD 7850 2GB.
https://us.battle.net/support/en/article/76459

Here's a similar GPU compared to those:
http://gpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-HD-530-Mobile-Skylake-vs-Nvidia-NVS-3100M/m34955vsm7837
http://gpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Nvidia-GTX-560-vs-Nvidia-NVS-3100M/3155vsm7837
http://gpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/AMD-HD-7850-vs-Nvidia-NVS-3100M/2182vsm7837
I don't think the outdated 512MB Nvidia GPU would be able to perform at a playable frame rate.
https://www.nvidia.com/object/nvs_techspecs.html

Minimum graphics is Intel HD 530 or GTX 560 2GB or HD 7850 2GB.
https://us.battle.net/support/en/article/76459

Here's a similar GPU compared to those:
http://gpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-HD-530-Mobile-Skylake-vs-Nvidia-NVS-3100M/m34955vsm7837
http://gpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Nvidia-GTX-560-vs-Nvidia-NVS-3100M/3155vsm7837
http://gpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/AMD-HD-7850-vs-Nvidia-NVS-3100M/2182vsm7837
 
Solution
I struggled to play with a sandy bridge i5 laptop, with a GT 540m, in legion, in anywhere but remote places, without any players. I wouldn't dare try BfA with it. Going by notebook check, that is a higher class card, than an NVS 2100m.
 


Ran OK for me, I was even using old drivers. The new expansion caused a lot of issues with low frames till nVidia and AMD got updated drivers. My main system was running with huge lag on drivers just a few versions out of date, updated the drivers and it more than doubled the FPS. The laptop with 2000M ran at 30-40 FPS without any updates, but I only tried it for a few hours. At much lower settings of course.
 
It might have been the dual core i5 holding me back, but I have struggled to play WoW on it, since WoD. Legion was basically impossible. It's an i5 2430m, 8gb ram, GT 540m, with a 512gb 850 evo. Wife uses it for schoolwork now. It can be upgraded to an i7 2630qm, or something along those lines. I would have to check the CPU options Asus had for it. I got me a new laptop earlier this year, that does all I need it to do, though.
 
You can try WoW for free up to lvl 20. Do that, and if you don't like the performance you get then go ahead and spend the money on a new GPU. A GT 1030 would be the cheapest new GPU to get, but if you wanted better performance then maybe a GTX 1050. If you go to high with the GPU we'd have to look in to your power supply.
 
Display size : 39.6cm (15.6”)
type : Toshiba HD+ TFT High Brightness display with LED backlight and 16 : 9 aspect ratio
internal resolution : 1,600 x 900
Graphics adapter type : NVIDIA® Quadro® NVS 2100M with CUDA™ technology
memory amount : 512 MB dedicated VRAM (total available graphics memory using TurboCache™ technology can be up to 1,773 MB with a 32-bit operating system and 3 GB system memory or 4,094 MB with a 64-bit operating system and 8 GB system memory)
memory type : DDR3 Video RAM (resp. Video RAM and system memory combined)
connected bus : PCI Express®
Internal video modes The following internal video modes are supported :
resolution : 1,600 x 900
Max. external video modes max. resolution : 2,048 x 1,536
max. refresh rate : 100 Hz
non-interlaced resolution with max. refresh rate : 1,600 x 1,200 ..................................TECRA S11-11G
PART NUMBER: PTSE3E-01C00UG3
Windows® 7 Professional 64-bit (pre-installed, Toshiba-HDD recovery) and
Downgrade to Windows® XP Professional Edition (Toshiba-Recovery DVD)
Intel® Core™ i7-620M Processor
39.6cm (15.6”) , Toshiba HD+ TFT High Brightness display with LED backlight and 16 : 9 aspect ratio
Hard disk 320 GB
Precious Black with black keyboard
4,096 (2,048 + 2,048) MB, DDR3 RAM (1,066 MHz)
NVIDIA® Quadro® NVS 2100M with CUDA™ technology
maximum life : up to 3h30min (Mobile Mark™ 2007)
weight : starting at 2.54 kg
W x L x H : 374.0 x 250.5 x 33.4 (front) / 37.6 (rear) mm
 
MERGED QUESTION
Question from alaincathy7779 : "will dis run world of warcraft"









wow is dx11, gpu is dx10
even if it would run dx11, that gpu is 4 x slower than minimum gt440