Best to wait for entire patch before starting tho. It WILL be either incredibly slow, or not run at all.

Since you have an Nvidia 8400 Mobile chip, play will not be great, but still alot better than Intel (lol).

A few tips:
  • I prefer to launch WoW with the "-opengl" command appended to the rest of the launcher. WoW will add the correct line in config.wtf for you. No real need to edit.
  • I've found that running in Win XP mode seems to make WoW happiest, with sound and updates seeming to work best.
  • As you already know, INSTALL THE PROPRIETARY DRIVERS!
  • Put ALL the in-game Video Option sliders to 'lowest", and set everything you can to lowest "button". If you want to raise things, do them one at a time, and try them out first. Find a balance between what actually works as far as FPS goes, and what looks "pretty" (With your chip, ain't gonna be much pretty going on. 5mans should be OK, 10 mans might be iffy, and forget 25+ man raids. You just ain't got the horsepower.)
  • Just be patient, and hope for the best.


No other "configs" will do much good for you. Even as 'old' as WoW is, it's (graphics) have been getting more and more "intense", and TRUE hardware specs are going up (Yes, you CAN 'play' on an Intel Chip in Linux, but 'quality of play' will be horrendous)

Good luck!