How to play Legion on old/shit PCs with solid FPS!

[Domsa]

First of all I´m using this method on an old mid 2009(AMD Athlon II 240, 2gb ram and a ATI Radeon HD 4760 512 MB) and I have been playing with 50 to 69ish fps. Now this method consists on downgrading the graphics to a really low setting using these macros :

/console groundEffectDensity 16

/console groundEffectDist 1

/console horizonfarclip 1305

/console farclip 90

/console characterAmbient 1

/console smallcull 1

/console skycloudlod 1

/console detailDoodadAlpha 1

/console shadowMode 0

/console ShadowTextureSize 1024

/console waterDetail 0

/console rippleDetail 0

/console reflectionMode 0

/console SunShafts 0

/console particleDensity 10

/console weatherDensity 0

/console SSAO 0

/console environmentDetail 60

/console ffx 0

/console componentTextureLevel 1

/console TerrainMipLevel 1

/console WorldBaseMip 2

/console gxDepthBits 16

/console gxColorBits 16

/console gxRestart

/console m2faster 1

/console hwPCF 1

/console overridefarclip 0

/console componentTextureLevel 1

/console spellEffectLevel 1

k, those macros should boost you up some frames, but they are not enough for some areas with heavy particles/details. So I have decided to sacrifice some sharpness in the quality in order to achieve a better performance (you will have to bind the following macro and manually alternate between them when you are getting spikes):

/console set renderscale 1

/console set renderscale 0.8

/console set renderscale 0.7

/console set renderscale 0.5

/console set renderscale 0.4

those 5 macros over there will greatly improve your performance, but the game will look like an old ps one game. I know that it can be a little frustrating to play like that, but if you like the retro style and you are not planning on buying a new pc in the near future, I would recommend to key bind those macros and alternate between them when you have spikes.

REVERTING THE CHANGES: to revert the changes just try to set the game to a blizzard default graphic setting on your wow preferences panel, that should put back the normal values of the game, if that does not work close the game go to your wtf folder an delete the Config.wtf file (the game at startup should create a new one based on your system specs).

PICS: http://imgur.com/a/THeqt (please note that the closer you are to an object the more sharp is going to look, it is still playable), http://imgur.com/a/elIXb

Hope I helped you guys out. Cya on the broken isles!

[Dreadara]

Give credit where its due, you took it from a reddit post - https://www.reddit.com/r/wow/comments/4wnadq/i_got_an_extreme_yet_effective_way_to_play_wow/

[ryangg]

This macro is old AF