How to change graphics settings

[masterryan123]

The video settings are too high for my computer and i crash upon logging onto a character,
the screen goes black and i get 'the graphics driver has stopped responding'

I do not get enough time to quickly enter the video settings tab and change the settings before my entire computer crashes (yes it is a toaster). I did see that the settings were not the lowest they could be.

Unfortunately vanilla wow did not have the options on the home log in screen, so i need a way to change my settings outside of the game.

Any help is appreciated, I use intel graphics (i know terrible), and yes the drivers are up to date.

I am able to play the current wow patch fine so i should be able to play this i just need a way to change the video settings to the lowest.

[Diametra]

copy this below. Using notepad, navigate to the file config.wtf in the WTF folder in wow. Open the file with notepad,select all, and over-write it with this:

SET hwDetect "0"
SET gxColorBits "24"
SET gxDepthBits "24"
SET gxResolution "1366x768"
SET gxRefresh "60"
SET gxVSync "0"
SET gxMultisampleQuality "0.000000"
SET gxFixLag "0"
SET fullAlpha "1"
SET doodadAnim "0"
SET lodDist "80.000000"
SET SmallCull "0.080000"
SET DistCull "350.000000"
SET frillDensity "8"
SET farclip "200.000000"
SET particleDensity "0.300000"
SET movie "0"
SET readTOS "1"
SET readEULA "1"
SET realmList "login.nostalrius.org"
SET realmName "Nostalrius Begins"

you can see where the resolution line is. If that's too high, replace that line with proper settings.

[masterryan123]

i can't save, it says access denied

[masterryan123]

i can't save, it says access denied

[masterryan123]

okay i managed to do that but it still isn't working.

Anyway i can launch it in windowed mode

[Snow240]

Hey masterryan123,

Open config.WTF and append the following to the end of it. This should set the game to open in windowed mode.

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SET gxWindow "1"

Have you tried updating your graphics driver? I don't think that lowering the settings will help as they're already quite low and much lower than retail WoW.

[Nacht]

Ever tried to add

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 SET gxApi "OpenGL"

(your client will use OpenGL instead of DirectX) in your config.wtf ?