And Mac users are still dealing with freezes, crashes, fps drops, long loading times, etc
Hell sometimes even the computer itself freezes and forces a restart
And the so called temporary “Fix” to reduce the chance of happening which was to lower the particle setting, which makes you a liability since you cant see some effects such has boss mechanics, such has the Pools of blood during the Transfusion attack from the Blood priestess in Atal’Dazar
At this point i dont even know if they care about Mac users
And no, this is NOT an issue with my computer or Addons, since everything was working fine before the 8.3 patch came out
I just tried to do a TW dungeon, and the game was freezing nearly every 20 secs for like 5 secs, until it ultimately crashed the computer.
Ya, it sucks. One of the things I’ve been trying to fix it is adjust my resolution screen back to where it should be. Playing windowed, gets set to custom…back to the setting I initially selected, FPS generally goes up.
It’s not a real fix. But…1 thing you can do in the meantime.
Hope it helps, but ya, this is terrible.
(Also, I’ve stopped using other apps alongside my game. Been monitoring memory/cpu usage, and it’s just too much with anything else running as of late)
Why come here to make fun of mac users? OP is obviously frustrated. All of us on Macs are frustrated. Some of us use them for other reasons, be it school or work. Not everyone has extra cash for specifically a computer laying around.
Let’s be realistic for a second. Whether Macs are ideal is irrelevant. It is a game that has been available for them the entire time. With that being the case, does it make more sense to seek out a fix to this new patch-specific issue, or buy an entirely new computer?
You’re forcing the Mac to do what it wasn’t designed to do; gaming.
Macs are for documenting and art and text and stuff.
I want my cat to wear kitten mittens because it would be fun and stupid, and even though mittens exist for cats, I doubt my cat would enjoy it very much, nor would I force her to partake. She just wasn’t designed for it.
The game went downhill for me on my iMac once BFA was released. I was even able to play WoD without issues on a Macbook Air.
The reality is this: Apple hasn’t updated their offerings in an economical manner. I went to Mac in 2012 because I was having all kinds of issues with spyware. I went back to Windows PC after realizing that the Macs were getting long in the tooth.
Sorry to hear that you are having problems OP, have you checked the mac technical support forums? Maybe they can help if theres anything you can do on your end. Hopefully Blizzard fixes this mess soon
They probably didn’t do proper configuration testing. When I worked for Sony back in the mid 1990s, we’d take our beta CD-ROM titles and test them out in Cupertino at Apple’s HQ. They had this open lab with different configurations of their different computer products. I wonder if they have something similar nowadays.
Blizzard has been one of the few to support Mac over the years, sad to hear 8.3 broke WoW for Mac users.
Would a dual-boot work as a temporary fix? I know I’ve heard of Mac users running Windows in the past.