You’re incorrect. A game can be sound and working just fine, but when they put in an update and a driver no longer works correctly with the game, the game developer doesn’t fix the driver. The hardware manufacturer fixes the driver to now work with what the developer has put out. Their game is just fine, however Intel/Apple are having driver compatibility issues, and they need to find where those issues lie. I dislike seeing uneducated posts dogging on a company that is trying to work on a problem…I do not like blizzard mind you but I still understand how drivers and operating systems talk to the hardware and a small update from a game can cause compatibility issues with said driver.
Well said, although there is an inherent problem that apple in general treats these kinds of problems as very low priority. They have many bad driver practices.
They never release a driver update for any OS version that’s not latest, period. a 10.14 or 10.13 user who can’t upgrade to latest is just screwed, period. It’s a bad practice that you don’t see on windows or Linux.
Second issue, even latest OS, they will only fix minor issues. Major issues that require fundemental changes in how driver works, they just push off to the yearly update. I half expect that the true fix not happen until 10.16 because of that. Apples development strategy for most part is .0 update has the major changes, rest of the OS is just bug fixes that don’t require major changes.
This particular bug fix is a major change, so you can bet 10.16+ only.
I know even intel/apple suggested direct ways to blizzard to TRY and avoid bug and only real sure way appears to have been particle effects being totally disabled. They had a new way they were sure solved it based on collab with intel and apple and pushed it, and the initial findings were positive so they removed the hack to disable particles, sadly a lot of users still have problems. i’m not sure why they didn’t at least ship the particle work around back out for time being though, instead of leaving no 100% work around available for those stuck in wait for probably 10.16
Just found this thread after posting my issue as well. I’m with you. Flickering and 5 seconds freezes. So like I understand we have no answer and need to refund the payments and leave?
So this seems to be an issue with just NVIDIA and integrated graphics Intel processors.
I bought a 16" MacBook Pro, and it’s been running the game flawlessly.
Also my 2010 Mac Pro, with a Radeon RX580 is now running the game great.
On the Mac Pro, this was not always the case. But a few patches ago, it seems to have fixed whatever was broken.
Ok I will wait their next patch then and then refund because it’s just unfair. Paid for all the upgrades and pre orders. And the game freez all the time and support not even answering.
The stutter is back…came back with testerday morning’s maintenance. Best way to describe it, every 0.5 seconds a “skip” happens in highly graphical areas. Nauseating. Have to turn resolution back down to an awful 50% to mostly, but not completely, eliminate it. PLEASE fix this
Early 2015 MacBook Pro 13 inch. Mojave version 10.14.6
Yup. Nauseating and infuriating. Stutter is causing eye fatigue and they have ignored this thread for a long time now. Annnd they think we’d refer a friend. lol.
I’m glad it’s not just me! I just bought a new Macbook Pro TODAY with plenty of ability to run WOW and was so excited to try it out. Well… the game is completely unplayable. I’m getting creamed in fights because my screen is so laggy. My old macbook air (that I bought the new mac to REPLACE) is running circles around my new macbook in terms of wow gameplay. Blizzard, please help us! WOW is completely unplayable for us rn.
Blue, it’s been almost 5 months. You really think they’re doing anything substantial? Blues don’t even post here anymore. We’re not worth it to them. We’re a write-off.
The stutter is doing some interesting things to my brain, but mostly generating hate.
Bruh the game still isn’t playable??? It’s July smh … I just came back to see if they finally fixed the game so I could resub again… I guess not
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So I’ve been having the same issues since 8.3 and before I havent had an issue and even when I’ve played other games I never had an issue. However for the past 5 months I’ve been freezing in dungeons and raids.
I’ve had friends try to say it’s the internet or it’s my laptop. Granted it’s a 3 year old laptop but again, it’s never had this issue playing FFXIV. Never with GW2.
So it’s kinda nice seeing other people with the same issues. And no one saying oh it’s probably the laptop. And even if it were switching computers isnt going to help.
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That’s how it feels. I’ve played since 2007 on Macs, but it looks like BfA will be my last expansion, which sucks because BfA is… not great? Logged in this week to get my 6-month subscription mount (I’ve had a 6-month subscription for years), flew around for a bit, had the same problems that we’ve had for months, couldn’t do any content, and logged out to play another game.
I have been able to play with the occasional crash until today. Something happened with a big update that downloaded today. I could usually go without my system crashing within an hour or so. After this update or whatever, it’s 3 -5 minutes. Same thing it’s always done: crashes to desktop, says eGPU was disconnected improperly.
I’ve been a subscriber for however long this has been out. 15 Years? Even got one of those statues sent to me in gratitude.
How about this for gratitude: Make the game work.
Now imagine the game became unplayable for you when the 8.0 prepatch came out and you check back and it still isn’t. Welcome to my world. Trust me, I know the feeling. Different song, same tune.
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Has anyone had any news about this? Mine started working without problems again, still do not know what made it happen, so I want to know if the lack of further posts was related to that…
I’m on the same boat and just posted a thread bout this… SO MUCH LAG!
Stopped playing from February - July. Updated mac to Sierra and haven’t had any problems since then. Hope everything works for SL
Hi, I’m also wondering if this game-breaking issue is now fixed and won’t be a problem in Shadowlands?
I’ve been using Bootcamp to play since this issue was introduced, but my Bootcamp partition isn’t big enough apparently for SL. I’m planning on buying a PC by the end of the year but will it be ok to play on Mac for at least the beginning of the expac? I do some raiding so need all the effects working.
Thanks for any info!
I unsubbed a while ago and just installed to check out Shadowlands only to find that on two separate MacBook Pros, 2017 and 2019 WoW is lagging out graphically. I guess I won’t be re-subbing. Really sad to this turn of events for OSX users. 
Did you ever get any information about this? It can’t just be a Mac problem because mine is an HP and it’s the same exactly issue. I stopped playing for a while because of the frustration and I’m hoping there’s a way to resolve it before Shadowlands.