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WoW: Forever Beta causes my entire Mac to restart when Base Game Quality is set to 6.

Hardware: 2024 24-inch iMac, Apple M4, 24 GB memory
macOS: Sequoia 15.7.7
Display: Fullscreen (Windowed), 4480×2520 native resolution, 50% render scale, anti-aliasing disabled

From Character screen able to enter world with windowed mode and graphics set to 1.

Steps to reproduce:

  1. Set Base Game Quality to 6.
  2. Select a character and click Enter World, or change to quality 6 while already in the world.
  3. The game freezes and the entire computer restarts.

Setting Base Game Quality to 1 allows the same character to enter and play normally. Fullscreen mode works correctly at quality 1.

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its crashing all of us using Mac it seems.

3

I’m actually impressed… I think that is the first time I’ve ever seen a MAC choked out like that. When it turned itself off and gave up, I was amazed… bravo Blizzard.

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Adding another data point for not being able to load in on Mac client

Dwarf Shaman - loading into Dun Morogh

MacOS 26.6.2 (25G83)

Apple M4 Pro

Display: Fullscreen (Windowed)

3440 × 1440

No stack trace

5

Same here. MBP M1 16gb of ram no issue with other wow games

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this right here

7

Having a similar issue.

Stuck on loading screen permanently following character creation and causes full crashes on my Mac.

Mac Studio M1 Max

32 GB memory

Tahoe 26.6.2 OS

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It’s locking up the entire window server, the watchdog on the operating system is restarting to clear the issue.

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Same issue, M3 repeated crash even with graphics to minimum and optional gpu settings off

10

Same Here Mac Mini M4 24gb ram the beta crash my mac

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Thank you! Setting the game quality to 1 worked here! Even at this setting the laptop fans are maxed out whereas have never had issues on other versions.

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Same issue here.

M3 Max Pro
64GB Ram

Completely bricks computer trying to get past the character screen

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Also crashing … using an Apple M4 Max with 48gb memory with a 40 core GPU

14

Same here. My WindowServer process crashed for the first time and the second time my Mac stopped responding.

I’m using Mac Mini m4 16gb.

Hardware Overview:

Model Name: Mac mini

Model Identifier: Mac16,10

Chip: Apple M4

Total Number of Cores: 10 (4 Performance and 6 Efficiency)

Memory: 16 GB

System Software Overview:

System Version: macOS 27.0 (26A428)

Kernel Version: Darwin 27.0.0

Boot Mode: Normal

Secure Virtual Memory: Enabled

System Integrity Protection: Enabled

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Same issue - Set Graphics to 1 and it will work

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Same here. Crashed on loading screen, can’t get into the game. Mac mini M4.

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Please post the hardware you are using, and the macOS… Interesting how so many of you have not upgraded to macOS 27 yet, it is truly a huge improvement, especially with the Metal (gaming) API’s.

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Was having the same crashing issue after character select screen and trying to load into the world. I then went an updated to Mac 27, still having the same issue. Mac Mini M1.

I am about to try graphics settings at 1 to see if it works

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I don’t know my fps is cooked I even set to graphics 1 and barely getting 70fps on. a Mac mini m4 playing 1080p its weird im getting around 100 fps easy in retail in town

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Once they started including AI I stopped updating.