So I have a 15" MBP with a M3 Pro chip, and before pre-patch last night I was getting a constant 120fps, even in MoP remix raids.
Today I noticed massive lag in the same raids, and my fps was at a staggeringly low 12.
I have never changed any graphical settings from default, I’m just happy where they are, but I’m wondering if this is just one of a constellation of issues with the pre-patch.
Same here. I recently upgraded from a 2017 intel MBP that couldn’t handle the graphics well anymore. Now that I’m on an M3 Pro, I’ve had no problems cranking the graphical settings up high and maintaining high fps… until last night.
Also, what is up with the humongous esc and character selection menus?
Every pre-patch as far back as I remember has had frame rate issues that have been corrected before or at launch. (Not that this helps in the moment) But beta was very smooth and I’m on an intel Mac.
And yes, I am absolutely having the same issues currently. I would advise riding it out if you can, Mac issues are usually the last to be addressed.
I’ve played wow on a Mac since vanilla, my M3 was the first one I’ve ever owned powerful enough to go past 30 fps 
so I’m definitely a bit in the wtf camp since if it ever was worse I barely noticed lol!
legit same here. in all my years of wow, only two times have i ever noticed frame drops, even on a good pc, during a rollout of a new expansion. the first time was during legion launch, the second time was in valdrakken after launch when it had those, iirc, memory leak issues?
I noticed terrible frame rates on my Mac (M1 Max 32 core, 32 RAM) when I first logged into Valdrakken this morning. I immediately started changing settings and nothing was helping at all, so I changed everything back and logged off. I loaded up the game this afternoon and the performance seemed much “better” but not sure if that was because of less people in Valdrakken or something else - but even flying around seemed far smoother than before. Hopefully Blizz can get the performance smoothed out before launch, because anything like what I experienced this morning has me concerned.
My M2 Mac Mini with 16GB Ram gets 80+ FPS at 1080p with graphics settings at #8
tested today .
Legion was the worst pre-patch by FAR on a Mac, but they’ve all had reduced performance on pre-patch. Sometimes just on large content patches. I’m not saying they’re all gamebreaking, but it isn’t unexpected on a Mac. Something always gets borked, my point is Don’t Panic!
Check your addons, I am on a M2 Max and seeing better FPS in raids.
Historically, dips such as described (especially the raid part) are due usually to out-of-date addons.
I have dumped my add ons and done all the graphic things that have been mentioned but nothing.
has anyone heard a response from blizz?
Graphics settings were reset, many addons were broken
I haven’t noticed performance regressions in prepatch. I have noticed the performance regressions that were in 10.2.7 with regard to particle effects still remain, but that’s not new to prepatch. that’s been there since 10.2.7. did any of you stop raiding before 10.2.7
I just upgraded my 2020 iMac to Sonoma OS. Prior to this, I always got a solid 60 fps, give or take 1 or 2 frames. With the same game settings on Sonoma, I still get 60 fps +/- 1 or 2 fps. However, when dropping to 58 or 57 fps, it’s very exaggerated on screen. More like 10 fps. It still says 57 or 58 fps though. I tried everything in the settings and nothing helps.
Most intel macs perform worse on sonoma than they did on previous OS, apple did no favors to the discontinued mac hardware in that update, which focused almost entirely on apple silicon and damn the rest. they regressed most of non apple silicon drivers, and made any of actual benefits of the update apple silicon exclusive anyways (like game mode) so there was 0 gain for older macs, only loss. :\
apple silicon however has lots of game on sonoma, and also upcoming sequoia