I’m running a Mac Pro (3.2 GHz 16 core Intel Xeon W; AMD Pro Vega II Duo 32 GB; 128 GB RAM, Mac OS 15.3.1). I run a LOT of stressful software on it: Satellite simulations in MacOS; Bootcamp for Windows 10; Parallels for Windows 11; Systems Took Kit under Windows 10, and such.
The ONLY (and I do mean the ONLY) application that completely locks up this Mac Pro is WoW. WoW locks it up to the extent that I have to do a hard reboot of the entire machine! That is completely power down and do a cold restart.
There does not seem to be a pattern (length of play, area of play, grouped/not grouped, in battle or not in battle, in a delve or not, etc.) Yet, the complete lock up requiring a cold restart of the machine happens all too often, sometimes multiple times in a couple hour playing session.
None of the other applications cause me to reboot this machine in any way, just WoW.
Suggestions?
I have a working theory that Blizz might be starting to get away from intel macs and only supporting M-Series macs.
M4 Mac mini or Studio would run WoW and MacOS stuff much better (although not Bootcamp/Parallels). Blizz did a really good job on the Apple Silicon version of WoW.
For Intel Mac the only thing I can think of would be basic stuff like scan and repair or reinstalling WoW.
I’m on a similar system and have never had any issues like this – rock solid on my 2019 Mac Pro. Running Sonoma, however.
I also have to do hard reboots while using WoW, pretty randomly during this expansion. Very annoying.
Not sure what to tell you, I play on a Mac M3 laptop, best wow machine I have ever played on. Silent, runs at 144 FPS on an external screen with everything on, and I get few if any crashes, which I can really blame on anything other than my internet.
I suspect it will become more and more difficult to get support on the old Intel Macs. I don’t know if you have reasons to keep you old Intel Mac, but honestly the cheapest Mac Mini (no upgrades) will likely run faster and better, and could even be cheaper in the long run due to much lower power costs. Just be careful of upgrades, as while nothing can beat a Mac at the entry level price point, this all changes a lot as you start down that upgrade path, and honestly, unless your doing crazy things, the base model is likely enough.