So i probably understand that this isn't a WoW issue, and more MacOS issue (it seems only mac gamers know what the issue is) but has anybody been dealing with this issue where you will be playing wow or any other high performance task then the performance drops and to nil, then the fans come on and it will stay like that till you reboot, and in activity monitor it will say kernel_task at 600+ cpu load?
i have phoned apple support, they asked me to upgrade to high sierra, but that made the performance even worse, i also deleted all my widgets that they viewed as suspect like razer add-on and logitech add-on. this did make the performance spikes infrequent but they still occur.
i have since gone back to just sierra cause i found that sierra was the least problematic MacOS i had used regarding this issue.
Im hopping for just a bit of incite to this cause i have tried a lot of things and it doesn't seem like a software issue perhaps a hardware issue, but i could really use any guidance as a next step.
thanks
iMac (27-inch, Late 2012)
3.4 GHz Intel Core i7
8 GB 1600 MHz DDR3
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX 2048 MB
macOS sierra 10.12.6 (16G1510
A quick google search gave me this. Maybe this will help:
https://forums.developer.apple.com/thread/49163
Did you merely upgrade your OS or did you do a clean install? A clean install ensures no bad things from the previous installation can infect your new installation. An upgrade merely changes that which is different from the previous installation... so if you had some bad stuff in one version of the OS, it is likely to still be there in the upgraded version.
Think of it as a colonoscopy for your Mac. You are performing a clean flush of the system before feeding it again. Installing software as opposed to migrating it is always the better approach. Everything just plays better together.
It may not resolve some hardware issues... but it should root out all the software ones... as in, if it works right up until you install this one driver... you've found your culprit. But if you have all those culprits already on the system and then upgrade the OS, any one of them could be at fault... including the OS itself.
Think of it as a colonoscopy for your Mac. You are performing a clean flush of the system before feeding it again. Installing software as opposed to migrating it is always the better approach. Everything just plays better together.
It may not resolve some hardware issues... but it should root out all the software ones... as in, if it works right up until you install this one driver... you've found your culprit. But if you have all those culprits already on the system and then upgrade the OS, any one of them could be at fault... including the OS itself.
Sienna: thanks for your response ill give that a thorough read
Baited: i believe i did when apple support asked me to upgrade it but I'm not 100% positive, they also made me delete a bunch of files i think all the kexts but it was a while ago, but I'm catching your drift. but when i did go from high sierra back down to sierra from my understanding i did thorough install cause i couldn't just get it off the apple website
thanks for help guys really appreciate it
Baited: i believe i did when apple support asked me to upgrade it but I'm not 100% positive, they also made me delete a bunch of files i think all the kexts but it was a while ago, but I'm catching your drift. but when i did go from high sierra back down to sierra from my understanding i did thorough install cause i couldn't just get it off the apple website
thanks for help guys really appreciate it