MacBook Air m2 graphic settings

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Hey I was wondering if anyone could send some setting recommendations my way, I’ve been having some frame rate issues since the launch of the new expansion

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Hey Louu!

Hope this helps! Here are the settings I use on my base model M2 MacBook Air (8GB RAM – broke college student here). I can’t push the highest graphics, but I consistently get smooth framerates around 75 FPS. I can hit 100 FPS, but 75 keeps my Mac cooler, and I don’t notice much difference. I use an MSI Modern MD2412PW monitor (1920x1080, 100Hz, 4ms response) and keep my Mac on a cooling pad with a fan pointed at the keyboard to avoid overheating. No thermal issues so far! I monitor temps with the “Hot” app, and I range between 45-90°C, with the high end only in raids or busy areas. Here are the specs I’m running:

Graphics

  • Monitor: MSI MD2412P [Primary]
  • Display Mode: Fullscreen (Windowed)
  • Resolution: 1920x1080
  • Render Scale: 1446x813 (75%)
  • Use UI Scale: 75%
  • Vertical Sync: Enabled
  • Notch Mode: Shift UI Down
  • Low Latency Mode: Disabled
  • Anti-Aliasing: CMAA 2
  • Camera FOV: 90

Graphics Quality

  • Base Game Quality: 5
  • Shadow Quality: Low
  • Liquid Detail: Low
  • Particle Density: Good
  • SSAO: Good
  • Depth Effects: Good
  • Compute Effects: Disabled
  • Outline Mode: Good
  • Texture Resolution: High
  • Spell Density: Most
  • Projected Textures: Enabled
  • View Distance: 1
  • Environment Detail: 4
  • Ground Clutter: 1

Advanced

  • Triple Buffering: Enabled
  • Texture Filtering: 16x Anisotropic
  • Ray Traced Shadows: Disabled
  • Ambient Occlusion Type: FidelityFX CACAO
  • Resample Quality: FidelityFX Super Resolution 1.0
  • VRS Mode: Disabled
  • Graphics API: Metal
  • Physics Interactions: Player Only
  • Max Foreground FPS: 75 FPS
  • Max Background FPS: 30 FPS
  • Target FPS: 60 FPS
  • Resample Sharpness: 0.2
  • Contrast: 50%
  • Brightness: 50%
  • Gamma: 1

Compatibility Settings

  • Optional GPU Features: Checked
  • Async Resource Creation: Checked
  • Multithreaded Rendering: Checked
  • Frame Overlap: Checked
  • Advanced Work Submit: Checked

Let me know if you need any more details!

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a good one is to lower rendering resolution to 1080p and then just upscale with super res
its basically the same as 4k visually but uses like half the power

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Thanks for this went from 35 frames to 60 steady

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