All looks good on initial testing with a 2017 15” MBP running Catalina!
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I’m seeing major graphical glitches with the public release of Catalina. Small colored blocks seem to be appearing at the edges of models, and my framerate has dropped to about half
What hardware are you playing with? Mainly the machine model and GPU are relevant.
For completeness’ sake, the the 2017 MBP I played successfully with is equipped with a Radeon Pro 555 2GB. All works as expected with both internal Retina display and external normal DPI monitor.
I was having graphics issues too on my 2019 MBP. Turns out it seems that WoW is no longer activating the dedicated GPU if you have the “Automatic Graphics Switching” flag turned on in the Energy Saver control panel. Disable that and the game starts using your dedicated GPU again. Frame rates shoot back to normal, glitchy corrupted textures go away and the weird silvery shine on everything also vanishes. This seems to be happening whether I chose “auto” in the graphics card choice advanced setting in-game or choose the Vega 20; either way the game just ignores the dedicated GPU and uses the integrated intel graphics chip.
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As someone with a 560 with four gig of vram I’m glad to hear it. Then again, Wow runs reasonably well on the discrete card on my 2017 MBP.
Thanks for the tip Colton, I was having performance issues and this has fixed it.
After updating to Catalina I was getting 13 FPS. I noticed in Activity Monitor that my GPU wasn’t being used in WOW. Went into WOW settings and forced WOW to use Radeon Pro 460 instead of Auto Detect. Then went into energy saver and disabled auto graphics switching. That immediately bumped me back up to 60 FPS.
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Guys, I have troubles when I try to install the battle.net-setup in my mac with Catalina OS because the app is 32 bits and Catalina needs 64 bits. I see a lot of people playing with Catalina, could you tell me how I can install wow classic in Catalina?
Thanks
Just wanted to say thanks for this. I was having the same issue after updating to Catalina on my MacBook Pro. Manually selected my graphics card vs. “Auto Detect” and my frame rates jumped back up, too. I left the auto-switching on in Energy Saver, however (assuming it would auto-switch due to the newly specified setting in WoW).
Thank you for the tip!
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Look for a utility called GFX card status, it lets you switch on the fly.
For sure but it’s just stupid that my Mac is always using the GPU now unless I enable auto graphics switching. It’s annoying to have to remember to turn that off before starting WOW. Otherwise it kills your battery. Blizzard needs to fix this!
Seriously install gfx Card status. It puts an icon on your bar for instant switching and locking your card choice.
Do you have a link to the gfxCardStatus application? I am struggling to find a secure download and it doesn’t appear to be in the App Store.
The G F X . io site that is the first hit when you Google it is the right one. Its version Version 2.3 (2.3) by Cody Krieger. It won’t let me post direct links here.
I see this thread is no longer pinned at the top. So does that mean that all the issues with Catalina have been ironed out and we are free to upgrade to Catalina if we want?
There is no reason for the launcher to be 64bit. Its completely unnecessary.
It is completely mandatory for the launcher to be 64-bit to run on current and future versions of macOS.
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Mojave is the last version to support 32 bit apps.
Hey there,
The Blizzard BattleNet App has been updated to be compatible with 10.15 so it should be fine to upgrade if that is something you were wanting to do it should be fine.
For any new issues please go ahead and create a new thread.