Hey guys, I have a question and am hoping for amass of community experiences,
Currently i have to perform a clean install/ wipe of my OS due to a Kernel_Task issue, I’m currently running Mojave, but since I’m running a late 2012 iMac which has the nvidia GPU i was considering going to High sierra instead of mojave. i never used high sierra, and was only considering due to the use of the Nvidia web driver that is a available for high sierra.
Previously i was using Sierra, up till 8.1 was released but now its reached its launch support limit, and i haven’t used High Sierra, was curious to see if i should do clean install of High Sierra or stick with Mojave. hoping that High Sierras performance is better than Mojave.
Any experiences would be greatly appreciated, or perhaps suggestions for my setup…
iMac (27-inch, Late 2012)
3.4 GHz Intel Core i7
8 GB 1600 MHz DDR3 (currently going to be upgrading to 16 GB soon)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX 2048 MB
1 TB Fusion Drive
The problem here is that Mojave is the only version that really is supported. Come next expansion, it won’t run under anything but Mojave period. They will literally lock out a whole slew of hardware from even booting the game.
Anyone running WoW under anything but Mojave is basically stuck with the performance or lack there of that it currently has. Just like Apple no longer supports EOL systems, Blizzard doesn’t either.
- Live with the issues that you are currently experiencing.
- Switch to running WoW under bootcamp (DirectX 11 is still supported and doesn’t care that your machine is from 2012).
- Buy a new machine to run WoW.
With all that being said, even new machines are having issues under Mojave. It’s still going through a lot of growing pains… it hasn’t been around for nearly a decade or so like OpenGL was… so it’s showing it’s youth.
They likely won’t lock out 10.13.6 any time soon. 10.12.x and earlier sure, they had early versions of metal with lots of bugs. which is why much hardware already requires 10.13.6. but the metal changes in 10.14.x aren’t a big reason to force 10.14.x on users. at most 10.14 is going to give users faster world load on initial login but that’s about it. It wasn’t revolutionary for metal features (that matter to wow) and it didn’t really bring any critical bug fixes like 10.13.x did.
So quick update, I have wiped my hard drive, and installed Mojave or 10.14, and proceeded to download battle net, and WoW again, along with the Nvidia driver that was available and have seen huge performance increases since the wipe. Solid 60 FPS with medium preset graphics and with V-Sync on which I’m absolutely shocked by
thanks for your guys help
I’ve been running just fine on 10.13.6 so I have no plans to go to Mojave just yet. My experience with OS-X is to generally wait at least 6 months after release before upgrading. A new expansion won’t be out for at least another year so unless you have some non-WoW reasons to upgrade I’d just wait until the kinks get worked out.
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Running a few machines - both Mojave and H.Sierra are active.
I’d stick with H.Sierra. In my case, Mojave has trouble communicating with my NAS via AFP. I don’t understand why, I have no other machine with this issue, and this issue did not occur on this particular computer when I had H.Sierra installed.
I havent’ been able to play any Blizzard games since I upgraded to 10.14.2. Support can’t help and are telling me hopefully devs will fix it during a maintenance patch. I unsubscribed but unfortunatly I bought that stupid 6 month deal so I’m basically paying for a game I can’t play.
Have you contacted Billing? No promises but maybe they can help you out.
I’m running Mojave(10.14.2) on a late 2014 iMac.
Although I had some issues due to graphics settings, I was able to find a fix for that.
I had no problems with WoW on High Sierra previously but decided to update to Mojave proactively.
Until they force you to upgrade your OS, I’d say don’t. So, in your case, go with High Sierra.