Thanks Blizzard, very cool!
I didn’t have any issues prior to the 9.0.5. Never saw my FPS drop below 57 with settings set to 7.
Everyone should create a support ticket that documents the problems they are having with Mac M1. Then ask for their subscription to be adjusted for the period that they can’t play and so have not logged in.
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Hey any news Blizzard ?!?
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5K was always a bit too much for my 8-core, 16GB M1 Mac mini, but dropping the world rendering resolution to something like 83% resulted in acceptable performance. Water quality and mist had the most impact. It was bad before 9.0.5, but some foggy parts of Torghast are unplayable on any setting.
Hey Blizzard two months in and your original pre-release Shadowlands statement of ‘optimised for Mac M1’ is currently invalid, get it together please this is a joke (and yes I’m mad) 
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Time to submit another support ticket just so Blizzard remembers that Mac M1 users are being treated like sh@t atm. Remember to ask for an adjustment to your subscription if you’ve not been playing for >30 days.
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Doesn’t look like its going to be fixed boys, 2 months have gone by and no changes or any further details from Blizzard regarding the issue !!
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MacBook Air (M1, 2020) with 8c GPU and 16GB memory
Experiencing the same issue and also noticing that I get 60FPS only while my camera is facing north
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Blizzard Support is saying that this problem is unlikely to be fixed before patch 9.1. This is unacceptable.
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Ill cya guys in 9.2 then I guess
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Hey guys, just here to let you all know that running the game with Rosetta currently is a massive upgrade to trying to run natively. Running the M1 Mac Mini 16gb.
To do this for those unaware if you go to Battle.Net app, click the little cog next to “Play”, hit reveal in finder, then once you’re in finder go to Retail folder > then inside the retail folder right click the “World of Warcraft” application and hit “Get Info”. Once youre there unlock in the bottom right and hit “Open Using Rosetta.” Then hit the lock again in the bottom right. Close everything then open again.
Once i did this i was able to see my fps (home/world) and i could run the game on graphics settings 4, sometimes 5 at around 90-120 fps, even in raids. If you still feel clunky ive noticed that Shadow quality almost always needs to be on low.
Not the best news I know, but for those who really want to play at the moment this feels and works amazing for me. I promise the gameplay is so much smoother, even when progging Mythic SLG.
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This helped a ton, thanks!
Could anybody else confirm that they’re getting better performance under Rosetta 2?
I tried it on my M1 Mac mini and obtained very similar performance compared to running the ARM client on native mode.
I did not see an improvement under Rosetta. I did try the “open in low resolution” option, running it at 2560x1440 instead of 5K. This performed way better than running it normally and setting the window resolution to 2560x1440.
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Hmmm… Guess now is not the time to upgrade to the M1, in that I have had issues similar frame rate issues with my late 2013 MacBook pro… Was thinking it was just time and that the game had just gotten bit too much for my system to handle, all other expansion zones I get 30-50 range of frame rates, in shadowlands its like 10-30 frames. The really curious thing, and what really got me thinking it wasn’t just my aging computer hardware, was that after lower my resolution to nearly half, in Ardenweild I would get 40-50 frames going one direction, only to have those frames go back to 10-20 frames going the opposite direction, which was pretty much the same as when running at full resolution.
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Adding to this thread in the hope there’s an update!
Seeing surprisingly poor performance on the M1 iMac where the only listed GPU option is “Apple M1 (Low Power).” Blizzard Support explains this as simply being a descriptor for an integrated GPU, but I don’t recall seeing “Low Power” used to describe any Intel integrated graphics.
Frame rates in Burning Crusade Classic are significantly lower than they were in Classic (not-M1 native) at the same quality settings.
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Yo Blizzard any updates please ?!? Its been a while since patch 9.0.5 when FPS largely dropped on average, thank-you …
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yoooo Blizzard? can y’all at least tell us something :,(
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Same thing here… sigh
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