Significant Drop in Framerate Since 9.1.5

[Theorem-bigglesworth]

Hi all,

Running a 2020 MacBook Pro and returning player. System worked completely fine throughout 9.0 and would be able to play with 30+ fps regularly. I’ve come back to 9.1.5 and I’ve noticed that in certain places - usually indoors with ‘mist’-y particles floating around, like Oribos, Spires of Ascension, Sanctum of Domination my framerate has been dropping to 5-8 FPS. So much that the game has become unplayable in some situations. Even when I adjust the settings to the lowest possible I still get that serious framerate drop.

Has anyone else experienced this?
What are some known remedies/tricks to avoid the framerate drop?

Thank you!

[Marwenna-azgalor]

I’ve had the issue since 9.0.5 and it’s related to a change in the anima stream graphic in the locations you mentioned. SoA is a nearly unplayable slideshow, and affects my performance the most. There is not really a true fix, it’s a graphical issue on blizzard’s side that they will not address. Some PC users had the problem, too, and they stated they would not fix the asset causing it even though they were aware of it. Everything I’ve tried doesn’t improve the issue at all. Using the FSR and resolution upscaling others have suggested in other threads didn’t really improve my frames much and made the game look like extreme potato graphics. Way too gross to look at on a retina monitor lol. You may be able to gain 5 frames give or take with some adjustments but lose a lot of quality and the conversion isn’t really worth it to me. Setting the graphics to 1 doesn’t change anything.

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