OS X: Blizzard FPS issues

[jomiv]

Originally Posted by bakeumsj

I'm not saying Mac will outperform windows on blizzard games but its not a whiteout either. I am running a 5 year old machine with Xeon processors not optimized for gaming and my ram is only 4 gigs and I'm on average getting 50 fps on high settings in WOW so clearly something is not going right. Have you tried smc fan control? Is your hard drive full? Are you expecting to run this game on ultra settings with shadows ssao and water effects on high at 2600x1600 resolution? Perhaps it really is something with Blizzard or the Osx video drivers but I suspect a lot of this is operator error...

Nope. As it is I'm against using it at that max resolution. Hell.. Everything is too tiny. I lower the resolution to make life easier for me. HD is nowhere near full and I'm getting SMC fan control right now. I'll post up if I see a difference later on today.

[syrinxx]

hey guys try to keep this thread alive.

anyone heard the rumors about 10.8.3 and much better support and drivers for amd cards?

any tests with games about an fps increase under 10.8.3?

would be nice if apple worked on that issue.

fingers crossed
greetz

[syrinxx]

hey guys,

installed 10.8.2 again cause of troubles with my machine.
d3 and sc2 didn´t improve regarding fps and stuttering.

would be really nice to hear good news about 10.8.3 and testing these games ...

thx

[adversus]

The zones in MOP are more resource intensive it seems. I run on max settings, 1920x1080, and get between 75 and 90 fps in most areas. Dungeons are the best, I get upwards of 160 fps reported.

MOP outdoor zones are the worst, down to 40-ish.

Mac Pro 5,1; Radeon 5870; 2.8GHz Quad, 32GB RAM, game and OS running off a Samsung SSD.