Apple Silicon Native Blizzard Games (other than World of Warcraft: Shadowlands)

[Yebubbleman]

I know that World of Warcraft: Shadowlands is Apple Silicon native. But is this also true of WoW: Classic? How about the Blizzard launcher? How about any other Blizzard title? Does anyone know the status on those? Would be curious to see how more current Blizzard games ran natively on Apple Silicon systems (especially the M1 Macs that have been out since November).

 

[dmccloud]

Right now, only Shadowlands is M1-native. The battle.net client and other games are still Intel-only, but I know that both Diablo III and Hearthstone run perfectly fine via Rosetta.

 

[TriApple]

I know that World of Warcraft: Shadowlands is Apple Silicon native. But is this also true of WoW: Classic? How about the Blizzard launcher? How about any other Blizzard title? Does anyone know the status on those? Would be curious to see how more current Blizzard games ran natively on Apple Silicon systems (especially the M1 Macs that have been out since November).

Wow classic runs fantastic on my MBP M1. 60 FPS with settings at 7 or so. I don't raid on it normally, but have a few times and it worked perfectly well.

 

[Xolp]

Old school Runescape

 

[pmiles]

Caveat for Blizzard games... *runs with known issues.

 

[TriApple]

Caveat for Blizzard games... *runs with known issues.

What issue are you seeing? Curious.

 

[fmcotton]

Right now, only Shadowlands is M1-native. The battle.net client and other games are still Intel-only, but I know that both Diablo III and Hearthstone run perfectly fine via Rosetta.

How do I get and play the native Apple Silicon of WOW if the Battle.net client isn't native. Doesn't the battle.net client need to be native for WOW to be able to run natively?

 

[galad]

The battle.net client is just a useless app to launch the actual WoW app, it doesn't matter if it's not native.

 

[Yebubbleman]

The battle.net client is just a useless app to launch the actual WoW app, it doesn't matter if it's not native.

Unless you either can't or don't want to run Rosetta 2...

 

[Yebubbleman]

How do I get and play the native Apple Silicon of WOW if the Battle.net client isn't native. Doesn't the battle.net client need to be native for WOW to be able to run natively?

Like the dude below you said, Battle.net is just the launcher. The WoW client itself is native and will run natively. Still means you need Rosetta 2 for the B.net app.

Would be nice if Blizzard updated their stuff to be native; Apple deprecating Rosetta 2 seems inevitable.

 

[diamond.g]

The "good news" is that the battle.net launcher is probably going away next year.