Mac mini freezes while playing World of Warcraft

[Arv3n]

Hi,

I have a strange issue with World of Warcraft where it will randomly freeze the whole computer and I can only hold down the power button to get it to work again. This only happens with World of Warcraft. I feel the computer immediately after it freezes and it's pretty warm but it doesn't feel warm enough to freeze the computer.

I have tried reinstalling OS X, re-downloading World of Warcraft, and repairing permissions and nothing has fixed it. Is this just a bug with WoW? Does anyone else have this issue?

I have the mid-2011 Mac mini with 8GB ram, i5 2.3ghz processor, and stock 500GB hard drive.

 

[xVeinx]

Hi,

I have a strange issue with World of Warcraft where it will randomly freeze the whole computer and I can only hold down the power button to get it to work again. This only happens with World of Warcraft. I feel the computer immediately after it freezes and it's pretty warm but it doesn't feel warm enough to freeze the computer.

I have tried reinstalling OS X, re-downloading World of Warcraft, and repairing permissions and nothing has fixed it. Is this just a bug with WoW? Does anyone else have this issue?

I have the mid-2011 Mac mini with 8GB ram, i5 2.3ghz processor, and stock 500GB hard drive.

Is it the base mini (aka, no AMD 6630 graphics)? When you say that nothing else does it, do you have other games that you play? What games?

 

[Arv3n]

Is it the base mini (aka, no AMD 6630 graphics)? When you say that nothing else does it, do you have other games that you play? What games?

Yes it is the base mini. I've played Diablo 3 for a bit and it doesn't freeze at all.

 

[9646829]

I also have the base mini and run WoW perfectly fine on Good settings, what settings you got it on?

 

[Arv3n]

I also have the base mini and run WoW perfectly fine on Good settings, what settings you got it on?

The default video settings.

Here is what Blizzard told me when I contacted them today:

I took a look at your ticket and I see that the crash log is showing that the graphics driver is what is crashing on your computer. I would recommend contacting Apple to see if they can figure out why the graphics are crashing.

Anyone have any advice? I am not under warranty or anything as I bought this Mac mini refurbished from macofalltrades.com.

 

[9646829]

Maybe go back to who you bought your mini off and see what they say? Otherwise it can't hurt to give apple a call and see if they have any advice? Or go into a store, can't imagine they charge for advice lol.

 

[FreakinEurekan]

Is your OS X fully up to date (10.8.3)?

Could be related to this: https://www.macrumors.com/2013/03/20/pixelmator-crashing-issue-fixed-in-os-x-10-8-3/

 

[Arv3n]

so the issue persisted, and I talked to Blizzard tech support and they told me to use smcfancontrol as, after looking at the logs, it appeared my computer was overheating.

Is this normal for a Mac mini? I thought for sure it would never get that hot. I guess Macs truly aren't designed to game.