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MBP & WoW

Pre Leopard Graphics Update I would have told you to go with Windows. Before that, my 2.2GHz last gen MBP ran WoW much better in windows.

Honestly, it probably is still a little faster in Windows... but I can get 60FPS in most areas with maxed settings full screen in Mac OS now.

I'm sure the Penryn systems are even snappier with the extra video ram at higher res.

I'd stick with the Mac client unless you're doing more than just WoW.
 
If you want to run vent(ventrillo) on the mac, you've got to make sure the vent server is using the speex codec. The other codec(I forget the name atm) doesn't work with the mac client.
 
If you're going to use the MBP's trackpad, definitely use the OS X version because it's so much easier to right click on OS X then it is with the Windows drivers Apple provides for XP/Vista.
 
I don't dual boot on my computer but I have a 24" iMac at home and a Dell XPS at work.

Playing on my iMac under OS X is significantly more enjoyable (and it looks way better but my work XPS has an aging graphics card).
 
Playing WoW with Mac client as well on Penryn MBP.

But I also got a laptop cooler for the MBP though so the fans don't ever really spin up. Nice to way to help keep the MBP cool.
 
Lyshen said:
Playing WoW with Mac client as well on Penryn MBP.

But I also got a laptop cooler for the MBP though so the fans don't ever really spin up. Nice to way to help keep the MBP cool.
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Hmmm Im not sure my Bot works on the Mac client tho.....
 
go with osx, youll be getting around 35 fps in open land and around 50 fps in cities (default settings). temps might get hot, i use smcFancontrol to amp up fan speed so things dont get hot. trackpad takes some getting used to play with, but no worries. though imo dont waste your life with WoW. enjoy :)

and if you havent already read this, it might help http://guides.macrumors.com/World_of_Warcraft
 
I use both all the time back n forth.... i have both NOT in windowed mode at 1440x900, settings are ALL THE WAY UP, except for anti aliasing, which is at 0 (none)....

I've noticed, graphically, that OSX looks just slightly better, crisper colors.
only slightly tho...

frankly what it comes down to, is a disc space question and how often u use that operating system. (for example: my mac side of my hd is at 88 gigs, where as my windows vista is 32 gigs, so i installed wow on osx.... but then i noticed i used windows a lot more than mac, so i installed it on there)
 
pento said:
If you want to run vent(ventrillo) on the mac, you've got to make sure the vent server is using the speex codec. The other codec(I forget the name atm) doesn't work with the mac client.
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This is a big one. GSM 6.10 is the standard, and doesn't work with the Mac Ventrilo Client. Nothing is worse than being excluded from arenas b/c you can't talk to your team, or not being able to raid b/c you can't hear your Raid Leader.

I prefer playing on the Mac, but when you join a guild/arena, ask them to change their codec to Speex, or host your own server.
 
I use the Mac client for the same reason as others. it's just easier to switch to other apps when I need to.

If I'm in a raid and they are using ventrillo and the non-mac codec, though, I bootcamp into Windows out of necessity.
 
I played WoW pretty much maxed on my old 2.16GHz Core Duo Macbook Pro and it ran reasonably well. Nothing to complain about performance wise.
 
WoW fps...

I have the 24" alu 2.4ghz with 4gb of ram. I find myself jealous of the fps others are posting for this game. I always get a steady 30fps in outdoor locations, and 60fps inside buildings.. I have all options cranked. Should there be something else I should check on to make sure I get maximum performance?
 
I prefer to run under OSX.
I really don't want to lose my whole operating system just to play WoW.

Alt-Tabbing out to Windows would be jarring.
 
Senor360 said:
I have the 24" alu 2.4ghz with 4gb of ram. I find myself jealous of the fps others are posting for this game. I always get a steady 30fps in outdoor locations, and 60fps inside buildings.. I have all options cranked. Should there be something else I should check on to make sure I get maximum performance?
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If you have told it to sink vertical frame rates (or whatever the option is) then it is being restricted to multiples of your monitors refresh rate. Really though, 30 or 60 should be fine for playing. A monitors refresh rate is 60 so there's really no point in wasting more frames than can be shown :)
 
RUFiO795 said:
I run WOW in OSX on my Macbook Pro and haven't had any performance issues...I have all of the graphics and video processing cranked all the way up and it runs perfectly smoothly and looks beautiful. The only thing I've noticed is an almost total absence of weather effects, but this may be just because I haven't come across any (I am assured that they are simply very rare for some reason).

I haven't played WOW on Windows before, though, so I don't know how it compares.
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You must be playing on the native 15" screen then? I have my MBP hooked up to a 24" display and unless I turn the settings WAY down I dont get past 7-15 FPS in crossroads, or maybe 18 if I am lucky outdoors. Mind you I have the 128mb X1600 card in my MBP, and its at 2GB of ram but it cannot support WoW too well at 1920x1200 with much of anything turned up to even medium. Windowed mode its playable, full screen forget it. Now if I just use the 15" laptop screen I can play with most everything enabled high.

Now my PC is a C2D E4400 with 2GB of Ram and a 8500GTS OC with 512MB and it can run at full 1920x1200 with no issues. Consistant 60-100+ FPS depending on the area. Of course there is a huge diffference in video cards there.

Both displays are the same, Samsung 245BW's.
 
dumb terminal said:
It works kinda like Fraps on Windows...it'll record your gameplay into a movie...I don't remember exactly what format it uses, but I think it saves it in QT format (.mov?) I haven't used it yet, so I don't know the specifics
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Well that's what I was asking. Are people just talking about Snapz or something that comes with Mac OS X?
 
kwjohns said:
Well that's what I was asking. Are people just talking about Snapz or something that comes with Mac OS X?
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It's a feature built into the game itself.

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citisin said:
go with osx, youll be getting around 35 fps in open land and around 50 fps in cities (default settings). temps might get hot, i use smcFancontrol to amp up fan speed so things dont get hot. trackpad takes some getting used to play with, but no worries. though imo dont waste your life with WoW. enjoy :)

and if you havent already read this, it might help http://guides.macrumors.com/World_of_Warcraft
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I hope this is wrong. My 5 year old PC gets better FPS than that, with high settings. Every time I think about pulling the trigger on a MBP, I see a post like this and I hesitate. Do you have full screen glow on?
 
jahutch said:
I hope this is wrong. My 5 year old PC gets better FPS than that, with high settings. Every time I think about pulling the trigger on a MBP, I see a post like this and I hesitate. Do you have full screen glow on?
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I have maxed settings on my MBP, full screen. Get 60FPS solid inside most areas. Drops down to maybe 45FPS in some locations.

With Leopard Graphics update, things run very smoothly. Not sure what's wrong with his computer... maybe he's got a pre-SR MBP. The 8600M w/ 128MB of VRAM runs WoW wonderfully in Mac OS.

zepharus said:
Hmmm Im not sure my Bot works on the Mac client tho.....
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You're a glider, eh? Hope you get banned.
 
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