Safari and WoW Issues

[Steds]

Hi Everyone,

I was wondering if anyone could help me, I have been a mac owner for around 4 years now and have recently upgraded to the Imac Core Duo 2.66ghz with 4GB Ram and the Nvidia Geforce 9400.

My problem is I like to look at websites and research things whilst playing wow but since upgrading, anytime I put the game into windowed mode apple+m and try and open safari my system crawls to a halt and takes ages loading any web pages and makes navigating anything outside of wow a near impossibility.

I had the previous model Imac and this wasn't the case, I am using Snow Leopard and have updated my system, anyone have any ideas?

Thanks

Steds

 

[Sambo110]

Wait for the next WoW patch that fixes the Mac version.

 

[TheAnswer]

While you wait for a patch, you can cap the framerate of WoW when it is in the background:

/console maxfpsbk Y

where Y equals the framerate you want to use. Try setting it around 20fps.

 

[HiRez]

It's true, capping the frame rate can really help you with lower-level systems. I have one of the new MacBook Pros with the 9400M integrated chip (which I believe is the same chip the iMac uses, although the clocking may be different) and it is a real dog for any kind of gaming, really crippling WoW, which is not even that demanding of a game. You have 4 GB of RAM, so I don't think that's the issue unless you're running a ton of other big apps at the same time.

While my WoW performance using that chip isn't great, I haven't noticed Safari grinding to a halt while WoW is in windowed mode either (something I do a lot), so that is odd. Maybe download Onyx or something similar and cleaning all your caches, prefs, etc. Does Firefox do the same?