I just got the 2.4ghz refurbished aluminum MacBook and for some reason WoW runs pretty smooth, around 45fps, when I start playing, but as I continue playing it just bogs down my whole computer. I start to get around 15-20fps, and even Safari seems slow. I don't have a ton of apps open either, just WoW and Safari usually. Anyone know what could be wrong, maybe because it's refurbished?
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Something's wrong with WoW's performance on my alu MacBook
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possibly new patch?
what version of wow are you running? and what quality level? since updating to the latest patch 3.1.1 i have been getting the same thing happening even when running at fair/good quality setting
what version of wow are you running? and what quality level? since updating to the latest patch 3.1.1 i have been getting the same thing happening even when running at fair/good quality setting
I think what looks like lag could be overheated graphics--I have had that problem off and on since I got my iMac over a year ago. I am going to try the SMC fan control to see if that helps. But I do notice some jerky movement before the graphics freezes.
I know there are a million threads on frozen graphics but one thing I do notice is that my fans do ramp up when the CPU is stressed but not when graphics are stressed. WOW is the only thing that causes my iMac to freeze.
I know there are a million threads on frozen graphics but one thing I do notice is that my fans do ramp up when the CPU is stressed but not when graphics are stressed. WOW is the only thing that causes my iMac to freeze.
i havent played WoW in some time now (about 2 months) but when i did on my imac it was some times really smooth, and other times laggy, and this wasnt because of moving from one large area to smaller ones. i dont understand why it does that. after buying my alu mbp the same things happen as well, although their is not such a big difference ie 60ish fps to 40ish fps (btw all of these are running on high everything, imac is only on 1280x1024 though).
i just restart the computer each time a wanted to play WoW, always sorted it out so i dont know if it was a program that i was running, or the secondary monitor or w/e.
i just restart the computer each time a wanted to play WoW, always sorted it out so i dont know if it was a program that i was running, or the secondary monitor or w/e.
Sounds like the exact same thing that's happening to me. I wonder if I installed WoW on my Windows partition? When I'm lagging I literally watch my FPS go from 15 to 45 to 15 and just keep doing that.
It should be OK, I play WOW on my previous gen MB with Safari and other things open and its fine, but I dunno about Frames per second.
Maybe its worth up-ing the RAM to 4GB.
Maybe its worth up-ing the RAM to 4GB.
i was reading what u guys said
I dont play wow but i play the frozen throne, i play dota. this only happens when i play online but when i do its usually laggy and half the time i get dropped or the game freezezs. if i do get thru a game i cant join another its says "another application is a using a needed game port." idk if its my mac that needs an upgrade or something. can anyone help?
i got Macbook pro 2.5GHz 2 GB
I dont play wow but i play the frozen throne, i play dota. this only happens when i play online but when i do its usually laggy and half the time i get dropped or the game freezezs. if i do get thru a game i cant join another its says "another application is a using a needed game port." idk if its my mac that needs an upgrade or something. can anyone help?
i got Macbook pro 2.5GHz 2 GB